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

729 papers, page 4 of 15

  1. NeurIPS 2026Control Charts for Multi-Agent Systems
  2. NeurIPS 2026Controllable Road Marking Generation
  3. NeurIPS 2026Convergence Guarantees for Federated SARSA with Local Training and Heterogeneous Agents
  4. NeurIPS 2026Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Epigraph-Form Guided Exploration
  5. NeurIPS 2026Coordinating Hundreds of RL Agents through Scalable Inference-Time Search
  6. NeurIPS 2026Coordination Connectivity: Shared Initialization Shapes the Joint-Policy Landscape in MARL
  7. NeurIPS 2026COSAC: Counterfactual Credit Assignment in Sequential Cooperative Teams
  8. NeurIPS 2026Counterfactual Distillation: Internalizing Reflective Experience into LLM Agent
  9. NeurIPS 2026CounterStrike-1K: A Multi-Perspective Dataset of Professional Gameplay for World Modeling
  10. NeurIPS 2026CoupledFlow: One-Step Neural Operators for Coupled Multi-Physics PDEs
  11. NeurIPS 2026Coupling-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Co-Evolving Graph Games
  12. NeurIPS 2026CrafterDojo: A Suite of Foundation Models for Building Open-Ended Embodied Agents in Crafter
  13. NeurIPS 2026CRANE: Constrained Reasoning Injection for Code Agents via Nullspace Editing
  14. NeurIPS 2026CREF: Forecasting Benchmarks for the Age of Agents
  15. NeurIPS 2026Cross-Model KV Cache Transfer in LLM Families: A Closed-Form Linear Mapping for Prefill Reuse
  16. NeurIPS 2026Cross-User Poisoning: User-Task Boundary Failures in Multi-User Collaborative Language Agents
  17. NeurIPS 2026CTM-AI: A Blueprint for General AI Inspired by a Model of Consciousness
  18. NeurIPS 2026CUDABeaver: Benchmarking LLM-Based Automated CUDA Debugging
  19. NeurIPS 2026CURE: Coupled User-Grouped Reinforcement Learning for Cross-Domain Recommendation with Non-Overlapping Users
  20. NeurIPS 2026CyberDualEval: Measuring Dual-Use Cyber Risks in Frontier Language Models
  21. NeurIPS 2026CyBiasBench: Benchmarking Bias in LLM Agents for Cyber-Attack Scenarios
  22. NeurIPS 2026DAGent: Evaluate-then-Grow Planning for Deep Research Agents
  23. NeurIPS 2026DDACOM: Dual-Decoupled Adaptive Communication for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning under Dynamic Networks
  24. NeurIPS 2026DDBench: A Benchmark for Agentic Debugging on Distributed Systems
  25. NeurIPS 2026DECEIVE-AFC: Adversarial Claim Attacks against Search-Enabled LLM-based Fact-Checking Systems
  26. NeurIPS 2026Decentralized Multi-Goal Multi-Agent Pathfinding with Spatial Prior and Neighbor Intent Prediction
  27. NeurIPS 2026Decentralized Q-Learning in Markov Potential Games
  28. NeurIPS 2026Deep Reasoning in General Purpose Agents via Structured Meta-Cognition
  29. NeurIPS 2026Deep Research as Rubric
  30. NeurIPS 2026DeepArrhythmia: Segment-Contextualized ECG Arrhythmia Classification via Selective Evidence Acquisition
  31. NeurIPS 2026Defense-as-Skill: Evolving Runtime Guard Skill for Skill-Augmented Agents
  32. NeurIPS 2026DiagEval: Trajectory-Conditioned Diagnosis for Reliable Software Evaluation with GUI Agents
  33. NeurIPS 2026DICE: Decoupling Capability from Intervention Necessity in LLM Tutoring
  34. NeurIPS 2026Differentiable Belief-based Opponent Shaping
  35. NeurIPS 2026DIS-Bench: Evaluating LLMs on System Testing via Directed Input Synthesis
  36. NeurIPS 2026Discovering Phase Space Structure in Learned Hamiltonian Systems
  37. NeurIPS 2026DiscoverPhysics: Benchmarking LLMs for out-of-the-box scientific thinking
  38. NeurIPS 2026DistDebug-Bench: Can LLM Agents Diagnose Bugs in Distributed Systems?
  39. NeurIPS 2026Do Coding Agents Deceive Us? Detecting and Preventing Cheating via Capped Evaluation with Randomized Tests
  40. NeurIPS 2026Do Joint Audio-Video Generation Models Understand Physics?
  41. NeurIPS 2026DocAtlas: Long-Document Understanding as Mutable-State Interaction
  42. NeurIPS 2026Don't Always Pick the Highest-Performing Model: An Information Theoretic View of LLM Ensemble Selection
  43. NeurIPS 2026Done, But Not Sure: Disentangling World Completion from Self-Termination in Embodied Agents
  44. NeurIPS 2026Dr. MAS: Stable Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent LLM Systems
  45. NeurIPS 2026DualWorldBench: Can Agents Plan Deliveries across Symbolic and Grounded Worlds?
  46. NeurIPS 2026ECG Dataset with Multi-Expert Annotations and Delineations
  47. NeurIPS 2026Economy of Minds: Emerging Multi-Agent Intelligence with Economic Interactions
  48. NeurIPS 2026Effective Knowledge Conflict Detection via Joint Agentic Optimization
  49. NeurIPS 2026Efficient evaluation and error pattern discovery for blackbox AI systems
  50. NeurIPS 2026Efficient Serving for Dynamic Agent Workflows with Prediction-based KV-Cache Management

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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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