What Top AI Conferences Accepted in 2024: The Year of Agents and the Scaling Debate
The defining conference keywords of 2024 were agents, alignment, multimodal LLMs, and inference-time compute. The LLM share at five major conferences doubled again after its sharp 2023 rise; agent-related terms grew 4.3 times; and diffusion models graduated from an emerging topic to a second generative-AI pillar alongside LLMs. Traditional task-oriented NLP continued to contract, while GANs almost disappeared from top venues.