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
- 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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 76 | 40 | 41 | 13 | 170 |
| 2024 | 150 | 73 | 88 | 18 | 329 |
| 2025 | 362 | 204 | 178 | 40 | 784 |
| 2026 | 729 | 500 | 640 | 114 | 1,983 |
Representative papers
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- 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
784 papers, page 4 of 16
- ICLR 2025Learning Spatiotemporal Dynamical Systems from Point Process Observations
- ICLR 2025Learning to Communicate Through Implicit Communication Channels
- ICLR 2025Learning to Contextualize Web Pages for Enhanced Decision Making by LLM Agents
- ICLR 2025Learning to Steer Markovian Agents under Model Uncertainty
- ICLR 2025LICORICE: Label-Efficient Concept-Based Interpretable Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2025Lightweight Neural App Control
- ICLR 2025Lines of Thought in Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025LLM Unlearning via Loss Adjustment with Only Forget Data
- ICLR 2025MA$^2$E: Addressing Partial Observability in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Masked Auto-Encoder
- ICLR 2025MACPO: Weak-to-Strong Alignment via Multi-Agent Contrastive Preference Optimization
- ICLR 2025Mechanistic Permutability: Match Features Across Layers
- ICLR 2025MetaDesigner: Advancing Artistic Typography through AI-Driven, User-Centric, and Multilingual WordArt Synthesis
- ICLR 2025MindSearch: Mimicking Human Minds Elicits Deep AI Searcher
- ICLR 2025Mixture-of-Agents Enhances Large Language Model Capabilities
- ICLR 2025MLE-bench: Evaluating Machine Learning Agents on Machine Learning Engineering
- ICLR 2025MLLM as Retriever: Interactively Learning Multimodal Retrieval for Embodied Agents
- ICLR 2025MMQA: Evaluating LLMs with Multi-Table Multi-Hop Complex Questions
- ICLR 2025MMRole: A Comprehensive Framework for Developing and Evaluating Multimodal Role-Playing Agents
- ICLR 2025Modeling dynamic social vision highlights gaps between deep learning and humans
- ICLR 2025MOOSE-Chem: Large Language Models for Rediscovering Unseen Chemistry Scientific Hypotheses
- ICLR 2025Moral Alignment for LLM Agents
- ICLR 2025MrSteve: Instruction-Following Agents in Minecraft with What-Where-When Memory
- ICLR 2025MTU-Bench: A Multi-granularity Tool-Use Benchmark for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025Multi-agent cooperation through learning-aware policy gradients
- ICLR 2025Multi-modal Agent Tuning: Building a VLM-Driven Agent for Efficient Tool Usage
- ICLR 2025Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Multiagent Finetuning: Self Improvement with Diverse Reasoning Chains
- ICLR 2025Multimodal Situational Safety
- ICLR 2025Navigating the Digital World as Humans Do: Universal Visual Grounding for GUI Agents
- ICLR 2025Near-Optimal Online Learning for Multi-Agent Submodular Coordination: Tight Approximation and Communication Efficiency
- ICLR 2025Neural Interactive Proofs
- ICLR 2025Non-myopic Generation of Language Models for Reasoning and Planning
- ICLR 2025OCEAN: Offline Chain-of-thought Evaluation and Alignment in Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025On the Modeling Capabilities of Large Language Models for Sequential Decision Making
- ICLR 2025OpenHands: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents
- ICLR 2025Optimized Multi-Token Joint Decoding With Auxiliary Model for LLM Inference
- ICLR 2025OS-ATLAS: Foundation Action Model for Generalist GUI Agents
- ICLR 2025OSCAR: Operating System Control via State-Aware Reasoning and Re-Planning
- ICLR 2025OSDA Agent: Leveraging Large Language Models for De Novo Design of Organic Structure Directing Agents
- ICLR 2025OvercookedV2: Rethinking Overcooked for Zero-Shot Coordination
- ICLR 2025PARTNR: A Benchmark for Planning and Reasoning in Embodied Multi-agent Tasks
- ICLR 2025PathGen-1.6M: 1.6 Million Pathology Image-text Pairs Generation through Multi-agent Collaboration
- ICLR 2025POGEMA: A Benchmark Platform for Cooperative Multi-Agent Pathfinding
- ICLR 2025Polyrating: A Cost-Effective and Bias-Aware Rating System for LLM Evaluation
- ICLR 2025Preble: Efficient Distributed Prompt Scheduling for LLM Serving
- ICLR 2025Proactive Agent: Shifting LLM Agents from Reactive Responses to Active Assistance
- ICLR 2025Rational Decision-Making Agent with Learning Internal Utility Judgment
- ICLR 2025Re-Aligning Language to Visual Objects with an Agentic Workflow
- ICLR 2025Reconstruction-Guided Policy: Enhancing Decision-Making through Agent-Wise State Consistency
- 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.