Multi-Agent RL papers, 2023–2026
Games and MARL
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 2,126 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 88 | 37 | 80 | 106 | 311 |
| 2024 | 147 | 39 | 82 | 105 | 373 |
| 2025 | 255 | 91 | 115 | 113 | 574 |
| 2026 | 319 | 153 | 224 | 172 | 868 |
Representative papers
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- 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
2,126 papers, page 14 of 43
- NeurIPS 2026FlashEvolve: Accelerating Agent Self-Evolution with Asynchronous Stage Orchestration
- NeurIPS 2026FlashFFN: Multi-Head Decomposition Enables I/O-Aware Feed-Forward Network
- NeurIPS 2026FlowLeak: Coverage-Guided Extraction of Dynamic Workflows in LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems
- NeurIPS 2026FlowSteer: Prompt-Only Workflow Steering Exposes Planning-Time Vulnerabilities in Multi-Agent LLM Systems
- NeurIPS 2026FML-bench: A Controlled Study of AI Research Agent Strategies from the Perspective of Search Dynamics
- NeurIPS 2026Focusing Influence Mechanism for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Found in Conversation: LLMs Teach Themselves to Close the Multi-Turn Gap
- NeurIPS 2026Frequency-Structured Hamiltonian Neural Network for Multi-Timescale Dynamics
- NeurIPS 2026From Chats to Markets: AgenticPay for LLM-Powered Negotiation in Multi-Agent Commerce
- NeurIPS 2026From Raw Experience to Skill Consumption: A Systematic Study of Model-Generated Agent Skills
- NeurIPS 2026From Talking Words to Sharing Thoughts: Scalable Multi-LLM Aggregation via Structured Message Passing
- NeurIPS 2026Generalized Intention Modeling in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Grounding Agent Reasoning with Structured Process Supervision for Multi-turn Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Group of Skills: Group-Structured Skill Retrieval for Agent Skill Libraries
- NeurIPS 2026Group Perspective Matters: Regulating Debate Relationships Can Mitigate Blind Conformity in Multi-Agent Debate
- NeurIPS 2026GroupMemBench: Benchmarking LLM Agent Memory in Multi-Party Conversations
- NeurIPS 2026HAI: Hierarchical Anchored Interaction for Multi-View Bimanual World Models
- NeurIPS 2026Hermes: A Multi-Scale Spatial-Temporal Hypergraph Network for Stock Time Series Forecasting
- NeurIPS 2026Heterogeneous Agent Collaborative Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2026How LLMs Distinguish Threats from Offers
- NeurIPS 2026How to Interpret Agent Behavior
- NeurIPS 2026HyperSkill: Multi-Modal Skill Learning on the Unit Hypersphere
- NeurIPS 2026Implicit Value Probing: Inferring Human Value Preferences via Strategic Multi-Turn Conversations
- NeurIPS 2026Improved Sample Complexity for Markov Games via Variance-Aware Bandit Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Independent Learning of Nash Equilibria in Partially Observable Markov Potential Games with Decoupled Dynamics
- NeurIPS 2026Individuals Matter: Improving Deep Multi-View Clustering via Explicit Single-View Enhancement
- NeurIPS 2026InfoFlow: A Framework for Multi-Layer Transformer Analysis
- NeurIPS 2026Integrating Strengths of Different Multi-Agent Workflows via Step-Aware Hybrid Topology Planning
- NeurIPS 2026Inter-Agent Influence: Evaluating Persuasion, Deception and Coercion in Multi-Agent Systems
- NeurIPS 2026Is Your LLM-as-a-Recommender Agent Trustable? LLMs' Recommendation is Easily Hacked by Biases (Preferences)
- NeurIPS 2026Iterative Critique-and-Routing Controller for Multi-Agent Systems with Heterogeneous LLMs
- NeurIPS 2026Jacobian Descent for Multi-Objective Optimization
- NeurIPS 2026Know Your Task, Learn It Right: Task-Aware Optimistic Value Learning for Multi-Task Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2026KV-PRM: Efficient Process Reward Modeling via KV-Cache Transfer for Multi-Agent Test-Time Scaling
- NeurIPS 2026Language-Based Agent Control
- NeurIPS 2026LDPCache: Locally Differentially Private Multi-Query Processing with Cache Optimization for Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Learning in Causal Markov Games
- NeurIPS 2026Learning Large-Scale Competitive Team Behaviors with Mean-Field Interactions
- NeurIPS 2026Learning Orthogonal Multi-Index Models Beyond Small Initialization: Incremental Learning, Competitive Dynamics and Symmetry
- NeurIPS 2026Learning When to Collaborate: Selective Multi-Agent Medical Reasoning via Uncertainty-Aware Routing
- NeurIPS 2026LLM-Based Multi-Agent Blackboard System for Information Discovery in Data Science
- NeurIPS 2026LogSig-SSM: Time-Series Modelling with Multi-Scale Log-Signature Compression for State-Space Models
- NeurIPS 2026LongMINT: Evaluating Memory under Multi-Target Interference in Long-Horizon Agent Systems
- NeurIPS 2026LoRASpace: A Pool-Wide Shared Substrate for Static and Dynamic Multi-LoRA Composition
- NeurIPS 2026MACRO: Training-free Multi-plane Attention for Closeup Render Optimization
- NeurIPS 2026MAGE: Towards Generalizable Multi-timescale EEG Representations
- NeurIPS 2026MANGO:Multi-Angle Neural Gated Operators for Chirp-Perturbed PDEs
- NeurIPS 2026MARBLE: an Agent Benchmark for Spatial Reasoning and Visual Abstraction
- NeurIPS 2026MaRiO: Multi-agent Collaborative Reasoning via Shared Observations in MLLMs
- NeurIPS 2026Market Regime Council for Dynamic Credit Assignment in Multi-Agent LLM Decision Systems
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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.