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
37 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICLR 2023$O(T^{-1})$ Convergence of Optimistic-Follow-the-Regularized-Leader in Two-Player Zero-Sum Markov Games
- ICLR 2023Achieving Near-Optimal Individual Regret & Low Communications in Multi-Agent Bandits
- ICLR 2023Adversarial Diversity in Hanabi
- ICLR 2023Agent-based Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2023An Additive Instance-Wise Approach to Multi-class Model Interpretation
- ICLR 2023Asynchronous Gradient Play in Zero-Sum Multi-agent Games
- ICLR 2023Can We Find Nash Equilibria at a Linear Rate in Markov Games?
- ICLR 2023Certifiably Robust Policy Learning against Adversarial Multi-Agent Communication
- ICLR 2023Cheap Talk Discovery and Utilization in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2023Collaborative Pure Exploration in Kernel Bandit
- ICLR 2023Discovering Generalizable Multi-agent Coordination Skills from Multi-task Offline Data
- ICLR 2023Effects of Graph Convolutions in Multi-layer Networks
- ICLR 2023Efficient Discrete Multi Marginal Optimal Transport Regularization
- ICLR 2023Enhancing Meta Learning via Multi-Objective Soft Improvement Functions
- ICLR 2023Fast Nonlinear Vector Quantile Regression
- ICLR 2023Generating Diverse Cooperative Agents by Learning Incompatible Policies
- ICLR 2023GoBigger: A Scalable Platform for Cooperative-Competitive Multi-Agent Interactive Simulation
- ICLR 2023Gradient Gating for Deep Multi-Rate Learning on Graphs
- ICLR 2023Is a Caption Worth a Thousand Images? A Study on Representation Learning
- ICLR 2023Learning multi-scale local conditional probability models of images
- ICLR 2023MACTA: A Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Approach for Cache Timing Attacks and Detection
- ICLR 2023MAESTRO: Open-Ended Environment Design for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2023More Centralized Training, Still Decentralized Execution: Multi-Agent Conditional Policy Factorization
- ICLR 2023Multi-level Protein Structure Pre-training via Prompt Learning
- ICLR 2023Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning: Convexity, Stationarity and Pareto Optimality
- ICLR 2023Multi-Rate VAE: Train Once, Get the Full Rate-Distortion Curve
- ICLR 2023Nearly Minimax Optimal Offline Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation: Single-Agent MDP and Markov Game
- ICLR 2023Offline Congestion Games: How Feedback Type Affects Data Coverage Requirement
- ICLR 2023Order Matters: Agent-by-agent Policy Optimization
- ICLR 2023Recon: Reducing Conflicting Gradients From the Root For Multi-Task Learning
- ICLR 2023Revisiting Populations in multi-agent Communication
- ICLR 2023RPM: Generalizable Multi-Agent Policies for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2023Scaling Laws for a Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Model
- ICLR 2023Scaling Pareto-Efficient Decision Making via Offline Multi-Objective RL
- ICLR 2023Stateful Active Facilitator: Coordination and Environmental Heterogeneity in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2023Taking a Step Back with KCal: Multi-Class Kernel-Based Calibration for Deep Neural Networks
- ICLR 2023Towards Effective and Interpretable Human-Agent Collaboration in MOBA Games: A Communication Perspective
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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.