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
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
329 papers, page 7 of 7
- NeurIPS 2024Self-Healing Machine Learning: A Framework for Autonomous Adaptation in Real-World Environments
- NeurIPS 2024SMART: Scalable Multi-agent Real-time Motion Generation via Next-token Prediction
- NeurIPS 2024SocraticLM: Exploring Socratic Personalized Teaching with Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024Spider2-V: How Far Are Multimodal Agents From Automating Data Science and Engineering Workflows?
- NeurIPS 2024Star-Agents: Automatic Data Optimization with LLM Agents for Instruction Tuning
- NeurIPS 2024StreamBench: Towards Benchmarking Continuous Improvement of Language Agents
- NeurIPS 2024SustainDC: Benchmarking for Sustainable Data Center Control
- NeurIPS 2024SWE-agent: Agent-Computer Interfaces Enable Automated Software Engineering
- NeurIPS 2024SWT-Bench: Testing and Validating Real-World Bug-Fixes with Code Agents
- NeurIPS 2024Synatra: Turning Indirect Knowledge into Direct Demonstrations for Digital Agents at Scale
- NeurIPS 2024T2Vs Meet VLMs: A Scalable Multimodal Dataset for Visual Harmfulness Recognition
- NeurIPS 2024TaskBench: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Task Automation
- NeurIPS 2024Team-Fictitious Play for Reaching Team-Nash Equilibrium in Multi-team Games
- NeurIPS 2024The Dormant Neuron Phenomenon in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Value Factorization
- NeurIPS 2024Transformers as Game Players: Provable In-context Game-playing Capabilities of Pre-trained Models
- NeurIPS 2024Understanding Model Selection for Learning in Strategic Environments
- NeurIPS 2024UrbanKGent: A Unified Large Language Model Agent Framework for Urban Knowledge Graph Construction
- NeurIPS 2024Using Unity to Help Solve Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Value-Based Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Dynamic Sparse Training
- NeurIPS 2024VideoGUI: A Benchmark for GUI Automation from Instructional Videos
- NeurIPS 2024VLM Agents Generate Their Own Memories: Distilling Experience into Embodied Programs of Thought
- NeurIPS 2024Watch Out for Your Agents! Investigating Backdoor Threats to LLM-Based Agents
- NeurIPS 2024WFCRL: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Benchmark for Wind Farm Control
- NeurIPS 2024Who’s Gaming the System? A Causally-Motivated Approach for Detecting Strategic Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2024WhodunitBench: Evaluating Large Multimodal Agents via Murder Mystery Games
- NeurIPS 2024WorkArena++: Towards Compositional Planning and Reasoning-based Common Knowledge Work Tasks
- NeurIPS 2024WorldCoder, a Model-Based LLM Agent: Building World Models by Writing Code and Interacting with the Environment
- NeurIPS 2024YouDream: Generating Anatomically Controllable Consistent Text-to-3D Animals
- NeurIPS 2024ZSC-Eval: An Evaluation Toolkit and Benchmark for Multi-agent Zero-shot Coordination
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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.