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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851. NeurIPS 2026VerifyMAS: Hypothesis Verification for Failure Attribution in LLM Multi-Agent Systems
852. NeurIPS 2026VSearcher: Long-Horizon Multimodal Search Agent via Reinforcement Learning
853. NeurIPS 2026Wayfinder: Adaptive Resource Routing from Agent Citations
854. NeurIPS 2026Welfare, Improvability, and Variance: A Principal-Agent Approach to Optimal Benchmark Item Aggregation
855. NeurIPS 2026What Makes Two States the Same? Value-Aware State Matching for Multi-Turn Agent Credit Assignment
856. NeurIPS 2026When and Why Does Multi-Agent Debate Fail and Does It Really Underperform?
857. NeurIPS 2026When Debate Helps: Proposal Supply and Verification-Aware Readout in Multi-Agent Reasoning
858. NeurIPS 2026When Do Multi-Agent Systems Help? An Information Bottleneck Perspective
859. NeurIPS 2026When Parallelism Pays Off: Cohesion-Aware Task Partitioning for Multi-Agent Coding
860. NeurIPS 2026When Stored Evidence Stops Being Usable: Scale-Conditioned Evaluation of Agent Memory
861. NeurIPS 2026When the Most Disruptive Messages Are Safe to Prune in Aggregate: Functional Analysis of Communication Pruning in Two-Agent LLM Systems
862. NeurIPS 2026Who Should Evolve? Uncertainty-Aware Role Bottleneck Inference for Multi-Agent LLM Training
863. NeurIPS 2026Why Copy Others? Insights into Social Learning from Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
864. NeurIPS 2026WorldMemArena: Evaluating Multimodal Agent Memory Through Action–World Interaction
865. NeurIPS 2026WURI: Watching Unfolding Risk in Agent Interactions
866. NeurIPS 2026Youdunit: Single-Call Counterfactual Necessity in Multi-Agent LLM Systems
867. NeurIPS 2026Zero-Violation Regret for Cooperative Markov Games with Coupled Instantaneous Hard Constraints
868. NeurIPS 2026Zeroth-Order Stackelberg Control in Combinatorial Congestion Games

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.