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

729 papers, page 8 of 15

351. NeurIPS 2026Learning to Surpass: Training Tool-Using Agents with Anchored Feedback
352. NeurIPS 2026Learning What to Forget: Improving LLM Unlearning via Learned Token-Level Importance
353. NeurIPS 2026Learning When to Collaborate: Selective Multi-Agent Medical Reasoning via Uncertainty-Aware Routing
354. NeurIPS 2026Lemon: Evidence-Risk-Aware Adaptive Organization for Long-Horizon LLM Agents
355. NeurIPS 2026LinuxArena: A Control Setting for AI Agents in Live Production Software Environments
356. NeurIPS 2026LiveOption: Evaluating LLM Agents in Structured Option Trading with Nonlinear Payoffs
357. NeurIPS 2026LLM Active Alignment: A Nash Equilibrium Perspective
358. NeurIPS 2026LLM Agents Already Know When to Call Tools - Even Without Reasoning
359. NeurIPS 2026LLM Routing Through the Lens of Recommendation: A Roadmap for Efficient AI Orchestration
360. NeurIPS 2026LLM-ACES: Closed-Loop Discovery of Dynamic Systems with LLM-Guided Adaptive Search
361. NeurIPS 2026LLM-Based Multi-Agent Blackboard System for Information Discovery in Data Science
362. NeurIPS 2026LLMs as MDP Designers: A Dependency-Aware Agentic Framework for Automated Robot Policy Generation
363. NeurIPS 2026LLMs can construct powerful representations and streamline sample-efficient supervised learning
364. NeurIPS 2026LLMs Improving LLMs: Agentic Discovery for Test-Time Scaling
365. NeurIPS 2026LocalAgent: Collaborative Agentic Verification for Fine-Grained Instance-Level Consistency
366. NeurIPS 2026Long-Context Generation Is a Sampling Problem
367. NeurIPS 2026Long-Context Language Models Require Extreme Sparsity in Context Dimension
368. NeurIPS 2026LPS-Bench: Benchmarking Safety Awareness of Computer-Use Agents in Long-Horizon Planning under Benign and Adversarial Scenarios
369. NeurIPS 2026M4Bench: Evaluating Procedural Specification for Clinical EHR Derivation Agents
370. NeurIPS 2026MAGE: All-[MASK] Block Already Knows Where to Look in Block Diffusion LLM
371. NeurIPS 2026MaRiO: Multi-agent Collaborative Reasoning via Shared Observations in MLLMs
372. NeurIPS 2026Market Regime Council for Dynamic Credit Assignment in Multi-Agent LLM Decision Systems
373. NeurIPS 2026Market-Based Runtime Resource Allocation for LLM Multi-Agent Systems
374. NeurIPS 2026Masked Diffusion Language Agents for Tool-Integrated Chemical Reasoning
375. NeurIPS 2026MASTARS: Multi-Agent Sequential Trajectory Augmentation with Return-Conditioned Subgoals
376. NeurIPS 2026MCP-Atlas: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Tool-Use Competency with Real MCP Servers
377. NeurIPS 2026MCPHallu: Benchmarking Reasoning, Execution, and Memory Hallucinations in MCP Agents
378. NeurIPS 2026MCPHunt: An Evaluation Framework for Cross-Boundary Data Propagation in Multi-Server MCP Agents
379. NeurIPS 2026Mean-Field Control on Sparse Graphs: From Local Limits to GNNs via Neighborhood Distributions
380. NeurIPS 2026Measuring AI Agents' Progress on Multi-Step Cyber Attack Scenarios
381. NeurIPS 2026Measuring Collapse and Correction in Homogeneous-Panel LLM Debate
382. NeurIPS 2026Med-Agentic: Distilling Agentic Medical Reasoning with Internalized Meta-Capabilities
383. NeurIPS 2026MedEvoEval: Evaluating Continual Evolution of Doctor Agents through Simulated Clinical Episodes
384. NeurIPS 2026MedExAgent: Training LLM Agents to Ask, Examine, and Diagnose in Noisy Clinical Environments
385. NeurIPS 2026MedFlowBench: Auditing Medical Agents in Full-Study Workflows
386. NeurIPS 2026MedMisBench: Measuring Epistemic Resilience of LLMs Under Misleading Medical Context
387. NeurIPS 2026MemArena: An Ego-Centric Benchmark for On-Device Agentic Personal Memory Assistants at Scale
388. NeurIPS 2026MEMAUDIT: An Exact Package-Oracle Evaluation Protocol for Budgeted Long-Term LLM Memory Writing
389. NeurIPS 2026MemCoRe: Recovering Evidence from Progressively Compressed Factual Knowledge for Agent Memory
390. NeurIPS 2026MEME: Multi-Entity & Evolving Memory Evaluation
391. NeurIPS 2026MemeEconomy : Do LLM Agents Trade Ethics for Survival?
392. NeurIPS 2026Memory Type Varies: Empowering LLM Agents for Long-Term Memory with Diverse Strategies
393. NeurIPS 2026Memory-R2: Fair Credit Assignment for Long-Horizon Memory-Augmented LLM Agents
394. NeurIPS 2026MemPlan: Memory-Conditioned PDDL Planning for Partially Observable Text Environments
395. NeurIPS 2026MemPoison: Uncovering Persistent Memory Threats and Structural Blind Spots in LLM Agents
396. NeurIPS 2026MemSkill: Learning and Evolving Memory Skills for Self-Evolving Agents
397. NeurIPS 2026Mental-Models for Multi-Agent Systems
398. NeurIPS 2026Meta-Cognitive Memory Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon LLM Agents
399. NeurIPS 2026Meta$^n$: Recursive Self-Improvement through Emergent Depth
400. NeurIPS 2026MGMem: An Efficient, Deterministic, and Provenance-Preserving Framework for Long-Horizon Agent Memory

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.