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
- AI Agents went from 170 papers in 2023 to 1,983 in 2026, roughly 12x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most AI Agents work: 1,317 papers from 2023 to 2026, 40% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with LLM Benchmarks: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 116 in 2026.
- Among the 4 topics under Trending Systems, it ranks #2 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, World Models, is up 11x versus 12x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 76 | 40 | 41 | 13 | 170 |
| 2024 | 150 | 73 | 88 | 18 | 329 |
| 2025 | 362 | 204 | 178 | 40 | 784 |
| 2026 | 729 | 500 | 640 | 114 | 1,983 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026$\boldsymbol{f}$-OPD: Stabilizing Long-Horizon On-Policy Distillation with Freshness-Aware Control
- ICML 2026$\tau$-Knowledge: Evaluating Conversational Agents over Unstructured Knowledge
- ICLR 2026A Benchmark for Deep Information Synthesis
- CVPR 20263D-VCD Hallucination Mitigation in 3D-LLM Embodied Agents through Visual Contrastive
- NeurIPS 20254KAgent: Agentic Any Image to 4K Super-Resolution
- ICML 2025A Unified Approach to Routing and Cascading for LLMs
- ICLR 2025A Generalist Hanabi Agent
- CVPR 2025Collaborative Tree Search for Enhancing Embodied Multi-Agent Collaboration
- NeurIPS 2024AdaSociety: An Adaptive Environment with Social Structures for Multi-Agent Decision-Making
- ICML 2024A Human-Inspired Reading Agent with Gist Memory of Very Long Contexts
- ICLR 2024A Real-World WebAgent with Planning, Long Context Understanding, and Program Synthesis
- CVPR 2024Density-Adaptive Model Based on Motif Matrix for Multi-Agent Trajectory Prediction
- NeurIPS 2023AdaPlanner: Adaptive Planning from Feedback with Language Models
- ICML 2023A Game-Theoretic Framework for Managing Risk in Multi-Agent Systems
- ICLR 2023Achieving Near-Optimal Individual Regret & Low Communications in Multi-Agent Bandits
- CVPR 2023Behavioral Analysis of Vision-and-Language Navigation Agents
- NeurIPS 20262-Step Agent: How a Bayesian Decision Maker Learns from AI-Decision Support
- ICML 2026$\tau$-Voice: Benchmarking Full-Duplex Voice Agents on Real-World Domains
- ICLR 2026A Framework for Studying AI Agent Behavior: Evidence from Consumer Choice Experiments
- CVPR 2026A Multi-Agent Perception-Action Alliance for Efficient Long Video Reasoning
All AI Agents papers
3,266 papers, page 23 of 66
- ICML 2026RSAgent: Learning to Reason and Act via Multi-Turn Tool Invocations for Text-Guided Segmentation
- ICML 2026RSF-GLLM: Bridging the Semantic Gap in Multi-Hop Knowledge Graph QA via Recurrent Soft-Flow and Decoupled LLM Generation
- ICML 2026Rule2DRC: Benchmarking LLM Agents for DRC Script Synthesis with Execution-Guided Test Generation
- ICML 2026Safe and Scalable Web Agent Learning via Recreated Websites
- ICML 2026SafeHarbor: Defining Precise Decision Boundaries via Hierarchical Memory-Augmented Guardrail for LLM Agent Safety
- ICML 2026SafeSearch: Automated Red-Teaming of LLM-Based Search Agents
- ICML 2026Safety Alignment of LMs via Non-cooperative Games
- ICML 2026Safety Game: Inference-Time Alignment of Black-Box LLMs via Constrained Optimization
- ICML 2026SAGE-NAS: Synergizing LLM-Based Semantic Agent with Graph-Based Evaluator for Neural Architecture Search
- ICML 2026SAGE: A Dataflow-Native Framework for Modular, Controllable, and Transparent LLM-Augmented Reasoning
