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

817 papers, page 7 of 17

301. ICLR 2026Non-Collaborative User Simulators for Tool Agents
302. ICLR 2026Not All Clients Are Equal: Collaborative Model Personalization on Heterogeneous Multi-Modal Clients
303. ICLR 2026NRGPT: An Energy-based Alternative for GPT
304. ICLR 2026OccDriver: Future Occupancy Guided Dual-branch Trajectory Planner in Autonomous Driving
305. ICLR 2026OffTopicEval: When Large Language Models Enter the Wrong Chat, Almost Always!
306. ICLR 2026Omni-Captioner: Data Pipeline, Models, and Benchmark for Omni Detailed Perception
307. ICLR 2026OmniActor: A Generalist GUI and Embodied Agent for 2D&3D Worlds
308. ICLR 2026One Skill, Many Websites: Learning Generalizable Skills Through Polymorphic Abstraction
309. ICLR 2026OpenAgentSafety: A Comprehensive Framework For Evaluating Real-World AI Agent Safety
310. ICLR 2026OpenApps: Simulating Environment Variations to Measure UI Agent Reliability
311. ICLR 2026Opponent Shaping in LLM Agents
312. ICLR 2026OPRIDE: Efficient Offline Preference-based Reinforcement Learning via In-Dataset Exploration
313. ICLR 2026Optimal Robust Subsidy Policies for Irrational Agent in Principal-Agent MDPs
314. ICLR 2026Optimizing Agent Planning for Security and Autonomy
315. ICLR 2026Orak: A Foundational Benchmark for Training and Evaluating LLM Agents on Diverse Video Games
316. ICLR 2026OrchestrationBench: LLM-Driven Agentic Planning and Tool Use in Multi-Domain Scenarios
317. ICLR 2026OSWorld-MCP: Benchmarking MCP Tool Invocation In Computer-Use Agents
318. ICLR 2026P2P: Automated Paper-to-Poster Generation and Fine-Grained Benchmark
319. ICLR 2026PACEbench: A Framework for Evaluating Practical AI Cyber-Exploitation Capabilities
320. ICLR 2026Pairwise is Not Enough: Hypergraph Neural Networks for Multi-Agent Pathfinding
321. ICLR 2026Paper Copilot: Tracking the Evolution of Peer Review in AI Conferences
322. ICLR 2026Paper2Code: Automating Code Generation from Scientific Papers in Machine Learning
323. ICLR 2026PerfGuard: A Performance-Aware Agent for Visual Content Generation
324. ICLR 2026Personalized Collaborative Learning with Affinity-Based Variance Reduction
325. ICLR 2026PhyScensis: Physics-Augmented LLM Agents for Complex Physical Scene Arrangement
326. ICLR 2026PixelCraft: A Multi-Agent system for High-Fidelity Visual Reasoning on Structured Images
327. ICLR 2026PLAGUE: Plug-and-play Framework for Lifelong Adaptive Generation of Multi-turn Exploits
328. ICLR 2026Potentially Optimal Joint Actions Recognition for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
329. ICLR 2026Presenting a Paper is an Art: Self-Improvement Aesthetic Agents for Academic Presentations
330. ICLR 2026Prima.cpp: Fast 30-70B LLM Inference on Heterogeneous and Low-Resource Home Clusters
331. ICLR 2026PRISM: Festina Lente Proactivity—Risk-Sensitive, Uncertainty-Aware Deliberation for Proactive Agents
332. ICLR 2026Process-Level Trajectory Evaluation for Environment Configuration in Software Engineering Agents
333. ICLR 2026Programming with Pixels: Can Computer-Use Agents do Software Engineering?
334. ICLR 2026ProofOptimizer: Training Language Models to Simplify Proofs without Human Demonstrations
335. ICLR 2026PropensityBench: Evaluating Latent Safety Risks in Large Language Models via an Agentic Approach
336. ICLR 2026ProRe: A Proactive Reward System for GUI Agents via Reasoner–Actor Collaboration
337. ICLR 2026Pursuing Minimal Sufficiency in Spatial Reasoning
338. ICLR 2026Pushing Test-Time Scaling Limits of Deep Search with Asymmetric Verification
339. ICLR 2026QLCoder: A Query Synthesizer For Static Analysis of Security Vulnerabilities
340. ICLR 2026Quadratic Direct Forecast for Training Multi-Step Time-Series Forecast Models
341. ICLR 2026R-WoM: Retrieval-augmented World Model For Computer-use Agents
342. ICLR 2026Randomization Boosts KV Caching, Learning Balances Query Load: A Joint Perspective
343. ICLR 2026RATE-DISTORTION OPTIMIZED COMMUNICATION FOR COLLABORATIVE PERCEPTION
344. ICLR 2026Rating Quality of Diverse Time Series Data by Meta-learning from LLM Judgment
345. ICLR 2026Real-Time Reasoning Agents in Evolving Environments
346. ICLR 2026ReasoningBank: Scaling Agent Self-Evolving with Reasoning Memory
347. ICLR 2026ReCAPA: Hierarchical Predictive Correction to Mitigate Cascading Failures
348. ICLR 2026RECODE: A Benchmark for Research Code DEvelopment with Interactive Human Feedback
349. ICLR 2026RedCodeAgent: Automatic Red-teaming Agent against Diverse Code Agents
350. ICLR 2026RedSage: A Cybersecurity Generalist LLM

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.