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 7 of 12
- ICML 2025Revisiting Cooperative Off-Policy Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2025Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Stochastic Adversary
- ICML 2025Sable: a Performant, Efficient and Scalable Sequence Model for MARL
- ICML 2025Securing Equal Share: A Principled Approach for Learning Multiplayer Symmetric Games
- ICML 2025SHIELD: Multi-task Multi-distribution Vehicle Routing Solver with Sparsity and Hierarchy
- ICML 2025Super Deep Contrastive Information Bottleneck for Multi-modal Clustering
- ICML 2025Synthesizing Software Engineering Data in a Test-Driven Manner
- ICML 2025The impact of uncertainty on regularized learning in games
- ICML 2025Tight and Fast Bounds for Multi-Label Learning
- ICML 2025Towards Practical Defect-Focused Automated Code Review
- ICML 2025Towards the Causal Complete Cause of Multi-Modal Representation Learning
- ICML 2025Training a Generally Curious Agent
- ICML 2025Understanding Bias Reinforcement in LLM Agents Debate
- ICML 2025Unisoma: A Unified Transformer-based Solver for Multi-Solid Systems
- ICML 2025What Limits Virtual Agent Application? OmniBench: A Scalable Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Essential Virtual Agent Capabilities
- ICML 2025Which Agent Causes Task Failures and When? On Automated Failure Attribution of LLM Multi-Agent Systems
- ICML 2025Windows Agent Arena: Evaluating Multi-Modal OS Agents at Scale
- ICML 2025Wolfpack Adversarial Attack for Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2025You Always Recognize Me (YARM): Robust Texture Synthesis Against Multi-View Corruption
- NeurIPS 2025$i$MIND: Insightful Multi-subject Invariant Neural Decoding
- NeurIPS 20253DLLM-Mem: Long-Term Spatial-Temporal Memory for Embodied 3D Large Language Model
- NeurIPS 2025A High-Dimensional Statistical Method for Optimizing Transfer Quantities in Multi-Source Transfer Learning
- NeurIPS 2025A machine learning approach that beats Rubik's cubes
- NeurIPS 2025A Near-optimal, Scalable and Parallelizable Framework for Stochastic Bandits Robust to Adversarial Corruptions and Beyond
- NeurIPS 2025A Principle of Targeted Intervention for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Adaptive and Multi-scale Affinity Alignment for Hierarchical Contrastive Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Adaptive Context Length Optimization with Low-Frequency Truncation for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Aeolus: A Multi-structural Flight Delay Dataset
- NeurIPS 2025AgentBreeder: Mitigating the AI Safety Risks of Multi-Agent Scaffolds via Self-Improvement
- NeurIPS 2025AgentNet: Decentralized Evolutionary Coordination for LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems
- NeurIPS 2025AgentTTS: Large Language Model Agent for Test-time Compute-optimal Scaling Strategy in Complex Tasks
- NeurIPS 2025Algorithms and SQ Lower Bounds for Robustly Learning Real-valued Multi-Index Models
- NeurIPS 2025Alleviating Hallucinations in Large Language Models through Multi-Model Contrastive Decoding and Dynamic Hallucination Detection
- NeurIPS 2025Analogy-based Multi-Turn Jailbreak against Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025APIGen-MT: Agentic Pipeline for Multi-Turn Data Generation via Simulated Agent-Human Interplay
- NeurIPS 2025AutoData: A Multi-Agent System for Open Web Data Collection
- NeurIPS 2025Automated Composition of Agents: A Knapsack Approach for Agentic Component Selection
- NeurIPS 2025Bandit Guided Submodular Curriculum for Adaptive Subset Selection
- NeurIPS 2025Bayesian Ego-graph inference for Networked Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Belief-Calibrated Multi-Agent Consensus Seeking for Complex NLP Tasks
- NeurIPS 2025Bernstein–von Mises for Adaptively Collected Data
- NeurIPS 2025Bi-Level Knowledge Transfer for Multi-Task Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Bit-swapping Oriented Twin-memory Multi-view Clustering in Lifelong Incomplete Scenarios
- NeurIPS 2025CAML: Collaborative Auxiliary Modality Learning for Multi-Agent Systems
- NeurIPS 2025Can Agent Fix Agent Issues?
- NeurIPS 2025Can Class-Priors Help Single-Positive Multi-Label Learning?
- NeurIPS 2025Can Dependencies Induced by LLM-Agent Workflows Be Trusted?
- NeurIPS 2025Causal Spatio-Temporal Prediction: An Effective and Efficient Multi-Modal Approach
- NeurIPS 2025Causality Meets Locality: Provably Generalizable and Scalable Policy Learning for Networked Systems
- NeurIPS 2025Centralized Reward Agent for Knowledge Sharing and Transfer in Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning
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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.