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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401. ICML 2024R2E: Turning any Github Repository into a Programming Agent Environment
402. ICML 2024Regression with Multi-Expert Deferral
403. ICML 2024Representation Surgery for Multi-Task Model Merging
404. ICML 2024Reward Shaping for Reinforcement Learning with An Assistant Reward Agent
405. ICML 2024Robust Multi-Task Learning with Excess Risks
406. ICML 2024Sample-Efficient Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in the Face of Environmental Uncertainty
407. ICML 2024Sampling-based Multi-dimensional Recalibration
408. ICML 2024Scalable Safe Policy Improvement for Factored Multi-Agent MDPs
409. ICML 2024Sequential Asynchronous Action Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems: A Stackelberg Decision Transformer Approach
410. ICML 2024Should we be going MAD? A Look at Multi-Agent Debate Strategies for LLMs
411. ICML 2024Size-invariance Matters: Rethinking Metrics and Losses for Imbalanced Multi-object Salient Object Detection
412. ICML 2024SleepFM: Multi-modal Representation Learning for Sleep Across Brain Activity, ECG and Respiratory Signals
413. ICML 2024Smooth Tchebycheff Scalarization for Multi-Objective Optimization
414. ICML 2024Socialized Learning: Making Each Other Better Through Multi-Agent Collaboration
415. ICML 2024SPHINX-X: Scaling Data and Parameters for a Family of Multi-modal Large Language Models
416. ICML 2024Towards Resource-friendly, Extensible and Stable Incomplete Multi-view Clustering
417. ICML 2024Towards Unified Multi-granularity Text Detection with Interactive Attention
418. ICML 2024Unbiased Multi-Label Learning from Crowdsourced Annotations
419. ICML 2024UniCorn: A Unified Contrastive Learning Approach for Multi-view Molecular Representation Learning
420. ICML 2024Weakly-Supervised Residual Evidential Learning for Multi-Instance Uncertainty Estimation
421. ICML 2024WebLINX: Real-World Website Navigation with Multi-Turn Dialogue
422. ICML 2023A Conditional Normalizing Flow for Accelerated Multi-Coil MR Imaging
423. ICML 2023A Framework for Adapting Offline Algorithms to Solve Combinatorial Multi-Armed Bandit Problems with Bandit Feedback
424. ICML 2023A Game-Theoretic Framework for Managing Risk in Multi-Agent Systems
425. ICML 2023A Group Symmetric Stochastic Differential Equation Model for Molecule Multi-modal Pretraining
426. ICML 2023An Adaptive Entropy-Regularization Framework for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
427. ICML 2023Atari-5: Distilling the Arcade Learning Environment down to Five Games
428. ICML 2023Attention-Based Recurrence for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning under Stochastic Partial Observability
429. ICML 2023Best Arm Identification in Multi-Agent Multi-Armed Bandits
430. ICML 2023Collaborative Multi-Agent Heterogeneous Multi-Armed Bandits
431. ICML 2023Competing for Shareable Arms in Multi-Player Multi-Armed Bandits
432. ICML 2023Complementary Attention for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
433. ICML 2023Context-Aware Bayesian Network Actor-Critic Methods for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
434. ICML 2023Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Asynchronous Communication and Linear Function Approximation
435. ICML 2023Cut your Losses with Squentropy
436. ICML 2023Discover-Then-Rank Unlabeled Support Vectors in the Dual Space for Multi-Class Active Learning
437. ICML 2023DoMo-AC: Doubly Multi-step Off-policy Actor-Critic Algorithm
438. ICML 2023DRew: Dynamically Rewired Message Passing with Delay
439. ICML 2023DSGD-CECA: Decentralized SGD with Communication-Optimal Exact Consensus Algorithm
440. ICML 2023Efficient RL via Disentangled Environment and Agent Representations
441. ICML 2023Efficient Transformed Gaussian Processes for Non-Stationary Dependent Multi-class Classification
442. ICML 2023End-to-End Multi-Object Detection with a Regularized Mixture Model
443. ICML 2023Entity Divider with Language Grounding in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
444. ICML 2023Fast Rates in Time-Varying Strongly Monotone Games
445. ICML 2023FedAvg Converges to Zero Training Loss Linearly for Overparameterized Multi-Layer Neural Networks
446. ICML 2023Hierarchies of Reward Machines
447. ICML 2023Improved Active Multi-Task Representation Learning via Lasso
448. ICML 2023Improved Algorithms for Multi-period Multi-class Packing Problems with Bandit Feedback
449. ICML 2023Improved Learning-Augmented Algorithms for the Multi-Option Ski Rental Problem via Best-Possible Competitive Analysis
450. ICML 2023K-SHAP: Policy Clustering Algorithm for Anonymous Multi-Agent State-Action Pairs

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.