AI Agents papers, 2023–2026

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.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• 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

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1151. NeurIPS 2024JaxMARL: Multi-Agent RL Environments and Algorithms in JAX
1152. NeurIPS 2024Kaleidoscope: Learnable Masks for Heterogeneous Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
1153. NeurIPS 2024KALM: Knowledgeable Agents by Offline Reinforcement Learning from Large Language Model Rollouts
1154. NeurIPS 2024LACIE: Listener-Aware Finetuning for Calibration in Large Language Models
1155. NeurIPS 2024Language Grounded Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning with Human-interpretable Communication
1156. NeurIPS 2024Large Language Models as Urban Residents: An LLM Agent Framework for Personal Mobility Generation
1157. NeurIPS 2024Large Language Models Play StarCraft II:Benchmarks and A Chain of Summarization Approach
1158. NeurIPS 2024Latent Learning Progress Drives Autonomous Goal Selection in Human Reinforcement Learning
1159. NeurIPS 2024Learning Distinguishable Trajectory Representation with Contrastive Loss
1160. NeurIPS 2024Learning Equilibria in Adversarial Team Markov Games: A Nonconvex-Hidden-Concave Min-Max Optimization Problem
1161. NeurIPS 2024Learning in Markov Games with Adaptive Adversaries: Policy Regret, Fundamental Barriers, and Efficient Algorithms
1162. NeurIPS 2024Learning to Balance Altruism and Self-interest Based on Empathy in Mixed-Motive Games
1163. NeurIPS 2024Learning to Cooperate with Humans using Generative Agents
1164. NeurIPS 2024Learning to Discuss Strategically: A Case Study on One Night Ultimate Werewolf
1165. NeurIPS 2024Leveraging Environment Interaction for Automated PDDL Translation and Planning with Large Language Models
1166. NeurIPS 2024LogiCity: Advancing Neuro-Symbolic AI with Abstract Urban Simulation
1167. NeurIPS 2024Long-form factuality in large language models
1168. NeurIPS 2024Long-Horizon Planning for Multi-Agent Robots in Partially Observable Environments
1169. NeurIPS 2024MACM: Utilizing a Multi-Agent System for Condition Mining in Solving Complex Mathematical Problems
1170. NeurIPS 2024MADiff: Offline Multi-agent Learning with Diffusion Models
1171. NeurIPS 2024MAGIS: LLM-Based Multi-Agent Framework for GitHub Issue Resolution
1172. NeurIPS 2024Maximizing utility in multi-agent environments by anticipating the behavior of other learners
1173. NeurIPS 2024MDAgents: An Adaptive Collaboration of LLMs for Medical Decision-Making
1174. NeurIPS 2024Measuring Mutual Policy Divergence for Multi-Agent Sequential Exploration
1175. NeurIPS 2024Melting Pot Contest: Charting the Future of Generalized Cooperative Intelligence
1176. NeurIPS 2024Mimicking To Dominate: Imitation Learning Strategies for Success in Multiagent Games
1177. NeurIPS 2024Mobile-Agent-v2: Mobile Device Operation Assistant with Effective Navigation via Multi-Agent Collaboration
1178. NeurIPS 2024Multi-Agent Coordination via Multi-Level Communication
1179. NeurIPS 2024Multi-Agent Domain Calibration with a Handful of Offline Data
1180. NeurIPS 2024Multi-Agent Imitation Learning: Value is Easy, Regret is Hard
1181. NeurIPS 2024Multi-LLM Debate: Framework, Principals, and Interventions
1182. NeurIPS 2024N-agent Ad Hoc Teamwork
1183. NeurIPS 2024No-Regret Learning for Fair Multi-Agent Social Welfare Optimization
1184. NeurIPS 2024No-regret Learning in Harmonic Games: Extrapolation in the Face of Conflicting Interests
1185. NeurIPS 2024NYU CTF Bench: A Scalable Open-Source Benchmark Dataset for Evaluating LLMs in Offensive Security
1186. NeurIPS 2024Observational Scaling Laws and the Predictability of Langauge Model Performance
1187. NeurIPS 2024OccamLLM: Fast and Exact Language Model Arithmetic in a Single Step
1188. NeurIPS 2024On the Effects of Data Scale on UI Control Agents
1189. NeurIPS 2024Online Relational Inference for Evolving Multi-agent Interacting Systems
1190. NeurIPS 2024Opponent Modeling based on Subgoal Inference
1191. NeurIPS 2024Opponent Modeling with In-context Search
1192. NeurIPS 2024Optimus-1: Hybrid Multimodal Memory Empowered Agents Excel in Long-Horizon Tasks
1193. NeurIPS 2024OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer Environments
1194. NeurIPS 2024Paths to Equilibrium in Games
1195. NeurIPS 2024Policy Learning from Tutorial Books via Understanding, Rehearsing and Introspecting
1196. NeurIPS 2024Predicting Future Actions of Reinforcement Learning Agents
1197. NeurIPS 2024PrivacyLens: Evaluating Privacy Norm Awareness of Language Models in Action
1198. NeurIPS 2024Randomized Exploration in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
1199. NeurIPS 2024Reasoning Multi-Agent Behavioral Topology for Interactive Autonomous Driving
1200. NeurIPS 2024Reciprocal Reward Influence Encourages Cooperation From Self-Interested Agents

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.