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

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351. ICML 2026MASPOB: Bandit-Based Prompt Optimization for Multi-Agent Systems with Graph Neural Networks
352. ICML 2026MatchFixAgent: Language-Agnostic Autonomous Repository-Level Code Translation Validation and Repair
353. ICML 2026MCP-Persona: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Real-World Personal Applications via Environment Simulation
354. ICML 2026MEAL: A Benchmark for Continual Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
355. ICML 2026Measuring Agents in Production
356. ICML 2026MedCoG: Maximizing LLM Inference Density in Medical Reasoning via Meta-Cognitive Regulation
357. ICML 2026MedScope: Incentivizing "Think with Videos" for Clinical Reasoning via Coarse-to-Fine Tool Calling
358. ICML 2026Mem-T: Densifying Rewards for Long-Horizon Memory Agents
359. ICML 2026MemEvolve: Meta-Evolution of Agent Memory Systems
360. ICML 2026MemIncept: Steering LLM Agents via Cooperative Stealthy Memory Injections
361. ICML 2026MEMO: Memory-Augmented Model Context Optimization for Robust Multi-Turn Multi-Agent LLM Games
362. ICML 2026MemOCR: Layout-Aware Visual Memory for Efficient Long-Horizon Reasoning
363. ICML 2026Memory is Reconstructed, Not Retrieved: Graph Memory for LLM Agents
364. ICML 2026MemoryBench: A Benchmark for Memory and Continual Learning in LLM Systems
365. ICML 2026MEnvAgent: Scalable Polyglot Environment Construction for Verifiable Software Engineering
366. ICML 2026Meta Context Engineering via Agentic Skill Evolution
367. ICML 2026Milestone-Guided Policy Learning for Long-Horizon Language Agents
368. ICML 2026MindFlow: Mind Supernet Powered Thinking Flows for Research Idea Innovation
369. ICML 2026MiniAppBench: Evaluating the Shift from Text to Interactive HTML Responses in LLM-Powered Assistants
370. ICML 2026MINIM: Privacy-Aware Minimal View for Agents via Trusted Local Sanitization
371. ICML 2026Mitigating Conversational Inertia in Multi-Turn Agents
372. ICML 2026ML-Agent: Reinforcing LLM Agents for Autonomous Machine Learning Engineering
373. ICML 2026MM-DeepResearch: A Simple and Effective Multimodal Agentic Search Baseline
374. ICML 2026MMBench-Live: A Continuously Evolving Benchmark for Multimodal Models
375. ICML 2026MOC: Multi-Order Communication in LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems
376. ICML 2026MonoScale: Scaling Multi-Agent System with Monotonic Improvement
377. ICML 2026More Capable, Less Cooperative? When LLMs Fail at Zero-Cost Collaboration
378. ICML 2026Mosaic: Runtime-Efficient Multi-Agent Embodied Planning
379. ICML 2026Motion Planning in Compressed Representation Spaces
380. ICML 2026MulFCoder: Framework-conditioned Multi-agent for MLLM-based Multi-framework Front-end Code Generation
381. ICML 2026Multi-agent imitation learning with function approximation: linear Markov games and beyond
382. ICML 2026Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Submodular Reward
383. ICML 2026Multi-Agent Teams Hold Experts Back
384. ICML 2026Multimodal Meta-Verifier with Explicit Structured Recalibration
385. ICML 2026Native Parallel Reasoner: Reasoning in Parallelism via Self-Distilled Reinforcement Learning
386. ICML 2026NaviAgent: Graph‑Driven Bilevel Planning for Scalable Tool Orchestration
387. ICML 2026Navigating Massive Visual Context in Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Multimodal Memory Graph
388. ICML 2026Navigating the Energy Landscape of Collaboration: Multi-Agent Communication Graph Generation via Score-Based Diffusion
389. ICML 2026NEMO: Execution-Aware Optimization Modeling via Autonomous Coding Agents
390. ICML 2026Next-Gen CAPTCHAs: Leveraging the Cognitive Gap for Scalable and Diverse GUI-Agent Defense
391. ICML 2026NL2Repo-Bench: Towards Long-Horizon Repository Generation Evaluation of Coding Agents
392. ICML 2026NonZero: Interaction-Guided Exploration for Multi-Agent Monte Carlo Tree Search
393. ICML 2026Not All Prefills Are Equal: PPD Disaggregation for Multi-turn LLM Serving
394. ICML 2026Numina-Lean-Agent: An Open and General Agentic Reasoning System for Formal Mathematics
395. ICML 2026Off-Policy Evaluation with Strategic Agents via Local Disclosure
396. ICML 2026Offline Multi-agent Continual Cooperation via Skill Partition and Reuse
397. ICML 2026Offline Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Sequential Score Decomposition
398. ICML 2026OLion: Approaching the Hadamard Ideal by Intersecting Spectral and L inf Implicit Biases
399. ICML 2026OMAC: A Holistic Optimization Framework for LLM-Based Multi-Agent Collaboration
400. ICML 2026On Effectiveness and Efficiency of Agentic Tool-calling and RL Training

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.