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
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 29 of 43
- NeurIPS 2025Scalable Cross-View Sample Alignment for Multi-View Clustering with View Structure Similarity
- NeurIPS 2025scMRDR: A scalable and flexible framework for unpaired single-cell multi-omics data integration
- NeurIPS 2025SE-Agent: Self-Evolution Trajectory Optimization in Multi-Step Reasoning with LLM-Based Agents
- NeurIPS 2025Self-Challenging Language Model Agents
- NeurIPS 2025Sequential Multi-Agent Dynamic Algorithm Configuration
- NeurIPS 2025Shapley-Coop: Credit Assignment for Emergent Cooperation in Self-Interested LLM Agents
- NeurIPS 2025SiriuS: Self-improving Multi-agent Systems via Bootstrapped Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2025SketchMind: A Multi-Agent Cognitive Framework for Assessing Student-Drawn Scientific Sketches
- NeurIPS 2025Solving Continuous Mean Field Games: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Non-Stationary Dynamics
- NeurIPS 2025SoMi-ToM: Evaluating Multi-Perspective Theory of Mind in Embodied Social Interactions
- NeurIPS 2025SparseMVC: Probing Cross-view Sparsity Variations for Multi-view Clustering
- NeurIPS 2025SpecMAS: A Multi-Agent System for Self-Verifying System Generation via Formal Model Checking
- NeurIPS 2025Stackelberg Learning with Outcome-based Payment
- NeurIPS 2025STAR: Spatial-Temporal Tracklet Matching for Multi-Object Tracking
- NeurIPS 2025STARC-9: A Large-scale Dataset for Multi-Class Tissue Classification for CRC Histopathology
- NeurIPS 2025Stochastic Principal-Agent Problems: Computing and Learning Optimal History-Dependent Policies
- NeurIPS 2025STRATUS: A Multi-agent System for Autonomous Reliability Engineering of Modern Clouds
- NeurIPS 2025SYMPHONY: Synergistic Multi-agent Planning with Heterogeneous Language Model Assembly
- NeurIPS 2025T1: A Tool-Oriented Conversational Dataset for Multi-Turn Agentic Planning
- NeurIPS 2025Text-to-Decision Agent: Offline Meta-Reinforcement Learning from Natural Language Supervision
- NeurIPS 2025The Complexity of Correlated Equilibria in Generalized Games
- NeurIPS 2025The Computational Advantage of Depth in Learning High-Dimensional Hierarchical Targets
- NeurIPS 2025The Generative Leap: Tight Sample Complexity for Efficiently Learning Gaussian Multi-Index Models
- NeurIPS 2025Theory-Driven Label-Specific Representation for Incomplete Multi-View Multi-Label Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Thompson Sampling for Multi-Objective Linear Contextual Bandit
- NeurIPS 2025Thought Communication in Multiagent Collaboration
- NeurIPS 2025Time Travel is Cheating: Going Live with DeepFund for Real-Time Fund Investment Benchmarking
- NeurIPS 2025TimeXL: Explainable Multi-modal Time Series Prediction with LLM-in-the-Loop
- NeurIPS 2025Towards Multi-Table Learning: A Novel Paradigm for Complementarity Quantification and Integration
- NeurIPS 2025Towards Principled Unsupervised Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2025TRACE: Contrastive learning for multi-trial time series data in neuroscience
- NeurIPS 2025Transcending Cost-Quality Tradeoff in Agent Serving via Session-Awareness
- NeurIPS 2025Tri-MARF: A Tri-Modal Multi-Agent Responsive Framework for Comprehensive 3D Object Annotation
- NeurIPS 2025UGG-ReID: Uncertainty-Guided Graph Model for Multi-Modal Object Re-Identification
- NeurIPS 2025UI-Genie: A Self-Improving Approach for Iteratively Boosting MLLM-based Mobile GUI Agents
- NeurIPS 2025VolleyBots: A Testbed for Multi-Drone Volleyball Game Combining Motion Control and Strategic Play
- NeurIPS 2025Web-Shepherd: Advancing PRMs for Reinforcing Web Agents
- NeurIPS 2025When One Moment Isn't Enough: Multi-Moment Retrieval with Cross-Moment Interactions
- NeurIPS 2025Where Graph Meets Heterogeneity: Multi-View Collaborative Graph Experts
- NeurIPS 2025Why Do Multi-Agent LLM Systems Fail?
- NeurIPS 2025Wonder Wins Ways: Curiosity-Driven Exploration through Multi-Agent Contextual Calibration
- NeurIPS 2025XVerse: Consistent Multi-Subject Control of Identity and Semantic Attributes via DiT Modulation
- CVPR 20242S-UDF: A Novel Two-stage UDF Learning Method for Robust Non-watertight Model Reconstruction from Multi-view Images
- CVPR 2024360+x: A Panoptic Multi-modal Scene Understanding Dataset
- CVPR 20243D Building Reconstruction from Monocular Remote Sensing Images with Multi-level Supervisions
- CVPR 2024A Unified Framework for Microscopy Defocus Deblur with Multi-Pyramid Transformer and Contrastive Learning
- CVPR 2024Accurate Spatial Gene Expression Prediction by Integrating Multi-Resolution Features
- CVPR 2024Action-slot: Visual Action-centric Representations for Multi-label Atomic Activity Recognition in Traffic Scenes
- CVPR 2024ADA-Track: End-to-End Multi-Camera 3D Multi-Object Tracking with Alternating Detection and Association
- CVPR 2024Adaptive Multi-Modal Cross-Entropy Loss for Stereo Matching
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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.