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

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151. NeurIPS 2025InterMT: Multi-Turn Interleaved Preference Alignment with Human Feedback
152. NeurIPS 2025IR3D-Bench: Evaluating Vision-Language Model Scene Understanding as Agentic Inverse Rendering
153. NeurIPS 2025Iterative Self-Incentivization Empowers Large Language Models as Agentic Searchers
154. NeurIPS 2025Iterative Tool Usage Exploration for Multimodal Agents via Step-wise Preference Tuning
155. NeurIPS 2025JarvisArt: Liberating Human Artistic Creativity via an Intelligent Photo Retouching Agent
156. NeurIPS 2025KARMA: Leveraging Multi-Agent LLMs for Automated Knowledge Graph Enrichment
157. NeurIPS 2025Keeping an Eye on LLM Unlearning: The Hidden Risk and Remedy
158. NeurIPS 2025Kinaema: a recurrent sequence model for memory and pose in motion
159. NeurIPS 2025Knowledge Starts with Practice: Knowledge-Aware Exercise Generative Recommendation with Adaptive Multi-Agent Cooperation
160. NeurIPS 2025KVCOMM: Online Cross-context KV-cache Communication for Efficient LLM-based Multi-agent Systems
161. NeurIPS 2025KVFlow: Efficient Prefix Caching for Accelerating LLM-Based Multi-Agent Workflows
162. NeurIPS 2025LabUtopia: High-Fidelity Simulation and Hierarchical Benchmark for Scientific Embodied Agents
163. NeurIPS 2025Language Modeling by Language Models
164. NeurIPS 2025Language Models can Self-Improve at State-Value Estimation for Better Search
165. NeurIPS 2025Language Ranker: A Lightweight Ranking framework for LLM Decoding
166. NeurIPS 2025Large Language Models Miss the Multi-agent Mark
167. NeurIPS 2025LARGO: Latent Adversarial Reflection through Gradient Optimization for Jailbreaking LLMs
168. NeurIPS 2025LayerCraft: Enhancing Text-to-Image Generation with CoT Reasoning and Layered Object Integration
169. NeurIPS 2025LC-Opt: Benchmarking Reinforcement Learning and Agentic AI for End-to-End Liquid Cooling Optimization in Data Centers
170. NeurIPS 2025Learning “Partner-Aware” Collaborators in Multi-Party Collaboration
171. NeurIPS 2025Learning and Planning Multi-Agent Tasks via an MoE-based World Model
172. NeurIPS 2025Learning Equilibria from Data: Provably Efficient Multi-Agent Imitation Learning
173. NeurIPS 2025Learning in Stackelberg Mean Field Games: A Non-Asymptotic Analysis
174. NeurIPS 2025Learning Individual Behavior in Agent-Based Models with Graph Diffusion Networks
175. NeurIPS 2025Learning to Control Free-Form Soft Swimmers
176. NeurIPS 2025Learning to Watermark: A Selective Watermarking Framework for Large Language Models via Multi-Objective Optimization
177. NeurIPS 2025Lessons Learned: A Multi-Agent Framework for Code LLMs to Learn and Improve
178. NeurIPS 2025Let the LLM Stick to Its Strengths: Learning to Route Economical LLM
179. NeurIPS 2025LILO: Learning to Reason at the Frontier of Learnability
180. NeurIPS 2025LLM Generated Persona is a Promise with a Catch
181. NeurIPS 2025LLM Meeting Decision Trees on Tabular Data
182. NeurIPS 2025LLM Query Scheduling with Prefix Reuse and Latency Constraints
183. NeurIPS 2025LLM Strategic Reasoning: Agentic Study through Behavioral Game Theory
184. NeurIPS 2025LLM Unlearning via Neural Activation Redirection
185. NeurIPS 2025LLM-DAMVC: A Large Language Model Assisted Dynamic Agent for Multi-View Clustering
186. NeurIPS 2025LLM-PySC2: Starcraft II learning environment for Large Language Models
187. NeurIPS 2025Look Before You Leap: A GUI-Critic-R1 Model for Pre-Operative Error Diagnosis in GUI Automation
188. NeurIPS 2025LOPT: Learning Optimal Pigovian Tax in Sequential Social Dilemmas
189. NeurIPS 2025macOSWorld: A Multilingual Interactive Benchmark for GUI Agents
190. NeurIPS 2025MACS: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Optimization of Crystal Structures
191. NeurIPS 2025MAGNET: A Multi-agent Framework for Finding Audio-Visual Needles by Reasoning over Multi-Video Haystacks
192. NeurIPS 2025MaintainCoder: Maintainable Code Generation Under Dynamic Requirements
193. NeurIPS 2025MALinZero: Efficient Low-Dimensional Search for Mastering Complex Multi-Agent Planning
194. NeurIPS 2025Many LLMs Are More Utilitarian Than One
195. NeurIPS 2025Many Minds, One Goal: Time Series Forecasting via Sub-task Specialization and Inter-agent Cooperation
196. NeurIPS 2025MASTER: Enhancing Large Language Model via Multi-Agent Simulated Teaching
197. NeurIPS 2025MAT-Agent: Adaptive Multi-Agent Training Optimization
198. NeurIPS 2025Mean-Field Sampling for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
199. NeurIPS 2025Measuring Scientific Capabilities of Language Models with a Systems Biology Dry Lab
200. NeurIPS 2025Mechanism Design via the Interim Relaxation

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.