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
91 papers, page 2 of 2
- ICLR 2025InvestESG: A multi-agent reinforcement learning benchmark for studying climate investment as a social dilemma
- ICLR 2025Learned Reference-based Diffusion Sampler for multi-modal distributions
- ICLR 2025Learning Multi-Index Models with Neural Networks via Mean-Field Langevin Dynamics
- ICLR 2025Learning on One Mode: Addressing Multi-modality in Offline Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2025Learning to Help in Multi-Class Settings
- ICLR 2025Lightweight Neural App Control
- ICLR 2025LiveXiv - A Multi-Modal live benchmark based on Arxiv papers content
- ICLR 2025MACPO: Weak-to-Strong Alignment via Multi-Agent Contrastive Preference Optimization
- ICLR 2025MindSearch: Mimicking Human Minds Elicits Deep AI Searcher
- ICLR 2025Minimal Impact ControlNet: Advancing Multi-ControlNet Integration
- ICLR 2025Mixture-of-Agents Enhances Large Language Model Capabilities
- ICLR 2025MTU-Bench: A Multi-granularity Tool-Use Benchmark for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025Multi-Dimensional Conformal Prediction
- ICLR 2025Multi-Draft Speculative Sampling: Canonical Decomposition and Theoretical Limits
- ICLR 2025Multi-Label Node Classification with Label Influence Propagation
- ICLR 2025Multi-modal Agent Tuning: Building a VLM-Driven Agent for Efficient Tool Usage
- ICLR 2025Multiagent Finetuning: Self Improvement with Diverse Reasoning Chains
- ICLR 2025Near-Optimal Online Learning for Multi-Agent Submodular Coordination: Tight Approximation and Communication Efficiency
- ICLR 2025OBI-Bench: Can LMMs Aid in Study of Ancient Script on Oracle Bones?
- ICLR 2025Pairwise Elimination with Instance-Dependent Guarantees for Bandits with Cost Subsidy
- ICLR 2025PARTNR: A Benchmark for Planning and Reasoning in Embodied Multi-agent Tasks
- ICLR 2025POGEMA: A Benchmark Platform for Cooperative Multi-Agent Pathfinding
- ICLR 2025Rational Decision-Making Agent with Learning Internal Utility Judgment
- ICLR 2025Rethinking Self-Distillation: Label Averaging and Enhanced Soft Label Refinement with Partial Labels
- ICLR 2025REVISITING MULTI-PERMUTATION EQUIVARIANCE THROUGH THE LENS OF IRREDUCIBLE REPRESENTATIONS
- ICLR 2025Robust Gymnasium: A Unified Modular Benchmark for Robust Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2025SaMer: A Scenario-aware Multi-dimensional Evaluator for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025Scaling Large Language Model-based Multi-Agent Collaboration
- ICLR 2025SelectFormer in Data Markets: Privacy-Preserving and Efficient Data Selection for Transformers with Multi-Party Computation
- ICLR 2025Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Collaboration Networks for Software Development
- ICLR 2025Simple yet Effective Incomplete Multi-view Clustering: Similarity-level Imputation and Intra-view Hybrid-group Prototype Construction
- ICLR 2025Single-agent Poisoning Attacks Suffice to Ruin Multi-Agent Learning
- ICLR 2025Sports-Traj: A Unified Trajectory Generation Model for Multi-Agent Movement in Sports
- ICLR 2025Stochastic Semi-Gradient Descent for Learning Mean Field Games with Population-Aware Function Approximation
- ICLR 2025Towards Optimal Multi-draft Speculative Decoding
- ICLR 2025Trusted Multi-View Classification via Evolutionary Multi-View Fusion
- ICLR 2025uniINF: Best-of-Both-Worlds Algorithm for Parameter-Free Heavy-Tailed MABs
- ICLR 2025VVC-Gym: A Fixed-Wing UAV Reinforcement Learning Environment for Multi-Goal Long-Horizon Problems
- ICLR 2025Weak to Strong Generalization for Large Language Models with Multi-capabilities
- ICLR 2025Weighted Multi-Prompt Learning with Description-free Large Language Model Distillation
- ICLR 2025When LLMs Play the Telephone Game: Cultural Attractors as Conceptual Tools to Evaluate LLMs in Multi-turn Settings
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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.