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

Papers per year

Papers per venue

Counts by year and venue

AI Agents papers by year and venue
YearNeurIPSICLRICMLCVPRTotal
202376404113170
2024150738818329
202536220417840784
20267295006401141,983

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

All AI Agents papers

784 papers, page 8 of 16

  1. ICML 2025Offline Opponent Modeling with Truncated Q-driven Instant Policy Refinement
  2. ICML 2025On the Resilience of LLM-Based Multi-Agent Collaboration with Faulty Agents
  3. ICML 2025OrcaLoca: An LLM Agent Framework for Software Issue Localization
  4. ICML 2025PAC Learning with Improvements
  5. ICML 2025PaperBench: Evaluating AI’s Ability to Replicate AI Research
  6. ICML 2025PatchPilot: A Cost-Efficient Software Engineering Agent with Early Attempts on Formal Verification
  7. ICML 2025PhantomWiki: On-Demand Datasets for Reasoning and Retrieval Evaluation
  8. ICML 2025PINNsAgent: Automated PDE Surrogation with Large Language Models
  9. ICML 2025Plan-and-Act: Improving Planning of Agents for Long-Horizon Tasks
  10. ICML 2025PokéChamp: an Expert-level Minimax Language Agent
  11. ICML 2025Policy-Regret Minimization in Markov Games with Function Approximation
  12. ICML 2025Position: AI Agents Need Authenticated Delegation
  13. ICML 2025Position: Build Agent Advocates, Not Platform Agents
  14. ICML 2025Position: LLM Social Simulations Are a Promising Research Method
  15. ICML 2025Position: Scaling LLM Agents Requires Asymptotic Analysis with LLM Primitives
  16. ICML 2025Position: The Most Expensive Part of an LLM *should* be its Training Data
  17. ICML 2025Position: Theory of Mind Benchmarks are Broken for Large Language Models
  18. ICML 2025Position: Truly Self-Improving Agents Require Intrinsic Metacognitive Learning
  19. ICML 2025Position: Uncertainty Quantification Needs Reassessment for Large Language Model Agents
  20. ICML 2025Position: We Need An Algorithmic Understanding of Generative AI
  21. ICML 2025Prediction-Aware Learning in Multi-Agent Systems
  22. ICML 2025Principal-Agent Bandit Games with Self-Interested and Exploratory Learning Agents
  23. ICML 2025Proactive Agents for Multi-Turn Text-to-Image Generation Under Uncertainty
  24. ICML 2025Proposer-Agent-Evaluator (PAE): Autonomous Skill Discovery For Foundation Model Internet Agents
  25. ICML 2025Provably Efficient Algorithm for Best Scoring Rule Identification in Online Principal-Agent Information Acquisition
  26. ICML 2025Prune 'n Predict: Optimizing LLM Decision-making with Conformal Prediction
  27. ICML 2025QLASS: Boosting Language Agent Inference via Q-Guided Stepwise Search
  28. ICML 2025R3DM: Enabling Role Discovery and Diversity Through Dynamics Models in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
  29. ICML 2025RE-Bench: Evaluating Frontier AI R&D Capabilities of Language Model Agents against Human Experts
  30. ICML 2025Reflection-Bench: Evaluating Epistemic Agency in Large Language Models
  31. ICML 2025Reidentify: Context-Aware Identity Generation for Contextual Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
  32. ICML 2025Reinforce LLM Reasoning through Multi-Agent Reflection
  33. ICML 2025RepoAudit: An Autonomous LLM-Agent for Repository-Level Code Auditing
  34. ICML 2025ResearchTown: Simulator of Human Research Community
  35. ICML 2025Revisiting Cooperative Off-Policy Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
  36. ICML 2025Risk-Sensitive Theory of Mind: Coordinating with Agents of Unknown Bias using Cumulative Prospect Theory
  37. ICML 2025RLEF: Grounding Code LLMs in Execution Feedback with Reinforcement Learning
  38. ICML 2025Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Stochastic Adversary
  39. ICML 2025Robust Multi-bit Text Watermark with LLM-based Paraphrasers
  40. ICML 2025Robust Noise Attenuation via Adaptive Pooling of Transformer Outputs
  41. ICML 2025Sable: a Performant, Efficient and Scalable Sequence Model for MARL
  42. ICML 2025SafeArena: Evaluating the Safety of Autonomous Web Agents
  43. ICML 2025Self-Play $Q$-Learners Can Provably Collude in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
  44. ICML 2025ShieldAgent: Shielding Agents via Verifiable Safety Policy Reasoning
  45. ICML 2025Simultaneous Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Projected Diffusion Models
  46. ICML 2025Solving Zero-Sum Convex Markov Games
  47. ICML 2025Star Attention: Efficient LLM Inference over Long Sequences
  48. ICML 2025StealthInk: A Multi-bit and Stealthy Watermark for Large Language Models
  49. ICML 2025SWAN: SGD with Normalization and Whitening Enables Stateless LLM Training
  50. ICML 2025SWE-Lancer: Can Frontier LLMs Earn $1 Million from Real-World Freelance Software Engineering?

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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.

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