AI Agents papers, 2023–2026

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.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• 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 64 of 66

3151. ICML 2023An Adaptive Entropy-Regularization Framework for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
3152. ICML 2023Best Arm Identification in Multi-Agent Multi-Armed Bandits
3153. ICML 2023Collaborative Multi-Agent Heterogeneous Multi-Armed Bandits
3154. ICML 2023Complementary Attention for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
3155. ICML 2023Context-Aware Bayesian Network Actor-Critic Methods for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
3156. ICML 2023Controlling Type Confounding in Ad Hoc Teamwork with Instance-wise Teammate Feedback Rectification
3157. ICML 2023Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Asynchronous Communication and Linear Function Approximation
3158. ICML 2023DoG is SGD's Best Friend: A Parameter-Free Dynamic Step Size Schedule
3159. ICML 2023DoMo-AC: Doubly Multi-step Off-policy Actor-Critic Algorithm
3160. ICML 2023DSGD-CECA: Decentralized SGD with Communication-Optimal Exact Consensus Algorithm
3161. ICML 2023Emergent Agentic Transformer from Chain of Hindsight Experience
3162. ICML 2023Entity Divider with Language Grounding in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
3163. ICML 2023K-SHAP: Policy Clustering Algorithm for Anonymous Multi-Agent State-Action Pairs
3164. ICML 2023Lazy Agents: A New Perspective on Solving Sparse Reward Problem in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
3165. ICML 2023Learning Intuitive Policies Using Action Features
3166. ICML 2023Learning to Decouple Complex Systems
3167. ICML 2023Learning to Incentivize Information Acquisition: Proper Scoring Rules Meet Principal-Agent Model
3168. ICML 2023Learning to Optimize Differentiable Games
3169. ICML 2023Local Optimization Achieves Global Optimality in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
3170. ICML 2023MANSA: Learning Fast and Slow in Multi-Agent Systems
3171. ICML 2023Motion Question Answering via Modular Motion Programs
3172. ICML 2023Multi-Agent Best Arm Identification with Private Communications
3173. ICML 2023Multi-Agent Learning from Learners
3174. ICML 2023Multi-Agent Online Optimization with Delays: Asynchronicity, Adaptivity, and Optimism
3175. ICML 2023Multi-agent Online Scheduling: MMS Allocations for Indivisible Items
3176. ICML 2023Multi-channel Autobidding with Budget and ROI Constraints
3177. ICML 2023N$\text{A}^\text{2}$Q: Neural Attention Additive Model for Interpretable Multi-Agent Q-Learning
3178. ICML 2023Network Effects in Performative Prediction Games
3179. ICML 2023Neural Collapse in Deep Linear Networks: From Balanced to Imbalanced Data
3180. ICML 2023Offline Learning in Markov Games with General Function Approximation
3181. ICML 2023One-Step Estimator for Permuted Sparse Recovery
3182. ICML 2023Probably Anytime-Safe Stochastic Combinatorial Semi-Bandits
3183. ICML 2023RACE: Improve Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Representation Asymmetry and Collaborative Evolution
3184. ICML 2023Scalable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning through Intelligent Information Aggregation
3185. ICML 2023Sparse Learning of Dynamical Systems in RKHS: An Operator-Theoretic Approach
3186. ICML 2023System Identification of Neural Systems: If We Got It Right, Would We Know?
3187. ICML 2023The Ideal Continual Learner: An Agent That Never Forgets
3188. ICML 2023The Impact of Exploration on Convergence and Performance of Multi-Agent Q-Learning Dynamics
3189. ICML 2023The Role of Entropy and Reconstruction in Multi-View Self-Supervised Learning
3190. ICML 2023What do CNNs Learn in the First Layer and Why? A Linear Systems Perspective
3191. NeurIPS 2023AdaPlanner: Adaptive Planning from Feedback with Language Models
3192. NeurIPS 2023AlberDICE: Addressing Out-Of-Distribution Joint Actions in Offline Multi-Agent RL via Alternating Stationary Distribution Correction Estimation
3193. NeurIPS 2023Alexa Arena: A User-Centric Interactive Platform for Embodied AI
3194. NeurIPS 2023AllSim: Simulating and Benchmarking Resource Allocation Policies in Multi-User Systems
3195. NeurIPS 2023AndroidInTheWild: A Large-Scale Dataset For Android Device Control
3196. NeurIPS 2023Automatic Grouping for Efficient Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
3197. NeurIPS 2023Autonomous Capability Assessment of Sequential Decision-Making Systems in Stochastic Settings
3198. NeurIPS 2023AVIS: Autonomous Visual Information Seeking with Large Language Model Agent
3199. NeurIPS 2023BEDD: The MineRL BASALT Evaluation and Demonstrations Dataset for Training and Benchmarking Agents that Solve Fuzzy Tasks
3200. NeurIPS 2023BioMassters: A Benchmark Dataset for Forest Biomass Estimation using Multi-modal Satellite Time-series

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.