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 43 of 66

2101. ICLR 2025Exploring Prosocial Irrationality for LLM Agents: A Social Cognition View
2102. ICLR 2025Exponential Topology-enabled Scalable Communication in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
2103. ICLR 2025Facilitating Multi-turn Function Calling for LLMs via Compositional Instruction Tuning
2104. ICLR 2025FlickerFusion: Intra-trajectory Domain Generalizing Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
2105. ICLR 2025Flow: Modularized Agentic Workflow Automation
2106. ICLR 2025Fourier Head: Helping Large Language Models Learn Complex Probability Distributions
2107. ICLR 2025From an LLM Swarm to a PDDL-empowered Hive: Planning Self-executed Instructions in a Multi-modal Jungle
2108. ICLR 2025From Commands to Prompts: LLM-based Semantic File System for AIOS
2109. ICLR 2025Generalized Principal-Agent Problem with a Learning Agent
2110. ICLR 2025Generating Freeform Endoskeletal Robots
2111. ICLR 2025GPUDrive: Data-driven, multi-agent driving simulation at 1 million FPS
2112. ICLR 2025Graph Neural Networks Gone Hogwild
2113. ICLR 2025GraphRouter: A Graph-based Router for LLM Selections
2114. ICLR 2025GROOT-2: Weakly Supervised Multimodal Instruction Following Agents
2115. ICLR 2025Human Simulacra: Benchmarking the Personification of Large Language Models
2116. ICLR 2025Hypothetical Minds: Scaffolding Theory of Mind for Multi-Agent Tasks with Large Language Models
2117. ICLR 2025ImProver: Agent-Based Automated Proof Optimization
2118. ICLR 2025Improving Data Efficiency via Curating LLM-Driven Rating Systems
2119. ICLR 2025INS: Interaction-aware Synthesis to Enhance Offline Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
2120. ICLR 2025InsightBench: Evaluating Business Analytics Agents Through Multi-Step Insight Generation
2121. ICLR 2025Intelligent Go-Explore: Standing on the Shoulders of Giant Foundation Models
2122. ICLR 2025Interactive Speculative Planning: Enhance Agent Efficiency through Co-design of System and User Interface
2123. ICLR 2025Internet of Agents: Weaving a Web of Heterogeneous Agents for Collaborative Intelligence
2124. ICLR 2025IntersectionZoo: Eco-driving for Benchmarking Multi-Agent Contextual Reinforcement Learning
2125. ICLR 2025Inverse Attention Agents for Multi-Agent Systems
2126. ICLR 2025InvestESG: A multi-agent reinforcement learning benchmark for studying climate investment as a social dilemma
2127. ICLR 2025IRIS: LLM-Assisted Static Analysis for Detecting Security Vulnerabilities
2128. ICLR 2025IterGen: Iterative Semantic-aware Structured LLM Generation with Backtracking
2129. ICLR 2025JudgeBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLM-Based Judges
2130. ICLR 2025Language Agents Meet Causality -- Bridging LLMs and Causal World Models
2131. ICLR 2025Learn-by-interact: A Data-Centric Framework For Self-Adaptive Agents in Realistic Environments
2132. ICLR 2025Learning Dynamics of LLM Finetuning
2133. ICLR 2025Learning Generalizable Skills from Offline Multi-Task Data for Multi-Agent Cooperation
2134. ICLR 2025Learning Spatiotemporal Dynamical Systems from Point Process Observations
2135. ICLR 2025Learning to Communicate Through Implicit Communication Channels
2136. ICLR 2025Learning to Contextualize Web Pages for Enhanced Decision Making by LLM Agents
2137. ICLR 2025Learning to Steer Markovian Agents under Model Uncertainty
2138. ICLR 2025LICORICE: Label-Efficient Concept-Based Interpretable Reinforcement Learning
2139. ICLR 2025Lightweight Neural App Control
2140. ICLR 2025Lines of Thought in Large Language Models
2141. ICLR 2025LLM Unlearning via Loss Adjustment with Only Forget Data
2142. ICLR 2025MA$^2$E: Addressing Partial Observability in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Masked Auto-Encoder
2143. ICLR 2025MACPO: Weak-to-Strong Alignment via Multi-Agent Contrastive Preference Optimization
2144. ICLR 2025Mechanistic Permutability: Match Features Across Layers
2145. ICLR 2025MetaDesigner: Advancing Artistic Typography through AI-Driven, User-Centric, and Multilingual WordArt Synthesis
2146. ICLR 2025MindSearch: Mimicking Human Minds Elicits Deep AI Searcher
2147. ICLR 2025Mixture-of-Agents Enhances Large Language Model Capabilities
2148. ICLR 2025MLE-bench: Evaluating Machine Learning Agents on Machine Learning Engineering
2149. ICLR 2025MLLM as Retriever: Interactively Learning Multimodal Retrieval for Embodied Agents
2150. ICLR 2025MMQA: Evaluating LLMs with Multi-Table Multi-Hop Complex Questions

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.