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
496 papers, page 5 of 10
- CVPR 2025EarthDial: Turning Multi-sensory Earth Observations to Interactive Dialogues
- CVPR 2025Ego4o: Egocentric Human Motion Capture and Understanding from Multi-Modal Input
- CVPR 2025EgoLM: Multi-Modal Language Model of Egocentric Motions
- CVPR 2025Enhanced then Progressive Fusion with View Graph for Multi-View Clustering
- CVPR 2025Enhancing Testing-Time Robustness for Trusted Multi-View Classification in the Wild
- CVPR 2025Every SAM Drop Counts: Embracing Semantic Priors for Multi-Modality Image Fusion and Beyond
- CVPR 2025FaceBench: A Multi-View Multi-Level Facial Attribute VQA Dataset for Benchmarking Face Perception MLLMs
- CVPR 2025FADA: Fast Diffusion Avatar Synthesis with Mixed-Supervised Multi-CFG Distillation
- CVPR 2025Fast and Accurate Gigapixel Pathological Image Classification with Hierarchical Distillation Multi-Instance Learning
- CVPR 2025Finsler Multi-Dimensional Scaling: Manifold Learning for Asymmetric Dimensionality Reduction and Embedding
- CVPR 2025Fish-Vista: A Multi-Purpose Dataset for Understanding & Identification of Traits from Images
- CVPR 2025GeoAvatar: Geometrically-Consistent Multi-Person Avatar Reconstruction from Sparse Multi-View Videos
- CVPR 2025Geometry-guided Online 3D Video Synthesis with Multi-View Temporal Consistency
- CVPR 2025GeoMM: On Geodesic Perspective for Multi-modal Learning
- CVPR 2025GRAE-3DMOT: Geometry Relation-Aware Encoder for Online 3D Multi-Object Tracking
- CVPR 2025HOT3D: Hand and Object Tracking in 3D from Egocentric Multi-View Videos
- CVPR 2025HumanMM: Global Human Motion Recovery from Multi-shot Videos
- CVPR 2025Hybrid-Level Instruction Injection for Video Token Compression in Multi-modal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2025IDEA: Inverted Text with Cooperative Deformable Aggregation for Multi-modal Object Re-Identification
- CVPR 2025Identifying and Mitigating Spurious Correlation in Multi-Task Learning
- CVPR 2025IMFine: 3D Inpainting via Geometry-guided Multi-view Refinement
- CVPR 2025Imputation-free and Alignment-free: Incomplete Multi-view Clustering Driven by Consensus Semantic Learning
- CVPR 2025Incomplete Multi-modal Brain Tumor Segmentation via Learnable Sorting State Space Model
- CVPR 2025Incomplete Multi-View Multi-label Learning via Disentangled Representation and Label Semantic Embedding
- CVPR 2025Infighting in the Dark: Multi-Label Backdoor Attack in Federated Learning
- CVPR 2025KMD: Koopman Multi-modality Decomposition for Generalized Brain Tumor Segmentation under Incomplete Modalities
- CVPR 2025Large-scale Multi-view Tensor Clustering with Implicit Linear Kernels
- CVPR 2025Learning Compatible Multi-Prize Subnetworks for Asymmetric Retrieval
- CVPR 2025Learning to Detect Objects from Multi-Agent LiDAR Scans without Manual Labels
- CVPR 2025MAC-Ego3D: Multi-Agent Gaussian Consensus for Real-Time Collaborative Ego-Motion and Photorealistic 3D Reconstruction
- CVPR 2025MAGiC-SLAM: Multi-Agent Gaussian Globally Consistent SLAM
- CVPR 2025MammAlps: A Multi-view Video Behavior Monitoring Dataset of Wild Mammals in the Swiss Alps
- CVPR 2025Medusa: A Multi-Scale High-order Contrastive Dual-Diffusion Approach for Multi-View Clustering
- CVPR 2025MERGE: Multi-faceted Hierarchical Graph-based GNN for Gene Expression Prediction from Whole Slide Histopathology Images
- CVPR 2025MET3R: Measuring Multi-View Consistency in Generated Images
- CVPR 2025MITracker: Multi-View Integration for Visual Object Tracking
- CVPR 2025MMVU: Measuring Expert-Level Multi-Discipline Video Understanding
- CVPR 2025MNE-SLAM: Multi-Agent Neural SLAM for Mobile Robots
- CVPR 2025MobileMamba: Lightweight Multi-Receptive Visual Mamba Network
- CVPR 2025Model Poisoning Attacks to Federated Learning via Multi-Round Consistency
- CVPR 2025MonoInstance: Enhancing Monocular Priors via Multi-view Instance Alignment for Neural Rendering and Reconstruction
- CVPR 2025MOS-Attack: A Scalable Multi-objective Adversarial Attack Framework
- CVPR 2025Motions as Queries: One-Stage Multi-Person Holistic Human Motion Capture
- CVPR 2025Multi-Label Prototype Visual Spatial Search for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Multi-Layer Visual Feature Fusion in Multimodal LLMs: Methods, Analysis, and Best Practices
- CVPR 2025Multi-Modal Aerial-Ground Cross-View Place Recognition with Neural ODEs
- CVPR 2025Multi-modal Knowledge Distillation-based Human Trajectory Forecasting
- CVPR 2025Multi-modal Medical Diagnosis via Large-small Model Collaboration
- CVPR 2025Multi-View Pose-Agnostic Change Localization with Zero Labels
- CVPR 2025Multi-view Reconstruction via SfM-guided Monocular Depth Estimation
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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.