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 45 of 66

2201. ICLR 2025STAMP: Scalable Task- And Model-agnostic Collaborative Perception
2202. ICLR 2025Steering Large Language Models between Code Execution and Textual Reasoning
2203. ICLR 2025Stochastic Semi-Gradient Descent for Learning Mean Field Games with Population-Aware Function Approximation
2204. ICLR 2025Strategist: Self-improvement of LLM Decision Making via Bi-Level Tree Search
2205. ICLR 2025SWE-Search: Enhancing Software Agents with Monte Carlo Tree Search and Iterative Refinement
2206. ICLR 2025Systems with Switching Causal Relations: A Meta-Causal Perspective
2207. ICLR 2025TidalDecode: Fast and Accurate LLM Decoding with Position Persistent Sparse Attention
2208. ICLR 2025Tool-Planner: Task Planning with Clusters across Multiple Tools
2209. ICLR 2025ToolACE: Winning the Points of LLM Function Calling
2210. ICLR 2025ToolDial: Multi-turn Dialogue Generation Method for Tool-Augmented Language Models
2211. ICLR 2025ToolGen: Unified Tool Retrieval and Calling via Generation
2212. ICLR 2025TorchTitan: One-stop PyTorch native solution for production ready LLM pretraining
2213. ICLR 2025Toward Efficient Multi-Agent Exploration With Trajectory Entropy Maximization
2214. ICLR 2025Towards Effective Evaluations and Comparisons for LLM Unlearning Methods
2215. ICLR 2025Tractable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning through Behavioral Economics
2216. ICLR 2025Trajectory-Class-Aware Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
2217. ICLR 2025Trajectory-LLM: A Language-based Data Generator for Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Driving
2218. ICLR 2025Triples as the Key: Structuring Makes Decomposition and Verification Easier in LLM-based TableQA
2219. ICLR 2025Video Action Differencing
2220. ICLR 2025VideoWebArena: Evaluating Long Context Multimodal Agents with Video Understanding Web Tasks
2221. ICLR 2025Visual Agents as Fast and Slow Thinkers
2222. ICLR 2025VisualAgentBench: Towards Large Multimodal Models as Visual Foundation Agents
2223. ICLR 2025Web Agents with World Models: Learning and Leveraging Environment Dynamics in Web Navigation
2224. ICLR 2025WebRL: Training LLM Web Agents via Self-Evolving Online Curriculum Reinforcement Learning
2225. ICLR 2025When LLMs Play the Telephone Game: Cultural Attractors as Conceptual Tools to Evaluate LLMs in Multi-turn Settings
2226. ICLR 2025When Prompt Engineering Meets Software Engineering: CNL-P as Natural and Robust "APIs'' for Human-AI Interaction
2227. ICLR 2025WorkflowLLM: Enhancing Workflow Orchestration Capability of Large Language Models
2228. ICML 2025A Theoretical Justification for Asymmetric Actor-Critic Algorithms
2229. ICML 2025A Theoretical Study of (Hyper) Self-Attention through the Lens of Interactions: Representation, Training, Generalization
2230. ICML 2025A Unified Approach to Routing and Cascading for LLMs
2231. ICML 2025Ad Hoc Teamwork via Offline Goal-Based Decision Transformers
2232. ICML 2025Ad-Hoc Human-AI Coordination Challenge
2233. ICML 2025Adaptive Sample Sharing for Multi Agent Linear Bandits
2234. ICML 2025Adaptive Self-improvement LLM Agentic System for ML Library Development
2235. ICML 2025AdvAgent: Controllable Blackbox Red-teaming on Web Agents
2236. ICML 2025Adversarial Robustness in Two-Stage Learning-to-Defer: Algorithms and Guarantees
2237. ICML 2025Agent Reviewers: Domain-specific Multimodal Agents with Shared Memory for Paper Review
2238. ICML 2025Agent Workflow Memory
2239. ICML 2025Agent-as-a-Judge: Evaluate Agents with Agents
2240. ICML 2025Agent-Centric Actor-Critic for Asynchronous Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
2241. ICML 2025Aguvis: Unified Pure Vision Agents for Autonomous GUI Interaction
2242. ICML 2025AI for Global Climate Cooperation: Modeling Global Climate Negotiations, Agreements, and Long-Term Cooperation in RICE-N
2243. ICML 2025Aligning LLMs by Predicting Preferences from User Writing Samples
2244. ICML 2025Are Large Language Models Ready for Multi-Turn Tabular Data Analysis?
2245. ICML 2025AssistanceZero: Scalably Solving Assistance Games
2246. ICML 2025AutoAdvExBench: Benchmarking Autonomous Exploitation of Adversarial Example Defenses
2247. ICML 2025Automated Benchmark Generation for Repository-Level Coding Tasks
2248. ICML 2025Automated Hypothesis Validation with Agentic Sequential Falsifications
2249. ICML 2025Automated Red Teaming with GOAT: the Generative Offensive Agent Tester
2250. ICML 2025AutoML-Agent: A Multi-Agent LLM Framework for Full-Pipeline AutoML

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.