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

3,266 papers, page 3 of 66

101. CVPR 2026ViBES A Conversational Agent with Behaviorally-Intelligent 3D Virtual Body
102. CVPR 2026VideoARM Agentic Reasoning over Hierarchical Memory for Long-Form Video Understanding
103. CVPR 2026VideoChat-M1 Collaborative Policy Planning for Video Understanding via Multi-Agent Reinforcement
104. CVPR 2026VideoSeek Long-Horizon Video Agent with Tool-Guided Seeking
105. CVPR 2026VideoWeaver Multimodal Multi-View Video-to-Video Transfer for Embodied Agents
106. CVPR 2026ViLoMem Agentic Learner with Grow-and-Refine Multimodal Semantic Memory
107. CVPR 2026Vinedresser3D Towards Agentic Text-guided 3D Editing
108. CVPR 2026VISTA A Test-Time Self-Improving Video Generation Agent
109. CVPR 2026Visual Document Understanding and Reasoning A Multi-Agent Collaboration Framework with
110. CVPR 2026VQ-VA World Towards High-Quality Visual Question-Visual Answering
111. CVPR 2026VS-Bench Evaluating VLMs for Strategic Abilities in Multi-Agent Environments
112. CVPR 2026VULCAN Tool-Augmented Multi Agents for Iterative 3D Object Arrangement
113. CVPR 2026When Robots Should Say I Dont Know Benchmarking Abstention in
114. CVPR 2026YoCity Personalized and Boundless 3D Realistic City Scene Generation via
115. ICLR 2026$p\textrm{-less}$ Sampling: A Robust Hyperparameter-Free Approach for LLM Decoding
116. ICLR 2026A Benchmark for Deep Information Synthesis
117. ICLR 2026A Fano-Style Accuracy Upper Bound for LLM Single-Pass Reasoning in Multi-Hop QA
118. ICLR 2026A Framework for Studying AI Agent Behavior: Evidence from Consumer Choice Experiments
119. ICLR 2026A$^2$FM: An Adaptive Agent Foundation Model for Tool-Aware Hybrid Reasoning
120. ICLR 2026A$^2$Search: Ambiguity-Aware Question Answering with Reinforcement Learning
121. ICLR 2026A2ASecBench: A Protocol-Aware Security Benchmark for Agent-to-Agent Multi-Agent Systems
122. ICLR 2026ACADREASON: Exploring the Limits of Reasoning Models with Academic Research Problems
123. ICLR 2026Achieving Expert-Level Agent from Foundation Model via Complexity Curriculum Reinforcement Learning with Synthetic Data
124. ICLR 2026Adaptive Attacks on Trusted Monitors Subvert AI Control Protocols
125. ICLR 2026Adaptive Collaboration with Humans: Metacognitive Policy Optimization for Multi-Agent LLMs with Continual Learning
126. ICLR 2026Advancing Multi-agent Traffic Simulation via R1-Style Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
127. ICLR 2026Aegis: Automated Error Generation and Identification for Multi-Agent Systems
128. ICLR 2026AesCoder: Code Aesthetics with Agentic Reward Feedback
129. ICLR 2026Agent Data Protocol
130. ICLR 2026Agent-X: Evaluating Deep Multimodal Reasoning in Vision-Centric Agentic Tasks
131. ICLR 2026AgentFold: Long-Horizon Web Agents with Proactive Context Folding
132. ICLR 2026AgentGym-RL: An Open-Source Framework to Train LLM Agents for Long-Horizon Decision Making via Multi-Turn RL
133. ICLR 2026Agentic Collaboration as an Information Bottleneck Problem
134. ICLR 2026Agentic Context Engineering: Learning Comprehensive Contexts for Self-Improving Language Models
135. ICLR 2026Agentic Jigsaw Interaction Learning for Enhancing Visual Perception and Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
136. ICLR 2026Agentic Reinforced Policy Optimization
137. ICLR 2026Agentic Reinforcement Learning with Implicit Step Rewards
138. ICLR 2026AgentMath: Empowering Mathematical Reasoning for Large Language Models via Tool-Augmented Agent
139. ICLR 2026AgentPO: Enhancing Multi-Agent Collaboration via Reinforcement Learning
140. ICLR 2026AgenTracer: Who Is Inducing Failure in the LLM Agentic Systems?
141. ICLR 2026AgentSynth: Scalable Task Generation for Generalist Computer-Use Agents
142. ICLR 2026AI-for-Science Low-code Platform with Bayesian Adversarial Multi-Agent Framework
143. ICLR 2026Align Once, Benefit Multilingually: Enforcing Multilingual Consistency for LLM Safety Alignment
144. ICLR 2026Alignment-Enhanced Integration of Connectivity and Spectral Sparse in Dynamic Sparse Training of LLM
145. ICLR 2026AlphaAgentEvo: Evolution-Oriented Alpha Mining via Self-Evolving Agentic Reinforcement Learning
146. ICLR 2026AlphaBench: Benchmarking Large Language Models in Formulaic Alpha Factor Mining
147. ICLR 2026AMemGym: Interactive Memory Benchmarking for Assistants in Long-Horizon Conversations
148. ICLR 2026An Agentic Framework with LLMs for Solving Complex Vehicle Routing Problems
149. ICLR 2026Analytica: Soft Propositional Reasoning for Robust and Scalable LLM-Driven Analysis
150. ICLR 2026Analyzing and Evaluating Unbiased Language Model Watermark

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.