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
2,126 papers, page 31 of 43
- CVPR 2024mPLUG-Owl2: Revolutionizing Multi-modal Large Language Model with Modality Collaboration
- CVPR 2024Multi-agent Collaborative Perception via Motion-aware Robust Communication Network
- CVPR 2024Multi-agent Long-term 3D Human Pose Forecasting via Interaction-aware Trajectory Conditioning
- CVPR 2024Multi-Modal Proxy Learning Towards Personalized Visual Multiple Clustering
- CVPR 2024Multi-Object Tracking in the Dark
- CVPR 2024Multi-Scale 3D Gaussian Splatting for Anti-Aliased Rendering
- CVPR 2024Multi-Session SLAM with Differentiable Wide-Baseline Pose Optimization
- CVPR 2024Multi-View Attentive Contextualization for Multi-View 3D Object Detection
- CVPR 2024Multiview Aerial Visual RECognition (MAVREC): Can Multi-view Improve Aerial Visual Perception?
- CVPR 2024MuRF: Multi-Baseline Radiance Fields
- CVPR 2024MVCPS-NeuS: Multi-view Constrained Photometric Stereo for Neural Surface Reconstruction
- CVPR 2024MVIP-NeRF: Multi-view 3D Inpainting on NeRF Scenes via Diffusion Prior
- CVPR 2024NeLF-Pro: Neural Light Field Probes for Multi-Scale Novel View Synthesis
- CVPR 2024OPERA: Alleviating Hallucination in Multi-Modal Large Language Models via Over-Trust Penalty and Retrospection-Allocation
- CVPR 2024Orchestrate Latent Expertise: Advancing Online Continual Learning with Multi-Level Supervision and Reverse Self-Distillation
- CVPR 2024OVMR: Open-Vocabulary Recognition with Multi-Modal References
- CVPR 2024Person-in-WiFi 3D: End-to-End Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation with Wi-Fi
- CVPR 2024Pink: Unveiling the Power of Referential Comprehension for Multi-modal LLMs
- CVPR 2024Pixel-level Semantic Correspondence through Layout-aware Representation Learning and Multi-scale Matching Integration
- CVPR 2024Promptable Behaviors: Personalizing Multi-Objective Rewards from Human Preferences
- CVPR 2024Rethinking Diffusion Model for Multi-Contrast MRI Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2024Rethinking Multi-view Representation Learning via Distilled Disentangling
- CVPR 2024Rethinking Transformers Pre-training for Multi-Spectral Satellite Imagery
- CVPR 2024Revisiting the Domain Shift and Sample Uncertainty in Multi-source Active Domain Transfer
- CVPR 2024RNb-NeuS: Reflectance and Normal-based Multi-View 3D Reconstruction
- CVPR 2024RTMO: Towards High-Performance One-Stage Real-Time Multi-Person Pose Estimation
- CVPR 2024S2MVTC: a Simple yet Efficient Scalable Multi-View Tensor Clustering
- CVPR 2024SDSTrack: Self-Distillation Symmetric Adapter Learning for Multi-Modal Visual Object Tracking
- CVPR 2024Self-Supervised Multi-Object Tracking with Path Consistency
- CVPR 2024SelfPose3d: Self-Supervised Multi-Person Multi-View 3d Pose Estimation
- CVPR 2024Sharingan: A Transformer Architecture for Multi-Person Gaze Following
- CVPR 2024Slice3D: Multi-Slice Occlusion-Revealing Single View 3D Reconstruction
- CVPR 2024SPAD: Spatially Aware Multi-View Diffusers
- CVPR 2024SuperNormal: Neural Surface Reconstruction via Multi-View Normal Integration
- CVPR 2024Suppress and Rebalance: Towards Generalized Multi-Modal Face Anti-Spoofing
- CVPR 2024TAMM: TriAdapter Multi-Modal Learning for 3D Shape Understanding
- CVPR 2024TeMO: Towards Text-Driven 3D Stylization for Multi-Object Meshes
- CVPR 2024Towards Calibrated Multi-label Deep Neural Networks
- CVPR 2024Towards Generalizable Multi-Object Tracking
- CVPR 2024TULIP: Multi-camera 3D Precision Assessment of Parkinson's Disease
- CVPR 2024Unsupervised Gaze Representation Learning from Multi-view Face Images
- CVPR 2024View-Category Interactive Sharing Transformer for Incomplete Multi-View Multi-Label Learning
- CVPR 2024ViewFusion: Towards Multi-View Consistency via Interpolated Denoising
- CVPR 2024Visual Anagrams: Generating Multi-View Optical Illusions with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024VMINer: Versatile Multi-view Inverse Rendering with Near- and Far-field Light Sources
- CVPR 2024What If the TV Was Off? Examining Counterfactual Reasoning Abilities of Multi-modal Language Models
- CVPR 2024What When and Where? Self-Supervised Spatio-Temporal Grounding in Untrimmed Multi-Action Videos from Narrated Instructions
- ICLR 2024A Multi-Level Framework for Accelerating Training Transformer Models
- ICLR 2024A Progressive Training Framework for Spiking Neural Networks with Learnable Multi-hierarchical Model
- ICLR 2024AgentVerse: Facilitating Multi-Agent Collaboration and Exploring Emergent Behaviors
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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.