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
172 papers, page 3 of 4
- CVPR 2026MV3DIS Multi-View Mask Matching via 3D Guides for Zero-Shot 3D
- CVPR 2026Neural Field-Based 3D Surface Reconstruction of Microstructures from Multi-Detector Signals
- CVPR 2026Occlusion-Aware SORT Observing Occlusion for Robust Multi-Object Tracking
- CVPR 2026OMG-Avatar One-shot Multi-LOD Gaussian Head Avatar
- CVPR 2026OMGTex One-stage Multi-style Facial Texture Reconstruction without Geometry Guidance
- CVPR 2026OmniZip Learning a Unified and Lightweight Lossless Compressor for Multi-Modal
- CVPR 2026OpenFS Multi-Hand-Capable Fingerspelling Recognition with Implicit Signing-Hand Detection and Frame-Wise
- CVPR 2026OptiMVMap Offline Vectorized Map Construction via Optimal Multi-vehicle Perspectives
- CVPR 2026Orthogonal Spatial-Aware Multi-View Anchor Graph Clustering for Incomplete Remote Sensing
- CVPR 2026Otil Accelerating Diffusion Model Inference via Communication-Efficient Multi-GPU Parallelism
- CVPR 2026OVOD-Agent A Markov-Bandit Framework for Proactive Visual Reasoning and Self-Evolving
- CVPR 2026Paper2Figure A Multi-Agent Collaborative System for Figure Generation Towards Academic
- CVPR 2026PhenoYieldNet Learning Crop-Aware Phenological Responses for Multi-Crop Yield Prediction
- CVPR 2026PhotoFramer Multi-modal Image Composition Instruction
- CVPR 2026Plug-and-Play Incomplete Multi-View Clustering via Janus-Faced Affinity Learning with Topology
- CVPR 2026Predicting Spatial Transcriptomics from Histology Images via High-Order Multi-Cell Interaction
- CVPR 2026Progressive Multi-cue Alignment for Unaligned RGBT Tracking
- CVPR 2026ProgTrack A Multi-Object Tracking Algorithm with Progressive Matching Strategy
- CVPR 2026ProSoftArena Benchmarking Hierarchical Capabilities of Multi-modal Agents in Professional Software
- CVPR 2026QuCNet Quantum Deep Learning Driven Multi-Circuit Network for Remote Sensing
- CVPR 2026R2G A Multi-View Circuit Graph Benchmark Suite from RTL to
- CVPR 2026Rationale-Enhanced Decoding for Multi-modal Chain-of-Thought
- CVPR 2026Refer-Agent A Collaborative Multi-Agent System with Reasoning and Reflection for
- CVPR 2026Registration-Free Learnable Multi-View Capture of Faces in Dense Semantic Correspondence
- CVPR 2026Reliable Clustering Number Estimation for Contrastive Multi-View Clustering
- CVPR 2026Reliev3R Relieving Feed-forward 3D Reconstruction from Multi-View Geometric Annotations
- CVPR 2026Reparameterized Tensor Ring Functional Decomposition for Multi-Dimensional Data Recovery
- CVPR 2026Rethinking Position Embedding as a Context Controller for Multi-Reference and
- CVPR 2026Rethinking Two-Stage Referring-by-Tracking in Referring Multi-Object Tracking Make it Strong
- CVPR 2026Revisiting F-measure Optimization in Multi-Label Classification A Sampling-based Approach
- CVPR 2026Revisiting Sparsity Constraint Under High-Rank Property in Partial Multi-Label Learning
- CVPR 2026Revisiting Token Compression for Accelerating ViT-based Sparse Multi-View 3D Object
- CVPR 2026RLFTSim Realistic and Controllable Multi-Agent Traffic Simulation via Reinforcement Learning
- CVPR 2026Scalable Multi-View Subspace Clustering with Tensorized Anchor Guidance
- CVPR 2026Scenes as Tokens Multi-Scale Normal Distributions Transform Tokenizer for General
- CVPR 2026SciEducator Scientific Video Understanding and Educating via Deming-Cycle Multi-Agent System
- CVPR 2026SeeGroup Multi-Layer Depth Estimation of Transparent Surfaces via Self-Determined Grouping
- CVPR 2026SHands A Multi-View Dataset and Benchmark for Surgical Hand-Gesture and
- CVPR 2026ShreddingNet Coarse-to-Fine Restoration for Multi-Source Shredded Manuscripts
- CVPR 2026Sketch2Colab Sketch-Conditioned Multi-Human Animation via Controllable Flow Distillation
- CVPR 2026Skullptor High Fidelity 3D Head Reconstruction in Seconds with Multi-View
- CVPR 2026SkySense-VITA Towards Universal In-context Segmentation of Multi-modal Remote Sensing Imagery
- CVPR 2026SMV-EAR Bring Spatiotemporal Multi-View Representation Learning into Efficient Event-Based Action
- CVPR 2026Socratic-Geo Synthetic Data Generation and Cross-Modal Geometric Reasoning via Multi-Agent
- CVPR 2026SPE-MVS Spatial Position Encoding Enhanced Multi-View Stereo with Monocular Depth
- CVPR 2026SplatSuRe Selective Super-Resolution for Multi-view Consistent 3D Gaussian Splatting
- CVPR 2026SVAgent Storyline-guided Long Video Understanding via Cross-Modal Multi-Agent Collaboration
- CVPR 2026SyncMos Scalable Motion Synchronisation for Multi-Agent Scene Interaction
- CVPR 2026Tackling Model Bias via Game-theoretic Multi-agent Collaboration Framework for Hateful
- CVPR 2026TAMER A Tri-Modal Contrastive Alignment and Multi-Scale Embedding Refinement Framework
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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.