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 2026ASTRA: Communication-Efficient Acceleration for Multi-Device Transformer Inference
352. ICML 2026Attention Implements the Fisher Geometry of Exponential Families
353. ICML 2026Automata-Conditioned Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
354. ICML 2026AutoMS: Multi-Agent Evolutionary Search for Cross-Physics Inverse Microstructure Design
355. ICML 2026Beyond Correctness: Distance-Based Social Dynamics of Multi-Agent Debate
356. ICML 2026Beyond Gemini-3-Pro: Revisiting LLM Routing and Aggregation at Scale
357. ICML 2026Beyond Magnitude: Scale-Invariant Evidential Fusion for Multi-View Classification
358. ICML 2026Beyond Majority Voting: LLM Aggregation by Leveraging Higher-Order Information
359. ICML 2026BioAgent Bench: An AI Agent Evaluation Suite for Bioinformatics
360. ICML 2026Causal Detection of Multi-Step LLM Agent Attacks
361. ICML 2026Causal Disentangled Anchor Learning for Scalable Fair Multi-view Clustering
362. ICML 2026CausalGame: Benchmarking Causal Thinking of LLM Agents in Games
363. ICML 2026CG-MLLM: Captioning and Generating 3D content via Multi-modal Large Language Models
364. ICML 2026Collaborative Disagreement Resolution for Scalable Oversight
365. ICML 2026Constrained Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning with Max-Min Criterion
366. ICML 2026Contractive Anchor Resolvent Diffusion for Incomplete Multi-View Clustering
367. ICML 2026CORRECT: COndensed eRror RECognition via knowledge Transfer in multi-agent systems
368. ICML 2026CyberJurors: A Multi-Agent Simulation Task for E-Commerce Disputes Verdict
369. ICML 2026Cycle-of-Science: Reliable Reasoning through Counterfactual Verification for Agent Decision Making
370. ICML 2026Darwinian Memory: A Training-Free Self-Regulating Memory System for GUI Agent Evolution
371. ICML 2026Data Agent: Learning to Select Data via End-to-End Dynamic Optimization
372. ICML 2026Data-driven Mixed Integer Optimization through Probabilistic Multi-variable Branching
373. ICML 2026daVinci-Dev: Agent-native Mid-training for Software Engineering
374. ICML 2026De-Linearizing Agent Traces: Bayesian Inference of Latent Partial Orders for Efficient Execution
375. ICML 2026Decentralized and Disentangled Task–Role Representation Learning for Generalizable Offline Multi-Agent Meta Reinforcement Learning
376. ICML 2026DECOR: Learning to Decompose and Collaborate in Deep Search via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
377. ICML 2026Deep Learning of Compositional Targets with Hierarchical Spectral Methods
378. ICML 2026Deep Multi-view Graph Clustering via Attribute-aware Bidirectional Structural Refinement and Pseudo-label Guided Multi-level Fusion
379. ICML 2026Demystifying the Optimal Fair Classifier in Multi-Class Classification
380. ICML 2026Detecting Perspective Shifts in Multi-Agent Systems
381. ICML 2026DGG-HMR: Multi-Person Human Mesh Recovery with Depth-Guided Geometric Anchoring
382. ICML 2026Discretely-Refined Multi-view Clustering via Aligned Anchor Learning
383. ICML 2026Distributionally Robust Markov Games with Average Reward
384. ICML 2026DLM: Unified Decision Language Model for Offline Multi-Agent Sequential Decision Making
385. ICML 2026Domain Restriction via SAE Multi-Layer Transitions
386. ICML 2026DRIFT-BENCH: Diagnosing CoopeRative Breakdowns in LLM Agents under Input Faults via Multi-Turn Interaction
387. ICML 2026Dual Latent Memory for Visual Multi-agent System
388. ICML 2026Dual-Calibration Multi-View Clustering via Compact Anchor Learning
389. ICML 2026Dual-channel Dynamic Graph Neural Networks with Adaptive Adjacency Learning and Multi-scale Representation Fusion
390. ICML 2026Dual-stage Contrastive Learning-enhanced Multi-view Variational Clustering
391. ICML 2026E-mem: Multi-Agent Based Episodic Context Reconstruction for LLM Agent Memory
392. ICML 2026EduMirror: Modeling Educational Social Dynamics with Value-driven Multi-agent Simulation
393. ICML 2026Efficient Multi-Agent Reasoning via Confidence-Guided Adaptive Debate
394. ICML 2026Emergence of Biased Consensus in Multi-Agent LLM Debates
395. ICML 2026Enhanced Multi-Instance Partial Label Learning via Average Gradient Outer Product
396. ICML 2026Entangled No More: Multi-Domain Decoupling for Robust Dynamic Graph Neural Networks
397. ICML 2026Epistemic Gain, Aleatoric Cost: Uncertainty Decomposition in Multi-Agent Debate for Math Reasoning
398. ICML 2026Evaluating and Steering Modality Preferences in Multi-modal LLMs
399. ICML 2026Evolving Interpretable Constitutions for Multi-Agent Coordination
400. ICML 2026EvoMAS: Evolutionary Generation of Multi-Agent Systems

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.