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 34 of 43
- ICML 2024Reward Shaping for Reinforcement Learning with An Assistant Reward Agent
- ICML 2024Robust Multi-Task Learning with Excess Risks
- ICML 2024Sample-Efficient Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in the Face of Environmental Uncertainty
- ICML 2024Sampling-based Multi-dimensional Recalibration
- ICML 2024Scalable Safe Policy Improvement for Factored Multi-Agent MDPs
- ICML 2024Sequential Asynchronous Action Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems: A Stackelberg Decision Transformer Approach
- ICML 2024Should we be going MAD? A Look at Multi-Agent Debate Strategies for LLMs
- ICML 2024Size-invariance Matters: Rethinking Metrics and Losses for Imbalanced Multi-object Salient Object Detection
- ICML 2024SleepFM: Multi-modal Representation Learning for Sleep Across Brain Activity, ECG and Respiratory Signals
- ICML 2024Smooth Tchebycheff Scalarization for Multi-Objective Optimization
- ICML 2024Socialized Learning: Making Each Other Better Through Multi-Agent Collaboration
- ICML 2024SPHINX-X: Scaling Data and Parameters for a Family of Multi-modal Large Language Models
- ICML 2024Towards Resource-friendly, Extensible and Stable Incomplete Multi-view Clustering
- ICML 2024Towards Unified Multi-granularity Text Detection with Interactive Attention
- ICML 2024Unbiased Multi-Label Learning from Crowdsourced Annotations
- ICML 2024UniCorn: A Unified Contrastive Learning Approach for Multi-view Molecular Representation Learning
- ICML 2024Weakly-Supervised Residual Evidential Learning for Multi-Instance Uncertainty Estimation
- ICML 2024WebLINX: Real-World Website Navigation with Multi-Turn Dialogue
- NeurIPS 20243D Focusing-and-Matching Network for Multi-Instance Point Cloud Registration
- NeurIPS 2024A Benchmark Dataset for Event-Guided Human Pose Estimation and Tracking in Extreme Conditions
- NeurIPS 2024A Boosting-Type Convergence Result for AdaBoost.MH with Factorized Multi-Class Classifiers
- NeurIPS 2024A Decision-Language Model (DLM) for Dynamic Restless Multi-Armed Bandit Tasks in Public Health
- NeurIPS 2024A Global Depth-Range-Free Multi-View Stereo Transformer Network with Pose Embedding
- NeurIPS 2024A New Multi-Source Light Detection Benchmark and Semi-Supervised Focal Light Detection
- NeurIPS 2024A Unifying Post-Processing Framework for Multi-Objective Learn-to-Defer Problems
- NeurIPS 2024Activating Self-Attention for Multi-Scene Absolute Pose Regression
- NeurIPS 2024AdaSociety: An Adaptive Environment with Social Structures for Multi-Agent Decision-Making
- NeurIPS 2024Addressing Spectral Bias of Deep Neural Networks by Multi-Grade Deep Learning
- NeurIPS 2024AgentBoard: An Analytical Evaluation Board of Multi-turn LLM Agents
- NeurIPS 2024AlchemistCoder: Harmonizing and Eliciting Code Capability by Hindsight Tuning on Multi-source Data
- NeurIPS 2024Aligning Individual and Collective Objectives in Multi-Agent Cooperation
- NeurIPS 2024Alleviate Anchor-Shift: Explore Blind Spots with Cross-View Reconstruction for Incomplete Multi-View Clustering
- NeurIPS 2024Almost Minimax Optimal Best Arm Identification in Piecewise Stationary Linear Bandits
- NeurIPS 2024Bandits with Abstention under Expert Advice
- NeurIPS 2024BELM: Bidirectional Explicit Linear Multi-step Sampler for Exact Inversion in Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024BenchMARL: Benchmarking Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2024BitDelta: Your Fine-Tune May Only Be Worth One Bit
- NeurIPS 2024Boosting Sample Efficiency and Generalization in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning via Equivariance
- NeurIPS 2024Bridging Gaps: Federated Multi-View Clustering in Heterogeneous Hybrid Views
- NeurIPS 2024BuckTales: A multi-UAV dataset for multi-object tracking and re-identification of wild antelopes
- NeurIPS 2024CAT: Coordinating Anatomical-Textual Prompts for Multi-Organ and Tumor Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024ClavaDDPM: Multi-relational Data Synthesis with Cluster-guided Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Contracting with a Learning Agent
- NeurIPS 2024ConvBench: A Multi-Turn Conversation Evaluation Benchmark with Hierarchical Ablation Capability for Large Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024Cooperation, Competition, and Maliciousness: LLM-Stakeholders Interactive Negotiation
- NeurIPS 2024Customized Multiple Clustering via Multi-Modal Subspace Proxy Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Decision Mamba: A Multi-Grained State Space Model with Self-Evolution Regularization for Offline RL
- NeurIPS 2024DeepStack: Deeply Stacking Visual Tokens is Surprisingly Simple and Effective for LMMs
- NeurIPS 2024Derandomizing Multi-Distribution Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Dispelling the Mirage of Progress in Offline MARL through Standardised Baselines and Evaluation
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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.