AI Agents papers, 2023–2026

Tool-using, multi-step autonomous LLM and VLM agent systems

Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 3,266 papers are tagged with this topic.

Key findings

Papers per year

Papers per venue

Counts by year and venue

AI Agents papers by year and venue
YearNeurIPSICLRICMLCVPRTotal
202376404113170
2024150738818329
202536220417840784
20267295006401141,983

Representative papers

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All AI Agents papers

3,266 papers, page 23 of 66

  1. ICML 2026RSAgent: Learning to Reason and Act via Multi-Turn Tool Invocations for Text-Guided Segmentation
  2. ICML 2026RSF-GLLM: Bridging the Semantic Gap in Multi-Hop Knowledge Graph QA via Recurrent Soft-Flow and Decoupled LLM Generation
  3. ICML 2026Rule2DRC: Benchmarking LLM Agents for DRC Script Synthesis with Execution-Guided Test Generation
  4. ICML 2026Safe and Scalable Web Agent Learning via Recreated Websites
  5. ICML 2026SafeHarbor: Defining Precise Decision Boundaries via Hierarchical Memory-Augmented Guardrail for LLM Agent Safety
  6. ICML 2026SafeSearch: Automated Red-Teaming of LLM-Based Search Agents
  7. ICML 2026Safety Alignment of LMs via Non-cooperative Games
  8. ICML 2026Safety Game: Inference-Time Alignment of Black-Box LLMs via Constrained Optimization
  9. ICML 2026SAGE-NAS: Synergizing LLM-Based Semantic Agent with Graph-Based Evaluator for Neural Architecture Search
  10. ICML 2026SAGE: A Dataflow-Native Framework for Modular, Controllable, and Transparent LLM-Augmented Reasoning
  11. ICML 2026Salus: Strategic Diagnostic Testing for Complex Diagnosis via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
  12. ICML 2026SARL: Structure-Aligned Reinforcement Learning for Bridging the Perception-Action Gap in Airspace
  13. ICML 2026Scalable Traffic Signal Control with Shared Policy Framework
  14. ICML 2026ScaleEnv: Scaling Environment Synthesis from Scratch for Generalist Interactive Tool-Use Agent Training
  15. ICML 2026ScaleSim: Serving Large-Scale Multi-Agent Simulation with Invocation Distance-Based Memory Management
  16. ICML 2026Scaling Agentic Verifier for Competitive Coding
  17. ICML 2026Scaling Long-Horizon Agent via Context Folding
  18. ICML 2026Scaling Multi-Agent Environment Co-Design with Diffusion Models
  19. ICML 2026Scaling Small Agents Through Strategy Auctions
  20. ICML 2026Scaling the Scaling Logic: Agentic Meta-Synthesis of Logic Reasoning
  21. ICML 2026Scaling up Multi-Turn Off-Policy RL and Multi-Agent Tree Search for LLM Step-Provers
  22. ICML 2026Scaling, Benchmarking, and Reasoning of Vision-Language Agents for Mobile GUI Navigation
  23. ICML 2026SceneSmith: Agentic Generation of Simulation-Ready Indoor Scenes
  24. ICML 2026SciAgentGym: Benchmarking Multi-Step Scientific Tool-Use in LLM Agents
  25. ICML 2026SciNet: Evaluating AI Agents in Relation-Aware Scientific Literature Retrieval
  26. ICML 2026Scout Before You Attend: Sketch-and-Walk Sparse Attention for Efficient LLM Inference
  27. ICML 2026SCOUT: Active Information Foraging for Long-Text Understanding with Decoupled Epistemic States
  28. ICML 2026ScreenParse: Moving Beyond Sparse Grounding with Complete Screen Parsing Supervision
  29. ICML 2026SE-GA: Memory-Augmented Self-Evolution for GUI Agents
  30. ICML 2026SEAgent: Self-Evolving Computer Use Agent with Autonomous Learning from Experience
  31. ICML 2026Secure Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Service Systems with Affinity and Byzantine Nodes: Stability Analysis and Protection Design
  32. ICML 2026Securing Multi-Agent Systems Against Corruptions via Node Contribution Backpropagation
  33. ICML 2026SEDRAS: Symbolically Evaluated Deep Research And Science
  34. ICML 2026Self-evolving LLM agents with in-distribution Optimization
  35. ICML 2026Semantic Tube Prediction: Beating LLM Data Efficiency with JEPA
  36. ICML 2026SERA: Soft-Verified Efficient Repository Agents
  37. ICML 2026Should I Have Expressed a Different Intent? Counterfactual Generation for LLM-Based Autonomous Control
  38. ICML 2026SimpleMem: Efficient Lifelong Memory for LLM Agents
  39. ICML 2026SimulCost: A Cost-Aware Benchmark and Toolkit for Automating Physics Simulations with LLMs
  40. ICML 2026Skill-Based Mixture-of-Experts: Adaptive Routing for Heterogeneous Reasoning via Inferred Skills
  41. ICML 2026Skill-Pro: Learning Reusable Skills from Experience via Non-Parametric PPO for LLM Agents
  42. ICML 2026SkillTrojan: Backdoor Attacks on Skill-Based Agent Systems
  43. ICML 2026Small Agent Group is the Future of Digital Health
  44. ICML 2026SOLAR for Offline MARL: Plateau-Triggered Potential Shaping under World-Model Uncertainty
  45. ICML 2026SOPE: Situation-Aware and Statistically Indistinguishable Privacy Exfiltration for MCP-enabled Agents
  46. ICML 2026SorryDB: Can AI Provers Complete Real-World Lean Theorems?
  47. ICML 2026SP-Mind: An Autonomous Reasoning Agent for Spatial Proteomics Analysis
  48. ICML 2026SPADA: A Verifiable Test-Driven Agent for Controllable Parametric CAD Assembly Generation
  49. ICML 2026SPARe: Stacked Parallelism with Adaptive Reordering for Fault-Tolerant LLM Pretraining Systems with 100k+ GPUs
  50. ICML 2026Sparks of Cooperative Reasoning: LLMs as Strategic Hanabi Agents

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FAQ

How many AI Agents papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
3,266 in total: 170 in 2023, 329 in 2024, 784 in 2025, 1,983 in 2026.
How many AI Agents papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
NeurIPS 2026 has 729 AI Agents papers, versus 362 the year before.
How many AI Agents papers are at ICLR 2026?
ICLR 2026 has 500 AI Agents papers, versus 204 the year before.
How many AI Agents papers are at ICML 2026?
ICML 2026 has 640 AI Agents papers, versus 178 the year before.
How many AI Agents papers are at CVPR 2026?
CVPR 2026 has 114 AI Agents papers, versus 40 the year before.
Which conference publishes the most AI Agents papers?
NeurIPS, with 1,317 papers from 2023 to 2026.

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