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 25 of 66

  1. ICML 2026Towards Complete Multi-Agent Coordination Policy Learning via Denoising Maximum Entropy Optimization
  2. ICML 2026Towards Feedback-to-Plan Decisions for Self-Evolving LLM Agents in CUDA Kernel Generation
  3. ICML 2026Towards Professional-Grade Financial Agents: Benchmarking, Tooling, and Structured Reasoning
  4. ICML 2026TRACER: Trajectory Risk Aggregation for Critical Episodes in Agentic Reasoning
  5. ICML 2026Training Language Model Agents to Find Vulnerabilities with CTF-Dojo
  6. ICML 2026Training LLM Agents to Empower Humans
  7. ICML 2026TreeCUA: Efficiently Scaling GUI Automation with Tree-Structured Verifiable Evolution
  8. ICML 2026Trifuse: Enhancing Attention-Based GUI Grounding via Multimodal Fusion
  9. ICML 2026TRIP-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Interactive Agents in Real-World Scenarios
  10. ICML 2026TritonGym: A Benchmark for Agentic LLM Workflows in Triton GPU Code Generation
  11. ICML 2026Tvcache: A Tool-Value Cache for Post-Training LLM Agents
  12. ICML 2026UltraHorizon: Benchmarking LLM-Agent Capabilities in Ultra Long-Horizon Scenarios
  13. ICML 2026UMEM: Unified Memory Extraction and Management Framework for Generalizable Memory
  14. ICML 2026Uncertainty-Aware Clarification in LLM Agents with Information Gain
  15. ICML 2026Unsafer in Many Turns: Benchmarking and Defending Multi-Turn Safety Risks in Tool-Using Agents
  16. ICML 2026Unsupervised Partner Design Enables Robust Ad-hoc Teamwork
  17. ICML 2026V-ABS: Action-Observer Driven Beam Search for Dynamic Visual Reasoning
  18. ICML 2026Value Aggregation with Uncertainty in Online Decentralized MARL
  19. ICML 2026VenusBench-Mobile: A Challenging and User-Centric Benchmark for Mobile GUI Agents with Capability Diagnostics
  20. ICML 2026Verbalized Bayesian Persuasion
  21. ICML 2026VeRO: A Harness for Agents to Optimize Agents
  22. ICML 2026Video-o3: Native Interleaved Clue Seeking for Long Video Multi-Hop Reasoning
  23. ICML 2026Video2GUI: Synthesizing Large-Scale Interaction Trajectories for Generalized GUI Agent Pretraining
  24. ICML 2026VideoSEAL: Mitigating Evidence Misalignment in Agentic Long Video Understanding by Decoupling Answer Authority
  25. ICML 2026VideoTemp-o3: Harmonizing Temporal Grounding and Video Understanding in Agentic Thinking-with-Videos
  26. ICML 2026Vision2Web: A Hierarchical Benchmark for Visual Website Development with Agent Verification
  27. ICML 2026Visual Persuasion: What Influences Decisions of Vision-Language Models?
  28. ICML 2026Vulnerable Agent Identification in Large-Scale Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
  29. ICML 2026WarmServe: Enabling One-for-Many GPU Prewarming for Multi-LLM Serving
  30. ICML 2026Watermarking LLM Agent Trajectories
  31. ICML 2026Weasel: Out-of-Domain Generalization for Web Agents via Importance-Diversity Data Selection
  32. ICML 2026Weaving in the Clouds: Achieving Synergistic Collaboration among LLM Agents via Federated Learning
  33. ICML 2026What Do Agents Learn from Trajectory-SFT: Semantics or Interfaces?
  34. ICML 2026What Preferences Can—and Cannot—Predict in Multi-Agent Online Learning
  35. ICML 2026What You Think is What You See: Driving Exploration in VLM Agents via Visual-Linguistic Curiosity
  36. ICML 2026When Actions Go Off-Task: Detecting and Correcting Misaligned Actions in Computer-Use Agents
  37. ICML 2026When Agents Go Rogue: Activation-Based Detection of Malicious Behaviors in Multi-Agent Systems
  38. ICML 2026When AI Agents Compete for Jobs: Strategic Capabilities and Economic Dynamics of AI Labour Markets
  39. ICML 2026When Benign Inputs Lead to Severe Harms: Eliciting Unsafe Unintended Behaviors of Computer-Use Agents
  40. ICML 2026When Embedding-Based Defenses Fail: Rethinking Safety in LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems
  41. ICML 2026When LLMs Develop Languages: Symbolic Communication for Efficient Multi-Agent Reasoning
  42. ICML 2026When Planning Fails Despite Correct Execution: On Epistemic Calibration for LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems
  43. ICML 2026When Replanning Becomes the Bottleneck: Budgeted Replanning for Embodied Agents
  44. ICML 2026Whom to Query for What: Adaptive Group Elicitation via Multi-Turn LLM Interactions
  45. ICML 2026Why Agentic Theorem Prover Works: A Statistical Provability Theory of Mathematical Reasoning Models
  46. ICML 2026Why Specialist Models Still Matter: A Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Paradigm for Medical Artificial Intelligence
  47. ICML 2026WinDeskGround: A Benchmark for Robust GUI Grounding in Complex Multi-Window Desktop Environments
  48. ICML 2026Words Towards Explainability: Caption Label-Free Learning via Dual Loop Agentic Time Series Captioning
  49. ICML 2026World Models in Pieces: Structural Certification of General Agents
  50. ICML 2026WorldTravel: A Realistic Multimodal Travel-Planning Benchmark with Tightly Coupled Constraints

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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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