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
113 papers, page 1 of 3
- CVPR 20253D-LLaVA: Towards Generalist 3D LMMs with Omni Superpoint Transformer
- CVPR 20253DEnhancer: Consistent Multi-View Diffusion for 3D Enhancement
- CVPR 2025A Hubness Perspective on Representation Learning for Graph-Based Multi-View Clustering
- CVPR 2025AdMiT: Adaptive Multi-Source Tuning in Dynamic Environments
- CVPR 2025All-Day Multi-Camera Multi-Target Tracking
- CVPR 2025ASAP: Advancing Semantic Alignment Promotes Multi-Modal Manipulation Detecting and Grounding
- CVPR 2025ATA: Adaptive Transformation Agent for Text-Guided Subject-Position Variable Background Inpainting
- CVPR 2025Attribute-Missing Multi-view Graph Clustering
- CVPR 2025BadToken: Token-level Backdoor Attacks to Multi-modal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2025CaMuViD: Calibration-Free Multi-View Detection
- CVPR 2025CAP4D: Creating Animatable 4D Portrait Avatars with Morphable Multi-View Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025CholecTrack20: A Multi-Perspective Tracking Dataset for Surgical Tools
- CVPR 2025Classifier-guided CLIP Distillation for Unsupervised Multi-label Classification
- CVPR 2025ClimbingCap: Multi-Modal Dataset and Method for Rock Climbing in World Coordinate
- CVPR 2025CLIP Under the Microscope: A Fine-Grained Analysis of Multi-Object Representation
- CVPR 2025CLOC: Contrastive Learning for Ordinal Classification with Multi-Margin N-pair Loss
- CVPR 2025CocoER: Aligning Multi-Level Feature by Competition and Coordination for Emotion Recognition
- CVPR 2025Collaborative Tree Search for Enhancing Embodied Multi-Agent Collaboration
- CVPR 2025CoMatcher: Multi-View Collaborative Feature Matching
- CVPR 2025Compositional Targeted Multi-Label Universal Perturbations
- CVPR 2025CorrBEV: Multi-View 3D Object Detection by Correlation Learning with Multi-modal Prototypes
- CVPR 2025Correlative and Discriminative Label Grouping for Multi-Label Visual Prompt Tuning
- CVPR 2025Cross-Modal 3D Representation with Multi-View Images and Point Clouds
- CVPR 2025Deep Fair Multi-View Clustering with Attention KAN
- CVPR 2025Detect Any Mirrors: Boosting Learning Reliability on Large-Scale Unlabeled Data with an Iterative Data Engine
- CVPR 2025DiGIT: Multi-Dilated Gated Encoder and Central-Adjacent Region Integrated Decoder for Temporal Action Detection Transformer
- CVPR 2025Do We Really Need Curated Malicious Data for Safety Alignment in Multi-modal Large Language Models?
- CVPR 2025DyMO: Training-Free Diffusion Model Alignment with Dynamic Multi-Objective Scheduling
- CVPR 2025EarthDial: Turning Multi-sensory Earth Observations to Interactive Dialogues
- CVPR 2025Ego4o: Egocentric Human Motion Capture and Understanding from Multi-Modal Input
- CVPR 2025EgoLM: Multi-Modal Language Model of Egocentric Motions
- CVPR 2025Enhanced then Progressive Fusion with View Graph for Multi-View Clustering
- CVPR 2025Enhancing Testing-Time Robustness for Trusted Multi-View Classification in the Wild
- CVPR 2025Every SAM Drop Counts: Embracing Semantic Priors for Multi-Modality Image Fusion and Beyond
- CVPR 2025FaceBench: A Multi-View Multi-Level Facial Attribute VQA Dataset for Benchmarking Face Perception MLLMs
- CVPR 2025FADA: Fast Diffusion Avatar Synthesis with Mixed-Supervised Multi-CFG Distillation
- CVPR 2025Fast and Accurate Gigapixel Pathological Image Classification with Hierarchical Distillation Multi-Instance Learning
- CVPR 2025Finsler Multi-Dimensional Scaling: Manifold Learning for Asymmetric Dimensionality Reduction and Embedding
- CVPR 2025Fish-Vista: A Multi-Purpose Dataset for Understanding & Identification of Traits from Images
- CVPR 2025GeoAvatar: Geometrically-Consistent Multi-Person Avatar Reconstruction from Sparse Multi-View Videos
- CVPR 2025Geometry-guided Online 3D Video Synthesis with Multi-View Temporal Consistency
- CVPR 2025GeoMM: On Geodesic Perspective for Multi-modal Learning
- CVPR 2025GRAE-3DMOT: Geometry Relation-Aware Encoder for Online 3D Multi-Object Tracking
- CVPR 2025HOT3D: Hand and Object Tracking in 3D from Egocentric Multi-View Videos
- CVPR 2025HumanMM: Global Human Motion Recovery from Multi-shot Videos
- CVPR 2025Hybrid-Level Instruction Injection for Video Token Compression in Multi-modal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2025IDEA: Inverted Text with Cooperative Deformable Aggregation for Multi-modal Object Re-Identification
- CVPR 2025Identifying and Mitigating Spurious Correlation in Multi-Task Learning
- CVPR 2025IMFine: 3D Inpainting via Geometry-guided Multi-view Refinement
- CVPR 2025Imputation-free and Alignment-free: Incomplete Multi-view Clustering Driven by Consensus Semantic 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.