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
- 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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 76 | 40 | 41 | 13 | 170 |
| 2024 | 150 | 73 | 88 | 18 | 329 |
| 2025 | 362 | 204 | 178 | 40 | 784 |
| 2026 | 729 | 500 | 640 | 114 | 1,983 |
Representative papers
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- 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
640 papers, page 3 of 13
- ICML 2026Calibrating Conservatism for Scalable Oversight
- ICML 2026Can Agents Generalize to the Open World? Unveiling the Fragility of Static Training in Tool Use
- ICML 2026Can LLM Agents Stick to the Script? Modeling Commitment in Interactive Narratives
- ICML 2026CAPTCHA Solving for Native GUI Agents: Automated Reasoning-Action Data Generation and Self-Corrective Training
- ICML 2026CATArena: Evaluating Evolutionary Capabilities of Code Agents via Iterative Tournaments
- ICML 2026Catch-22: On the Fundamental Tradeoff Between Detectability and Robustness in LLM Watermarking
- ICML 2026Causal Detection of Multi-Step LLM Agent Attacks
- ICML 2026CausalArmor: Efficient Indirect Prompt Injection Guardrails via Causal Attribution
- ICML 2026CausalGame: Benchmarking Causal Thinking of LLM Agents in Games
- ICML 2026CauseCollab: Causal Unified and Modality-Agnostic Network for Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception
- ICML 2026CCLRec: Consensus-driven Contrastive Learning for LLM-enhanced Graph Recommendation
- ICML 2026CentaurEval: Benchmarking Human-in-the-Loop Value in Agentic Coding
- ICML 2026CGRiC: Compositional Risk Certification for Structured LLM Outputs
- ICML 2026Chain-of-Thought Reasoning In The Wild Is Not Always Faithful
- ICML 2026Chasing Moving Targets with Online Self-Play Reinforcement Learning for Safer Language Models
- ICML 2026CINOC: Cardinality-Invariant Neural Operator Policies for Scalable PDE Control
- ICML 2026Clarify Before You Draw: Proactive Agents for Robust Text-to-CAD Generation
- ICML 2026CLIMB: Taming the LoRA Residency Cliff in Multi-LoRA Serving
- ICML 2026Clipping Low-Probability Tokens in SFT Yields a Generalizable Initialization for RL
- ICML 2026Closing the Expression Gap in LLM Instructions via Socratic Questioning
- ICML 2026Closing the Loop: Universal Repository Representation with RPG-Encoder
- ICML 2026Co-RedTeam: Orchestrated Security Discovery and Exploitation with LLM Agents
- ICML 2026CocoRNA: Collective RNA Design with Cooperative Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2026CoDA-Bench: Can Code Agents Handle Data-Intensive Tasks?
- ICML 2026Code2Video: A Code-centric Paradigm for Educational Video Creation
- ICML 2026Code2Worlds: Empowering Coding LLMs for 4D World Generation
- ICML 2026CodeTaste: Can LLMs Generate Human-Level Code Refactorings?
- ICML 2026CollabBench: Benchmarking and Unleashing Collaborative Ability of LLMs with Diverse Players via Proactive Engagement
- ICML 2026Collaborative Disagreement Resolution for Scalable Oversight
- ICML 2026CoME: Empowering Channel-of-Mobile-Experts with Informative Hybrid-Capabilities Reasoning
- ICML 2026CoMem: Context Management with A Decoupled Long-Context Model
- ICML 2026ComplexMCP: Evaluation of LLM Agents in Dynamic, Interdependent, and Large-Scale Tool Sandbox
- ICML 2026CONCUR: High-Throughput Agentic Batch Inference of LLM via Congestion-Based Concurrency Control
- ICML 2026Conflict-Aware Adaptive Alignment for LLM Hallucination Mitigation
- ICML 2026ConServe: Fine-Grained GPU Harvesting for LLM Online and Offline Co-Serving
- ICML 2026Constitutional Black-Box Monitoring for Scheming in LLM Agents
- ICML 2026Contextualized Privacy Defense for LLM Agents
- ICML 2026Continual GUI Agents
- ICML 2026Controlled LLM Training on Spectral Sphere
- ICML 2026Conversation for Non-verifiable Learning: Self-Evolving Large Language Models through Meta-Evaluation
- ICML 2026ConvexBench: Can LLMs Recognize Convex Functions?
- ICML 2026CoopEval: Benchmarking Cooperation-Sustaining Mechanisms and LLM Agents in Social Dilemmas
- ICML 2026CooT: Learning to Coordinate In-Context with Coordination Transformers
- ICML 2026CoPE: A Framework for Optimizing Coordination between Planning and Execution in LLM-based Agents
- ICML 2026Copyright-Bench: Agentic Evaluation of Copyright Law Compliance
- ICML 2026CORRECT: COndensed eRror RECognition via knowledge Transfer in multi-agent systems
- ICML 2026CUARewardBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Reward Models for Computer-Using Agents
- ICML 2026CVE-Factory: Scaling Expert-Level Agentic Tasks for Code Security Vulnerability
- ICML 2026CyberGym-E2E: Scalable Real-World Benchmark for AI Agents' End-to-End Cybersecurity Capabilities
- ICML 2026CyberJurors: A Multi-Agent Simulation Task for E-Commerce Disputes Verdict
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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.