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

947 papers, page 5 of 19

201. ICML 2026Efficient Multi-round LLM Inference over Disaggregated Serving
202. ICML 2026EGG: An Expert-Guided Agent Framework for Kernel Generation
203. ICML 2026EMBGuard: Constructing Hazard-Aware Guardrails for Safe Planning in Embodied Agents
204. ICML 2026Embodied Task Planning via Graph-Informed Action Generation with Large Language Models
205. ICML 2026Emergence of Biased Consensus in Multi-Agent LLM Debates
206. ICML 2026Emergent Alignment via Competition
207. ICML 2026EngiAgent: Fully Connected Coordination of LLM Agents for Solving Open-ended Engineering Problems with Feasible Solutions
208. ICML 2026EnterpriseOps-Gym: Environments and Evaluations for Stateful Agentic Planning and Tool Use in Enterprise Settings
209. ICML 2026Envy-Free Allocation of Indivisible Goods via Noisy Queries
210. ICML 2026Epistemic Gain, Aleatoric Cost: Uncertainty Decomposition in Multi-Agent Debate for Math Reasoning
211. ICML 2026Escaping Mode Collapse in LLM Generation via Geometric Regulation
212. ICML 2026Escaping Whack-a-Mole: Optimizing Documentation as Repo-Specific Playbooks for Coding Agents
213. ICML 2026Estimating the Empowerment of Language Model Agents
214. ICML 2026Evaluating Contextual Illegality: AI Compliance in Corporate Law Scenarios
215. ICML 2026EVMbench: Evaluating AI Agents on Smart Contract Security
216. ICML 2026EvoC2F: Compiling Tool Orchestration for Efficient and Evolvable LLM Agents
217. ICML 2026EvoCF: Multi-Agent Collaboration via Agentic Memory-Driven Evolutionary Counterfactual Planning
218. ICML 2026EvoClaw: Evaluating AI Agents on Continuous Software Evolution
219. ICML 2026Evolving Interpretable Constitutions for Multi-Agent Coordination
220. ICML 2026Evolving Quantitative Reasoning through Self-Play in Digital Twin Markets
221. ICML 2026EVOLVING ROLLOUTS: Harnessing Historical Experience for Web Agent Evolution in Reinforcement Learning
222. ICML 2026EvoMAS: Evolutionary Generation of Multi-Agent Systems
223. ICML 2026EvoMAS: Heuristics in the Loop—Evolving Smarter Agentic Workflows
224. ICML 2026ExCyTIn-Bench: Evaluating LLM agents on Cyber Threat Investigation
225. ICML 2026Executable Agentic Memory for GUI Agent
226. ICML 2026Experience-Evolving Multi-Turn Tool-Use Agent with Hybrid Episodic–Procedural Memory
227. ICML 2026Exploration Hacking: Can LLMs Learn to Resist RL Training?
228. ICML 2026FactGuard: Agentic Video Misinformation Detection via Reinforcement Learning
229. ICML 2026Factored Value Functions for Graph-Based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
230. ICML 2026Failure is Feedback: History-Aware Backtracking for Agentic Traversal in Multimodal Graphs
231. ICML 2026Failure-Driven Workflow Refinement
232. ICML 2026FakeWorld 1.0: An Omni-modal Benchmark for Fake Media and Content
233. ICML 2026FIRE-Bench: Evaluating AI Agents on the Rediscovery of Scientific Insights
234. ICML 2026Fix Before Search: Benchmarking Agentic Visual Query Pre-processing in Multimodal Retrieval-augmented Generation
235. ICML 2026FlowBot: Inducing LLM Workflows with Bilevel Optimization and Textual Gradients
236. ICML 2026FlowMAP: Flow Matching for Generalizable Agent Planning
237. ICML 2026FormAct: Agentic Source Editing for Rich-Format Document Generation
238. ICML 2026Formalizing Learning from Language Feedback with Provable Guarantees
239. ICML 2026FormalJudge: A Neuro-Symbolic Paradigm for Agentic Oversight
240. ICML 2026FormulaCode: Evaluating Agentic Optimization on Large Codebases
241. ICML 2026From Conflict to Consensus: Boosting Medical Reasoning via Multi-Round Agentic RAG
242. ICML 2026From Content to Knowledge: Lightning Fast Long-Video Understanding with Neural Knowledge Representations
243. ICML 2026From Interaction Trajectories to Prompt Rules: Credit Assignment for Multi-Agent Prompt Optimization
244. ICML 2026From Interactions to Principles: Experience-Driven Self-Distillation for Evolving LLM Agents
245. ICML 2026From Outcomes to Actions: Leveraging Hindsight for Long-Horizon Language Agent Training
246. ICML 2026From Player to Master: Enhancing Test-Time Learning of LLM Agents via Reinforcement Learning over Memory
247. ICML 2026From Similarity to Vulnerability: Key Collision Attack on LLM Semantic Caching
248. ICML 2026From Weak Cues to Real Identities: Evaluating Inference-Driven De-Anonymization in LLM Agents
249. ICML 2026FrontierCS: Evolving Challenges for Evolving Intelligence
250. ICML 2026FT-Dojo: Towards Autonomous LLM Fine-Tuning with Language Agents

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.