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

1,317 papers, page 1 of 27

1. NeurIPS 2026$\boldsymbol{f}$-OPD: Stabilizing Long-Horizon On-Policy Distillation with Freshness-Aware Control
2. NeurIPS 2026$\chi$-Bench: Can AI Agents Automate End-to-End, Long-Horizon, Policy-Rich Healthcare Workflows?
3. NeurIPS 20262-Step Agent: How a Bayesian Decision Maker Learns from AI-Decision Support
4. NeurIPS 20263DCodeBench: Benchmarking Agentic Procedural 3D Modeling Via Code
5. NeurIPS 2026A Benchmark for Omni-Modal Reasoning in Long Videos
6. NeurIPS 2026A Communication-Theoretic Framework for LLM Agents: Cost-Aware Adaptive Reliability
7. NeurIPS 2026A Few Teacher Steps Go a Long Way: Cost-Efficient On-Policy Data Augmentation for Agent Post-Training
8. NeurIPS 2026A Self-Evolving Framework for Efficient Terminal Agents via Observational Context Compression
9. NeurIPS 2026A Stratified Multi-Rater Evaluation of LLM-Based Virtual Standardized Patients with a Deployed Data-Generation Platform
10. NeurIPS 2026A Structured LLM Framework for Inorganic Material Synthesis Planning
11. NeurIPS 2026A Unifying View of Anchoring via Operator-Side Tikhonov Regularization
12. NeurIPS 2026A2Eval: Agentic and Automated Evaluation for Embodied Brain
13. NeurIPS 2026ABHBench: Evaluating Moral Decision-Making of Foundation Models from an Agentic Perspective
14. NeurIPS 2026ACED-Bench: Evaluating How LLM Agents Acquire and Act on Causal Evidence
15. NeurIPS 2026Actionable Hallucination Detection: Translating Latent Uncertainty into Agentic Critique
16. NeurIPS 2026AdaM-Rec: Adaptive Modality Routing for Multimodal Recommendation
17. NeurIPS 2026AdaMAP: Learning Adaptive Multi-Action Prediction with Grounded Dreaming Guidance
18. NeurIPS 2026Adaptive Adversaries: A Multi-Turn, Multi-LLM Benchmark for LLM Agent Security
19. NeurIPS 2026Adaptive auditing of AI systems with anytime-valid guarantees
20. NeurIPS 2026Adaptive Communication Range for Scalable Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
21. NeurIPS 2026Adaptive Fine-Tuning Scheduler for Multi-Tenant Edge LLM via Convergence-Aware Bandits
22. NeurIPS 2026Adaptive LLM Routing for Multi-Turn Conversations with Continuously Evolving User Queries
23. NeurIPS 2026AdaptNC: Adaptive Nonconformity Scores for Conformal Prediction under Distribution Shift
24. NeurIPS 2026AdaWM: Few-Shot Adaptation of World Models to Unseen Dynamical Regimes
25. NeurIPS 2026Addressing Exogenous Variability in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
26. NeurIPS 2026ADMIT: Support-Gated Memory-Write Admission for Document QA Agents
27. NeurIPS 2026Adversarially Attacking Symbolic Vocabulary Vulnerabilities In LLM Planners
28. NeurIPS 2026AEM: Adaptive Entropy Modulation for Multi-Turn Agentic Reinforcement Learning
29. NeurIPS 2026Agent Explorative Policy Optimization for Agentic Multimodal Reasoning
30. NeurIPS 2026Agent MechSuits : Mechanistic Subspace Safety Steering for Multi-Turn CLI Agents
31. NeurIPS 2026Agent-ToM: Learning to Monitor Autonomous LLM Agents via Theory-of-Mind Reasoning
32. NeurIPS 2026Agent2World: Learning to Generate Symbolic World Models via Adaptive Multi-Agent Feedback
33. NeurIPS 2026AgentAbstain: Do LLM Agents Know When Not to Act?
34. NeurIPS 2026AgentArk: Distilling Multi-Agent Intelligence into a Single LLM Agent
35. NeurIPS 2026AgentCollabBench: Diagnosing When Good Agents Make Bad Collaborators
36. NeurIPS 2026AgentForesight: Online Auditing for Early Failure Prediction in Multi-Agent Systems
37. NeurIPS 2026AgentHop: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Agentic Multi-Hop Scientific Question Answering
38. NeurIPS 2026Agentic Abstention: Do Agents Know When to Stop Instead of Act?
39. NeurIPS 2026Agentic AI Design Should be Mediated to Promote Social Welfare
40. NeurIPS 2026Agentic Geometry Problem Solving via Human-like Parallel Bidirectional Reasoning
41. NeurIPS 2026Agentic Multi-Turn Reasoning: A Fairness Approach
42. NeurIPS 2026Agentic Neural Architecture Search
43. NeurIPS 2026Agentic Reward Modeling: Verifying GUI Agent via Progressive Trajectory-Grounded Interaction
44. NeurIPS 2026Agentic-imodels: Evolving agentic interpretability tools via autoresearch
45. NeurIPS 2026Agentick: A Unified Benchmark for General Sequential Decision-Making Agents
46. NeurIPS 2026AgenticVBench: Can AI Agents Complete Real-World Video Production Tasks?
47. NeurIPS 2026AgentKernelArena: Benchmarking Performance and Generalization of AI Coding Agents on GPU Kernels Optimization
48. NeurIPS 2026AgenTracer-v2: Agentic Failure Tracer for LLM Agentic Systems
49. NeurIPS 2026AgentRoom: Concurrent Multi-Agent Coding in a CRDT-Backed Shared Workspace
50. NeurIPS 2026Agents as Neuro-Symbolic Reasoners: Path Feasibility Reasoning for Precise Static Bug Detection

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.