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
255 papers, page 2 of 6
- NeurIPS 2025Efficient Multi-bit Quantization Network Training via Weight Bias Correction and Bit-wise Coreset Sampling
- NeurIPS 2025Efficient Multi-modal Large Language Models via Progressive Consistency Distillation
- NeurIPS 2025Efficient Training-Free Online Routing for High-Volume Multi-LLM Serving
- NeurIPS 2025Embracing Trustworthy Brain-Agent Collaboration as Paradigm Extension for Intelligent Assistive Technologies
- NeurIPS 2025Emergence and scaling laws in SGD learning of shallow neural networks
- NeurIPS 2025Empirical Study on Robustness and Resilience in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Enhancing Personalized Multi-Turn Dialogue with Curiosity Reward
- NeurIPS 2025Evaluating Generalization Capabilities of LLM-Based Agents in Mixed-Motive Scenarios Using Concordia
- NeurIPS 2025Evaluating LLMs in Open-Source Games
- NeurIPS 2025EverybodyDance: Bipartite Graph–Based Identity Correspondence for Multi-Character Animation
- NeurIPS 2025Evolution of Information in Interactive Decision Making: A Case Study for Multi-Armed Bandits
- NeurIPS 2025Evolutionary Multi-View Classification via Eliminating Individual Fitness Bias
- NeurIPS 2025Exploring Tradeoffs through Mode Connectivity for Multi-Task Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Face-Human-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Face and Human Understanding for Multi-modal Assistants
- NeurIPS 2025FailureSensorIQ: A Multi-Choice QA Dataset for Understanding Sensor Relationships and Failure Modes
- NeurIPS 2025Fair Cooperation in Mixed-Motive Games via Conflict-Aware Gradient Adjustment
- NeurIPS 2025Fast Rate Bounds for Multi-Task and Meta-Learning with Different Sample Sizes
- NeurIPS 2025Federated Multi-armed Bandits with Efficient Bit-Level Communications
- NeurIPS 2025Follow-the-Perturbed-Leader Nearly Achieves Best-of-Both-Worlds for the m-Set Semi-Bandit Problems
- NeurIPS 2025From Self-Check to Consensus: Bayesian Strategic Decoding in Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025G-Memory: Tracing Hierarchical Memory for Multi-Agent Systems
- NeurIPS 2025GAM-Agent: Game-Theoretic and Uncertainty-Aware Collaboration for Complex Visual Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2025GAMMA: Gated Multi-hop Message Passing for Homophily-Agnostic Node Representation in GNNs
- NeurIPS 2025Gaussian Regression-Driven Tensorized Incomplete Multi-View Clustering with Dual Manifold Regularization
- NeurIPS 2025Gemstones: A Model Suite for Multi-Faceted Scaling Laws
- NeurIPS 2025Generalizing Experience for Language Agents with Hierarchical MetaFlows
- NeurIPS 2025Generating Multi-Table Time Series EHR from Latent Space with Minimal Preprocessing
- NeurIPS 2025Geometry Meets Incentives: Sample-Efficient Incentivized Exploration with Linear Contexts
- NeurIPS 2025GeRaF: Neural Geometry Reconstruction from Radio Frequency Signals
- NeurIPS 2025GMV: A Unified and Efficient Graph Multi-View Learning Framework
- NeurIPS 2025Gradient Multi-Normalization for Efficient LLM Training
- NeurIPS 2025GraphKeeper: Graph Domain-Incremental Learning via Knowledge Disentanglement and Preservation
- NeurIPS 2025Graphs Help Graphs: Multi-Agent Graph Socialized Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Greedy Algorithms for Structured Bandits: A Sharp Characterization of Asymptotic Success / Failure
- NeurIPS 2025Group-in-Group Policy Optimization for LLM Agent Training
- NeurIPS 2025Guard Me If You Know Me: Protecting Specific Face-Identity from Deepfakes
- NeurIPS 2025GUARDIAN: Safeguarding LLM Multi-Agent Collaborations with Temporal Graph Modeling
- NeurIPS 2025GUI Exploration Lab: Enhancing Screen Navigation in Agents via Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Hierarchical Self-Attention: Generalizing Neural Attention Mechanics to Multi-Scale Problems
- NeurIPS 2025High-order Interactions Modeling for Interpretable Multi-Agent Q-Learning
- NeurIPS 2025HiPoNet: A Multi-View Simplicial Complex Network for High Dimensional Point-Cloud and Single-Cell data
- NeurIPS 2025HM3: Hierarchical Multi-Objective Model Merging for Pretrained Models
- NeurIPS 2025HMARL-CBF – Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Control Barrier Functions for Safety-Critical Autonomous Systems
- NeurIPS 2025How to Train Your LLM Web Agent: A Statistical Diagnosis
- NeurIPS 2025HyperET: Efficient Training in Hyperbolic Space for Multi-modal Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Hypergraph-Enhanced Contrastive Learning for Multi-View Clustering with Hyper-Laplacian Regularization
- NeurIPS 2025HyperMARL: Adaptive Hypernetworks for Multi-Agent RL
- NeurIPS 2025HyPINO: Multi-Physics Neural Operators via HyperPINNs and the Method of Manufactured Solutions
- NeurIPS 2025HYPRL: Reinforcement Learning of Control Policies for Hyperproperties
- NeurIPS 2025Identifying multi-compartment Hodgkin-Huxley models with high-density extracellular voltage recordings
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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.