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
40 papers, page 1 of 1
- CVPR 2025Automated Generation of Challenging Multiple-Choice Questions for Vision Language Model Evaluation
- CVPR 2025Closed-Loop Supervised Fine-Tuning of Tokenized Traffic Models
- CVPR 2025Collaborative Tree Search for Enhancing Embodied Multi-Agent Collaboration
- CVPR 2025ComfyBench: Benchmarking LLM-based Agents in ComfyUI for Autonomously Designing Collaborative AI Systems
- CVPR 2025CoSDH: Communication-Efficient Collaborative Perception via Supply-Demand Awareness and Intermediate-Late Hybridization
- CVPR 2025CroCoDL: Cross-device Collaborative Dataset for Localization
- CVPR 2025Cross-Modal 3D Representation with Multi-View Images and Point Clouds
- CVPR 2025Distilling Multi-modal Large Language Models for Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2025Ego4o: Egocentric Human Motion Capture and Understanding from Multi-Modal Input
- CVPR 2025Enduring, Efficient and Robust Trajectory Prediction Attack in Autonomous Driving via Optimization-Driven Multi-Frame Perturbation Framework
- CVPR 2025Enhancing Video-LLM Reasoning via Agent-of-Thoughts Distillation
- CVPR 2025Feature4X: Bridging Any Monocular Video to 4D Agentic AI with Versatile Gaussian Feature Fields
- CVPR 2025FilmComposer: LLM-Driven Music Production for Silent Film Clips
- CVPR 2025From Multimodal LLMs to Generalist Embodied Agents: Methods and Lessons
- CVPR 2025Generative Map Priors for Collaborative BEV Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025GUI-Xplore: Empowering Generalizable GUI Agents with One Exploration
- CVPR 2025Imputation-free and Alignment-free: Incomplete Multi-view Clustering Driven by Consensus Semantic Learning
- CVPR 2025Insight-V: Exploring Long-Chain Visual Reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2025Learning to Detect Objects from Multi-Agent LiDAR Scans without Manual Labels
- CVPR 2025LLM-driven Multimodal and Multi-Identity Listening Head Generation
- CVPR 2025MAC-Ego3D: Multi-Agent Gaussian Consensus for Real-Time Collaborative Ego-Motion and Photorealistic 3D Reconstruction
- CVPR 2025MAGiC-SLAM: Multi-Agent Gaussian Globally Consistent SLAM
- CVPR 2025Magma: A Foundation Model for Multimodal AI Agents
- CVPR 2025MCCD: Multi-Agent Collaboration-based Compositional Diffusion for Complex Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2025MNE-SLAM: Multi-Agent Neural SLAM for Mobile Robots
- CVPR 2025NADER: Neural Architecture Design via Multi-Agent Collaboration
- CVPR 2025OmniDrive: A Holistic Vision-Language Dataset for Autonomous Driving with Counterfactual Reasoning
- CVPR 2025One-Step Event-Driven High-Speed Autofocus
- CVPR 2025Poly-Autoregressive Prediction for Modeling Interactions
- CVPR 2025Reasoning in Visual Navigation of End-to-end Trained Agents: A Dynamical Systems Approach
- CVPR 2025Sim-to-Real Causal Transfer: A Metric Learning Approach to Causally-Aware Interaction Representations
- CVPR 2025Sketchtopia: A Dataset and Foundational Agents for Benchmarking Asynchronous Multimodal Communication with Iconic Feedback
- CVPR 2025SocialMOIF: Multi-Order Intention Fusion for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction
- CVPR 2025SpiritSight Agent: Advanced GUI Agent with One Look
- CVPR 2025TANGO: Training-free Embodied AI Agents for Open-world Tasks
- CVPR 2025TraF-Align: Trajectory-aware Feature Alignment for Asynchronous Multi-agent Perception
- CVPR 2025Unified Uncertainty-Aware Diffusion for Multi-Agent Trajectory Modeling
- CVPR 2025V-Stylist: Video Stylization via Collaboration and Reflection of MLLM Agents
- CVPR 2025VideoRefer Suite: Advancing Spatial-Temporal Object Understanding with Video LLM
- CVPR 2025Visual Agentic AI for Spatial Reasoning with a Dynamic API
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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.