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
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
172 papers, page 1 of 4
- CVPR 20263M-TI High-Quality Mobile Thermal Imaging via Calibration-free Multi-Camera Cross-Modal Diffusion
- CVPR 2026A Multi-Agent Perception-Action Alliance for Efficient Long Video Reasoning
- CVPR 2026A Sanity Check for Multi-In-Domain Face Forgery Detection in the
- CVPR 2026Adaptive Data Augmentation with Multi-armed Bandit Sample-Efficient Embedding Calibration for
- CVPR 2026Agent4FaceForgery Multi-Agent LLM Framework for Realistic Face Forgery Detection
- CVPR 2026AlignPose Generalizable 6D Pose Estimation via Multi-view Feature-metric Alignment
- CVPR 2026Anti-Degradation Lifelong Multi-View Clustering
- CVPR 2026Any Resolution Any Geometry From Multi-View To Multi-Patch
- CVPR 2026AREA3D Active Reconstruction Agent with Unified Feed-Forward 3D Perception and
- CVPR 2026AURA Multi-modal Shared Autonomy for Urban Navigation
- CVPR 2026Beyond Rule-Based Agents Active Markov Games for Realistic Multi-Agent Interaction
- CVPR 2026Beyond Single Solution Multi-Hypothesis Deep Unfolding Network for Image Compressive
- CVPR 2026Breaking Smooth-Motion Assumptions A UAV Benchmark for Multi-Object Tracking in
- CVPR 2026Breaking the Scalability Limit of Multi-Projector Calibration with Embedded Cameras
- CVPR 2026Bulk RNA-seq Guided Multi-modal Detection of Anomalous Regions in Human
- CVPR 2026CausalLens Sensitivity-Guided Multi-Head Causal Intervention for Hallucination Mitigation in Large
- CVPR 2026Chain-of-Thought Guided Multi-Modal Object Re-Identification
- CVPR 2026Changes in Real Time Online Scene Change Detection with Multi-View
- CVPR 2026ChronoGS Disentangling Invariants and Changes in Multi-Period Scenes
- CVPR 2026Circular-DPO Aligning Multi-Stage 3D Generative Models via Preference Feedback Loop
- CVPR 2026Cluster-aware Anchor Learning for Multi-View Clustering
- CVPR 2026CoIn3D Revisiting Configuration-Invariant Multi-Camera 3D Object Detection
- CVPR 2026Collaborative Multi-Mode Pruning for Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2026Conan Progressive Learning to Reason Like a Detective over Multi-Scale
- CVPR 2026Confidence-Guided Multi-Scale Aggregation for Sparse-View High-Resolution 3D Gaussian Splatting
- CVPR 2026Consensus Entropy Harnessing Multi-VLM Agreement for Self-Verifying and Self-Improving OCR
- CVPR 2026Correspondence-Attention Alignment for Multi-View Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026CRIT Graph-Based Automatic Data Synthesis to Enhance Cross-Modal Multi-Hop Reasoning
- CVPR 2026Cross-Slice Knowledge Transfer via Masked Multi-Modal Heterogeneous Graph Contrastive Learning
- CVPR 2026Cross-View Distillation and Adaptive Masking for Incomplete Multi-View Multi-Label Classification
- CVPR 2026CUE Concept-Aware Multi-Label Expansion to Mitigate Concept Confusion in Long-Tailed
- CVPR 2026CustomTex High-fidelity Indoor Scene Texturing via Multi-Reference Customization
- CVPR 2026DF2-VB Dual-level Fuzzy Fusion with View-specific Boosting for Multi-view Multi-label
- CVPR 2026DRAMA Next-Gen Dynamic Orchestration for Resilient Multi-Agent Ecosystems in Flux
- CVPR 2026DSERT-RoLL Robust Multi-Modal Perception for Diverse Driving Conditions with Stereo
- CVPR 2026DyaDiT A Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformer for Socially Favorable Dyadic Gesture
- CVPR 2026Ego2Web A Web Agent Benchmark Grounded in Egocentric Videos
- CVPR 2026EpiAgent An Agent-Centric System for Ancient Inscription Restoration
- CVPR 2026EReCu Pseudo-label Evolution Fusion and Refinement with Multi-Cue Learning for
- CVPR 2026Evolving Contextual Safety in Multi-Modal Large Language Models via Inference-Time
- CVPR 2026FedHarmony Harmonizing Heterogeneous Label Correlations in Federated Multi-Label Learning
- CVPR 2026From Detection to Association Learning Discriminative Object Embeddings for Multi-Object
- CVPR 2026FusionAgent A Multimodal Agent with Dynamic Model Selection for Human
- CVPR 2026GaussianMatch Semi-Supervised Regression with Pseudo-Label Filtering via Multi-View Gaussian Consistency
- CVPR 2026GazeOnce360 Fisheye-Based 360deg Multi-Person Gaze Estimation with Global-Local Feature Fusion
- CVPR 2026GeoBridge A Semantic-Anchored Multi-View Foundation Model Bridging Images and Text
- CVPR 2026Geometrically-Constrained Agent for Spatial Reasoning
- CVPR 2026GeoRelight Learning Joint Geometrical Relighting and Reconstruction with Flexible Multi-Modal
- CVPR 2026GMT Effective Global Framework for Multi-Camera Multi-Target Tracking
- CVPR 2026Granulon Awakening Pixel-Level Visual Encoders with Adaptive Multi-Granularity Semantics for
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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.