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.

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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

185 papers, page 3 of 4

  1. CVPR 2026ViBES A Conversational Agent with Behaviorally-Intelligent 3D Virtual Body
  2. CVPR 2026VideoARM Agentic Reasoning over Hierarchical Memory for Long-Form Video Understanding
  3. CVPR 2026VideoChat-M1 Collaborative Policy Planning for Video Understanding via Multi-Agent Reinforcement
  4. CVPR 2026VideoSeek Long-Horizon Video Agent with Tool-Guided Seeking
  5. CVPR 2026VideoWeaver Multimodal Multi-View Video-to-Video Transfer for Embodied Agents
  6. CVPR 2026ViLoMem Agentic Learner with Grow-and-Refine Multimodal Semantic Memory
  7. CVPR 2026Vinedresser3D Towards Agentic Text-guided 3D Editing
  8. CVPR 2026VISTA A Test-Time Self-Improving Video Generation Agent
  9. CVPR 2026Visual Document Understanding and Reasoning A Multi-Agent Collaboration Framework with
  10. CVPR 2026VQ-VA World Towards High-Quality Visual Question-Visual Answering
  11. CVPR 2026VS-Bench Evaluating VLMs for Strategic Abilities in Multi-Agent Environments
  12. CVPR 2026VULCAN Tool-Augmented Multi Agents for Iterative 3D Object Arrangement
  13. CVPR 2026When Robots Should Say I Dont Know Benchmarking Abstention in
  14. CVPR 2026YoCity Personalized and Boundless 3D Realistic City Scene Generation via
  15. CVPR 2025Automated Generation of Challenging Multiple-Choice Questions for Vision Language Model Evaluation
  16. CVPR 2025Closed-Loop Supervised Fine-Tuning of Tokenized Traffic Models
  17. CVPR 2025Collaborative Tree Search for Enhancing Embodied Multi-Agent Collaboration
  18. CVPR 2025ComfyBench: Benchmarking LLM-based Agents in ComfyUI for Autonomously Designing Collaborative AI Systems
  19. CVPR 2025CoSDH: Communication-Efficient Collaborative Perception via Supply-Demand Awareness and Intermediate-Late Hybridization
  20. CVPR 2025CroCoDL: Cross-device Collaborative Dataset for Localization
  21. CVPR 2025Cross-Modal 3D Representation with Multi-View Images and Point Clouds
  22. CVPR 2025Distilling Multi-modal Large Language Models for Autonomous Driving
  23. CVPR 2025Ego4o: Egocentric Human Motion Capture and Understanding from Multi-Modal Input
  24. CVPR 2025Enduring, Efficient and Robust Trajectory Prediction Attack in Autonomous Driving via Optimization-Driven Multi-Frame Perturbation Framework
  25. CVPR 2025Enhancing Video-LLM Reasoning via Agent-of-Thoughts Distillation
  26. CVPR 2025Feature4X: Bridging Any Monocular Video to 4D Agentic AI with Versatile Gaussian Feature Fields
  27. CVPR 2025FilmComposer: LLM-Driven Music Production for Silent Film Clips
  28. CVPR 2025From Multimodal LLMs to Generalist Embodied Agents: Methods and Lessons
  29. CVPR 2025Generative Map Priors for Collaborative BEV Semantic Segmentation
  30. CVPR 2025GUI-Xplore: Empowering Generalizable GUI Agents with One Exploration
  31. CVPR 2025Imputation-free and Alignment-free: Incomplete Multi-view Clustering Driven by Consensus Semantic Learning
  32. CVPR 2025Insight-V: Exploring Long-Chain Visual Reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Models
  33. CVPR 2025Learning to Detect Objects from Multi-Agent LiDAR Scans without Manual Labels
  34. CVPR 2025LLM-driven Multimodal and Multi-Identity Listening Head Generation
  35. CVPR 2025MAC-Ego3D: Multi-Agent Gaussian Consensus for Real-Time Collaborative Ego-Motion and Photorealistic 3D Reconstruction
  36. CVPR 2025MAGiC-SLAM: Multi-Agent Gaussian Globally Consistent SLAM
  37. CVPR 2025Magma: A Foundation Model for Multimodal AI Agents
  38. CVPR 2025MCCD: Multi-Agent Collaboration-based Compositional Diffusion for Complex Text-to-Image Generation
  39. CVPR 2025MNE-SLAM: Multi-Agent Neural SLAM for Mobile Robots
  40. CVPR 2025NADER: Neural Architecture Design via Multi-Agent Collaboration
  41. CVPR 2025OmniDrive: A Holistic Vision-Language Dataset for Autonomous Driving with Counterfactual Reasoning
  42. CVPR 2025One-Step Event-Driven High-Speed Autofocus
  43. CVPR 2025Poly-Autoregressive Prediction for Modeling Interactions
  44. CVPR 2025Reasoning in Visual Navigation of End-to-end Trained Agents: A Dynamical Systems Approach
  45. CVPR 2025Sim-to-Real Causal Transfer: A Metric Learning Approach to Causally-Aware Interaction Representations
  46. CVPR 2025Sketchtopia: A Dataset and Foundational Agents for Benchmarking Asynchronous Multimodal Communication with Iconic Feedback
  47. CVPR 2025SocialMOIF: Multi-Order Intention Fusion for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction
  48. CVPR 2025SpiritSight Agent: Advanced GUI Agent with One Look
  49. CVPR 2025TANGO: Training-free Embodied AI Agents for Open-world Tasks
  50. CVPR 2025TraF-Align: Trajectory-aware Feature Alignment for Asynchronous Multi-agent Perception

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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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