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
76 papers, page 1 of 2
- NeurIPS 2023AdaPlanner: Adaptive Planning from Feedback with Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023AlberDICE: Addressing Out-Of-Distribution Joint Actions in Offline Multi-Agent RL via Alternating Stationary Distribution Correction Estimation
- NeurIPS 2023Alexa Arena: A User-Centric Interactive Platform for Embodied AI
- NeurIPS 2023AllSim: Simulating and Benchmarking Resource Allocation Policies in Multi-User Systems
- NeurIPS 2023AndroidInTheWild: A Large-Scale Dataset For Android Device Control
- NeurIPS 2023Automatic Grouping for Efficient Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2023Autonomous Capability Assessment of Sequential Decision-Making Systems in Stochastic Settings
- NeurIPS 2023AVIS: Autonomous Visual Information Seeking with Large Language Model Agent
- NeurIPS 2023BEDD: The MineRL BASALT Evaluation and Demonstrations Dataset for Training and Benchmarking Agents that Solve Fuzzy Tasks
- NeurIPS 2023BioMassters: A Benchmark Dataset for Forest Biomass Estimation using Multi-modal Satellite Time-series
- NeurIPS 2023BIRD: Generalizable Backdoor Detection and Removal for Deep Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2023Calibrated Stackelberg Games: Learning Optimal Commitments Against Calibrated Agents
- NeurIPS 2023CAMEL: Communicative Agents for "Mind" Exploration of Large Language Model Society
- NeurIPS 2023Collaboratively Learning Linear Models with Structured Missing Data
- NeurIPS 2023Combinatorial Group Testing with Selfish Agents
- NeurIPS 2023Cross-Episodic Curriculum for Transformer Agents
- NeurIPS 2023De novo Drug Design using Reinforcement Learning with Multiple GPT Agents
- NeurIPS 2023Decentralized Randomly Distributed Multi-agent Multi-armed Bandit with Heterogeneous Rewards
- NeurIPS 2023Diverse Conventions for Human-AI Collaboration
- NeurIPS 2023Echoes Beyond Points: Unleashing the Power of Raw Radar Data in Multi-modality Fusion
- NeurIPS 2023Effective Human-AI Teams via Learned Natural Language Rules and Onboarding
- NeurIPS 2023Efficient Policy Adaptation with Contrastive Prompt Ensemble for Embodied Agents
- NeurIPS 2023Emergent Communication for Rules Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2023Emergent Communication in Interactive Sketch Question Answering
- NeurIPS 2023Explainable and Efficient Randomized Voting Rules
- NeurIPS 2023Exponential Lower Bounds for Fictitious Play in Potential Games
- NeurIPS 2023Fair Allocation of Indivisible Chores: Beyond Additive Costs
- NeurIPS 2023FIND: A Function Description Benchmark for Evaluating Interpretability Methods
- NeurIPS 2023Fine-Grained Cross-View Geo-Localization Using a Correlation-Aware Homography Estimator
- NeurIPS 2023Glance and Focus: Memory Prompting for Multi-Event Video Question Answering
- NeurIPS 2023Guarantees for Self-Play in Multiplayer Games via Polymatrix Decomposability
- NeurIPS 2023Hierarchical Multi-Agent Skill Discovery
- NeurIPS 2023Higher-Order Uncoupled Dynamics Do Not Lead to Nash Equilibrium - Except When They Do
- NeurIPS 2023History Filtering in Imperfect Information Games: Algorithms and Complexity
- NeurIPS 2023Hokoff: Real Game Dataset from Honor of Kings and its Offline Reinforcement Learning Benchmarks
- NeurIPS 2023Honesty Is the Best Policy: Defining and Mitigating AI Deception
- NeurIPS 2023How2comm: Communication-Efficient and Collaboration-Pragmatic Multi-Agent Perception
- NeurIPS 2023HuggingGPT: Solving AI Tasks with ChatGPT and its Friends in Hugging Face
- NeurIPS 2023IMP-MARL: a Suite of Environments for Large-scale Infrastructure Management Planning via MARL
- NeurIPS 2023Intrinsic Dimension Estimation for Robust Detection of AI-Generated Texts
- NeurIPS 2023Large Language Models Are Semi-Parametric Reinforcement Learning Agents
- NeurIPS 2023Learning to Influence Human Behavior with Offline Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2023Lending Interaction Wings to Recommender Systems with Conversational Agents
- NeurIPS 2023MG-ViT: A Multi-Granularity Method for Compact and Efficient Vision Transformers
- NeurIPS 2023Mind2Web: Towards a Generalist Agent for the Web
- NeurIPS 2023Multi-Agent First Order Constrained Optimization in Policy Space
- NeurIPS 2023Multi-Agent Learning with Heterogeneous Linear Contextual Bandits
- NeurIPS 2023Natural Language Instruction-following with Task-related Language Development and Translation
- NeurIPS 2023OKRidge: Scalable Optimal k-Sparse Ridge Regression
- NeurIPS 2023OpenAGI: When LLM Meets Domain Experts
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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.