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

204 papers, page 3 of 5

101. ICLR 2025IntersectionZoo: Eco-driving for Benchmarking Multi-Agent Contextual Reinforcement Learning
102. ICLR 2025Inverse Attention Agents for Multi-Agent Systems
103. ICLR 2025InvestESG: A multi-agent reinforcement learning benchmark for studying climate investment as a social dilemma
104. ICLR 2025IRIS: LLM-Assisted Static Analysis for Detecting Security Vulnerabilities
105. ICLR 2025IterGen: Iterative Semantic-aware Structured LLM Generation with Backtracking
106. ICLR 2025JudgeBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLM-Based Judges
107. ICLR 2025Language Agents Meet Causality -- Bridging LLMs and Causal World Models
108. ICLR 2025Learn-by-interact: A Data-Centric Framework For Self-Adaptive Agents in Realistic Environments
109. ICLR 2025Learning Dynamics of LLM Finetuning
110. ICLR 2025Learning Generalizable Skills from Offline Multi-Task Data for Multi-Agent Cooperation
111. ICLR 2025Learning Spatiotemporal Dynamical Systems from Point Process Observations
112. ICLR 2025Learning to Communicate Through Implicit Communication Channels
113. ICLR 2025Learning to Contextualize Web Pages for Enhanced Decision Making by LLM Agents
114. ICLR 2025Learning to Steer Markovian Agents under Model Uncertainty
115. ICLR 2025LICORICE: Label-Efficient Concept-Based Interpretable Reinforcement Learning
116. ICLR 2025Lightweight Neural App Control
117. ICLR 2025Lines of Thought in Large Language Models
118. ICLR 2025LLM Unlearning via Loss Adjustment with Only Forget Data
119. ICLR 2025MA$^2$E: Addressing Partial Observability in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Masked Auto-Encoder
120. ICLR 2025MACPO: Weak-to-Strong Alignment via Multi-Agent Contrastive Preference Optimization
121. ICLR 2025Mechanistic Permutability: Match Features Across Layers
122. ICLR 2025MetaDesigner: Advancing Artistic Typography through AI-Driven, User-Centric, and Multilingual WordArt Synthesis
123. ICLR 2025MindSearch: Mimicking Human Minds Elicits Deep AI Searcher
124. ICLR 2025Mixture-of-Agents Enhances Large Language Model Capabilities
125. ICLR 2025MLE-bench: Evaluating Machine Learning Agents on Machine Learning Engineering
126. ICLR 2025MLLM as Retriever: Interactively Learning Multimodal Retrieval for Embodied Agents
127. ICLR 2025MMQA: Evaluating LLMs with Multi-Table Multi-Hop Complex Questions
128. ICLR 2025MMRole: A Comprehensive Framework for Developing and Evaluating Multimodal Role-Playing Agents
129. ICLR 2025Modeling dynamic social vision highlights gaps between deep learning and humans
130. ICLR 2025MOOSE-Chem: Large Language Models for Rediscovering Unseen Chemistry Scientific Hypotheses
131. ICLR 2025Moral Alignment for LLM Agents
132. ICLR 2025MrSteve: Instruction-Following Agents in Minecraft with What-Where-When Memory
133. ICLR 2025MTU-Bench: A Multi-granularity Tool-Use Benchmark for Large Language Models
134. ICLR 2025Multi-agent cooperation through learning-aware policy gradients
135. ICLR 2025Multi-modal Agent Tuning: Building a VLM-Driven Agent for Efficient Tool Usage
136. ICLR 2025Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Diffusion Models
137. ICLR 2025Multiagent Finetuning: Self Improvement with Diverse Reasoning Chains
138. ICLR 2025Multimodal Situational Safety
139. ICLR 2025Navigating the Digital World as Humans Do: Universal Visual Grounding for GUI Agents
140. ICLR 2025Near-Optimal Online Learning for Multi-Agent Submodular Coordination: Tight Approximation and Communication Efficiency
141. ICLR 2025Neural Interactive Proofs
142. ICLR 2025Non-myopic Generation of Language Models for Reasoning and Planning
143. ICLR 2025OCEAN: Offline Chain-of-thought Evaluation and Alignment in Large Language Models
144. ICLR 2025On the Modeling Capabilities of Large Language Models for Sequential Decision Making
145. ICLR 2025OpenHands: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents
146. ICLR 2025Optimized Multi-Token Joint Decoding With Auxiliary Model for LLM Inference
147. ICLR 2025OS-ATLAS: Foundation Action Model for Generalist GUI Agents
148. ICLR 2025OSCAR: Operating System Control via State-Aware Reasoning and Re-Planning
149. ICLR 2025OSDA Agent: Leveraging Large Language Models for De Novo Design of Organic Structure Directing Agents
150. ICLR 2025OvercookedV2: Rethinking Overcooked for Zero-Shot Coordination

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.