- ICML 2026Salus: Strategic Diagnostic Testing for Complex Diagnosis via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2026SARL: Structure-Aligned Reinforcement Learning for Bridging the Perception-Action Gap in Airspace
- ICML 2026Scalable Traffic Signal Control with Shared Policy Framework
- ICML 2026ScaleEnv: Scaling Environment Synthesis from Scratch for Generalist Interactive Tool-Use Agent Training
- ICML 2026ScaleSim: Serving Large-Scale Multi-Agent Simulation with Invocation Distance-Based Memory Management
- ICML 2026Scaling Agentic Verifier for Competitive Coding
- ICML 2026Scaling Long-Horizon Agent via Context Folding
- ICML 2026Scaling Multi-Agent Environment Co-Design with Diffusion Models
- ICML 2026Scaling Small Agents Through Strategy Auctions
- ICML 2026Scaling the Scaling Logic: Agentic Meta-Synthesis of Logic Reasoning
- ICML 2026Scaling up Multi-Turn Off-Policy RL and Multi-Agent Tree Search for LLM Step-Provers
- ICML 2026Scaling, Benchmarking, and Reasoning of Vision-Language Agents for Mobile GUI Navigation
- ICML 2026SceneSmith: Agentic Generation of Simulation-Ready Indoor Scenes
- ICML 2026SciAgentGym: Benchmarking Multi-Step Scientific Tool-Use in LLM Agents
- ICML 2026SciNet: Evaluating AI Agents in Relation-Aware Scientific Literature Retrieval
- ICML 2026Scout Before You Attend: Sketch-and-Walk Sparse Attention for Efficient LLM Inference
- ICML 2026SCOUT: Active Information Foraging for Long-Text Understanding with Decoupled Epistemic States
- ICML 2026ScreenParse: Moving Beyond Sparse Grounding with Complete Screen Parsing Supervision
- ICML 2026SE-GA: Memory-Augmented Self-Evolution for GUI Agents
- ICML 2026SEAgent: Self-Evolving Computer Use Agent with Autonomous Learning from Experience
- ICML 2026Secure Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Service Systems with Affinity and Byzantine Nodes: Stability Analysis and Protection Design
- ICML 2026Securing Multi-Agent Systems Against Corruptions via Node Contribution Backpropagation
- ICML 2026SEDRAS: Symbolically Evaluated Deep Research And Science
- ICML 2026Self-evolving LLM agents with in-distribution Optimization
- ICML 2026Semantic Tube Prediction: Beating LLM Data Efficiency with JEPA
- ICML 2026SERA: Soft-Verified Efficient Repository Agents
- ICML 2026Should I Have Expressed a Different Intent? Counterfactual Generation for LLM-Based Autonomous Control
- ICML 2026SimpleMem: Efficient Lifelong Memory for LLM Agents
- ICML 2026SimulCost: A Cost-Aware Benchmark and Toolkit for Automating Physics Simulations with LLMs
- ICML 2026Skill-Based Mixture-of-Experts: Adaptive Routing for Heterogeneous Reasoning via Inferred Skills
- ICML 2026Skill-Pro: Learning Reusable Skills from Experience via Non-Parametric PPO for LLM Agents
- ICML 2026SkillTrojan: Backdoor Attacks on Skill-Based Agent Systems
- ICML 2026Small Agent Group is the Future of Digital Health
- ICML 2026SOLAR for Offline MARL: Plateau-Triggered Potential Shaping under World-Model Uncertainty
- ICML 2026SOPE: Situation-Aware and Statistically Indistinguishable Privacy Exfiltration for MCP-enabled Agents
- ICML 2026SorryDB: Can AI Provers Complete Real-World Lean Theorems?
- ICML 2026SP-Mind: An Autonomous Reasoning Agent for Spatial Proteomics Analysis
- ICML 2026SPADA: A Verifiable Test-Driven Agent for Controllable Parametric CAD Assembly Generation
- ICML 2026SPARe: Stacked Parallelism with Adaptive Reordering for Fault-Tolerant LLM Pretraining Systems with 100k+ GPUs
- 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.