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
106 papers, page 2 of 3
- CVPR 2023MotionDiffuser: Controllable Multi-Agent Motion Prediction Using Diffusion
- CVPR 2023MotionTrack: Learning Robust Short-Term and Long-Term Motions for Multi-Object Tracking
- CVPR 2023MOTRv2: Bootstrapping End-to-End Multi-Object Tracking by Pretrained Object Detectors
- CVPR 2023MSMDFusion: Fusing LiDAR and Camera at Multiple Scales With Multi-Depth Seeds for 3D Object Detection
- CVPR 2023Multi Domain Learning for Motion Magnification
- CVPR 2023Multi-Agent Automated Machine Learning
- CVPR 2023Multi-Centroid Task Descriptor for Dynamic Class Incremental Inference
- CVPR 2023Multi-Granularity Archaeological Dating of Chinese Bronze Dings Based on a Knowledge-Guided Relation Graph
- CVPR 2023Multi-Level Logit Distillation
- CVPR 2023Multi-Modal Gait Recognition via Effective Spatial-Temporal Feature Fusion
- CVPR 2023Multi-Modal Learning With Missing Modality via Shared-Specific Feature Modelling
- CVPR 2023Multi-Mode Online Knowledge Distillation for Self-Supervised Visual Representation Learning
- CVPR 2023Multi-Realism Image Compression With a Conditional Generator
- CVPR 2023Multi-Space Neural Radiance Fields
- CVPR 2023Multi-View Reconstruction Using Signed Ray Distance Functions (SRDF)
- CVPR 2023Multi-View Stereo Representation Revist: Region-Aware MVSNet
- CVPR 2023Multivariate, Multi-Frequency and Multimodal: Rethinking Graph Neural Networks for Emotion Recognition in Conversation
- CVPR 2023NeAT: Learning Neural Implicit Surfaces With Arbitrary Topologies From Multi-View Images
- CVPR 2023NEF: Neural Edge Fields for 3D Parametric Curve Reconstruction From Multi-View Images
- CVPR 2023NeuFace: Realistic 3D Neural Face Rendering From Multi-View Images
- CVPR 2023Neural Pixel Composition for 3D-4D View Synthesis From Multi-Views
- CVPR 2023NeuralUDF: Learning Unsigned Distance Fields for Multi-View Reconstruction of Surfaces With Arbitrary Topologies
- CVPR 2023Observation-Centric SORT: Rethinking SORT for Robust Multi-Object Tracking
- CVPR 2023OmniCity: Omnipotent City Understanding With Multi-Level and Multi-View Images
- CVPR 2023OmniVidar: Omnidirectional Depth Estimation From Multi-Fisheye Images
- CVPR 2023On the Effects of Self-Supervision and Contrastive Alignment in Deep Multi-View Clustering
- CVPR 2023PermutoSDF: Fast Multi-View Reconstruction With Implicit Surfaces Using Permutohedral Lattices
- CVPR 2023POEM: Reconstructing Hand in a Point Embedded Multi-View Stereo
- CVPR 2023ProphNet: Efficient Agent-Centric Motion Forecasting With Anchor-Informed Proposals
- CVPR 2023PSVT: End-to-End Multi-Person 3D Pose and Shape Estimation With Progressive Video Transformers
- CVPR 2023Quantum Multi-Model Fitting
- CVPR 2023Relightable Neural Human Assets From Multi-View Gradient Illuminations
- CVPR 2023ResFormer: Scaling ViTs With Multi-Resolution Training
- CVPR 2023RIAV-MVS: Recurrent-Indexing an Asymmetric Volume for Multi-View Stereo
- CVPR 2023Sample-Level Multi-View Graph Clustering
- CVPR 2023ScaleDet: A Scalable Multi-Dataset Object Detector
- CVPR 2023Simple Cues Lead to a Strong Multi-Object Tracker
- CVPR 2023Sparse Multi-Modal Graph Transformer With Shared-Context Processing for Representation Learning of Giga-Pixel Images
- CVPR 2023StarCraftImage: A Dataset for Prototyping Spatial Reasoning Methods for Multi-Agent Environments
- CVPR 2023Stimulus Verification Is a Universal and Effective Sampler in Multi-Modal Human Trajectory Prediction
- CVPR 2023StyleGAN Salon: Multi-View Latent Optimization for Pose-Invariant Hairstyle Transfer
- CVPR 2023Texts as Images in Prompt Tuning for Multi-Label Image Recognition
- CVPR 2023Towards All-in-One Pre-Training via Maximizing Multi-Modal Mutual Information
- CVPR 2023Towards Efficient Use of Multi-Scale Features in Transformer-Based Object Detectors
- CVPR 2023Towards Flexible Multi-Modal Document Models
- CVPR 2023Tunable Convolutions With Parametric Multi-Loss Optimization
- CVPR 2023Two-Way Multi-Label Loss
- CVPR 2023Understanding and Constructing Latent Modality Structures in Multi-Modal Representation Learning
- CVPR 2023Unite and Conquer: Plug & Play Multi-Modal Synthesis Using Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Video Dehazing via a Multi-Range Temporal Alignment Network With Physical Prior
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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.