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

1,983 papers, page 8 of 40

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

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.