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

784 papers, page 4 of 16

  1. ICLR 2025Learning Spatiotemporal Dynamical Systems from Point Process Observations
  2. ICLR 2025Learning to Communicate Through Implicit Communication Channels
  3. ICLR 2025Learning to Contextualize Web Pages for Enhanced Decision Making by LLM Agents
  4. ICLR 2025Learning to Steer Markovian Agents under Model Uncertainty
  5. ICLR 2025LICORICE: Label-Efficient Concept-Based Interpretable Reinforcement Learning
  6. ICLR 2025Lightweight Neural App Control
  7. ICLR 2025Lines of Thought in Large Language Models
  8. ICLR 2025LLM Unlearning via Loss Adjustment with Only Forget Data
  9. ICLR 2025MA$^2$E: Addressing Partial Observability in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Masked Auto-Encoder
  10. ICLR 2025MACPO: Weak-to-Strong Alignment via Multi-Agent Contrastive Preference Optimization
  11. ICLR 2025Mechanistic Permutability: Match Features Across Layers
  12. ICLR 2025MetaDesigner: Advancing Artistic Typography through AI-Driven, User-Centric, and Multilingual WordArt Synthesis
  13. ICLR 2025MindSearch: Mimicking Human Minds Elicits Deep AI Searcher
  14. ICLR 2025Mixture-of-Agents Enhances Large Language Model Capabilities
  15. ICLR 2025MLE-bench: Evaluating Machine Learning Agents on Machine Learning Engineering
  16. ICLR 2025MLLM as Retriever: Interactively Learning Multimodal Retrieval for Embodied Agents
  17. ICLR 2025MMQA: Evaluating LLMs with Multi-Table Multi-Hop Complex Questions
  18. ICLR 2025MMRole: A Comprehensive Framework for Developing and Evaluating Multimodal Role-Playing Agents
  19. ICLR 2025Modeling dynamic social vision highlights gaps between deep learning and humans
  20. ICLR 2025MOOSE-Chem: Large Language Models for Rediscovering Unseen Chemistry Scientific Hypotheses
  21. ICLR 2025Moral Alignment for LLM Agents
  22. ICLR 2025MrSteve: Instruction-Following Agents in Minecraft with What-Where-When Memory
  23. ICLR 2025MTU-Bench: A Multi-granularity Tool-Use Benchmark for Large Language Models
  24. ICLR 2025Multi-agent cooperation through learning-aware policy gradients
  25. ICLR 2025Multi-modal Agent Tuning: Building a VLM-Driven Agent for Efficient Tool Usage
  26. ICLR 2025Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Diffusion Models
  27. ICLR 2025Multiagent Finetuning: Self Improvement with Diverse Reasoning Chains
  28. ICLR 2025Multimodal Situational Safety
  29. ICLR 2025Navigating the Digital World as Humans Do: Universal Visual Grounding for GUI Agents
  30. ICLR 2025Near-Optimal Online Learning for Multi-Agent Submodular Coordination: Tight Approximation and Communication Efficiency
  31. ICLR 2025Neural Interactive Proofs
  32. ICLR 2025Non-myopic Generation of Language Models for Reasoning and Planning
  33. ICLR 2025OCEAN: Offline Chain-of-thought Evaluation and Alignment in Large Language Models
  34. ICLR 2025On the Modeling Capabilities of Large Language Models for Sequential Decision Making
  35. ICLR 2025OpenHands: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents
  36. ICLR 2025Optimized Multi-Token Joint Decoding With Auxiliary Model for LLM Inference
  37. ICLR 2025OS-ATLAS: Foundation Action Model for Generalist GUI Agents
  38. ICLR 2025OSCAR: Operating System Control via State-Aware Reasoning and Re-Planning
  39. ICLR 2025OSDA Agent: Leveraging Large Language Models for De Novo Design of Organic Structure Directing Agents
  40. ICLR 2025OvercookedV2: Rethinking Overcooked for Zero-Shot Coordination
  41. ICLR 2025PARTNR: A Benchmark for Planning and Reasoning in Embodied Multi-agent Tasks
  42. ICLR 2025PathGen-1.6M: 1.6 Million Pathology Image-text Pairs Generation through Multi-agent Collaboration
  43. ICLR 2025POGEMA: A Benchmark Platform for Cooperative Multi-Agent Pathfinding
  44. ICLR 2025Polyrating: A Cost-Effective and Bias-Aware Rating System for LLM Evaluation
  45. ICLR 2025Preble: Efficient Distributed Prompt Scheduling for LLM Serving
  46. ICLR 2025Proactive Agent: Shifting LLM Agents from Reactive Responses to Active Assistance
  47. ICLR 2025Rational Decision-Making Agent with Learning Internal Utility Judgment
  48. ICLR 2025Re-Aligning Language to Visual Objects with an Agentic Workflow
  49. ICLR 2025Reconstruction-Guided Policy: Enhancing Decision-Making through Agent-Wise State Consistency
  50. ICLR 2025RefactorBench: Evaluating Stateful Reasoning in Language Agents Through Code

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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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