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
784 papers, page 6 of 16
- ICML 2025Adaptive Self-improvement LLM Agentic System for ML Library Development
- ICML 2025AdvAgent: Controllable Blackbox Red-teaming on Web Agents
- ICML 2025Adversarial Robustness in Two-Stage Learning-to-Defer: Algorithms and Guarantees
- ICML 2025Agent Reviewers: Domain-specific Multimodal Agents with Shared Memory for Paper Review
- ICML 2025Agent Workflow Memory
- ICML 2025Agent-as-a-Judge: Evaluate Agents with Agents
- ICML 2025Agent-Centric Actor-Critic for Asynchronous Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2025Aguvis: Unified Pure Vision Agents for Autonomous GUI Interaction
- ICML 2025AI for Global Climate Cooperation: Modeling Global Climate Negotiations, Agreements, and Long-Term Cooperation in RICE-N
- ICML 2025Aligning LLMs by Predicting Preferences from User Writing Samples
- ICML 2025Are Large Language Models Ready for Multi-Turn Tabular Data Analysis?
- ICML 2025AssistanceZero: Scalably Solving Assistance Games
- ICML 2025AutoAdvExBench: Benchmarking Autonomous Exploitation of Adversarial Example Defenses
- ICML 2025Automated Benchmark Generation for Repository-Level Coding Tasks
- ICML 2025Automated Hypothesis Validation with Agentic Sequential Falsifications
- ICML 2025Automated Red Teaming with GOAT: the Generative Offensive Agent Tester
- ICML 2025AutoML-Agent: A Multi-Agent LLM Framework for Full-Pipeline AutoML
- ICML 2025Behavioral Exploration: Learning to Explore via In-Context Adaptation
- ICML 2025Benchmarking Abstract and Reasoning Abilities Through A Theoretical Perspective
- ICML 2025Boosting Virtual Agent Learning and Reasoning: A Step-Wise, Multi-Dimensional, and Generalist Reward Model with Benchmark
- ICML 2025Breaking the Curse of Multiagency in Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2025BRIDGE: Bootstrapping Text to Control Time-Series Generation via Multi-Agent Iterative Optimization and Diffusion Modeling
- ICML 2025C-3PO: Compact Plug-and-Play Proxy Optimization to Achieve Human-like Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- ICML 2025Can Compressed LLMs Truly Act? An Empirical Evaluation of Agentic Capabilities in LLM Compression
- ICML 2025Closed-Loop Long-Horizon Robotic Planning via Equilibrium Sequence Modeling
- ICML 2025Code-Generated Graph Representations Using Multiple LLM Agents for Material Properties Prediction
- ICML 2025CogMath: Assessing LLMs' Authentic Mathematical Ability from a Human Cognitive Perspective
- ICML 2025Communicating Activations Between Language Model Agents
- ICML 2025Concurrent Reinforcement Learning with Aggregated States via Randomized Least Squares Value Iteration
- ICML 2025Continuously Updating Digital Twins using Large Language Models
- ICML 2025Convex Markov Games: A New Frontier for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2025Counterfactual Effect Decomposition in Multi-Agent Sequential Decision Making
- ICML 2025Cowpox: Towards the Immunity of VLM-based Multi-Agent Systems
- ICML 2025Cradle: Empowering Foundation Agents towards General Computer Control
- ICML 2025Craftium: Bridging Flexibility and Efficiency for Rich 3D Single- and Multi-Agent Environments
- ICML 2025Cross-environment Cooperation Enables Zero-shot Multi-agent Coordination
- ICML 2025CVE-Bench: A Benchmark for AI Agents’ Ability to Exploit Real-World Web Application Vulnerabilities
- ICML 2025Decision Theoretic Foundations for Conformal Prediction: Optimal Uncertainty Quantification for Risk-Averse Agents
- ICML 2025Demystifying Cost-Efficiency in LLM Serving over Heterogeneous GPUs
- ICML 2025DipLLM: Fine-Tuning LLM for Strategic Decision-making in Diplomacy
- ICML 2025Distributionally Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Chute Mapping
- ICML 2025Divide and Conquer: Grounding LLMs as Efficient Decision-Making Agents via Offline Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2025Efficient Robotic Policy Learning via Latent Space Backward Planning
- ICML 2025EmbodiedBench: Comprehensive Benchmarking Multi-modal Large Language Models for Vision-Driven Embodied Agents
- ICML 2025Enhancing Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with State Modelling and Adversarial Exploration
- ICML 2025Enhancing Diversity In Parallel Agents: A Maximum State Entropy Exploration Story
- ICML 2025EnIGMA: Interactive Tools Substantially Assist LM Agents in Finding Security Vulnerabilities
- ICML 2025FACTER: Fairness-Aware Conformal Thresholding and Prompt Engineering for Enabling Fair LLM-Based Recommender Systems
- ICML 2025Fast Large Language Model Collaborative Decoding via Speculation
- ICML 2025Finite-Sample Convergence Bounds for Trust Region Policy Optimization in Mean Field Games
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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.