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 49 of 66

2401. ICML 2025What Limits Virtual Agent Application? OmniBench: A Scalable Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Essential Virtual Agent Capabilities
2402. ICML 2025Which Agent Causes Task Failures and When? On Automated Failure Attribution of LLM Multi-Agent Systems
2403. ICML 2025Windows Agent Arena: Evaluating Multi-Modal OS Agents at Scale
2404. ICML 2025Wolfpack Adversarial Attack for Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
2405. ICML 2025µnit Scaling: Simple and Scalable FP8 LLM Training
2406. NeurIPS 20253DLLM-Mem: Long-Term Spatial-Temporal Memory for Embodied 3D Large Language Model
2407. NeurIPS 20254KAgent: Agentic Any Image to 4K Super-Resolution
2408. NeurIPS 2025A machine learning approach that beats Rubik's cubes
2409. NeurIPS 2025A Near-optimal, Scalable and Parallelizable Framework for Stochastic Bandits Robust to Adversarial Corruptions and Beyond
2410. NeurIPS 2025A Principle of Targeted Intervention for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
2411. NeurIPS 2025A-Mem: Agentic Memory for LLM Agents
2412. NeurIPS 2025Abstract Counterfactuals for Language Model Agents
2413. NeurIPS 2025AC-LoRA: (Almost) Training-Free Access Control Aware Multi-Modal LLMs
2414. NeurIPS 2025Adaptive Context Length Optimization with Low-Frequency Truncation for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
2415. NeurIPS 2025Adaptive Preference Arithmetic: A Personalized Agent with Adaptive Preference Arithmetic for Dynamic Preference Modeling
2416. NeurIPS 2025Adaptively Coordinating with Novel Partners via Learned Latent Strategies
2417. NeurIPS 2025AGC-Drive: A Large-Scale Dataset for Real-World Aerial-Ground Collaboration in Driving Scenarios
2418. NeurIPS 2025AgentAuditor: Human-level Safety and Security Evaluation for LLM Agents
2419. NeurIPS 2025AgentBreeder: Mitigating the AI Safety Risks of Multi-Agent Scaffolds via Self-Improvement
2420. NeurIPS 2025AgentDAM: Privacy Leakage Evaluation for Autonomous Web Agents
2421. NeurIPS 2025Agentic Plan Caching: Test-Time Memory for Fast and Cost-Efficient LLM Agents
2422. NeurIPS 2025Agentic RL Scaling Law: Spontaneous Code Execution for Mathematical Problem Solving
2423. NeurIPS 2025AGENTIF: Benchmarking Large Language Models Instruction Following Ability in Agentic Scenarios
2424. NeurIPS 2025AgentNet: Decentralized Evolutionary Coordination for LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems
2425. NeurIPS 2025AgentRecBench: Benchmarking LLM Agent-based Personalized Recommender Systems
2426. NeurIPS 2025Agents Robust to Distribution Shifts Learn Causal World Models Even Under Mediation
2427. NeurIPS 2025AgentTTS: Large Language Model Agent for Test-time Compute-optimal Scaling Strategy in Complex Tasks
2428. NeurIPS 2025AI Research Agents for Machine Learning: Search, Exploration, and Generalization in MLE-bench
2429. NeurIPS 2025AI-Researcher: Autonomous Scientific Innovation
2430. NeurIPS 2025ALE-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Objective-Driven Algorithm Engineering
2431. NeurIPS 2025Among Us: A Sandbox for Measuring and Detecting Agentic Deception
2432. NeurIPS 2025APIGen-MT: Agentic Pipeline for Multi-Turn Data Generation via Simulated Agent-Human Interplay
2433. NeurIPS 2025APOLLO: Automated LLM and Lean Collaboration for Advanced Formal Reasoning
2434. NeurIPS 2025Are Large Language Models Sensitive to the Motives Behind Communication?
2435. NeurIPS 2025ARIA: Training Language Agents with Intention-driven Reward Aggregation
2436. NeurIPS 2025Assignments for Congestion-Averse Agents: Seeking Competitive and Envy-Free Solutions
2437. NeurIPS 2025Attractive Metadata Attack: Inducing LLM Agents to Invoke Malicious Tools
2438. NeurIPS 2025AutoData: A Multi-Agent System for Open Web Data Collection
2439. NeurIPS 2025AutoDiscovery: Open-ended Scientific Discovery via Bayesian Surprise
2440. NeurIPS 2025Automated Composition of Agents: A Knapsack Approach for Agentic Component Selection
2441. NeurIPS 2025Automated Model Discovery via Multi-modal & Multi-step Pipeline
2442. NeurIPS 2025AutoRedTeamer: Autonomous Red Teaming with Lifelong Attack Integration
2443. NeurIPS 2025AutoToM: Scaling Model-based Mental Inference via Automated Agent Modeling
2444. NeurIPS 2025Bayesian Ego-graph inference for Networked Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
2445. NeurIPS 2025Belief-Calibrated Multi-Agent Consensus Seeking for Complex NLP Tasks
2446. NeurIPS 2025BeliefMapNav: 3D Voxel-Based Belief Map for Zero-Shot Object Navigation
2447. NeurIPS 2025Benchmarking Egocentric Multimodal Goal Inference for Assistive Wearable Agents
2448. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Token Probes: Hallucination Detection via Activation Tensors with ACT-ViT
2449. NeurIPS 2025Bi-Level Knowledge Transfer for Multi-Task Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
2450. NeurIPS 2025Bilevel ZOFO: Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning and Meta-Training

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.