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
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- ICML 2023A Conditional Normalizing Flow for Accelerated Multi-Coil MR Imaging
- ICML 2023A Framework for Adapting Offline Algorithms to Solve Combinatorial Multi-Armed Bandit Problems with Bandit Feedback
- ICML 2023A Game-Theoretic Framework for Managing Risk in Multi-Agent Systems
- ICML 2023A Group Symmetric Stochastic Differential Equation Model for Molecule Multi-modal Pretraining
- ICML 2023An Adaptive Entropy-Regularization Framework for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2023Atari-5: Distilling the Arcade Learning Environment down to Five Games
- ICML 2023Attention-Based Recurrence for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning under Stochastic Partial Observability
- ICML 2023Best Arm Identification in Multi-Agent Multi-Armed Bandits
- ICML 2023Collaborative Multi-Agent Heterogeneous Multi-Armed Bandits
- ICML 2023Competing for Shareable Arms in Multi-Player Multi-Armed Bandits
- ICML 2023Complementary Attention for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2023Context-Aware Bayesian Network Actor-Critic Methods for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2023Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Asynchronous Communication and Linear Function Approximation
- ICML 2023Cut your Losses with Squentropy
- ICML 2023Discover-Then-Rank Unlabeled Support Vectors in the Dual Space for Multi-Class Active Learning
- ICML 2023DoMo-AC: Doubly Multi-step Off-policy Actor-Critic Algorithm
- ICML 2023DRew: Dynamically Rewired Message Passing with Delay
- ICML 2023DSGD-CECA: Decentralized SGD with Communication-Optimal Exact Consensus Algorithm
- ICML 2023Efficient RL via Disentangled Environment and Agent Representations
- ICML 2023Efficient Transformed Gaussian Processes for Non-Stationary Dependent Multi-class Classification
- ICML 2023End-to-End Multi-Object Detection with a Regularized Mixture Model
- ICML 2023Entity Divider with Language Grounding in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2023Fast Rates in Time-Varying Strongly Monotone Games
- ICML 2023FedAvg Converges to Zero Training Loss Linearly for Overparameterized Multi-Layer Neural Networks
- ICML 2023Hierarchies of Reward Machines
- ICML 2023Improved Active Multi-Task Representation Learning via Lasso
- ICML 2023Improved Algorithms for Multi-period Multi-class Packing Problems with Bandit Feedback
- ICML 2023Improved Learning-Augmented Algorithms for the Multi-Option Ski Rental Problem via Best-Possible Competitive Analysis
- ICML 2023K-SHAP: Policy Clustering Algorithm for Anonymous Multi-Agent State-Action Pairs
- ICML 2023Label Distributionally Robust Losses for Multi-class Classification: Consistency, Robustness and Adaptivity
- ICML 2023Lazy Agents: A New Perspective on Solving Sparse Reward Problem in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2023Learning to Incentivize Information Acquisition: Proper Scoring Rules Meet Principal-Agent Model
- ICML 2023Learning to Optimize Differentiable Games
- ICML 2023Local Optimization Achieves Global Optimality in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2023MABe22: A Multi-Species Multi-Task Benchmark for Learned Representations of Behavior
- ICML 2023MANSA: Learning Fast and Slow in Multi-Agent Systems
- ICML 2023Men Also Do Laundry: Multi-Attribute Bias Amplification
- ICML 2023Meta Learning of Interface Conditions for Multi-Domain Physics-Informed Neural Networks
- ICML 2023Mitigating Spurious Correlations in Multi-modal Models during Fine-tuning
- ICML 2023Multi-Agent Best Arm Identification with Private Communications
- ICML 2023Multi-Agent Learning from Learners
- ICML 2023Multi-Agent Online Optimization with Delays: Asynchronicity, Adaptivity, and Optimism
- ICML 2023Multi-agent Online Scheduling: MMS Allocations for Indivisible Items
- ICML 2023Multi-channel Autobidding with Budget and ROI Constraints
- ICML 2023Multi-class Graph Clustering via Approximated Effective $p$-Resistance
- ICML 2023Multi-Epoch Matrix Factorization Mechanisms for Private Machine Learning
- ICML 2023Multi-Fidelity Covariance Estimation in the Log-Euclidean Geometry
- ICML 2023Multi-Layer Neural Networks as Trainable Ladders of Hilbert Spaces
- ICML 2023Multi-Modal Classifiers for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
- ICML 2023Multi-Objective GFlowNets
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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.