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

2,126 papers, page 22 of 43

1051. ICLR 2025Pairwise Elimination with Instance-Dependent Guarantees for Bandits with Cost Subsidy
1052. ICLR 2025PARTNR: A Benchmark for Planning and Reasoning in Embodied Multi-agent Tasks
1053. ICLR 2025POGEMA: A Benchmark Platform for Cooperative Multi-Agent Pathfinding
1054. ICLR 2025Rational Decision-Making Agent with Learning Internal Utility Judgment
1055. ICLR 2025Rethinking Self-Distillation: Label Averaging and Enhanced Soft Label Refinement with Partial Labels
1056. ICLR 2025REVISITING MULTI-PERMUTATION EQUIVARIANCE THROUGH THE LENS OF IRREDUCIBLE REPRESENTATIONS
1057. ICLR 2025Robust Gymnasium: A Unified Modular Benchmark for Robust Reinforcement Learning
1058. ICLR 2025SaMer: A Scenario-aware Multi-dimensional Evaluator for Large Language Models
1059. ICLR 2025Scaling Large Language Model-based Multi-Agent Collaboration
1060. ICLR 2025SelectFormer in Data Markets: Privacy-Preserving and Efficient Data Selection for Transformers with Multi-Party Computation
1061. ICLR 2025Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Collaboration Networks for Software Development
1062. ICLR 2025Simple yet Effective Incomplete Multi-view Clustering: Similarity-level Imputation and Intra-view Hybrid-group Prototype Construction
1063. ICLR 2025Single-agent Poisoning Attacks Suffice to Ruin Multi-Agent Learning
1064. ICLR 2025Sports-Traj: A Unified Trajectory Generation Model for Multi-Agent Movement in Sports
1065. ICLR 2025Stochastic Semi-Gradient Descent for Learning Mean Field Games with Population-Aware Function Approximation
1066. ICLR 2025Towards Optimal Multi-draft Speculative Decoding
1067. ICLR 2025Trusted Multi-View Classification via Evolutionary Multi-View Fusion
1068. ICLR 2025uniINF: Best-of-Both-Worlds Algorithm for Parameter-Free Heavy-Tailed MABs
1069. ICLR 2025VVC-Gym: A Fixed-Wing UAV Reinforcement Learning Environment for Multi-Goal Long-Horizon Problems
1070. ICLR 2025Weak to Strong Generalization for Large Language Models with Multi-capabilities
1071. ICLR 2025Weighted Multi-Prompt Learning with Description-free Large Language Model Distillation
1072. ICLR 2025When LLMs Play the Telephone Game: Cultural Attractors as Conceptual Tools to Evaluate LLMs in Multi-turn Settings
1073. ICML 2025A Classification View on Meta Learning Bandits
1074. ICML 2025A Peer-review Look on Multi-modal Clustering: An Information Bottleneck Realization Method
1075. ICML 2025A Unified Comparative Study with Generalized Conformity Scores for Multi-Output Conformal Regression
1076. ICML 2025Ad-Hoc Human-AI Coordination Challenge
1077. ICML 2025Adaptive Sample Sharing for Multi Agent Linear Bandits
1078. ICML 2025Agent Reviewers: Domain-specific Multimodal Agents with Shared Memory for Paper Review
1079. ICML 2025Agent Workflow Memory
1080. ICML 2025Agent-Centric Actor-Critic for Asynchronous Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
1081. ICML 2025An Effective and Secure Federated Multi-View Clustering Method with Information-Theoretic Perspective
1082. ICML 2025Are Large Language Models Ready for Multi-Turn Tabular Data Analysis?
1083. ICML 2025AssistanceZero: Scalably Solving Assistance Games
1084. ICML 2025Automatically Identify and Rectify: Robust Deep Contrastive Multi-view Clustering in Noisy Scenarios
1085. ICML 2025AutoML-Agent: A Multi-Agent LLM Framework for Full-Pipeline AutoML
1086. ICML 2025BalancEdit: Dynamically Balancing the Generality-Locality Trade-off in Multi-modal Model Editing
1087. ICML 2025Beyond Minimax Rates in Group Distributionally Robust Optimization via a Novel Notion of Sparsity
1088. ICML 2025Beyond The Rainbow: High Performance Deep Reinforcement Learning on a Desktop PC
1089. ICML 2025Bifurcate then Alienate: Incomplete Multi-view Clustering via Coupled Distribution Learning with Linear Overhead
1090. ICML 2025Boosting Multi-Domain Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models through Evolving Interactions between Samples
1091. ICML 2025Boosting Virtual Agent Learning and Reasoning: A Step-Wise, Multi-Dimensional, and Generalist Reward Model with Benchmark
1092. ICML 2025Breaking the Curse of Multiagency in Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
1093. ICML 2025BRIDGE: Bootstrapping Text to Control Time-Series Generation via Multi-Agent Iterative Optimization and Diffusion Modeling
1094. ICML 2025Code-Generated Graph Representations Using Multiple LLM Agents for Material Properties Prediction
1095. ICML 2025Concurrent Reinforcement Learning with Aggregated States via Randomized Least Squares Value Iteration
1096. ICML 2025Continuous-Time Analysis of Heavy Ball Momentum in Min-Max Games
1097. ICML 2025Core Knowledge Deficits in Multi-Modal Language Models
1098. ICML 2025Counterfactual Effect Decomposition in Multi-Agent Sequential Decision Making
1099. ICML 2025Cowpox: Towards the Immunity of VLM-based Multi-Agent Systems
1100. ICML 2025Craftium: Bridging Flexibility and Efficiency for Rich 3D Single- and Multi-Agent Environments

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.