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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  1. ICLR 2026LogiStory: A Logic-Aware Framework for Multi-Image Story Visualization
  2. ICLR 2026Look Back to Reason Forward: Revisitable Memory for Long-Context LLM Agents
  3. ICLR 2026M$^2$-Miner: Multi-Agent Enhanced MCTS for Mobile GUI Agent Data Mining
  4. ICLR 2026MAC-AMP: A Closed-Loop Multi-Agent Collaboration System for Multi-Objective Antimicrobial Peptide Design
  5. ICLR 2026ManagerBench: Evaluating the Safety-Pragmatism Trade-off in Autonomous LLMs
  6. ICLR 2026ManipEvalAgent: Promptable and Efficient Evaluation Framework for Robotic Manipulation Policies
  7. ICLR 2026MARSHAL: Incentivizing Multi-Agent Reasoning via Self-Play with Strategic LLMs
  8. ICLR 2026MARTI: A Framework for Multi-Agent LLM Systems Reinforced Training and Inference
  9. ICLR 2026MAS$^2$: Self-Generative, Self-Configuring, Self-Rectifying Multi-Agent Systems
  10. ICLR 2026MATA: A Trainable Hierarchical Automaton System for Multi-Agent Visual Reasoning
  11. ICLR 2026Matching multiple experts: on the exploitability of multi-agent imitation learning
  12. ICLR 2026MC-Search: Evaluating and Enhancing Multimodal Agentic Search with Structured Long Reasoning Chains
  13. ICLR 2026MCP Security Bench (MSB): Benchmarking Attacks Against Model Context Protocol in LLM Agents
  14. ICLR 2026MCP-Bench: Benchmarking Tool-Using LLM Agents with Complex Real-World Tasks via MCP Servers
  15. ICLR 2026MCP-SafetyBench: A Benchmark for Safety Evaluation of Large Language Models with Real-World MCP Servers
  16. ICLR 2026MCPMark: A Benchmark for Stress-Testing Realistic and Comprehensive MCP Use
  17. ICLR 2026Measuring and Mitigating Rapport Bias of Large Language Models under Multi-Agent Social Interactions
  18. ICLR 2026Measuring Bias Amplification in Multi-Agent Systems with Large Language Models
  19. ICLR 2026Measuring LLM Novelty As The Frontier Of Original And High-Quality Output
  20. ICLR 2026MedAgent-Pro: Towards Evidence-based Multi-modal Medical Diagnosis via Reasoning Agentic Workflow
  21. ICLR 2026MedAgentGym: A Scalable Agentic Training Environment for Code-Centric Reasoning in Biomedical Data Science
  22. ICLR 2026MedVR: Annotation-Free Medical Visual Reasoning via Agentic Reinforcement Learning
  23. ICLR 2026MEM1: Learning to Synergize Memory and Reasoning for Efficient Long-Horizon Agents
  24. ICLR 2026MemAgent: Reshaping Long-Context LLM with Multi-Conv RL-based Memory Agent
  25. ICLR 2026MemGen: Weaving Generative Latent Memory for Self-Evolving Agents
  26. ICLR 2026Meta-RL Induces Exploration in Language Agents
  27. ICLR 2026Meta-Router: Bridging Gold-standard and Preference-based Evaluations in LLM Routing
  28. ICLR 2026MetaCaptioner: Towards Generalist Visual Captioning with Open-source Suites
  29. ICLR 2026Mix-Ecom: Towards Mixed-Type E-Commerce Dialogues with Complex Domain Rules
  30. ICLR 2026MLE-Smith: Scaling MLE Tasks with Automated Multi-agent Pipeline
  31. ICLR 2026MME-Emotion: A Holistic Evaluation Benchmark for Emotional Intelligence in Multimodal Large Language Models
  32. ICLR 2026MMedAgent-RL: Optimizing Multi-Agent Collaboration for Multimodal Medical Reasoning
  33. ICLR 2026MMSearch-Plus: Benchmarking Provenance-Aware Search for Multimodal Browsing Agents
  34. ICLR 2026MobileIPL: Enhancing Mobile Agents Thinking Process via Iterative Preference Learning
  35. ICLR 2026MobileRL: Online Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Mobile GUI Agents
  36. ICLR 2026Modeling Others' Minds as Code
  37. ICLR 2026MoMaGen: Generating Demonstrations under Soft and Hard Constraints for Multi-Step Bimanual Mobile Manipulation
  38. ICLR 2026Monitoring Decomposition Attacks with Lightweight Sequential Monitors
  39. ICLR 2026Multi-Action Self-Improvement For Neural Combinatorial Optimization
  40. ICLR 2026Multi-agent Coordination via Flow Matching
  41. ICLR 2026Multi-Agent Debate with Memory Masking
  42. ICLR 2026Multi-Agent Design: Optimizing Agents with Better Prompts and Topologies
  43. ICLR 2026Multi-Agent Guided Policy Optimization
  44. ICLR 2026Multi-LLM Adaptive Conformal Inference for Reliable LLM Response
  45. ICLR 2026Multi-View Encoders for Performance Prediction in LLM-Based Agentic Workflows
  46. ICLR 2026Multimodal Policy Internalization for Conversational Agents
  47. ICLR 2026Negotiated Reasoning: On Provably Addressing Relative Over-Generalization
  48. ICLR 2026NerVE: Nonlinear Eigenspectrum Dynamics in LLM Feed-Forward Networks
  49. ICLR 2026NetArena: Dynamically Generated LLM Benchmarks for Network Applications
  50. ICLR 2026NewtonBench: Benchmarking Generalizable Scientific Law Discovery in LLM 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.

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