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

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351. ICML 2024BOtied: Multi-objective Bayesian optimization with tied multivariate ranks
352. ICML 2024Can Looped Transformers Learn to Implement Multi-step Gradient Descent for In-context Learning?
353. ICML 2024Configurable Mirror Descent: Towards a Unification of Decision Making
354. ICML 2024Conformal prediction for multi-dimensional time series by ellipsoidal sets
355. ICML 2024Contrasting Multiple Representations with the Multi-Marginal Matching Gap
356. ICML 2024Controlling Behavioral Diversity in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
357. ICML 2024Correlation-Induced Label Prior for Semi-Supervised Multi-Label Learning
358. ICML 2024Decouple then Classify: A Dynamic Multi-view Labeling Strategy with Shared and Specific Information
359. ICML 2024Detecting Influence Structures in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
360. ICML 2024DS-Agent: Automated Data Science by Empowering Large Language Models with Case-Based Reasoning
361. ICML 2024EDISON: Enhanced Dictionary-Induced Tensorized Incomplete Multi-View Clustering with Gaussian Error Rank Minimization
362. ICML 2024Federated Combinatorial Multi-Agent Multi-Armed Bandits
363. ICML 2024FightLadder: A Benchmark for Competitive Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
364. ICML 2024Floating Anchor Diffusion Model for Multi-motif Scaffolding
365. ICML 2024Generalization Analysis for Multi-Label Learning
366. ICML 2024GPT-4V(ision) is a Generalist Web Agent, if Grounded
367. ICML 2024HGAP: Boosting Permutation Invariant and Permutation Equivariant in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Graph Attention Network
368. ICML 2024Impact of Decentralized Learning on Player Utilities in Stackelberg Games
369. ICML 2024Improving Sample Efficiency of Model-Free Algorithms for Zero-Sum Markov Games
370. ICML 2024Improving Transformers with Dynamically Composable Multi-Head Attention
371. ICML 2024Incentivized Learning in Principal-Agent Bandit Games
372. ICML 2024Individual Contributions as Intrinsic Exploration Scaffolds for Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
373. ICML 2024LAGMA: LAtent Goal-guided Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
374. ICML 2024Leveraging (Biased) Information: Multi-armed Bandits with Offline Data
375. ICML 2024Locally Interdependent Multi-Agent MDP: Theoretical Framework for Decentralized Agents with Dynamic Dependencies
376. ICML 2024MAGDi: Structured Distillation of Multi-Agent Interaction Graphs Improves Reasoning in Smaller Language Models
377. ICML 2024Major-Minor Mean Field Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
378. ICML 2024MaSS: Multi-attribute Selective Suppression for Utility-preserving Data Transformation from an Information-theoretic Perspective
379. ICML 2024MLIP: Efficient Multi-Perspective Language-Image Pretraining with Exhaustive Data Utilization
380. ICML 2024Model Tailor: Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Multi-modal Large Language Models
381. ICML 2024Model-Based RL for Mean-Field Games is not Statistically Harder than Single-Agent RL
382. ICML 2024Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Meets Leaf Sequencing in Radiotherapy
383. ICML 2024Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Hierarchical Coordination for Emergency Responder Stationing
384. ICML 2024Multi-group Learning for Hierarchical Groups
385. ICML 2024Multi-Region Markovian Gaussian Process: An Efficient Method to Discover Directional Communications Across Multiple Brain Regions
386. ICML 2024Multi-Sender Persuasion: A Computational Perspective
387. ICML 2024Multi-Source Conformal Inference Under Distribution Shift
388. ICML 2024Multi-Track Message Passing: Tackling Oversmoothing and Oversquashing in Graph Learning via Preventing Heterophily Mixing
389. ICML 2024Multi-View Stochastic Block Models
390. ICML 2024MultiMax: Sparse and Multi-Modal Attention Learning
391. ICML 2024Neural Collapse in Multi-label Learning with Pick-all-label Loss
392. ICML 2024On Interpolating Experts and Multi-Armed Bandits
393. ICML 2024On Multi-Armed Bandit with Impatient Arms
394. ICML 2024On the Feasibility of Single-Pass Full-Capacity Learning in Linear Threshold Neurons with Binary Input Vectors
395. ICML 2024Optimistic Multi-Agent Policy Gradient
396. ICML 2024Pedestrian Attribute Recognition as Label-balanced Multi-label Learning
397. ICML 2024PointMC: Multi-instance Point Cloud Registration based on Maximal Cliques
398. ICML 2024Prediction Accuracy of Learning in Games : Follow-the-Regularized-Leader meets Heisenberg
399. ICML 2024Provable Multi-Task Representation Learning by Two-Layer ReLU Neural Networks
400. ICML 2024Provably Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Adversarial Restless Multi-Armed Bandits with Unknown Transitions and Bandit Feedback

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.