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

329 papers, page 4 of 7

151. ICML 2024Near-Optimal Reinforcement Learning with Self-Play under Adaptivity Constraints
152. ICML 2024Nonlinear Filtering with Brenier Optimal Transport Maps
153. ICML 2024Offline Training of Language Model Agents with Functions as Learnable Weights
154. ICML 2024On the Identifiability of Switching Dynamical Systems
155. ICML 2024Online Learning in Betting Markets: Profit versus Prediction
156. ICML 2024Optimistic Multi-Agent Policy Gradient
157. ICML 2024PGODE: Towards High-quality System Dynamics Modeling
158. ICML 2024Position: AI-Powered Autonomous Weapons Risk Geopolitical Instability and Threaten AI Research
159. ICML 2024Position: Enforced Amnesia as a Way to Mitigate the Potential Risk of Silent Suffering in the Conscious AI
160. ICML 2024Position: Foundation Agents as the Paradigm Shift for Decision Making
161. ICML 2024Position: Fundamental Limitations of LLM Censorship Necessitate New Approaches
162. ICML 2024Position: Towards Unified Alignment Between Agents, Humans, and Environment
163. ICML 2024QuIP$\#$: Even Better LLM Quantization with Hadamard Incoherence and Lattice Codebooks
164. ICML 2024R2E: Turning any Github Repository into a Programming Agent Environment
165. ICML 2024Reason for Future, Act for Now: A Principled Architecture for Autonomous LLM Agents
166. ICML 2024Residual Quantization with Implicit Neural Codebooks
167. ICML 2024Sample-Efficient Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in the Face of Environmental Uncertainty
168. ICML 2024Scalable Safe Policy Improvement for Factored Multi-Agent MDPs
169. ICML 2024SceneCraft: An LLM Agent for Synthesizing 3D Scenes as Blender Code
170. ICML 2024Self-Rewarding Language Models
171. ICML 2024Sequential Asynchronous Action Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems: A Stackelberg Decision Transformer Approach
172. ICML 2024Should we be going MAD? A Look at Multi-Agent Debate Strategies for LLMs
173. ICML 2024Socialized Learning: Making Each Other Better Through Multi-Agent Collaboration
174. ICML 2024STEER: Assessing the Economic Rationality of Large Language Models
175. ICML 2024Towards Resource-friendly, Extensible and Stable Incomplete Multi-view Clustering
176. ICML 2024TravelPlanner: A Benchmark for Real-World Planning with Language Agents
177. ICML 2024Two-sided Competing Matching Recommendation Markets With Quota and Complementary Preferences Constraints
178. ICML 2024WorkArena: How Capable are Web Agents at Solving Common Knowledge Work Tasks?
179. ICML 2024Zero-Sum Positional Differential Games as a Framework for Robust Reinforcement Learning: Deep Q-Learning Approach
180. NeurIPS 2024A Decision-Language Model (DLM) for Dynamic Restless Multi-Armed Bandit Tasks in Public Health
181. NeurIPS 2024A Synthetic Dataset for Personal Attribute Inference
182. NeurIPS 2024AdaSociety: An Adaptive Environment with Social Structures for Multi-Agent Decision-Making
183. NeurIPS 2024Agent Planning with World Knowledge Model
184. NeurIPS 2024AgentBoard: An Analytical Evaluation Board of Multi-turn LLM Agents
185. NeurIPS 2024AgentDojo: A Dynamic Environment to Evaluate Prompt Injection Attacks and Defenses for LLM Agents
186. NeurIPS 2024AgentPoison: Red-teaming LLM Agents via Poisoning Memory or Knowledge Bases
187. NeurIPS 2024AGILE: A Novel Reinforcement Learning Framework of LLM Agents
188. NeurIPS 2024ALI-Agent: Assessing LLMs' Alignment with Human Values via Agent-based Evaluation
189. NeurIPS 2024Aligning Audio-Visual Joint Representations with an Agentic Workflow
190. NeurIPS 2024Aligning Individual and Collective Objectives in Multi-Agent Cooperation
191. NeurIPS 2024Aligning LLM Agents by Learning Latent Preference from User Edits
192. NeurIPS 2024AMOR: A Recipe for Building Adaptable Modular Knowledge Agents Through Process Feedback
193. NeurIPS 2024APIGen: Automated PIpeline for Generating Verifiable and Diverse Function-Calling Datasets
194. NeurIPS 2024AutoGuide: Automated Generation and Selection of Context-Aware Guidelines for Large Language Model Agents
195. NeurIPS 2024AutoManual: Constructing Instruction Manuals by LLM Agents via Interactive Environmental Learning
196. NeurIPS 2024Automating Data Annotation under Strategic Human Agents: Risks and Potential Solutions
197. NeurIPS 2024Autonomous Agents for Collaborative Task under Information Asymmetry
198. NeurIPS 2024AvaTaR: Optimizing LLM Agents for Tool Usage via Contrastive Reasoning
199. NeurIPS 2024Bayesian Strategic Classification
200. NeurIPS 2024BehaviorGPT: Smart Agent Simulation for Autonomous Driving with Next-Patch Prediction

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.