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 51 of 66

2501. NeurIPS 2025Effective Policy Learning for Multi-Agent Online Coordination Beyond Submodular Objectives
2502. NeurIPS 2025Eliciting Reasoning in Language Models with Cognitive Tools
2503. NeurIPS 2025Embodied Web Agents: Bridging Physical-Digital Realms for Integrated Agent Intelligence
2504. NeurIPS 2025Embracing Trustworthy Brain-Agent Collaboration as Paradigm Extension for Intelligent Assistive Technologies
2505. NeurIPS 2025Emergent Risk Awareness in Rational Agents under Resource Constraints
2506. NeurIPS 2025Empirical Study on Robustness and Resilience in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
2507. NeurIPS 2025EnCompass: Enhancing Agent Programming with Search Over Program Execution Paths
2508. NeurIPS 2025Enhancing GUI Agent with Uncertainty-Aware Self-Trained Evaluator
2509. NeurIPS 2025Enhancing Personalized Multi-Turn Dialogue with Curiosity Reward
2510. NeurIPS 2025ESCA: Contextualizing Embodied Agents via Scene-Graph Generation
2511. NeurIPS 2025Establishing Best Practices in Building Rigorous Agentic Benchmarks
2512. NeurIPS 2025EVAAA: A Virtual Environment Platform for Essential Variables in Autonomous and Adaptive Agents
2513. NeurIPS 2025Evaluating Generalization Capabilities of LLM-Based Agents in Mixed-Motive Scenarios Using Concordia
2514. NeurIPS 2025Evaluating LLMs in Open-Source Games
2515. NeurIPS 2025Eyes Wide Open: Ego Proactive Video-LLM for Streaming Video
2516. NeurIPS 2025FACE: A General Framework for Mapping Collaborative Filtering Embeddings into LLM Tokens
2517. NeurIPS 2025Factorio Learning Environment
2518. NeurIPS 2025Fair Cooperation in Mixed-Motive Games via Conflict-Aware Gradient Adjustment
2519. NeurIPS 2025From Euler to AI: Unifying Formulas for Mathematical Constants
2520. NeurIPS 2025From Replication to Redesign: Exploring Pairwise Comparisons for LLM-Based Peer Review
2521. NeurIPS 2025From Self-Check to Consensus: Bayesian Strategic Decoding in Large Language Models
2522. NeurIPS 2025G-Memory: Tracing Hierarchical Memory for Multi-Agent Systems
2523. NeurIPS 2025GAM-Agent: Game-Theoretic and Uncertainty-Aware Collaboration for Complex Visual Reasoning
2524. NeurIPS 2025Generalizing Experience for Language Agents with Hierarchical MetaFlows
2525. NeurIPS 2025Generative Caching for Structurally Similar Prompts and Responses
2526. NeurIPS 2025Gradient Multi-Normalization for Efficient LLM Training
2527. NeurIPS 2025GRAPE: Optimize Data Mixture for Group Robust Multi-target Adaptive Pretraining
2528. NeurIPS 2025GraphMaster: Automated Graph Synthesis via LLM Agents in Data-Limited Environments
2529. NeurIPS 2025Graphs Help Graphs: Multi-Agent Graph Socialized Learning
2530. NeurIPS 2025Ground-Compose-Reinforce: Grounding Language in Agentic Behaviours using Limited Data
2531. NeurIPS 2025Group-in-Group Policy Optimization for LLM Agent Training
2532. NeurIPS 2025GSO: Challenging Software Optimization Tasks for Evaluating SWE-Agents
2533. NeurIPS 2025GUARDIAN: Safeguarding LLM Multi-Agent Collaborations with Temporal Graph Modeling
2534. NeurIPS 2025GUI Exploration Lab: Enhancing Screen Navigation in Agents via Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning
2535. NeurIPS 2025GUI-Actor: Coordinate-Free Visual Grounding for GUI Agents
2536. NeurIPS 2025GUI-Reflection: Empowering Multimodal GUI Models with Self-Reflection Behavior
2537. NeurIPS 2025HeavyWater and SimplexWater: Distortion-free LLM Watermarks for Low-Entropy Distributions
2538. NeurIPS 2025Heterogeneous Graph Transformers for Simultaneous Mobile Multi-Robot Task Allocation and Scheduling under Temporal Constraints
2539. NeurIPS 2025Heterogeneous Swarms: Jointly Optimizing Model Roles and Weights for Multi-LLM Systems
2540. NeurIPS 2025Hi3DEval: Advancing 3D Generation Evaluation with Hierarchical Validity
2541. NeurIPS 2025High-order Interactions Modeling for Interpretable Multi-Agent Q-Learning
2542. NeurIPS 2025HMARL-CBF – Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Control Barrier Functions for Safety-Critical Autonomous Systems
2543. NeurIPS 2025How to Train Your LLM Web Agent: A Statistical Diagnosis
2544. NeurIPS 2025Human Texts Are Outliers: Detecting LLM-generated Texts via Out-of-distribution Detection
2545. NeurIPS 2025HyperMARL: Adaptive Hypernetworks for Multi-Agent RL
2546. NeurIPS 2025HYPRL: Reinforcement Learning of Control Policies for Hyperproperties
2547. NeurIPS 2025Impartial Selection with Predictions
2548. NeurIPS 2025Improving Retrieval-Augmented Generation through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
2549. NeurIPS 2025In-Context Fully Decentralized Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
2550. NeurIPS 2025In-context Learning of Linear Dynamical Systems with Transformers: Approximation Bounds and Depth-separation

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.