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

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1. ICLR 2026$p\textrm{-less}$ Sampling: A Robust Hyperparameter-Free Approach for LLM Decoding
2. ICLR 2026A Benchmark for Deep Information Synthesis
3. ICLR 2026A Fano-Style Accuracy Upper Bound for LLM Single-Pass Reasoning in Multi-Hop QA
4. ICLR 2026A Framework for Studying AI Agent Behavior: Evidence from Consumer Choice Experiments
5. ICLR 2026A$^2$FM: An Adaptive Agent Foundation Model for Tool-Aware Hybrid Reasoning
6. ICLR 2026A$^2$Search: Ambiguity-Aware Question Answering with Reinforcement Learning
7. ICLR 2026A2ASecBench: A Protocol-Aware Security Benchmark for Agent-to-Agent Multi-Agent Systems
8. ICLR 2026ACADREASON: Exploring the Limits of Reasoning Models with Academic Research Problems
9. ICLR 2026Achieving Expert-Level Agent from Foundation Model via Complexity Curriculum Reinforcement Learning with Synthetic Data
10. ICLR 2026Adaptive Attacks on Trusted Monitors Subvert AI Control Protocols
11. ICLR 2026Adaptive Collaboration with Humans: Metacognitive Policy Optimization for Multi-Agent LLMs with Continual Learning
12. ICLR 2026Advancing Multi-agent Traffic Simulation via R1-Style Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
13. ICLR 2026Aegis: Automated Error Generation and Identification for Multi-Agent Systems
14. ICLR 2026AesCoder: Code Aesthetics with Agentic Reward Feedback
15. ICLR 2026Agent Data Protocol
16. ICLR 2026Agent-X: Evaluating Deep Multimodal Reasoning in Vision-Centric Agentic Tasks
17. ICLR 2026AgentFold: Long-Horizon Web Agents with Proactive Context Folding
18. ICLR 2026AgentGym-RL: An Open-Source Framework to Train LLM Agents for Long-Horizon Decision Making via Multi-Turn RL
19. ICLR 2026Agentic Collaboration as an Information Bottleneck Problem
20. ICLR 2026Agentic Context Engineering: Learning Comprehensive Contexts for Self-Improving Language Models
21. ICLR 2026Agentic Jigsaw Interaction Learning for Enhancing Visual Perception and Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
22. ICLR 2026Agentic Reinforced Policy Optimization
23. ICLR 2026Agentic Reinforcement Learning with Implicit Step Rewards
24. ICLR 2026AgentMath: Empowering Mathematical Reasoning for Large Language Models via Tool-Augmented Agent
25. ICLR 2026AgentPO: Enhancing Multi-Agent Collaboration via Reinforcement Learning
26. ICLR 2026AgenTracer: Who Is Inducing Failure in the LLM Agentic Systems?
27. ICLR 2026AgentSynth: Scalable Task Generation for Generalist Computer-Use Agents
28. ICLR 2026AI-for-Science Low-code Platform with Bayesian Adversarial Multi-Agent Framework
29. ICLR 2026Align Once, Benefit Multilingually: Enforcing Multilingual Consistency for LLM Safety Alignment
30. ICLR 2026Alignment-Enhanced Integration of Connectivity and Spectral Sparse in Dynamic Sparse Training of LLM
31. ICLR 2026AlphaAgentEvo: Evolution-Oriented Alpha Mining via Self-Evolving Agentic Reinforcement Learning
32. ICLR 2026AlphaBench: Benchmarking Large Language Models in Formulaic Alpha Factor Mining
33. ICLR 2026AMemGym: Interactive Memory Benchmarking for Assistants in Long-Horizon Conversations
34. ICLR 2026An Agentic Framework with LLMs for Solving Complex Vehicle Routing Problems
35. ICLR 2026Analytica: Soft Propositional Reasoning for Robust and Scalable LLM-Driven Analysis
36. ICLR 2026Analyzing and Evaluating Unbiased Language Model Watermark
37. ICLR 2026AnyBCQ: Hardware Efficient Flexible Binary-Coded Quantization for Multi-Precision LLMs
38. ICLR 2026AstaBench: Rigorous Benchmarking of AI Agents with a Scientific Research Suite
39. ICLR 2026ATLAS: Constraints-Aware Multi-Agent Collaboration for Real-World Travel Planning
40. ICLR 2026Auditing Black-Box LLM APIs with a Rank-Based Uniformity Test
41. ICLR 2026AutoFigure: Generating and Refining Publication-Ready Scientific Illustrations
42. ICLR 2026AutoLibra: Agent Metric Induction from Open-Ended Human Feedback
43. ICLR 2026Automated Stateful Specialization for Adaptive Agent Systems
44. ICLR 2026AutoSP: Unlocking Long-Context LLM Training Via Compiler-Based Sequence Parallelism
45. ICLR 2026Bayesian Robust Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Against Unknown Adversaries
46. ICLR 2026BEAT: Visual Backdoor Attacks on VLM-based Embodied Agents via Contrastive Trigger Learning
47. ICLR 2026BED-LLM: Intelligent Information Gathering with LLMs and Bayesian Experimental Design
48. ICLR 2026Benchmarking LLM Tool-Use in the Wild
49. ICLR 2026Benchmarking Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Power Grid Operations
50. ICLR 2026Benefits and Limitations of Communication in Multi-Agent Reasoning

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.