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

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701. NeurIPS 2026Market-Based Runtime Resource Allocation for LLM Multi-Agent Systems
702. NeurIPS 2026MASTARS: Multi-Agent Sequential Trajectory Augmentation with Return-Conditioned Subgoals
703. NeurIPS 2026MC-H: Multi-Granularity Clustering with Hyperspherical Determinantal Point Process
704. NeurIPS 2026MC$^2$Mark: Distortion-Free Multi-Bit Watermarking for Long Messages
705. NeurIPS 2026MCAS: Signal-Processing-Based Multi-View Contrastive Learning for Acoustic Sensing
706. NeurIPS 2026MemContract: Contract-Sensitive Evaluation for Mutable Agent Memory
707. NeurIPS 2026MEME: Multi-Entity & Evolving Memory Evaluation
708. NeurIPS 2026MemForest: Efficient Agent Memory Management via EventTree Partitioning and Progressive Merging
709. NeurIPS 2026Mental-Models for Multi-Agent Systems
710. NeurIPS 2026MGMem: An Efficient, Deterministic, and Provenance-Preserving Framework for Long-Horizon Agent Memory
711. NeurIPS 2026MHWA: Multi-timescale Hierarchical World-Action Model
712. NeurIPS 2026MICE: Multi-animal Interaction Context Encoder — A Hierarchical Foundation Model for Mouse Behavior
713. NeurIPS 2026MindGames:A Multi-Agent Benchmark and Trajectory Dataset for Evaluating Social and Strategic Reasoning in LLMs
714. NeurIPS 2026MindGuard: Guardrail Classifiers for Multi-Turn Mental Health Support
715. NeurIPS 2026Mitigating Retaliatory Algorithmic Collusion in Repeated Games
716. NeurIPS 2026MMA-SafetyBench: A Benchmark for Multimodal Agent Safety Evaluation
717. NeurIPS 2026Modelling Opinion Dynamics at Scale with Deep MARL
718. NeurIPS 2026Monotone Inclusion Approach to Weakly Monotone Discrete-Time Finite-Horizon Mean-Field Games
719. NeurIPS 2026MotionGrounder: Grounded Multi-Object Motion Transfer via Diffusion Transformer
720. NeurIPS 2026MSAR: Next-Scale Autoregressive Forecasting for Time Series via Modular Multi-Scale Decoupling
721. NeurIPS 2026MSR-3D: Multi-Mode Semantic Representation for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding
722. NeurIPS 2026Multi-agent Collaboration with State Management
723. NeurIPS 2026Multi-Agent Coordination via Support-Preserving Distillation
724. NeurIPS 2026Multi-Armed Bandits With Best-Action Queries
725. NeurIPS 2026Multi-Constrained Randomized Smoothing Certificates
726. NeurIPS 2026Multi-Environment POMDPs with Finite-Horizon Objectives
727. NeurIPS 2026Multi-Nonsmooth-Nonconvex-Objective Optimization
728. NeurIPS 2026Multi-site PPG: An In-the-Wild Physiological Dataset from Emerging Multi-Site Wearables
729. NeurIPS 2026Multi-Stage Planning from Single-Stage Data: Reinforcement Learning Helps Composition but Requires Anchoring
730. NeurIPS 2026Multi-step Consistency Models: A Complete Error Theory and Optimal Step Selection
731. NeurIPS 2026Multi-Step Likelihood-Ratio Correction for Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards
732. NeurIPS 2026Multi-Variable Conformal Prediction: Optimizing Prediction Sets without Data Splitting
733. NeurIPS 2026MUSS: A Multi-scale and Sequence-based Model for Single-cell Gene Regulation
734. NeurIPS 2026MvFFN: Multi-view Floor-Plan Feed-Forward Network for Unposed Wide-Baseline Panorama Layout Reconstruction
735. NeurIPS 2026NAMVIS: Next-Scale Autoregressive Multi-View Image Synthesis
736. NeurIPS 2026Nash Social Welfare for Multi Armed Bandits: Trajectory-wise Expected and High Probability Regret
737. NeurIPS 2026Near-Optimal Best-of-Both-Worlds Algorithms for Decoupled Exploration and Exploitation in Multi-armed Bandits
738. NeurIPS 2026Near-Optimal Last-Iterate Convergence for Zero-Sum Games with Bandit Feedback and Opponent Actions
739. NeurIPS 2026Near-Optimal Stochastic Linear Bandits with Delay
740. NeurIPS 2026Network Intervention by Polling Strategic Agents
741. NeurIPS 2026Noise-Level KL Rates for Multi-Marginal Schrödinger Bridge Surrogates
742. NeurIPS 2026Norm Enforcement for AI Agents: Robustly Shaping Behavior in Multi-Agent Systems
743. NeurIPS 2026OmniMemBench: Towards Scalable Evaluation of Long-Term Omni-Modal Agent Memory
744. NeurIPS 2026On the Impact of Side-Information in Bandit Learning: More is Not Always Merrier
745. NeurIPS 2026On the Information Loss of Multi-Token Prediction: Origin and Solution
746. NeurIPS 2026On the Optimal Sample Complexity of Offline Multi-Armed Bandits with KL Regularization
747. NeurIPS 2026OpenClawBench: Benchmarking Process-side Anomalies in Real-world Agent Execution Trajectories
748. NeurIPS 2026Optimal scaling laws in learning hierarchical multi-index models
749. NeurIPS 2026Optimize Once, Execute Fast: Latency-Aware Multi-Agent Workflow Learning for Recurrent Queries
750. NeurIPS 2026Optimizing Agent Tool-Use via Trajectory-based Insight Evolution

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.