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
1,983 papers, page 5 of 40
- ICLR 2026Correlated Policy Optimization in Multi-Agent Subteams
- ICLR 2026CP-Agent: Context‑Aware Multimodal Reasoning for Cellular Morphological Profiling under Chemical Perturbations
- ICLR 2026Credit-Budgeted ICPC-Style Coding: When LLM Agents Must Pay for Every Decision
- ICLR 2026CubeBench: Diagnosing Interactive, Long-Horizon Physical Intelligence under Partial Observations
- ICLR 2026Cyber-Zero: Training Cybersecurity Agents without Runtime
- ICLR 2026CyberGym: Evaluating AI Agents' Real-World Cybersecurity Capabilities at Scale
- ICLR 2026DAComp: Benchmarking Data Agents across the Full Data Intelligence Lifecycle
- ICLR 2026DAMR: Efficient and Adaptive Context-Aware Knowledge Graph Question Answering with LLM-Guided MCTS
- ICLR 2026DARE-bench: Evaluating Modeling and Instruction Fidelity of LLMs in Data Science
- ICLR 2026Darwin Gödel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents
- ICLR 2026DASH: Deterministic Attention Scheduling for High-throughput Reproducible LLM Training
- ICLR 2026DAVE: A VLM Vision Encoder for Document Understanding and Web Agents
- ICLR 2026DecompGAIL: Learning Realistic Traffic Behaviors with Decomposed Multi-Agent Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning
- ICLR 2026DeepEyesV2: Toward Agentic Multimodal Model
- ICLR 2026DeepResearch Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Deep Research Agents
- ICLR 2026DeepTRACE: Auditing Deep Research AI Systems for Tracking Reliability Across Citations and Evidence
- ICLR 2026Demystifying and Enhancing the Efficiency of Large Language Model Based Search Agents
- ICLR 2026Demystifying Deep Search: A Holistic Evaluation with Hint-free Multi-Hop Questions and Factorised Metrics
- ICLR 2026Denoising Neural Reranker for Recommender Systems
- ICLR 2026Detection of unknown unknowns in autonomous systems
- ICLR 2026DevOps-Gym: Benchmarking AI Agents in Software DevOps Cycle
- ICLR 2026Discovering Hierarchical Software Engineering Agents via Bandit Optimization
- ICLR 2026Discovering Novel LLM Experts via Task-Capability Coevolution
- ICLR 2026DiSRouter: Distributed Self-Routing for LLM Selections
- ICLR 2026Distributionally Robust Cooperative Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning with Value Factorization
- ICLR 2026Divide, Harmonize, Then Conquer It: Shooting Multi-Commodity Flow Problems with Multimodal Language Models
- ICLR 2026Do Large Language Models Know What They Are Capable Of?
- ICLR 2026Do LLM Agents Know How to Ground, Recover, and Assess? Evaluating Epistemic Competence in Information-Seeking Agents
- ICLR 2026Doctor-R1: Mastering Clinical Inquiry with Experiential Agentic Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2026Don't Just Fine-tune the Agent, Tune the Environment
- ICLR 2026Doubly-Robust LLM-as-a-Judge: Externally Valid Estimation with Imperfect Personas
- ICLR 2026DoVer: Intervention-Driven Auto Debugging for LLM Multi-Agent Systems
- ICLR 2026DRBench: A Realistic Benchmark for Enterprise Deep Research
- ICLR 2026DreamPhase: Offline Imagination and Uncertainty-Guided Planning for Large-Language-Model Agents
- ICLR 2026Drugging the Undruggable: Benchmarking and Modeling Fragment-Based Screening
- ICLR 2026Dual-Scale World Models for LLM Agents towards Hard-Exploration Problems
- ICLR 2026DualMap: Enabling Both Cache Affinity and Load Balancing for Distributed LLM Serving
- ICLR 2026Dyna-Mind: Learning to Simulate from Experience for Better AI Agents
- ICLR 2026Dynamic Speculative Agent Planning
- ICLR 2026Earth-Agent: Unlocking the Full Landscape of Earth Observation with Agents
- ICLR 2026Efficient Agent Training for Computer Use
- ICLR 2026Eigen-1: Scientific Reasoning through Adaptive Multi-Agent Refinement and Monitor-based RAG
- ICLR 2026Embodied Agents Meet Personalization: Investigating Challenges and Solutions Through the Lens of Memory Utilization
- ICLR 2026Emergent Coordination in Multi-Agent Language Models
- ICLR 2026Empowering Efficiency and Efficacy in WebAgent via Enabling Info-Rich Seeking
- ICLR 2026Empowering LLM Tool Invocation with Tool-call Reward Model
- ICLR 2026Empowering Multi-Robot Cooperation via Sequential World Models
- ICLR 2026Endowing GPT-4 with a Humanoid Body: Building the Bridge Between Off-the-Shelf VLMs and the Physical World
- ICLR 2026Enhancing Agentic Search via Data Synthesis on Hierarchical Constraint Satisfaction
- ICLR 2026Enhancing Complex Symbolic Logical Reasoning of Large Language Models via Sparse Multi-Agent Debate
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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.