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

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

All AI Agents papers

3,266 papers, page 63 of 66

  1. CVPR 2023FJMP: Factorized Joint Multi-Agent Motion Prediction Over Learned Directed Acyclic Interaction Graphs
  2. CVPR 2023IPCC-TP: Utilizing Incremental Pearson Correlation Coefficient for Joint Multi-Agent Trajectory Prediction
  3. CVPR 2023MotionDiffuser: Controllable Multi-Agent Motion Prediction Using Diffusion
  4. CVPR 2023Multi-Agent Automated Machine Learning
  5. CVPR 2023PoseExaminer: Automated Testing of Out-of-Distribution Robustness in Human Pose and Shape Estimation
  6. CVPR 2023Query-Centric Trajectory Prediction
  7. CVPR 2023Revisiting the P3P Problem
  8. CVPR 2023StarCraftImage: A Dataset for Prototyping Spatial Reasoning Methods for Multi-Agent Environments
  9. CVPR 2023ViP3D: End-to-End Visual Trajectory Prediction via 3D Agent Queries
  10. ICLR 2023$O(T^{-1})$ Convergence of Optimistic-Follow-the-Regularized-Leader in Two-Player Zero-Sum Markov Games
  11. ICLR 2023Achieving Near-Optimal Individual Regret & Low Communications in Multi-Agent Bandits
  12. ICLR 2023Adversarial Diversity in Hanabi
  13. ICLR 2023Asynchronous Gradient Play in Zero-Sum Multi-agent Games
  14. ICLR 2023Broken Neural Scaling Laws
  15. ICLR 2023Can We Find Nash Equilibria at a Linear Rate in Markov Games?
  16. ICLR 2023Certifiably Robust Policy Learning against Adversarial Multi-Agent Communication
  17. ICLR 2023Cheap Talk Discovery and Utilization in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
  18. ICLR 2023Collaborative Pure Exploration in Kernel Bandit
  19. ICLR 2023Competitive Physics Informed Networks
  20. ICLR 2023Discovering Generalizable Multi-agent Coordination Skills from Multi-task Offline Data
  21. ICLR 2023Does Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning Exist?
  22. ICLR 2023Efficiently Computing Nash Equilibria in Adversarial Team Markov Games
  23. ICLR 2023Faster Last-iterate Convergence of Policy Optimization in Zero-Sum Markov Games
  24. ICLR 2023Generating Diverse Cooperative Agents by Learning Incompatible Policies
  25. ICLR 2023GoBigger: A Scalable Platform for Cooperative-Competitive Multi-Agent Interactive Simulation
  26. ICLR 2023Implicit regularization in Heavy-ball momentum accelerated stochastic gradient descent
  27. ICLR 2023Learning Rationalizable Equilibria in Multiplayer Games
  28. ICLR 2023Learning to Extrapolate: A Transductive Approach
  29. ICLR 2023Learning Zero-Shot Cooperation with Humans, Assuming Humans Are Biased
  30. ICLR 2023MACTA: A Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Approach for Cache Timing Attacks and Detection
  31. ICLR 2023MAESTRO: Open-Ended Environment Design for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
  32. ICLR 2023Mastering the Game of No-Press Diplomacy via Human-Regularized Reinforcement Learning and Planning
  33. ICLR 2023Minimax Optimal Kernel Operator Learning via Multilevel Training
  34. ICLR 2023More Centralized Training, Still Decentralized Execution: Multi-Agent Conditional Policy Factorization
  35. ICLR 2023Neural Agents Struggle to Take Turns in Bidirectional Emergent Communication
  36. ICLR 2023Offline Congestion Games: How Feedback Type Affects Data Coverage Requirement
  37. ICLR 2023Order Matters: Agent-by-agent Policy Optimization
  38. ICLR 2023Proactive Multi-Camera Collaboration for 3D Human Pose Estimation
  39. ICLR 2023ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models
  40. ICLR 2023Representation Learning for Low-rank General-sum Markov Games
  41. ICLR 2023Revisiting Populations in multi-agent Communication
  42. ICLR 2023RPM: Generalizable Multi-Agent Policies for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
  43. ICLR 2023Scaling Laws for a Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Model
  44. ICLR 2023Solving Continuous Control via Q-learning
  45. ICLR 2023Stateful Active Facilitator: Coordination and Environmental Heterogeneity in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
  46. ICLR 2023Taking a Step Back with KCal: Multi-Class Kernel-Based Calibration for Deep Neural Networks
  47. ICLR 2023The Implicit Bias of Minima Stability in Multivariate Shallow ReLU Networks
  48. ICLR 2023Towards Effective and Interpretable Human-Agent Collaboration in MOBA Games: A Communication Perspective
  49. ICLR 2023Truthful Self-Play
  50. ICML 2023A Game-Theoretic Framework for Managing Risk in Multi-Agent Systems

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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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