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

362 papers, page 7 of 8

301. NeurIPS 2025Small Batch Size Training for Language Models: When Vanilla SGD Works, and Why Gradient Accumulation is Wasteful
302. NeurIPS 2025SoFar: Language-Grounded Orientation Bridges Spatial Reasoning and Object Manipulation
303. NeurIPS 2025SoMi-ToM: Evaluating Multi-Perspective Theory of Mind in Embodied Social Interactions
304. NeurIPS 2025SpecEM: Training-Free LLM Ensembling via Iterative Drafting, Verification, and Online Feedback
305. NeurIPS 2025SpecMAS: A Multi-Agent System for Self-Verifying System Generation via Formal Model Checking
306. NeurIPS 2025SSRB: Direct Natural Language Querying to Massive Heterogeneous Semi-Structured Data
307. NeurIPS 2025Stabilizing LTI Systems under Partial Observability: Sample Complexity and Fundamental Limits
308. NeurIPS 2025Stackelberg Learning with Outcome-based Payment
309. NeurIPS 2025STEER-ME: Assessing the Microeconomic Reasoning of Large Language Models
310. NeurIPS 2025STRATUS: A Multi-agent System for Autonomous Reliability Engineering of Modern Clouds
311. NeurIPS 2025Structural Entropy Guided Agent for Detecting and Repairing Knowledge Deficiencies in LLMs
312. NeurIPS 2025SuffixDecoding: Extreme Speculative Decoding for Emerging AI Applications
313. NeurIPS 2025SWE-bench Goes Live!
314. NeurIPS 2025SWE-rebench: An Automated Pipeline for Task Collection and Decontaminated Evaluation of Software Engineering Agents
315. NeurIPS 2025SWE-smith: Scaling Data for Software Engineering Agents
316. NeurIPS 2025SwitchLingua: The First Large-Scale Multilingual and Multi-Ethnic Code-Switching Dataset
317. NeurIPS 2025SYMPHONY: Synergistic Multi-agent Planning with Heterogeneous Language Model Assembly
318. NeurIPS 2025Synergy over Discrepancy: A Partition-Based Approach to Multi-Domain LLM Fine-Tuning
319. NeurIPS 2025Synthesizing Photorealistic and Dynamic Urban Environments for Multimodal Robot Navigation and Collaboration
320. NeurIPS 2025T1: A Tool-Oriented Conversational Dataset for Multi-Turn Agentic Planning
321. NeurIPS 2025TAI3: Testing Agent Integrity in Interpreting User Intent
322. NeurIPS 2025Temporal Logic-Based Multi-Vehicle Backdoor Attacks against Offline RL Agents in End-to-end Autonomous Driving
323. NeurIPS 2025The Automated LLM Speedrunning Benchmark: Reproducing NanoGPT Improvements
324. NeurIPS 2025The Lighthouse of Language: Enhancing LLM Agents via Critique-Guided Improvement
325. NeurIPS 2025TheAgentCompany: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Consequential Real World Tasks
326. NeurIPS 2025Think or Not? Selective Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language Models
327. NeurIPS 2025Thinking vs. Doing: Improving Agent Reasoning by Scaling Test-Time Interaction
328. NeurIPS 2025Thought Communication in Multiagent Collaboration
329. NeurIPS 2025Tiled Flash Linear Attention: More Efficient Linear RNN and xLSTM Kernels
330. NeurIPS 2025Time Travel is Cheating: Going Live with DeepFund for Real-Time Fund Investment Benchmarking
331. NeurIPS 2025TimeXL: Explainable Multi-modal Time Series Prediction with LLM-in-the-Loop
332. NeurIPS 2025ToolRL: Reward is All Tool Learning Needs
333. NeurIPS 2025Towards Doctor-Like Reasoning: Medical RAG Fusing Knowledge with Patient Analogy through Textual Gradients
334. NeurIPS 2025Towards Principled Unsupervised Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
335. NeurIPS 2025TrajAgent: An LLM-Agent Framework for Trajectory Modeling via Large-and-Small Model Collaboration
336. NeurIPS 2025Transcending Cost-Quality Tradeoff in Agent Serving via Session-Awareness
337. NeurIPS 2025Transformer Copilot: Learning from The Mistake Log in LLM Fine-tuning
338. NeurIPS 2025TRAP: Targeted Redirecting of Agentic Preferences
339. NeurIPS 2025Tri-MARF: A Tri-Modal Multi-Agent Responsive Framework for Comprehensive 3D Object Annotation
340. NeurIPS 2025TwinMarket: A Scalable Behavioral and Social Simulation for Financial Markets
341. NeurIPS 2025UI-Genie: A Self-Improving Approach for Iteratively Boosting MLLM-based Mobile GUI Agents
342. NeurIPS 2025UniMotion: A Unified Motion Framework for Simulation, Prediction and Planning
343. NeurIPS 2025URB - Urban Routing Benchmark for RL-equipped Connected Autonomous Vehicles
344. NeurIPS 2025UrbanIng-V2X: A Large-Scale Multi-Vehicle, Multi-Infrastructure Dataset Across Multiple Intersections for Cooperative Perception
345. NeurIPS 2025Utility Engineering: Analyzing and Controlling Emergent Value Systems in AIs
346. NeurIPS 2025VAGEN: Reinforcing World Model Reasoning for Multi-Turn VLM Agents
347. NeurIPS 2025VideoCAD: A Dataset and Model for Learning Long‑Horizon 3D CAD UI Interactions from Video
348. NeurIPS 2025VIKI‑R: Coordinating Embodied Multi-Agent Cooperation via Reinforcement Learning
349. NeurIPS 2025VLMLight: Safety-Critical Traffic Signal Control via Vision-Language Meta-Control and Dual-Branch Reasoning Architecture
350. NeurIPS 2025VolleyBots: A Testbed for Multi-Drone Volleyball Game Combining Motion Control and Strategic Play

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.