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
640 papers, page 5 of 13
- ICML 2026Efficient Multi-round LLM Inference over Disaggregated Serving
- ICML 2026EGG: An Expert-Guided Agent Framework for Kernel Generation
- ICML 2026EMBGuard: Constructing Hazard-Aware Guardrails for Safe Planning in Embodied Agents
- ICML 2026Embodied Task Planning via Graph-Informed Action Generation with Large Language Models
- ICML 2026Emergence of Biased Consensus in Multi-Agent LLM Debates
- ICML 2026Emergent Alignment via Competition
- ICML 2026EngiAgent: Fully Connected Coordination of LLM Agents for Solving Open-ended Engineering Problems with Feasible Solutions
- ICML 2026EnterpriseOps-Gym: Environments and Evaluations for Stateful Agentic Planning and Tool Use in Enterprise Settings
- ICML 2026Envy-Free Allocation of Indivisible Goods via Noisy Queries
- ICML 2026Epistemic Gain, Aleatoric Cost: Uncertainty Decomposition in Multi-Agent Debate for Math Reasoning
- ICML 2026Escaping Mode Collapse in LLM Generation via Geometric Regulation
- ICML 2026Escaping Whack-a-Mole: Optimizing Documentation as Repo-Specific Playbooks for Coding Agents
- ICML 2026Estimating the Empowerment of Language Model Agents
- ICML 2026Evaluating Contextual Illegality: AI Compliance in Corporate Law Scenarios
- ICML 2026EVMbench: Evaluating AI Agents on Smart Contract Security
- ICML 2026EvoC2F: Compiling Tool Orchestration for Efficient and Evolvable LLM Agents
- ICML 2026EvoCF: Multi-Agent Collaboration via Agentic Memory-Driven Evolutionary Counterfactual Planning
- ICML 2026EvoClaw: Evaluating AI Agents on Continuous Software Evolution
- ICML 2026Evolving Interpretable Constitutions for Multi-Agent Coordination
- ICML 2026Evolving Quantitative Reasoning through Self-Play in Digital Twin Markets
- ICML 2026EVOLVING ROLLOUTS: Harnessing Historical Experience for Web Agent Evolution in Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2026EvoMAS: Evolutionary Generation of Multi-Agent Systems
- ICML 2026EvoMAS: Heuristics in the Loop—Evolving Smarter Agentic Workflows
- ICML 2026ExCyTIn-Bench: Evaluating LLM agents on Cyber Threat Investigation
- ICML 2026Executable Agentic Memory for GUI Agent
- ICML 2026Experience-Evolving Multi-Turn Tool-Use Agent with Hybrid Episodic–Procedural Memory
- ICML 2026Exploration Hacking: Can LLMs Learn to Resist RL Training?
- ICML 2026FactGuard: Agentic Video Misinformation Detection via Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2026Factored Value Functions for Graph-Based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2026Failure is Feedback: History-Aware Backtracking for Agentic Traversal in Multimodal Graphs
- ICML 2026Failure-Driven Workflow Refinement
- ICML 2026FakeWorld 1.0: An Omni-modal Benchmark for Fake Media and Content
- ICML 2026FIRE-Bench: Evaluating AI Agents on the Rediscovery of Scientific Insights
- ICML 2026Fix Before Search: Benchmarking Agentic Visual Query Pre-processing in Multimodal Retrieval-augmented Generation
- ICML 2026FlowBot: Inducing LLM Workflows with Bilevel Optimization and Textual Gradients
- ICML 2026FlowMAP: Flow Matching for Generalizable Agent Planning
- ICML 2026FormAct: Agentic Source Editing for Rich-Format Document Generation
- ICML 2026Formalizing Learning from Language Feedback with Provable Guarantees
- ICML 2026FormalJudge: A Neuro-Symbolic Paradigm for Agentic Oversight
- ICML 2026FormulaCode: Evaluating Agentic Optimization on Large Codebases
- ICML 2026From Conflict to Consensus: Boosting Medical Reasoning via Multi-Round Agentic RAG
- ICML 2026From Content to Knowledge: Lightning Fast Long-Video Understanding with Neural Knowledge Representations
- ICML 2026From Interaction Trajectories to Prompt Rules: Credit Assignment for Multi-Agent Prompt Optimization
- ICML 2026From Interactions to Principles: Experience-Driven Self-Distillation for Evolving LLM Agents
- ICML 2026From Outcomes to Actions: Leveraging Hindsight for Long-Horizon Language Agent Training
- ICML 2026From Player to Master: Enhancing Test-Time Learning of LLM Agents via Reinforcement Learning over Memory
- ICML 2026From Similarity to Vulnerability: Key Collision Attack on LLM Semantic Caching
- ICML 2026From Weak Cues to Real Identities: Evaluating Inference-Driven De-Anonymization in LLM Agents
- ICML 2026FrontierCS: Evolving Challenges for Evolving Intelligence
- ICML 2026FT-Dojo: Towards Autonomous LLM Fine-Tuning with Language Agents
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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.