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
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- 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 8 of 66
- ICLR 2026LH-DECEPTION: Simulating and Understanding LLM Deceptive Behaviors in Long-Horizon Interactions
- ICLR 2026LiveResearchBench: Benchmarking Single- and Multi-Agent Systems for Citation-Grounded Deep Research
- ICLR 2026LiveWeb-IE: A Benchmark For Online Web Information Extraction
- ICLR 2026LLM DNA: Tracing Model Evolution via Functional Representations
- ICLR 2026LLM Fingerprinting via Semantically Conditioned Watermarks
- ICLR 2026LLM Unlearning with LLM Beliefs
- ICLR 2026LLM-JEPA: Large Language Models Meet Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures
- ICLR 2026LLMs are Greedy Agents: Effects of RL Fine-tuning on Decision-Making Abilities
- ICLR 2026LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation
- ICLR 2026lmgame-Bench: How Good are LLMs at Playing Games?
- ICLR 2026LoC-Decomp: LLM Autoformalization via Logical Concept Decomposition and Iterative Feedback Correction
- ICLR 2026Log Probability Tracking of LLM APIs
- ICLR 2026Log-Augmented Generation: Scaling Test-Time Reasoning with Reusable Computation
- ICLR 2026LogicReward: Incentivizing LLM Reasoning via Step-Wise Logical Supervision
- ICLR 2026LogiStory: A Logic-Aware Framework for Multi-Image Story Visualization
- ICLR 2026Look Back to Reason Forward: Revisitable Memory for Long-Context LLM Agents
- ICLR 2026M$^2$-Miner: Multi-Agent Enhanced MCTS for Mobile GUI Agent Data Mining
- ICLR 2026MAC-AMP: A Closed-Loop Multi-Agent Collaboration System for Multi-Objective Antimicrobial Peptide Design
- ICLR 2026ManagerBench: Evaluating the Safety-Pragmatism Trade-off in Autonomous LLMs
- ICLR 2026ManipEvalAgent: Promptable and Efficient Evaluation Framework for Robotic Manipulation Policies
- ICLR 2026MARSHAL: Incentivizing Multi-Agent Reasoning via Self-Play with Strategic LLMs
- ICLR 2026MARTI: A Framework for Multi-Agent LLM Systems Reinforced Training and Inference
- ICLR 2026MAS$^2$: Self-Generative, Self-Configuring, Self-Rectifying Multi-Agent Systems
- ICLR 2026MATA: A Trainable Hierarchical Automaton System for Multi-Agent Visual Reasoning
- ICLR 2026Matching multiple experts: on the exploitability of multi-agent imitation learning
- ICLR 2026MC-Search: Evaluating and Enhancing Multimodal Agentic Search with Structured Long Reasoning Chains
- ICLR 2026MCP Security Bench (MSB): Benchmarking Attacks Against Model Context Protocol in LLM Agents
- ICLR 2026MCP-Bench: Benchmarking Tool-Using LLM Agents with Complex Real-World Tasks via MCP Servers
- ICLR 2026MCP-SafetyBench: A Benchmark for Safety Evaluation of Large Language Models with Real-World MCP Servers
- ICLR 2026MCPMark: A Benchmark for Stress-Testing Realistic and Comprehensive MCP Use
- ICLR 2026Measuring and Mitigating Rapport Bias of Large Language Models under Multi-Agent Social Interactions
- ICLR 2026Measuring Bias Amplification in Multi-Agent Systems with Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026Measuring LLM Novelty As The Frontier Of Original And High-Quality Output
- ICLR 2026MedAgent-Pro: Towards Evidence-based Multi-modal Medical Diagnosis via Reasoning Agentic Workflow
- ICLR 2026MedAgentGym: A Scalable Agentic Training Environment for Code-Centric Reasoning in Biomedical Data Science
- ICLR 2026MedVR: Annotation-Free Medical Visual Reasoning via Agentic Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2026MEM1: Learning to Synergize Memory and Reasoning for Efficient Long-Horizon Agents
- ICLR 2026MemAgent: Reshaping Long-Context LLM with Multi-Conv RL-based Memory Agent
- ICLR 2026MemGen: Weaving Generative Latent Memory for Self-Evolving Agents
- ICLR 2026Meta-RL Induces Exploration in Language Agents
- ICLR 2026Meta-Router: Bridging Gold-standard and Preference-based Evaluations in LLM Routing
- ICLR 2026MetaCaptioner: Towards Generalist Visual Captioning with Open-source Suites
- ICLR 2026Mix-Ecom: Towards Mixed-Type E-Commerce Dialogues with Complex Domain Rules
- ICLR 2026MLE-Smith: Scaling MLE Tasks with Automated Multi-agent Pipeline
- ICLR 2026MME-Emotion: A Holistic Evaluation Benchmark for Emotional Intelligence in Multimodal Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026MMedAgent-RL: Optimizing Multi-Agent Collaboration for Multimodal Medical Reasoning
- ICLR 2026MMSearch-Plus: Benchmarking Provenance-Aware Search for Multimodal Browsing Agents
- ICLR 2026MobileIPL: Enhancing Mobile Agents Thinking Process via Iterative Preference Learning
- ICLR 2026MobileRL: Online Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Mobile GUI Agents
- ICLR 2026Modeling Others' Minds as Code
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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.