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

178 papers, page 4 of 4

151. ICML 2025Simultaneous Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Projected Diffusion Models
152. ICML 2025Solving Zero-Sum Convex Markov Games
153. ICML 2025Star Attention: Efficient LLM Inference over Long Sequences
154. ICML 2025StealthInk: A Multi-bit and Stealthy Watermark for Large Language Models
155. ICML 2025SWAN: SGD with Normalization and Whitening Enables Stateless LLM Training
156. ICML 2025SWE-Lancer: Can Frontier LLMs Earn $1 Million from Real-World Freelance Software Engineering?
157. ICML 2025SyncMind: Measuring Agent Out-of-Sync Recovery in Collaborative Software Engineering
158. ICML 2025Synthesizing Software Engineering Data in a Test-Driven Manner
159. ICML 2025The Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL): From Tool Use to Agentic Evaluation of Large Language Models
160. ICML 2025The Hidden Dimensions of LLM Alignment: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Orthogonal Safety Directions
161. ICML 2025The Sample Complexity of Online Strategic Decision Making with Information Asymmetry and Knowledge Transportability
162. ICML 2025The Synergy of LLMs & RL Unlocks Offline Learning of Generalizable Language-Conditioned Policies with Low-fidelity Data
163. ICML 2025Tokenized Bandit for LLM Decoding and Alignment
164. ICML 2025Tool Unlearning for Tool-Augmented LLMs
165. ICML 2025Towards Efficient Online Tuning of VLM Agents via Counterfactual Soft Reinforcement Learning
166. ICML 2025Towards Practical Defect-Focused Automated Code Review
167. ICML 2025Training a Generally Curious Agent
168. ICML 2025Training Software Engineering Agents and Verifiers with SWE-Gym
169. ICML 2025UDora: A Unified Red Teaming Framework against LLM Agents by Dynamically Hijacking Their Own Reasoning
170. ICML 2025UI-Vision: A Desktop-centric GUI Benchmark for Visual Perception and Interaction
171. ICML 2025Unbiased Evaluation of Large Language Models from a Causal Perspective
172. ICML 2025Understanding Bias Reinforcement in LLM Agents Debate
173. ICML 2025UP-VLA: A Unified Understanding and Prediction Model for Embodied Agent
174. ICML 2025What Limits Virtual Agent Application? OmniBench: A Scalable Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Essential Virtual Agent Capabilities
175. ICML 2025Which Agent Causes Task Failures and When? On Automated Failure Attribution of LLM Multi-Agent Systems
176. ICML 2025Windows Agent Arena: Evaluating Multi-Modal OS Agents at Scale
177. ICML 2025Wolfpack Adversarial Attack for Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
178. ICML 2025µnit Scaling: Simple and Scalable FP8 LLM Training

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.