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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1251. NeurIPS 2025Face-Human-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Face and Human Understanding for Multi-modal Assistants
1252. NeurIPS 2025FailureSensorIQ: A Multi-Choice QA Dataset for Understanding Sensor Relationships and Failure Modes
1253. NeurIPS 2025Fair Cooperation in Mixed-Motive Games via Conflict-Aware Gradient Adjustment
1254. NeurIPS 2025Fast Rate Bounds for Multi-Task and Meta-Learning with Different Sample Sizes
1255. NeurIPS 2025Federated Multi-armed Bandits with Efficient Bit-Level Communications
1256. NeurIPS 2025Follow-the-Perturbed-Leader Nearly Achieves Best-of-Both-Worlds for the m-Set Semi-Bandit Problems
1257. NeurIPS 2025From Self-Check to Consensus: Bayesian Strategic Decoding in Large Language Models
1258. NeurIPS 2025G-Memory: Tracing Hierarchical Memory for Multi-Agent Systems
1259. NeurIPS 2025GAM-Agent: Game-Theoretic and Uncertainty-Aware Collaboration for Complex Visual Reasoning
1260. NeurIPS 2025GAMMA: Gated Multi-hop Message Passing for Homophily-Agnostic Node Representation in GNNs
1261. NeurIPS 2025Gaussian Regression-Driven Tensorized Incomplete Multi-View Clustering with Dual Manifold Regularization
1262. NeurIPS 2025Gemstones: A Model Suite for Multi-Faceted Scaling Laws
1263. NeurIPS 2025Generalizing Experience for Language Agents with Hierarchical MetaFlows
1264. NeurIPS 2025Generating Multi-Table Time Series EHR from Latent Space with Minimal Preprocessing
1265. NeurIPS 2025Geometry Meets Incentives: Sample-Efficient Incentivized Exploration with Linear Contexts
1266. NeurIPS 2025GeRaF: Neural Geometry Reconstruction from Radio Frequency Signals
1267. NeurIPS 2025GMV: A Unified and Efficient Graph Multi-View Learning Framework
1268. NeurIPS 2025Gradient Multi-Normalization for Efficient LLM Training
1269. NeurIPS 2025GraphKeeper: Graph Domain-Incremental Learning via Knowledge Disentanglement and Preservation
1270. NeurIPS 2025Graphs Help Graphs: Multi-Agent Graph Socialized Learning
1271. NeurIPS 2025Greedy Algorithms for Structured Bandits: A Sharp Characterization of Asymptotic Success / Failure
1272. NeurIPS 2025Group-in-Group Policy Optimization for LLM Agent Training
1273. NeurIPS 2025Guard Me If You Know Me: Protecting Specific Face-Identity from Deepfakes
1274. NeurIPS 2025GUARDIAN: Safeguarding LLM Multi-Agent Collaborations with Temporal Graph Modeling
1275. NeurIPS 2025GUI Exploration Lab: Enhancing Screen Navigation in Agents via Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning
1276. NeurIPS 2025Hierarchical Self-Attention: Generalizing Neural Attention Mechanics to Multi-Scale Problems
1277. NeurIPS 2025High-order Interactions Modeling for Interpretable Multi-Agent Q-Learning
1278. NeurIPS 2025HiPoNet: A Multi-View Simplicial Complex Network for High Dimensional Point-Cloud and Single-Cell data
1279. NeurIPS 2025HM3: Hierarchical Multi-Objective Model Merging for Pretrained Models
1280. NeurIPS 2025HMARL-CBF – Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Control Barrier Functions for Safety-Critical Autonomous Systems
1281. NeurIPS 2025How to Train Your LLM Web Agent: A Statistical Diagnosis
1282. NeurIPS 2025HyperET: Efficient Training in Hyperbolic Space for Multi-modal Large Language Models
1283. NeurIPS 2025Hypergraph-Enhanced Contrastive Learning for Multi-View Clustering with Hyper-Laplacian Regularization
1284. NeurIPS 2025HyperMARL: Adaptive Hypernetworks for Multi-Agent RL
1285. NeurIPS 2025HyPINO: Multi-Physics Neural Operators via HyperPINNs and the Method of Manufactured Solutions
1286. NeurIPS 2025HYPRL: Reinforcement Learning of Control Policies for Hyperproperties
1287. NeurIPS 2025Identifying multi-compartment Hodgkin-Huxley models with high-density extracellular voltage recordings
1288. NeurIPS 2025Improved Best-of-Both-Worlds Regret for Bandits with Delayed Feedback
1289. NeurIPS 2025In-Context Fully Decentralized Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
1290. NeurIPS 2025Incentivizing Truthful Language Models via Peer Elicitation Games
1291. NeurIPS 2025Incomplete Multi-view Clustering via Hierarchical Semantic Alignment and Cooperative Completion
1292. NeurIPS 2025Incomplete Multi-view Deep Clustering with Data Imputation and Alignment
1293. NeurIPS 2025Individual Regret in Cooperative Stochastic Multi-Armed Bandits
1294. NeurIPS 2025Inpainting the Neural Picture: Inferring Unrecorded Brain Area Dynamics from Multi-Animal Datasets
1295. NeurIPS 2025JADE: Joint Alignment and Deep Embedding for Multi-Slice Spatial Transcriptomics
1296. NeurIPS 2025KARMA: Leveraging Multi-Agent LLMs for Automated Knowledge Graph Enrichment
1297. NeurIPS 2025Knowledge Graph Enhanced Generative Multi-modal Models for Class-Incremental Learning
1298. NeurIPS 2025Knowledge Starts with Practice: Knowledge-Aware Exercise Generative Recommendation with Adaptive Multi-Agent Cooperation
1299. NeurIPS 2025KVCOMM: Online Cross-context KV-cache Communication for Efficient LLM-based Multi-agent Systems
1300. NeurIPS 2025KVFlow: Efficient Prefix Caching for Accelerating LLM-Based Multi-Agent Workflows

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.