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
3,266 papers, page 53 of 66
- NeurIPS 2025MASTER: Enhancing Large Language Model via Multi-Agent Simulated Teaching
- NeurIPS 2025MAT-Agent: Adaptive Multi-Agent Training Optimization
- NeurIPS 2025Mean-Field Sampling for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Measuring Scientific Capabilities of Language Models with a Systems Biology Dry Lab
- NeurIPS 2025Mechanism Design via the Interim Relaxation
- NeurIPS 2025MedAgentBoard: Benchmarking Multi-Agent Collaboration with Conventional Methods for Diverse Medical Tasks
- NeurIPS 2025MedChain: Bridging the Gap Between LLM Agents and Clinical Practice with Interactive Sequence
- NeurIPS 2025Memory Injection Attacks on LLM Agents via Query-Only Interaction
- NeurIPS 2025MemSim: A Bayesian Simulator for Evaluating Memory of LLM-based Personal Assistants
- NeurIPS 2025MetaMind: Modeling Human Social Thoughts with Metacognitive Multi-Agent Systems
- NeurIPS 2025metaTextGrad: Automatically optimizing language model optimizers
- NeurIPS 2025Mind2Web 2: Evaluating Agentic Search with Agent-as-a-Judge
- NeurIPS 2025MindForge: Empowering Embodied Agents with Theory of Mind for Lifelong Cultural Learning
- NeurIPS 2025MineAnyBuild: Benchmarking Spatial Planning for Open-world AI Agents
- NeurIPS 2025MIP against Agent: Malicious Image Patches Hijacking Multimodal OS Agents
- NeurIPS 2025MisoDICE: Multi-Agent Imitation from Mixed-Quality Demonstrations
- NeurIPS 2025MLE-Dojo: Interactive Environments for Empowering LLM Agents in Machine Learning Engineering
- NeurIPS 2025MLE-STAR: Machine Learning Engineering Agent via Search and Targeted Refinement
- NeurIPS 2025MLR-Bench: Evaluating AI Agents on Open-Ended Machine Learning Research
- NeurIPS 2025MLRC-Bench: Can Language Agents Solve Machine Learning Research Challenges?
- NeurIPS 2025MLZero: A Multi-Agent System for End-to-end Machine Learning Automation
- NeurIPS 2025MM-Agent: LLM as Agents for Real-world Mathematical Modeling Problem
- NeurIPS 2025MobileUse: A Hierarchical Reflection-Driven GUI Agent for Autonomous Mobile Operation
- NeurIPS 2025MoodAngels: A Retrieval-augmented Multi-agent Framework for Psychiatry Diagnosis
- NeurIPS 2025MOSDT: Self-Distillation-Based Decision Transformer for Multi-Agent Offline Safe Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2025MPCache: MPC-Friendly KV Cache Eviction for Efficient Private LLM Inference
- NeurIPS 2025MR. Video: MapReduce as an Effective Principle for Long Video Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025MTBBench: A Multimodal Sequential Clinical Decision-Making Benchmark in Oncology
- NeurIPS 2025Multi-Agent Collaboration via Evolving Orchestration
- NeurIPS 2025Multi-Agent Debate for LLM Judges with Adaptive Stability Detection
- NeurIPS 2025Multi-Agent Imitation by Learning and Sampling from Factorized Soft Q-Function
- NeurIPS 2025Multi-agent KTO: Enhancing Strategic Interactions of Large Language Model in Language Game
- NeurIPS 2025Multi-Agent Learning under Uncertainty: Recurrence vs. Concentration
- NeurIPS 2025Multi-agent Markov Entanglement
- NeurIPS 2025Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Communication-Constrained Priors
- NeurIPS 2025Multi-scale Temporal Prediction via Incremental Generation and Multi-agent Collaboration
- NeurIPS 2025MURKA: Multi-Reward Reinforcement Learning with Knowledge Alignment for Optimization Tasks
- NeurIPS 2025NeSyPr: Neurosymbolic Proceduralization For Efficient Embodied Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2025On Feasible Rewards in Multi-Agent Inverse Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Open CaptchaWorld: A Comprehensive Web-based Platform for Testing and Benchmarking Multimodal LLM Agents
- NeurIPS 2025Open-World Drone Active Tracking with Goal-Centered Rewards
- NeurIPS 2025OpenCUA: Open Foundations for Computer-Use Agents
- NeurIPS 2025OPHR: Mastering Volatility Trading with Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Opinion Maximization in Social Networks by Modifying Internal Opinions
- NeurIPS 2025OrbitZoo: Real Orbital Systems Challenges for Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Oryx: a Scalable Sequence Model for Many-Agent Coordination in Offline MARL
- NeurIPS 2025OS-Harm: A Benchmark for Measuring Safety of Computer Use Agents
- NeurIPS 2025OWL: Optimized Workforce Learning for General Multi-Agent Assistance in Real-World Task Automation
- NeurIPS 2025OWMM-Agent: Open World Mobile Manipulation With Multi-modal Agentic Data Synthesis
- NeurIPS 2025PANDA: Towards Generalist Video Anomaly Detection via Agentic AI Engineer
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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.