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
640 papers, page 8 of 13
- ICML 2026MASPOB: Bandit-Based Prompt Optimization for Multi-Agent Systems with Graph Neural Networks
- ICML 2026MatchFixAgent: Language-Agnostic Autonomous Repository-Level Code Translation Validation and Repair
- ICML 2026MCP-Persona: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Real-World Personal Applications via Environment Simulation
- ICML 2026MEAL: A Benchmark for Continual Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2026Measuring Agents in Production
- ICML 2026MedCoG: Maximizing LLM Inference Density in Medical Reasoning via Meta-Cognitive Regulation
- ICML 2026MedScope: Incentivizing "Think with Videos" for Clinical Reasoning via Coarse-to-Fine Tool Calling
- ICML 2026Mem-T: Densifying Rewards for Long-Horizon Memory Agents
- ICML 2026MemEvolve: Meta-Evolution of Agent Memory Systems
- ICML 2026MemIncept: Steering LLM Agents via Cooperative Stealthy Memory Injections
- ICML 2026MEMO: Memory-Augmented Model Context Optimization for Robust Multi-Turn Multi-Agent LLM Games
- ICML 2026MemOCR: Layout-Aware Visual Memory for Efficient Long-Horizon Reasoning
- ICML 2026Memory is Reconstructed, Not Retrieved: Graph Memory for LLM Agents
- ICML 2026MemoryBench: A Benchmark for Memory and Continual Learning in LLM Systems
- ICML 2026MEnvAgent: Scalable Polyglot Environment Construction for Verifiable Software Engineering
- ICML 2026Meta Context Engineering via Agentic Skill Evolution
- ICML 2026Milestone-Guided Policy Learning for Long-Horizon Language Agents
- ICML 2026MindFlow: Mind Supernet Powered Thinking Flows for Research Idea Innovation
- ICML 2026MiniAppBench: Evaluating the Shift from Text to Interactive HTML Responses in LLM-Powered Assistants
- ICML 2026MINIM: Privacy-Aware Minimal View for Agents via Trusted Local Sanitization
- ICML 2026Mitigating Conversational Inertia in Multi-Turn Agents
- ICML 2026ML-Agent: Reinforcing LLM Agents for Autonomous Machine Learning Engineering
- ICML 2026MM-DeepResearch: A Simple and Effective Multimodal Agentic Search Baseline
- ICML 2026MMBench-Live: A Continuously Evolving Benchmark for Multimodal Models
- ICML 2026MOC: Multi-Order Communication in LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems
- ICML 2026MonoScale: Scaling Multi-Agent System with Monotonic Improvement
- ICML 2026More Capable, Less Cooperative? When LLMs Fail at Zero-Cost Collaboration
- ICML 2026Mosaic: Runtime-Efficient Multi-Agent Embodied Planning
- ICML 2026Motion Planning in Compressed Representation Spaces
- ICML 2026MulFCoder: Framework-conditioned Multi-agent for MLLM-based Multi-framework Front-end Code Generation
- ICML 2026Multi-agent imitation learning with function approximation: linear Markov games and beyond
- ICML 2026Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Submodular Reward
- ICML 2026Multi-Agent Teams Hold Experts Back
- ICML 2026Multimodal Meta-Verifier with Explicit Structured Recalibration
- ICML 2026Native Parallel Reasoner: Reasoning in Parallelism via Self-Distilled Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2026NaviAgent: Graph‑Driven Bilevel Planning for Scalable Tool Orchestration
- ICML 2026Navigating Massive Visual Context in Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Multimodal Memory Graph
- ICML 2026Navigating the Energy Landscape of Collaboration: Multi-Agent Communication Graph Generation via Score-Based Diffusion
- ICML 2026NEMO: Execution-Aware Optimization Modeling via Autonomous Coding Agents
- ICML 2026Next-Gen CAPTCHAs: Leveraging the Cognitive Gap for Scalable and Diverse GUI-Agent Defense
- ICML 2026NL2Repo-Bench: Towards Long-Horizon Repository Generation Evaluation of Coding Agents
- ICML 2026NonZero: Interaction-Guided Exploration for Multi-Agent Monte Carlo Tree Search
- ICML 2026Not All Prefills Are Equal: PPD Disaggregation for Multi-turn LLM Serving
- ICML 2026Numina-Lean-Agent: An Open and General Agentic Reasoning System for Formal Mathematics
- ICML 2026Off-Policy Evaluation with Strategic Agents via Local Disclosure
- ICML 2026Offline Multi-agent Continual Cooperation via Skill Partition and Reuse
- ICML 2026Offline Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Sequential Score Decomposition
- ICML 2026OLion: Approaching the Hadamard Ideal by Intersecting Spectral and L inf Implicit Biases
- ICML 2026OMAC: A Holistic Optimization Framework for LLM-Based Multi-Agent Collaboration
- ICML 2026On Effectiveness and Efficiency of Agentic Tool-calling and RL Training
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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.