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 44 of 66

2151. ICLR 2025MMRole: A Comprehensive Framework for Developing and Evaluating Multimodal Role-Playing Agents
2152. ICLR 2025Modeling dynamic social vision highlights gaps between deep learning and humans
2153. ICLR 2025MOOSE-Chem: Large Language Models for Rediscovering Unseen Chemistry Scientific Hypotheses
2154. ICLR 2025Moral Alignment for LLM Agents
2155. ICLR 2025MrSteve: Instruction-Following Agents in Minecraft with What-Where-When Memory
2156. ICLR 2025MTU-Bench: A Multi-granularity Tool-Use Benchmark for Large Language Models
2157. ICLR 2025Multi-agent cooperation through learning-aware policy gradients
2158. ICLR 2025Multi-modal Agent Tuning: Building a VLM-Driven Agent for Efficient Tool Usage
2159. ICLR 2025Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Diffusion Models
2160. ICLR 2025Multiagent Finetuning: Self Improvement with Diverse Reasoning Chains
2161. ICLR 2025Multimodal Situational Safety
2162. ICLR 2025Navigating the Digital World as Humans Do: Universal Visual Grounding for GUI Agents
2163. ICLR 2025Near-Optimal Online Learning for Multi-Agent Submodular Coordination: Tight Approximation and Communication Efficiency
2164. ICLR 2025Neural Interactive Proofs
2165. ICLR 2025Non-myopic Generation of Language Models for Reasoning and Planning
2166. ICLR 2025OCEAN: Offline Chain-of-thought Evaluation and Alignment in Large Language Models
2167. ICLR 2025On the Modeling Capabilities of Large Language Models for Sequential Decision Making
2168. ICLR 2025OpenHands: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents
2169. ICLR 2025Optimized Multi-Token Joint Decoding With Auxiliary Model for LLM Inference
2170. ICLR 2025OS-ATLAS: Foundation Action Model for Generalist GUI Agents
2171. ICLR 2025OSCAR: Operating System Control via State-Aware Reasoning and Re-Planning
2172. ICLR 2025OSDA Agent: Leveraging Large Language Models for De Novo Design of Organic Structure Directing Agents
2173. ICLR 2025OvercookedV2: Rethinking Overcooked for Zero-Shot Coordination
2174. ICLR 2025PARTNR: A Benchmark for Planning and Reasoning in Embodied Multi-agent Tasks
2175. ICLR 2025PathGen-1.6M: 1.6 Million Pathology Image-text Pairs Generation through Multi-agent Collaboration
2176. ICLR 2025POGEMA: A Benchmark Platform for Cooperative Multi-Agent Pathfinding
2177. ICLR 2025Polyrating: A Cost-Effective and Bias-Aware Rating System for LLM Evaluation
2178. ICLR 2025Preble: Efficient Distributed Prompt Scheduling for LLM Serving
2179. ICLR 2025Proactive Agent: Shifting LLM Agents from Reactive Responses to Active Assistance
2180. ICLR 2025Rational Decision-Making Agent with Learning Internal Utility Judgment
2181. ICLR 2025Re-Aligning Language to Visual Objects with an Agentic Workflow
2182. ICLR 2025Reconstruction-Guided Policy: Enhancing Decision-Making through Agent-Wise State Consistency
2183. ICLR 2025RefactorBench: Evaluating Stateful Reasoning in Language Agents Through Code
2184. ICLR 2025Rethinking LLM Unlearning Objectives: A Gradient Perspective and Go Beyond
2185. ICLR 2025Reward Learning from Multiple Feedback Types
2186. ICLR 2025Robotouille: An Asynchronous Planning Benchmark for LLM Agents
2187. ICLR 2025Robust Gymnasium: A Unified Modular Benchmark for Robust Reinforcement Learning
2188. ICLR 2025ROUTE: Robust Multitask Tuning and Collaboration for Text-to-SQL
2189. ICLR 2025Scaling Autonomous Agents via Automatic Reward Modeling And Planning
2190. ICLR 2025Scaling Large Language Model-based Multi-Agent Collaboration
2191. ICLR 2025ScienceAgentBench: Toward Rigorous Assessment of Language Agents for Data-Driven Scientific Discovery
2192. ICLR 2025SeCom: On Memory Construction and Retrieval for Personalized Conversational Agents
2193. ICLR 2025Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Collaboration Networks for Software Development
2194. ICLR 2025ShortcutsBench: A Large-Scale Real-world Benchmark for API-based Agents
2195. ICLR 2025Simulating Human-like Daily Activities with Desire-driven Autonomy
2196. ICLR 2025Single-agent Poisoning Attacks Suffice to Ruin Multi-Agent Learning
2197. ICLR 2025SPA-BENCH: A COMPREHENSIVE BENCHMARK FOR SMARTPHONE AGENT EVALUATION
2198. ICLR 2025Spider 2.0: Evaluating Language Models on Real-World Enterprise Text-to-SQL Workflows
2199. ICLR 2025Sports-Traj: A Unified Trajectory Generation Model for Multi-Agent Movement in Sports
2200. ICLR 2025SqueezeAttention: 2D Management of KV-Cache in LLM Inference via Layer-wise Optimal Budget

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.