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

Papers per year

Papers per venue

Counts by year and venue

AI Agents papers by year and venue
YearNeurIPSICLRICMLCVPRTotal
202376404113170
2024150738818329
202536220417840784
20267295006401141,983

Representative papers

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All AI Agents papers

3,266 papers, page 56 of 66

  1. NeurIPS 2025VAGEN: Reinforcing World Model Reasoning for Multi-Turn VLM Agents
  2. NeurIPS 2025VideoCAD: A Dataset and Model for Learning Long‑Horizon 3D CAD UI Interactions from Video
  3. NeurIPS 2025VIKI‑R: Coordinating Embodied Multi-Agent Cooperation via Reinforcement Learning
  4. NeurIPS 2025VLMLight: Safety-Critical Traffic Signal Control via Vision-Language Meta-Control and Dual-Branch Reasoning Architecture
  5. NeurIPS 2025VolleyBots: A Testbed for Multi-Drone Volleyball Game Combining Motion Control and Strategic Play
  6. NeurIPS 2025WALL-E: World Alignment by NeuroSymbolic Learning improves World Model-based LLM Agents
  7. NeurIPS 2025WASP: Benchmarking Web Agent Security Against Prompt Injection Attacks
  8. NeurIPS 2025Web-Shepherd: Advancing PRMs for Reinforcing Web Agents
  9. NeurIPS 2025WebDancer: Towards Autonomous Information Seeking Agency
  10. NeurIPS 2025WebGen-Bench: Evaluating LLMs on Generating Interactive and Functional Websites from Scratch
  11. NeurIPS 2025What is Your Data Worth to GPT? LLM-Scale Data Valuation with Influence Functions
  12. NeurIPS 2025Who You Are Matters: Bridging Interests and Social Roles via LLM-Enhanced Logic Recommendation
  13. NeurIPS 2025Why Do Multi-Agent LLM Systems Fail?
  14. NeurIPS 2025Wide-Horizon Thinking and Simulation-Based Evaluation for Real-World LLM Planning with Multifaceted Constraints
  15. NeurIPS 2025Win Fast or Lose Slow: Balancing Speed and Accuracy in Latency-Sensitive Decisions of LLMs
  16. NeurIPS 2025Wonder Wins Ways: Curiosity-Driven Exploration through Multi-Agent Contextual Calibration
  17. NeurIPS 2025Yggdrasil: Bridging Dynamic Speculation and Static Runtime for Latency-Optimal Tree-Based LLM Decoding
  18. CVPR 2024Adaptive Fusion of Single-View and Multi-View Depth for Autonomous Driving
  19. CVPR 2024AnySkill: Learning Open-Vocabulary Physical Skill for Interactive Agents
  20. CVPR 2024AssistGUI: Task-Oriented PC Graphical User Interface Automation
  21. CVPR 2024Bridging the Gap Between End-to-End and Two-Step Text Spotting
  22. CVPR 2024Density-Adaptive Model Based on Motif Matrix for Multi-Agent Trajectory Prediction
  23. CVPR 2024DiffAgent: Fast and Accurate Text-to-Image API Selection with Large Language Model
  24. CVPR 2024Draw Step by Step: Reconstructing CAD Construction Sequences from Point Clouds via Multimodal Diffusion.
  25. CVPR 2024Editable Scene Simulation for Autonomous Driving via Collaborative LLM-Agents
  26. CVPR 2024Embodied Multi-Modal Agent trained by an LLM from a Parallel TextWorld
  27. CVPR 2024Feedback-Guided Autonomous Driving
  28. CVPR 2024LASIL: Learner-Aware Supervised Imitation Learning For Long-term Microscopic Traffic Simulation
  29. CVPR 2024Multi-agent Collaborative Perception via Motion-aware Robust Communication Network
  30. CVPR 2024Multi-agent Long-term 3D Human Pose Forecasting via Interaction-aware Trajectory Conditioning
  31. CVPR 2024MultiPLY: A Multisensory Object-Centric Embodied Large Language Model in 3D World
  32. CVPR 2024OPERA: Alleviating Hallucination in Multi-Modal Large Language Models via Over-Trust Penalty and Retrospection-Allocation
  33. CVPR 2024PerceptionGPT: Effectively Fusing Visual Perception into LLM
  34. CVPR 2024Suppress and Rebalance: Towards Generalized Multi-Modal Face Anti-Spoofing
  35. CVPR 2024Unsupervised Learning of Category-Level 3D Pose from Object-Centric Videos
  36. ICLR 2024A Black-box Approach for Non-stationary Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
  37. ICLR 2024A Real-World WebAgent with Planning, Long Context Understanding, and Program Synthesis
  38. ICLR 2024Achieving Fairness in Multi-Agent MDP Using Reinforcement Learning
  39. ICLR 2024AgentBench: Evaluating LLMs as Agents
  40. ICLR 2024AgentVerse: Facilitating Multi-Agent Collaboration and Exploring Emergent Behaviors
  41. ICLR 2024An LLM can Fool Itself: A Prompt-Based Adversarial Attack
  42. ICLR 2024Attention-Guided Contrastive Role Representations for Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
  43. ICLR 2024Building Cooperative Embodied Agents Modularly with Large Language Models
  44. ICLR 2024Byzantine Robust Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning as a Bayesian Game
  45. ICLR 2024Can LLM-Generated Misinformation Be Detected?
  46. ICLR 2024Causal Modelling Agents: Causal Graph Discovery through Synergising Metadata- and Data-driven Reasoning
  47. ICLR 2024Chain-of-Experts: When LLMs Meet Complex Operations Research Problems
  48. ICLR 2024ChatEval: Towards Better LLM-based Evaluators through Multi-Agent Debate
  49. ICLR 2024CivRealm: A Learning and Reasoning Odyssey in Civilization for Decision-Making Agents
  50. ICLR 2024Copula Conformal prediction for multi-step time series prediction

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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.

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