AI Agents papers, 2023–2026
Tool-using, multi-step autonomous LLM and VLM agent systems
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 3,266 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 76 | 40 | 41 | 13 | 170 |
| 2024 | 150 | 73 | 88 | 18 | 329 |
| 2025 | 362 | 204 | 178 | 40 | 784 |
| 2026 | 729 | 500 | 640 | 114 | 1,983 |
Representative papers
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- 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
500 papers, page 5 of 10
- ICLR 2026ImpossibleBench: Measuring LLMs' Propensity of Exploiting Test Cases
- ICLR 2026Improving Block-Wise LLM Quantization by 4-bit Block-Wise Optimal Float (BOF4): Analysis and Variations
- ICLR 2026Improving Code Localization with Repository Memory
- ICLR 2026Improving Human-AI Coordination through Online Adversarial Training and Generative Models
- ICLR 2026In Agents We Trust, but Who Do Agents Trust? Latent Preferences Steer LLM Generations
- ICLR 2026In-The-Flow Agentic System Optimization for Effective Planning and Tool Use
- ICLR 2026Incentivizing Agentic Reasoning in LLM Judges via Tool-Integrated Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2026Influence-Preserving Proxies for Gradient-Based Data Selection in LLM FineTuning
- ICLR 2026InfoMosaic-Bench: Evaluating Multi-Source Information Seeking in Tool-Augmented Agents
- ICLR 2026Information Gain-based Policy Optimization: A Simple and Effective Approach for Multi-Turn LLM Agents
- ICLR 2026InnoGym: Benchmarking the Innovation Potential of AI Agents
- ICLR 2026InnovatorBench: Evaluating Agents’ Ability to Conduct Innovative AI Research
- ICLR 2026InSight-o3: Empowering Multimodal Foundation Models with Generalized Visual Search
- ICLR 2026Inter-Agent Relative Representations for Multi-Agent Option Discovery
- ICLR 2026Interact-RAG: Reason and Interact with the Corpus, Beyond Black-Box Retrieval
- ICLR 2026Interactive Agents to Overcome Underspecificity in Software Engineering
- ICLR 2026IR-Agent: Expert-Inspired LLM Agents for Structure Elucidation from Infrared Spectra
- ICLR 2026IterResearch: Rethinking Long-Horizon Agents via Markovian State Reconstruction
- ICLR 2026JailNewsBench: Multi-Lingual and Regional Benchmark for Fake News Generation under Jailbreak Attacks
- ICLR 2026Jet Expansions: Restructuring LLM Computation for Model Inspection
- ICLR 2026JointDiff: Bridging Continuous and Discrete in Multi-Agent Trajectory Generation
- ICLR 2026Just Do It!? Computer-Use Agents Exhibit Blind Goal-Directedness
- ICLR 2026K²-Agent: Co-Evolving Know-What and Know-How for Hierarchical Mobile Device Control
- ICLR 2026Kimi-Dev: Agentless Training as Skill Prior for SWE-agents
- ICLR 2026KnowGuard: Knowledge-Driven Abstention for Multi-Round Clinical Reasoning
- ICLR 2026KRAMABENCH: A Benchmark for AI Systems on Data-to-Insight Pipelines over Data Lakes
- ICLR 2026KVComm: Enabling Efficient LLM Communication through Selective KV Sharing
- ICLR 2026Learn the Ropes, Then Trust the Wins: Self-imitation with Progressive Exploration for Agentic Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2026Learn-to-Distance: Distance Learning for Detecting LLM-Generated Text
- ICLR 2026Learning Efficient and Interpretable Multi-Agent Communication
- ICLR 2026Learning Global Hypothesis Space for Enhancing Synergistic Reasoning Chain
- ICLR 2026Learning to Orchestrate Agents in Natural Language with the Conductor
- ICLR 2026Learning to See Before Seeing: Demystifying LLM Visual Priors from Language Pre-training
- ICLR 2026Learning to Summarize by Learning to Quiz: Adversarial Agentic Collaboration for Long Document Summarization
- ICLR 2026LeSTD: LLM Compression via Learning-based Sparse Tensor Decomposition
- ICLR 2026Let's Think in Two Steps: Mitigating Agreement Bias in MLLMs with Self-Grounded Verification
- ICLR 2026LH-DECEPTION: Simulating and Understanding LLM Deceptive Behaviors in Long-Horizon Interactions
- ICLR 2026LiveResearchBench: Benchmarking Single- and Multi-Agent Systems for Citation-Grounded Deep Research
- ICLR 2026LiveWeb-IE: A Benchmark For Online Web Information Extraction
- ICLR 2026LLM DNA: Tracing Model Evolution via Functional Representations
- ICLR 2026LLM Fingerprinting via Semantically Conditioned Watermarks
- ICLR 2026LLM Unlearning with LLM Beliefs
- ICLR 2026LLM-JEPA: Large Language Models Meet Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures
- ICLR 2026LLMs are Greedy Agents: Effects of RL Fine-tuning on Decision-Making Abilities
- ICLR 2026LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation
- ICLR 2026lmgame-Bench: How Good are LLMs at Playing Games?
- ICLR 2026LoC-Decomp: LLM Autoformalization via Logical Concept Decomposition and Iterative Feedback Correction
- ICLR 2026Log Probability Tracking of LLM APIs
- ICLR 2026Log-Augmented Generation: Scaling Test-Time Reasoning with Reusable Computation
- ICLR 2026LogicReward: Incentivizing LLM Reasoning via Step-Wise Logical Supervision
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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.