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
106 papers, page 1 of 3
- CVPR 20233D Concept Learning and Reasoning From Multi-View Images
- CVPR 20233Mformer: Multi-Order Multi-Mode Transformer for Skeletal Action Recognition
- CVPR 2023A Dynamic Multi-Scale Voxel Flow Network for Video Prediction
- CVPR 2023A Light Touch Approach to Teaching Transformers Multi-View Geometry
- CVPR 2023Adaptive Patch Deformation for Textureless-Resilient Multi-View Stereo
- CVPR 2023AeDet: Azimuth-Invariant Multi-View 3D Object Detection
- CVPR 2023Batch Model Consolidation: A Multi-Task Model Consolidation Framework
- CVPR 2023BiCro: Noisy Correspondence Rectification for Multi-Modality Data via Bi-Directional Cross-Modal Similarity Consistency
- CVPR 2023Black-Box Sparse Adversarial Attack via Multi-Objective Optimisation
- CVPR 2023Bridging the Gap Between Model Explanations in Partially Annotated Multi-Label Classification
- CVPR 2023CAPE: Camera View Position Embedding for Multi-View 3D Object Detection
- CVPR 2023Chat2Map: Efficient Scene Mapping From Multi-Ego Conversations
- CVPR 2023Class Prototypes Based Contrastive Learning for Classifying Multi-Label and Fine-Grained Educational Videos
- CVPR 2023CutMIB: Boosting Light Field Super-Resolution via Multi-View Image Blending
- CVPR 2023D2Former: Jointly Learning Hierarchical Detectors and Contextual Descriptors via Agent-Based Transformers
- CVPR 2023Decentralized Learning With Multi-Headed Distillation
- CVPR 2023Deep Incomplete Multi-View Clustering With Cross-View Partial Sample and Prototype Alignment
- CVPR 2023DeGPR: Deep Guided Posterior Regularization for Multi-Class Cell Detection and Counting
- CVPR 2023Detecting and Grounding Multi-Modal Media Manipulation
- CVPR 2023Dynamic Neural Network for Multi-Task Learning Searching Across Diverse Network Topologies
- CVPR 2023EqMotion: Equivariant Multi-Agent Motion Prediction With Invariant Interaction Reasoning
- CVPR 2023Exploring and Exploiting Uncertainty for Incomplete Multi-View Classification
- CVPR 2023Exploring Structured Semantic Prior for Multi Label Recognition With Incomplete Labels
- CVPR 2023FJMP: Factorized Joint Multi-Agent Motion Prediction Over Learned Directed Acyclic Interaction Graphs
- CVPR 2023Focus on Details: Online Multi-Object Tracking With Diverse Fine-Grained Representation
- CVPR 2023G-MSM: Unsupervised Multi-Shape Matching With Graph-Based Affinity Priors
- CVPR 2023Gated Multi-Resolution Transfer Network for Burst Restoration and Enhancement
- CVPR 2023GCFAgg: Global and Cross-View Feature Aggregation for Multi-View Clustering
- CVPR 2023GeoMVSNet: Learning Multi-View Stereo With Geometry Perception
- CVPR 2023High-Fidelity 3D GAN Inversion by Pseudo-Multi-View Optimization
- CVPR 2023Highly Confident Local Structure Based Consensus Graph Learning for Incomplete Multi-View Clustering
- CVPR 2023Implicit View-Time Interpolation of Stereo Videos Using Multi-Plane Disparities and Non-Uniform Coordinates
- CVPR 2023Indescribable Multi-Modal Spatial Evaluator
- CVPR 2023Instant Multi-View Head Capture Through Learnable Registration
- CVPR 2023Interventional Bag Multi-Instance Learning on Whole-Slide Pathological Images
- CVPR 2023IPCC-TP: Utilizing Incremental Pearson Correlation Coefficient for Joint Multi-Agent Trajectory Prediction
- CVPR 2023Joint Video Multi-Frame Interpolation and Deblurring Under Unknown Exposure Time
- CVPR 2023JRDB-Pose: A Large-Scale Dataset for Multi-Person Pose Estimation and Tracking
- CVPR 2023Learning Joint Latent Space EBM Prior Model for Multi-Layer Generator
- CVPR 2023Learning To Fuse Monocular and Multi-View Cues for Multi-Frame Depth Estimation in Dynamic Scenes
- CVPR 2023Lite DETR: An Interleaved Multi-Scale Encoder for Efficient DETR
- CVPR 2023M6Doc: A Large-Scale Multi-Format, Multi-Type, Multi-Layout, Multi-Language, Multi-Annotation Category Dataset for Modern Document Layout Analysis
- CVPR 2023MagicNet: Semi-Supervised Multi-Organ Segmentation via Magic-Cube Partition and Recovery
- CVPR 2023MAIR: Multi-View Attention Inverse Rendering With 3D Spatially-Varying Lighting Estimation
- CVPR 2023MarS3D: A Plug-and-Play Motion-Aware Model for Semantic Segmentation on Multi-Scan 3D Point Clouds
- CVPR 2023MD-VQA: Multi-Dimensional Quality Assessment for UGC Live Videos
- CVPR 2023MetaViewer: Towards a Unified Multi-View Representation
- CVPR 2023MIST: Multi-Modal Iterative Spatial-Temporal Transformer for Long-Form Video Question Answering
- CVPR 2023Mitigating Task Interference in Multi-Task Learning via Explicit Task Routing With Non-Learnable Primitives
- CVPR 2023MMVC: Learned Multi-Mode Video Compression With Block-Based Prediction Mode Selection and Density-Adaptive Entropy Coding
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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.