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

3,266 papers, page 42 of 66

2051. ICLR 2025Benchmarking Agentic Workflow Generation
2052. ICLR 2025Better than Your Teacher: LLM Agents that learn from Privileged AI Feedback
2053. ICLR 2025BioDiscoveryAgent: An AI Agent for Designing Genetic Perturbation Experiments
2054. ICLR 2025Breaking Mental Set to Improve Reasoning through Diverse Multi-Agent Debate
2055. ICLR 2025Can LLMs Generate Novel Research Ideas? A Large-Scale Human Study with 100+ NLP Researchers
2056. ICLR 2025Can Textual Gradient Work in Federated Learning?
2057. ICLR 2025Can Watermarks be Used to Detect LLM IP Infringement For Free?
2058. ICLR 2025Can We Trust Embodied Agents? Exploring Backdoor Attacks against Embodied LLM-Based Decision-Making Systems
2059. ICLR 2025CaPo: Cooperative Plan Optimization for Efficient Embodied Multi-Agent Cooperation
2060. ICLR 2025CHASE-SQL: Multi-Path Reasoning and Preference Optimized Candidate Selection in Text-to-SQL
2061. ICLR 2025ChemAgent: Self-updating Memories in Large Language Models Improves Chemical Reasoning
2062. ICLR 2025CofCA: A STEP-WISE Counterfactual Multi-hop QA benchmark
2063. ICLR 2025Collab: Controlled Decoding using Mixture of Agents for LLM Alignment
2064. ICLR 2025ComaDICE: Offline Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Stationary Distribution Shift Regularization
2065. ICLR 2025Combatting Dimensional Collapse in LLM Pre-Training Data via Submodular File Selection
2066. ICLR 2025COMBO: Compositional World Models for Embodied Multi-Agent Cooperation
2067. ICLR 2025Competing Large Language Models in Multi-Agent Gaming Environments
2068. ICLR 2025Cut the Crap: An Economical Communication Pipeline for LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems
2069. ICLR 2025Cybench: A Framework for Evaluating Cybersecurity Capabilities and Risks of Language Models
2070. ICLR 2025DataEnvGym: Data Generation Agents in Teacher Environments with Student Feedback
2071. ICLR 2025DeFT: Decoding with Flash Tree-attention for Efficient Tree-structured LLM Inference
2072. ICLR 2025DelTA: An Online Document-Level Translation Agent Based on Multi-Level Memory
2073. ICLR 2025Digi-Q: Learning VLM Q-Value Functions for Training Device-Control Agents
2074. ICLR 2025Direct Post-Training Preference Alignment for Multi-Agent Motion Generation Model Using Implicit Feedback from Pre-training Demonstrations
2075. ICLR 2025Discrete GCBF Proximal Policy Optimization for Multi-agent Safe Optimal Control
2076. ICLR 2025Discriminator-Guided Embodied Planning for LLM Agent
2077. ICLR 2025Dissecting Adversarial Robustness of Multimodal LM Agents
2078. ICLR 2025DistRL: An Asynchronous Distributed Reinforcement Learning Framework for On-Device Control Agent
2079. ICLR 2025Diversity Empowers Intelligence: Integrating Expertise of Software Engineering Agents
2080. ICLR 2025Do as We Do, Not as You Think: the Conformity of Large Language Models
2081. ICLR 2025Do LLM Agents Have Regret? A Case Study in Online Learning and Games
2082. ICLR 2025Do LLMs ``know'' internally when they follow instructions?
2083. ICLR 2025DoF: A Diffusion Factorization Framework for Offline Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
2084. ICLR 2025DRESSing Up LLM: Efficient Stylized Question-Answering via Style Subspace Editing
2085. ICLR 2025DS-LLM: Leveraging Dynamical Systems to Enhance Both Training and Inference of Large Language Models
2086. ICLR 2025DSBench: How Far Are Data Science Agents from Becoming Data Science Experts?
2087. ICLR 2025DUET: Decentralized Bilevel Optimization without Lower-Level Strong Convexity
2088. ICLR 2025EFFICIENT JAILBREAK ATTACK SEQUENCES ON LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS VIA MULTI-ARMED BANDIT-BASED CONTEXT SWITCHING
2089. ICLR 2025Efficient Multi-agent Offline Coordination via Diffusion-based Trajectory Stitching
2090. ICLR 2025Efficiently Parameterized Neural Metriplectic Systems
2091. ICLR 2025EIA: ENVIRONMENTAL INJECTION ATTACK ON GENERALIST WEB AGENTS FOR PRIVACY LEAKAGE
2092. ICLR 2025EMOS: Embodiment-aware Heterogeneous Multi-robot Operating System with LLM Agents
2093. ICLR 2025Empowering LLM Agents with Zero-Shot Optimal Decision-Making through Q-learning
2094. ICLR 2025Empowering Users in Digital Privacy Management through Interactive LLM-Based Agents
2095. ICLR 2025Encryption-Friendly LLM Architecture
2096. ICLR 2025Enhancing Language Model Agents using Diversity of Thoughts
2097. ICLR 2025eQMARL: Entangled Quantum Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Distributed Cooperation over Quantum Channels
2098. ICLR 2025ExACT: Teaching AI Agents to Explore with Reflective-MCTS and Exploratory Learning
2099. ICLR 2025Expected Return Symmetries
2100. ICLR 2025Exploiting Structure in Offline Multi-Agent RL: The Benefits of Low Interaction Rank

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.