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

362 papers, page 1 of 8

1. NeurIPS 20253DLLM-Mem: Long-Term Spatial-Temporal Memory for Embodied 3D Large Language Model
2. NeurIPS 20254KAgent: Agentic Any Image to 4K Super-Resolution
3. NeurIPS 2025A machine learning approach that beats Rubik's cubes
4. NeurIPS 2025A Near-optimal, Scalable and Parallelizable Framework for Stochastic Bandits Robust to Adversarial Corruptions and Beyond
5. NeurIPS 2025A Principle of Targeted Intervention for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
6. NeurIPS 2025A-Mem: Agentic Memory for LLM Agents
7. NeurIPS 2025Abstract Counterfactuals for Language Model Agents
8. NeurIPS 2025AC-LoRA: (Almost) Training-Free Access Control Aware Multi-Modal LLMs
9. NeurIPS 2025Adaptive Context Length Optimization with Low-Frequency Truncation for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
10. NeurIPS 2025Adaptive Preference Arithmetic: A Personalized Agent with Adaptive Preference Arithmetic for Dynamic Preference Modeling
11. NeurIPS 2025Adaptively Coordinating with Novel Partners via Learned Latent Strategies
12. NeurIPS 2025AGC-Drive: A Large-Scale Dataset for Real-World Aerial-Ground Collaboration in Driving Scenarios
13. NeurIPS 2025AgentAuditor: Human-level Safety and Security Evaluation for LLM Agents
14. NeurIPS 2025AgentBreeder: Mitigating the AI Safety Risks of Multi-Agent Scaffolds via Self-Improvement
15. NeurIPS 2025AgentDAM: Privacy Leakage Evaluation for Autonomous Web Agents
16. NeurIPS 2025Agentic Plan Caching: Test-Time Memory for Fast and Cost-Efficient LLM Agents
17. NeurIPS 2025Agentic RL Scaling Law: Spontaneous Code Execution for Mathematical Problem Solving
18. NeurIPS 2025AGENTIF: Benchmarking Large Language Models Instruction Following Ability in Agentic Scenarios
19. NeurIPS 2025AgentNet: Decentralized Evolutionary Coordination for LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems
20. NeurIPS 2025AgentRecBench: Benchmarking LLM Agent-based Personalized Recommender Systems
21. NeurIPS 2025Agents Robust to Distribution Shifts Learn Causal World Models Even Under Mediation
22. NeurIPS 2025AgentTTS: Large Language Model Agent for Test-time Compute-optimal Scaling Strategy in Complex Tasks
23. NeurIPS 2025AI Research Agents for Machine Learning: Search, Exploration, and Generalization in MLE-bench
24. NeurIPS 2025AI-Researcher: Autonomous Scientific Innovation
25. NeurIPS 2025ALE-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Objective-Driven Algorithm Engineering
26. NeurIPS 2025Among Us: A Sandbox for Measuring and Detecting Agentic Deception
27. NeurIPS 2025APIGen-MT: Agentic Pipeline for Multi-Turn Data Generation via Simulated Agent-Human Interplay
28. NeurIPS 2025APOLLO: Automated LLM and Lean Collaboration for Advanced Formal Reasoning
29. NeurIPS 2025Are Large Language Models Sensitive to the Motives Behind Communication?
30. NeurIPS 2025ARIA: Training Language Agents with Intention-driven Reward Aggregation
31. NeurIPS 2025Assignments for Congestion-Averse Agents: Seeking Competitive and Envy-Free Solutions
32. NeurIPS 2025Attractive Metadata Attack: Inducing LLM Agents to Invoke Malicious Tools
33. NeurIPS 2025AutoData: A Multi-Agent System for Open Web Data Collection
34. NeurIPS 2025AutoDiscovery: Open-ended Scientific Discovery via Bayesian Surprise
35. NeurIPS 2025Automated Composition of Agents: A Knapsack Approach for Agentic Component Selection
36. NeurIPS 2025Automated Model Discovery via Multi-modal & Multi-step Pipeline
37. NeurIPS 2025AutoRedTeamer: Autonomous Red Teaming with Lifelong Attack Integration
38. NeurIPS 2025AutoToM: Scaling Model-based Mental Inference via Automated Agent Modeling
39. NeurIPS 2025Bayesian Ego-graph inference for Networked Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
40. NeurIPS 2025Belief-Calibrated Multi-Agent Consensus Seeking for Complex NLP Tasks
41. NeurIPS 2025BeliefMapNav: 3D Voxel-Based Belief Map for Zero-Shot Object Navigation
42. NeurIPS 2025Benchmarking Egocentric Multimodal Goal Inference for Assistive Wearable Agents
43. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Token Probes: Hallucination Detection via Activation Tensors with ACT-ViT
44. NeurIPS 2025Bi-Level Knowledge Transfer for Multi-Task Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
45. NeurIPS 2025Bilevel ZOFO: Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning and Meta-Training
46. NeurIPS 2025BountyBench: Dollar Impact of AI Agent Attackers and Defenders on Real-World Cybersecurity Systems
47. NeurIPS 2025BrainEC-LLM: Brain Effective Connectivity Estimation by Multiscale Mixing LLM
48. NeurIPS 2025CAM: A Constructivist View of Agentic Memory for LLM-Based Reading Comprehension
49. NeurIPS 2025CAML: Collaborative Auxiliary Modality Learning for Multi-Agent Systems
50. NeurIPS 2025Can Agent Fix Agent Issues?

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.