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

2,126 papers, page 4 of 43

151. CVPR 2026TaskForce Cooperative Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Multi-task Optimization
152. CVPR 2026TeFlow Enabling Multi-frame Supervision for Self-Supervised Feed-forward Scene Flow Estimation
153. CVPR 2026Temporal Interaction in Spiking Transformers with Multi-Delay Mixer
154. CVPR 2026The Consistency Critic Correcting Inconsistencies in Generated Images via Reference-Guided
155. CVPR 2026Think Then Verify A Hypothesis-Verification Multi-Agent Framework for Long Video
156. CVPR 2026TopoMA Topology-Guided Multi-Agent Dense RGB 3D Reconstruction via Distributed Inference
157. CVPR 2026Towards Balanced Multi-Modal Learning in 3D Human Pose Estimation
158. CVPR 2026Towards Robust Multi-Modal Semantic Segmentation with Teacher-Student Framework and Hybrid
159. CVPR 2026TROPHIES Temporal Reconstruction of Places Humans and Cameras from Multi-view
160. CVPR 2026Unifying Precise Keyframes and Semantic Control via Multi-level Diffusion
161. CVPR 2026Universal Guideline-Driven Image Clustering via a Hybrid LLM Agent
162. CVPR 2026Unsupervised Multi-agent and Single-agent Perception from Cooperative Views
163. CVPR 2026VGGT-Det Mining VGGT Internal Priors for Sensor-Geometry-Free Multi-View Indoor 3D
164. CVPR 2026ViBES A Conversational Agent with Behaviorally-Intelligent 3D Virtual Body
165. CVPR 2026VideoChat-M1 Collaborative Policy Planning for Video Understanding via Multi-Agent Reinforcement
166. CVPR 2026VideoSeek Long-Horizon Video Agent with Tool-Guided Seeking
167. CVPR 2026Visual Document Understanding and Reasoning A Multi-Agent Collaboration Framework with
168. CVPR 2026VS-Bench Evaluating VLMs for Strategic Abilities in Multi-Agent Environments
169. CVPR 2026VULCAN Tool-Augmented Multi Agents for Iterative 3D Object Arrangement
170. CVPR 2026WeatherCity Urban Scene Reconstruction with Controllable Multi-Weather Transformation
171. CVPR 2026When CLIP Sees More It Fights Back Harder Multi-View Guided
172. CVPR 2026Will Multimodal Models Be Dazzled by Multi-Image Visual Puzzles
173. ICLR 2026A Framework for Studying AI Agent Behavior: Evidence from Consumer Choice Experiments
174. ICLR 2026A Generalized Geometric Theoretical Framework of Centroid Discriminant Analysis for Linear Classification of Multi-dimensional Data
175. ICLR 2026A$^2$Search: Ambiguity-Aware Question Answering with Reinforcement Learning
176. ICLR 2026A2ASecBench: A Protocol-Aware Security Benchmark for Agent-to-Agent Multi-Agent Systems
177. ICLR 2026Adaptive Collaboration with Humans: Metacognitive Policy Optimization for Multi-Agent LLMs with Continual Learning
178. ICLR 2026Advancing Multi-agent Traffic Simulation via R1-Style Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
179. ICLR 2026Aegis: Automated Error Generation and Identification for Multi-Agent Systems
180. ICLR 2026Agent Data Protocol
181. ICLR 2026AgentGym-RL: An Open-Source Framework to Train LLM Agents for Long-Horizon Decision Making via Multi-Turn RL
182. ICLR 2026AI-for-Science Low-code Platform with Bayesian Adversarial Multi-Agent Framework
183. ICLR 2026All-day Multi-scenes Lifelong Vision-and-Language Navigation with Tucker Adaptation
184. ICLR 2026ARMs: Adaptive Red-Teaming Agent against Multimodal Models with Plug-and-Play Attacks
185. ICLR 2026ATLAS: Constraints-Aware Multi-Agent Collaboration for Real-World Travel Planning
186. ICLR 2026Back to Square Roots: An Optimal Bound on the Matrix Factorization Error for Multi-Epoch Differentially Private SGD
187. ICLR 2026Benchmarking Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Power Grid Operations
188. ICLR 2026Beyond Multi-Token Prediction: Pretraining LLMs with Future Summaries
189. ICLR 2026Breaking and Fixing Defenses Against Control Flow Hijacking in Multi-Agent Systems
190. ICLR 2026Calibrated Information Bottleneck for Trusted Multi-modal Clustering
191. ICLR 2026Can Language Models Discover Scaling Laws?
192. ICLR 2026CARD: Towards Conditional Design of Multi-agent Topological Structures
193. ICLR 2026CellAgent: LLM-Driven Multi-Agent Framework for Natural Language-Based Single-Cell Analysis
194. ICLR 2026CHAMMI-75: pre-training multi-channel models with heterogeneous microscopy images
195. ICLR 2026ChatInject: Abusing Chat Templates for Prompt Injection in LLM Agents
196. ICLR 2026CoAct-1: Computer-using Multi-agent System with Coding Actions
197. ICLR 2026CoDA: Agentic Systems for Collaborative Data Visualization
198. ICLR 2026CoLLMLight: Cooperative Large Language Model Agents for Network-Wide Traffic Signal Control
199. ICLR 2026CoMAS: Co-Evolving Multi-Agent Systems via Interaction Rewards
200. ICLR 2026Completing Missing Annotation: Multi-Agent Debate for Accurate and Scalable Relevant Assessment for IR Benchmarks

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.