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

1,983 papers, page 31 of 40

  1. NeurIPS 2026FlyAOC: Evaluating Agentic Ontology Curation of Drosophila Scientific Knowledge Bases
  2. NeurIPS 2026FML-bench: A Controlled Study of AI Research Agent Strategies from the Perspective of Search Dynamics
  3. NeurIPS 2026Focusing Influence Mechanism for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
  4. NeurIPS 2026Forced Orders: What LLM Leaderboards Hide About Model Comparisons
  5. NeurIPS 2026ForecastCompass: Guiding Agentic Forecasting with Adaptive Factor Memory
  6. NeurIPS 2026Forgetting is Not Always Bad: A Neuro-Inspired Memory Repair Mechanism for Poisoned LLM Agents
  7. NeurIPS 2026From Chats to Markets: AgenticPay for LLM-Powered Negotiation in Multi-Agent Commerce
  8. NeurIPS 2026From Expert Knowledge to Optimization Modeling: Prototype-Based Data Synthesis and Logical Reinforcement Learning
  9. NeurIPS 2026From History to State: Constant-Context Skill Learning for LLM Agents
  10. NeurIPS 2026From Local Skills to Long-Horizon Tasks: Progressive Skill Exploration for LLM Web Agents
  11. NeurIPS 2026From Patches to Trajectories: Privileged Process Supervision for Software-Engineering Agents
  12. NeurIPS 2026From Raw Experience to Skill Consumption: A Systematic Study of Model-Generated Agent Skills
  13. NeurIPS 2026From Representation to Intervention: Using Emotion Vectors to Monitor and Guide Language Models
  14. NeurIPS 2026From Talking Words to Sharing Thoughts: Scalable Multi-LLM Aggregation via Structured Message Passing
  15. NeurIPS 2026From Uncertain Judgments to Calibrated Rankings: Conformal Elo Estimation for LLM Evaluation
  16. NeurIPS 2026From Walls to Synergy: A Joint LLM-Evolution Framework for MILP Solvers
  17. NeurIPS 2026From Weeks to Hours: Fast and Principled SFT Curation for LLM
  18. NeurIPS 2026Frontier Coding Agents Use Metaprogramming to Adapt to Unfamiliar Programming Languages
  19. NeurIPS 2026Frontier-Eng: Benchmarking Self-Evolving Agents on Real-World Engineering with Generative Optimization
  20. NeurIPS 2026FrontierSmith: Synthesizing Open-Ended Coding Problems at Scale
  21. NeurIPS 2026FRUC: Feedforward Dynamic Scene Reconstruction from Uncalibrated Collaborative Driving Views
  22. NeurIPS 2026fxBench: Evaluating and Understanding Formula Suggestions in Spreadsheets
  23. NeurIPS 2026GCD: Correcting Hidden-State Bias in Off-Policy Agentic RL
  24. NeurIPS 2026Gen-Searcher: Reinforcing Agentic Search for Image Generation
  25. NeurIPS 2026GenEnv: Difficulty-Aligned Co-Evolution Between LLM Agents and Environment Simulators
  26. NeurIPS 2026Generalized Intention Modeling in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
  27. NeurIPS 2026Generalizing Test-time Compute-optimal Scaling as an Optimizable Graph
  28. NeurIPS 2026Generation Navigator: A State-Aware Agentic Framework for Image Generation
  29. NeurIPS 2026Generative Scenario Rollouts for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
  30. NeurIPS 2026GenEvolve: Self-Evolving Image Generation Agents via Tool-Orchestrated Visual Experience Distillation
  31. NeurIPS 2026Geometry-Aware Online Scheduling for LLM Serving: From Theoretical Bound to System Practice
  32. NeurIPS 2026Git Context Controller: Manage the Context of Agents by Agentic Git
  33. NeurIPS 2026GNES: Neural-Guided Evolutionary Program Search for Interpretable Multi-Agent Control
  34. NeurIPS 2026Gradient Boosted Trees for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  35. NeurIPS 2026GraphMemRL: Action-Native Reinforcement Learning for Persistent Graph Memory Construction
  36. NeurIPS 2026Grounding Agent Reasoning with Structured Process Supervision for Multi-turn Reinforcement Learning
  37. NeurIPS 2026Group Perspective Matters: Regulating Debate Relationships Can Mitigate Blind Conformity in Multi-Agent Debate
  38. NeurIPS 2026Group-Graph Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon Agentic Reinforcement Learning
  39. NeurIPS 2026GroupMemBench: Benchmarking LLM Agent Memory in Multi-Party Conversations
  40. NeurIPS 2026GT-HarmBench: Benchmarking AI Safety Risks Through the Lens of Game Theory
  41. NeurIPS 2026Hack-Verifiable Environments: Towards Evaluating Reward Hacking at Scale
  42. NeurIPS 2026HalluWorld: A Controlled Benchmark for Hallucination via Reference World Models
  43. NeurIPS 2026Harbor Adapters and Harbor-Mix: Infrastructure and a Curated Meta-Dataset for Large-Scale Agentic Evaluation
  44. NeurIPS 2026Harness the Memory: A Holistic Evaluation of Memory Substrates in Memory Agents
  45. NeurIPS 2026HARP: Training-Free Dual-Profile Agentic Communication for LLM-Based Recommendation
  46. NeurIPS 2026HeMeR: Heterogeneous Memory Reconciliation for Embodied Agents via Structured KV Reuse
  47. NeurIPS 2026HetCCL: Efficient LLM Training on Heterogeneous Vendor GPUs
  48. NeurIPS 2026Heterogeneous Agent Collaborative Reinforcement Learning
  49. NeurIPS 2026Heuresis: Evaluating Search Strategies for Autonomous Machine Learning Research Agents
  50. NeurIPS 2026Hidden Measurement Error in LLM Pipelines Distorts Annotation, Evaluation, and Benchmarking

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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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