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
574 papers, page 5 of 12
- ICLR 2025VVC-Gym: A Fixed-Wing UAV Reinforcement Learning Environment for Multi-Goal Long-Horizon Problems
- ICLR 2025Weak to Strong Generalization for Large Language Models with Multi-capabilities
- ICLR 2025Weighted Multi-Prompt Learning with Description-free Large Language Model Distillation
- ICLR 2025When LLMs Play the Telephone Game: Cultural Attractors as Conceptual Tools to Evaluate LLMs in Multi-turn Settings
- ICML 2025A Classification View on Meta Learning Bandits
- ICML 2025A Peer-review Look on Multi-modal Clustering: An Information Bottleneck Realization Method
- ICML 2025A Unified Comparative Study with Generalized Conformity Scores for Multi-Output Conformal Regression
- ICML 2025Ad-Hoc Human-AI Coordination Challenge
- ICML 2025Adaptive Sample Sharing for Multi Agent Linear Bandits
- ICML 2025Agent Reviewers: Domain-specific Multimodal Agents with Shared Memory for Paper Review
- ICML 2025Agent Workflow Memory
- ICML 2025Agent-Centric Actor-Critic for Asynchronous Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2025An Effective and Secure Federated Multi-View Clustering Method with Information-Theoretic Perspective
- ICML 2025Are Large Language Models Ready for Multi-Turn Tabular Data Analysis?
- ICML 2025AssistanceZero: Scalably Solving Assistance Games
- ICML 2025Automatically Identify and Rectify: Robust Deep Contrastive Multi-view Clustering in Noisy Scenarios
- ICML 2025AutoML-Agent: A Multi-Agent LLM Framework for Full-Pipeline AutoML
- ICML 2025BalancEdit: Dynamically Balancing the Generality-Locality Trade-off in Multi-modal Model Editing
- ICML 2025Beyond Minimax Rates in Group Distributionally Robust Optimization via a Novel Notion of Sparsity
- ICML 2025Beyond The Rainbow: High Performance Deep Reinforcement Learning on a Desktop PC
- ICML 2025Bifurcate then Alienate: Incomplete Multi-view Clustering via Coupled Distribution Learning with Linear Overhead
- ICML 2025Boosting Multi-Domain Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models through Evolving Interactions between Samples
- ICML 2025Boosting Virtual Agent Learning and Reasoning: A Step-Wise, Multi-Dimensional, and Generalist Reward Model with Benchmark
- ICML 2025Breaking the Curse of Multiagency in Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2025BRIDGE: Bootstrapping Text to Control Time-Series Generation via Multi-Agent Iterative Optimization and Diffusion Modeling
- ICML 2025Code-Generated Graph Representations Using Multiple LLM Agents for Material Properties Prediction
- ICML 2025Concurrent Reinforcement Learning with Aggregated States via Randomized Least Squares Value Iteration
- ICML 2025Continuous-Time Analysis of Heavy Ball Momentum in Min-Max Games
- ICML 2025Core Knowledge Deficits in Multi-Modal Language Models
- ICML 2025Counterfactual Effect Decomposition in Multi-Agent Sequential Decision Making
- ICML 2025Cowpox: Towards the Immunity of VLM-based Multi-Agent Systems
- ICML 2025Craftium: Bridging Flexibility and Efficiency for Rich 3D Single- and Multi-Agent Environments
- ICML 2025Cross-environment Cooperation Enables Zero-shot Multi-agent Coordination
- ICML 2025Deep Fuzzy Multi-view Learning for Reliable Classification
- ICML 2025DipLLM: Fine-Tuning LLM for Strategic Decision-making in Diplomacy
- ICML 2025Distributionally Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Chute Mapping
- ICML 2025DragSolver: A Multi-Scale Transformer for Real-World Automotive Drag Coefficient Estimation
- ICML 2025DSP: Dynamic Sequence Parallelism for Multi-Dimensional Transformers
- ICML 2025EARL-BO: Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Step Lookahead, High-Dimensional Bayesian Optimization
- ICML 2025Efficient Federated Incomplete Multi-View Clustering
- ICML 2025EmbodiedBench: Comprehensive Benchmarking Multi-modal Large Language Models for Vision-Driven Embodied Agents
- ICML 2025EmoGrowth: Incremental Multi-label Emotion Decoding with Augmented Emotional Relation Graph
- ICML 2025Enhancing Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with State Modelling and Adversarial Exploration
- ICML 2025EvoControl: Multi-Frequency Bi-Level Control for High-Frequency Continuous Control
- ICML 2025Fast Incomplete Multi-view Clustering by Flexible Anchor Learning
- ICML 2025Federated Incomplete Multi-view Clustering with Globally Fused Graph Guidance
- ICML 2025Finite-Time Global Optimality Convergence in Deep Neural Actor-Critic Methods for Decentralized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2025From Debate to Equilibrium: Belief‑Driven Multi‑Agent LLM Reasoning via Bayesian Nash Equilibrium
- ICML 2025From Spectrum-free towards Baseline-view-free: Double-track Proximity Driven Multi-view Clustering
- ICML 2025Fundamental limits of learning in sequence multi-index models and deep attention networks: high-dimensional asymptotics and sharp thresholds
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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.