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 18 of 43
- NeurIPS 2026VerifyMAS: Hypothesis Verification for Failure Attribution in LLM Multi-Agent Systems
- NeurIPS 2026VSearcher: Long-Horizon Multimodal Search Agent via Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Wayfinder: Adaptive Resource Routing from Agent Citations
- NeurIPS 2026Welfare, Improvability, and Variance: A Principal-Agent Approach to Optimal Benchmark Item Aggregation
- NeurIPS 2026What Makes Two States the Same? Value-Aware State Matching for Multi-Turn Agent Credit Assignment
- NeurIPS 2026When and Why Does Multi-Agent Debate Fail and Does It Really Underperform?
- NeurIPS 2026When Debate Helps: Proposal Supply and Verification-Aware Readout in Multi-Agent Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2026When Do Multi-Agent Systems Help? An Information Bottleneck Perspective
- NeurIPS 2026When Parallelism Pays Off: Cohesion-Aware Task Partitioning for Multi-Agent Coding
- NeurIPS 2026When Stored Evidence Stops Being Usable: Scale-Conditioned Evaluation of Agent Memory
- NeurIPS 2026When the Most Disruptive Messages Are Safe to Prune in Aggregate: Functional Analysis of Communication Pruning in Two-Agent LLM Systems
- NeurIPS 2026Who Should Evolve? Uncertainty-Aware Role Bottleneck Inference for Multi-Agent LLM Training
- NeurIPS 2026Why Copy Others? Insights into Social Learning from Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2026WorldMemArena: Evaluating Multimodal Agent Memory Through Action–World Interaction
- NeurIPS 2026WURI: Watching Unfolding Risk in Agent Interactions
- NeurIPS 2026Youdunit: Single-Call Counterfactual Necessity in Multi-Agent LLM Systems
- NeurIPS 2026Zero-Violation Regret for Cooperative Markov Games with Coupled Instantaneous Hard Constraints
- NeurIPS 2026Zeroth-Order Stackelberg Control in Combinatorial Congestion Games
- CVPR 20253D-LLaVA: Towards Generalist 3D LMMs with Omni Superpoint Transformer
- CVPR 20253DEnhancer: Consistent Multi-View Diffusion for 3D Enhancement
- CVPR 2025A Hubness Perspective on Representation Learning for Graph-Based Multi-View Clustering
- CVPR 2025AdMiT: Adaptive Multi-Source Tuning in Dynamic Environments
- CVPR 2025All-Day Multi-Camera Multi-Target Tracking
- CVPR 2025ASAP: Advancing Semantic Alignment Promotes Multi-Modal Manipulation Detecting and Grounding
- CVPR 2025ATA: Adaptive Transformation Agent for Text-Guided Subject-Position Variable Background Inpainting
- CVPR 2025Attribute-Missing Multi-view Graph Clustering
- CVPR 2025BadToken: Token-level Backdoor Attacks to Multi-modal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2025CaMuViD: Calibration-Free Multi-View Detection
- CVPR 2025CAP4D: Creating Animatable 4D Portrait Avatars with Morphable Multi-View Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025CholecTrack20: A Multi-Perspective Tracking Dataset for Surgical Tools
- CVPR 2025Classifier-guided CLIP Distillation for Unsupervised Multi-label Classification
- CVPR 2025ClimbingCap: Multi-Modal Dataset and Method for Rock Climbing in World Coordinate
- CVPR 2025CLIP Under the Microscope: A Fine-Grained Analysis of Multi-Object Representation
- CVPR 2025CLOC: Contrastive Learning for Ordinal Classification with Multi-Margin N-pair Loss
- CVPR 2025CocoER: Aligning Multi-Level Feature by Competition and Coordination for Emotion Recognition
- CVPR 2025Collaborative Tree Search for Enhancing Embodied Multi-Agent Collaboration
- CVPR 2025CoMatcher: Multi-View Collaborative Feature Matching
- CVPR 2025Compositional Targeted Multi-Label Universal Perturbations
- CVPR 2025CorrBEV: Multi-View 3D Object Detection by Correlation Learning with Multi-modal Prototypes
- CVPR 2025Correlative and Discriminative Label Grouping for Multi-Label Visual Prompt Tuning
- CVPR 2025Cross-Modal 3D Representation with Multi-View Images and Point Clouds
- CVPR 2025Deep Fair Multi-View Clustering with Attention KAN
- CVPR 2025Detect Any Mirrors: Boosting Learning Reliability on Large-Scale Unlabeled Data with an Iterative Data Engine
- CVPR 2025DiGIT: Multi-Dilated Gated Encoder and Central-Adjacent Region Integrated Decoder for Temporal Action Detection Transformer
- CVPR 2025Do We Really Need Curated Malicious Data for Safety Alignment in Multi-modal Large Language Models?
- CVPR 2025DyMO: Training-Free Diffusion Model Alignment with Dynamic Multi-Objective Scheduling
- CVPR 2025EarthDial: Turning Multi-sensory Earth Observations to Interactive Dialogues
- CVPR 2025Ego4o: Egocentric Human Motion Capture and Understanding from Multi-Modal Input
- CVPR 2025EgoLM: Multi-Modal Language Model of Egocentric Motions
- CVPR 2025Enhanced then Progressive Fusion with View Graph for Multi-View Clustering
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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.