Multi-Agent RL papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Multi-Agent RL went from 311 papers in 2023 to 868 in 2026, roughly 2.8x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Multi-Agent RL work: 809 papers from 2023 to 2026, 38% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Multimodal LLMs: papers tagged with both rose from 9 in 2023 to 70 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Games and Planning, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Classical Planning, is up 3.3x versus 2.8x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 20262-Step Agent: How a Bayesian Decision Maker Learns from AI-Decision Support
• ICML 2026A Causal Decomposition Approach for Fair Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits
• ICLR 2026Calibrated Information Bottleneck for Trusted Multi-modal Clustering
• CVPR 2026A Sanity Check for Multi-In-Domain Face Forgery Detection in the
• NeurIPS 2025Algorithms and SQ Lower Bounds for Robustly Learning Real-valued Multi-Index Models
• ICML 2025A Classification View on Meta Learning Bandits
• ICLR 2025BEEM: Boosting Performance of Early Exit DNNs using Multi-Exit Classifiers as Experts
• CVPR 2025All-Day Multi-Camera Multi-Target Tracking
• NeurIPS 2024A New Multi-Source Light Detection Benchmark and Semi-Supervised Focal Light Detection
• ICML 2024A Federated Stochastic Multi-level Compositional Minimax Algorithm for Deep AUC Maximization
• ICLR 2024An Intuitive Multi-Frequency Feature Representation for SO(3)-Equivariant Networks
• CVPR 2024DeconfuseTrack: Dealing with Confusion for Multi-Object Tracking
• NeurIPS 2023A Novel Approach for Effective Multi-View Clustering with Information-Theoretic Perspective
• ICML 2023A Framework for Adapting Offline Algorithms to Solve Combinatorial Multi-Armed Bandit Problems with Bandit Feedback
• ICLR 2023An Additive Instance-Wise Approach to Multi-class Model Interpretation
• CVPR 2023A Light Touch Approach to Teaching Transformers Multi-View Geometry
• NeurIPS 2026A Black-Box Reduction from Regret to Multi-Level Coverage
• ICML 2026A Consensus Anchor-guided Hypergraph Framework for Incomplete Multi-view Clustering
• ICLR 2026Confident Block Diagonal Structure-Aware Invariable Graph Completion for Incomplete Multi-view Clustering
• CVPR 2026Anti-Degradation Lifelong Multi-View Clustering

All Multi-Agent RL papers

574 papers, page 12 of 12

551. NeurIPS 2025T1: A Tool-Oriented Conversational Dataset for Multi-Turn Agentic Planning
552. NeurIPS 2025Text-to-Decision Agent: Offline Meta-Reinforcement Learning from Natural Language Supervision
553. NeurIPS 2025The Complexity of Correlated Equilibria in Generalized Games
554. NeurIPS 2025The Computational Advantage of Depth in Learning High-Dimensional Hierarchical Targets
555. NeurIPS 2025The Generative Leap: Tight Sample Complexity for Efficiently Learning Gaussian Multi-Index Models
556. NeurIPS 2025Theory-Driven Label-Specific Representation for Incomplete Multi-View Multi-Label Learning
557. NeurIPS 2025Thompson Sampling for Multi-Objective Linear Contextual Bandit
558. NeurIPS 2025Thought Communication in Multiagent Collaboration
559. NeurIPS 2025Time Travel is Cheating: Going Live with DeepFund for Real-Time Fund Investment Benchmarking
560. NeurIPS 2025TimeXL: Explainable Multi-modal Time Series Prediction with LLM-in-the-Loop
561. NeurIPS 2025Towards Multi-Table Learning: A Novel Paradigm for Complementarity Quantification and Integration
562. NeurIPS 2025Towards Principled Unsupervised Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
563. NeurIPS 2025TRACE: Contrastive learning for multi-trial time series data in neuroscience
564. NeurIPS 2025Transcending Cost-Quality Tradeoff in Agent Serving via Session-Awareness
565. NeurIPS 2025Tri-MARF: A Tri-Modal Multi-Agent Responsive Framework for Comprehensive 3D Object Annotation
566. NeurIPS 2025UGG-ReID: Uncertainty-Guided Graph Model for Multi-Modal Object Re-Identification
567. NeurIPS 2025UI-Genie: A Self-Improving Approach for Iteratively Boosting MLLM-based Mobile GUI Agents
568. NeurIPS 2025VolleyBots: A Testbed for Multi-Drone Volleyball Game Combining Motion Control and Strategic Play
569. NeurIPS 2025Web-Shepherd: Advancing PRMs for Reinforcing Web Agents
570. NeurIPS 2025When One Moment Isn't Enough: Multi-Moment Retrieval with Cross-Moment Interactions
571. NeurIPS 2025Where Graph Meets Heterogeneity: Multi-View Collaborative Graph Experts
572. NeurIPS 2025Why Do Multi-Agent LLM Systems Fail?
573. NeurIPS 2025Wonder Wins Ways: Curiosity-Driven Exploration through Multi-Agent Contextual Calibration
574. NeurIPS 2025XVerse: Consistent Multi-Subject Control of Identity and Semantic Attributes via DiT Modulation

FAQ

How many Multi-Agent RL papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

2,126 in total: 311 in 2023, 373 in 2024, 574 in 2025, 868 in 2026.

How many Multi-Agent RL papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 319 Multi-Agent RL papers, versus 255 the year before.

How many Multi-Agent RL papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 153 Multi-Agent RL papers, versus 91 the year before.

How many Multi-Agent RL papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 224 Multi-Agent RL papers, versus 115 the year before.

How many Multi-Agent RL papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 172 Multi-Agent RL papers, versus 113 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Multi-Agent RL papers?

NeurIPS, with 809 papers from 2023 to 2026.