Humanoid Control papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Humanoid Control went from 59 papers in 2023 to 226 in 2026, roughly 3.8x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Humanoid Control work: 188 papers from 2023 to 2026, 40% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Diffusion Models: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 31 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Robotics and Embodied AI, it ranks #2 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Robot Manipulation, is up 3.1x versus 3.8x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026A Control-Theoretic Approximation to Predictive Coding Dynamics
• ICML 2026A Control-Theoretic View of Mamba on Stability and Robustness
• ICLR 2026A Schrödinger Eigenfunction Method for Long-Horizon Stochastic Optimal Control
• CVPR 2026ActAvatar Temporally-Aware Precise Action Control for Talking Avatars
• NeurIPS 2025Improving Bilinear RNN with Closed-loop Control
• ICML 2025Learn to Vaccinate: Combining Structure Learning and Effective Vaccination for Epidemic and Outbreak Control
• ICLR 2025MamKO: Mamba-based Koopman operator for modeling and predictive control
• CVPR 2025ControlFace: Harnessing Facial Parametric Control for Face Rigging
• NeurIPS 2024Humanoid Locomotion as Next Token Prediction
• ICML 2024Adapting Pretrained ViTs with Convolution Injector for Visuo-Motor Control
• ICLR 2024Conformal Risk Control
• CVPR 2024Egocentric Whole-Body Motion Capture with FisheyeViT and Diffusion-Based Motion Refinement
• NeurIPS 2023AMDP: An Adaptive Detection Procedure for False Discovery Rate Control in High-Dimensional Mediation Analysis
• ICML 2023Generating Language Corrections for Teaching Physical Control Tasks
• ICLR 2023Efficient Attention via Control Variates
• CVPR 2023DC2: Dual-Camera Defocus Control by Learning To Refocus
• NeurIPS 2026Anytime-Valid Conformal Risk Control
• ICML 2026A Two-Layer Framework for Joint Online Configuration Selection and Admission Control
• ICLR 2026Causal-Steer: Disentangled Continuous Style Control without Parallel Corpora
• CVPR 2026ChArtist Generating Pictorial Charts with Unified Spatial and Subject Control

All Humanoid Control papers

475 papers, page 1 of 10

1. CVPR 2026ActAvatar Temporally-Aware Precise Action Control for Talking Avatars
2. CVPR 2026Anatomica Localized Control over Geometric and Topological Properties for Anatomical
3. CVPR 2026AudioAvatar Personalized Audio-driven Whole-body Talking Avatars
4. CVPR 2026Beyond Mimicry Learning Whole-Body Human-Humanoid Interaction from Human-Human Demonstrations
5. CVPR 2026BulletTime Decoupled Control of Time and Camera Pose for Video
6. CVPR 2026C2FG Control Classifier-Free Guidance via Score Discrepancy Analysis
7. CVPR 2026CFG-Ctrl Control-Based Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance
8. CVPR 2026ChArtist Generating Pictorial Charts with Unified Spatial and Subject Control
9. CVPR 2026CIGPose Causal Intervention Graph Neural Network for Whole-Body Pose Estimation
10. CVPR 2026ConsistCompose Unified Multimodal Layout Control for Image Composition
11. CVPR 2026CUBic Coordinated Unified Bimanual Perception and Control Framework
12. CVPR 2026Dictionary-Aligned Concept Control for Safeguarding Multimodal LLMs
13. CVPR 2026Do You Have Freestyle Expressive Humanoid Locomotion via Audio Control
14. CVPR 2026DynBridge Bridging Imagination and Control through Interaction Dynamics for Robot
15. CVPR 2026EgoRoC Towards Egocentric Robotic Control via Task-Agnostic Visual Alignment
16. CVPR 2026End-to-End Language-Action Model for Humanoid Whole Body Control
17. CVPR 2026Energy Waveify and Redistribution for Test-Time Adaptation A Control System
18. CVPR 2026Enhancing Hands in 3D Whole-Body Pose Estimation with Conditional Hands
19. CVPR 2026Exploring Conditions for Diffusion Models in Robotic Control
20. CVPR 2026ForceVLA2 Unleashing Hybrid Force-Position Control with Force Awareness for Contact-Rich
21. CVPR 2026Gallant Voxel Grid-based Humanoid Locomotion and Local-navigation across 3-D Constrained
22. CVPR 2026Humanoid Generative Pre-Training for Zero-Shot Motion Tracking
23. CVPR 2026InterPrior Scaling Generative Control for Physics-Based Human-Object Interactions
24. CVPR 2026Iterative Closed-Loop Motion Synthesis for Scaling the Capabilities of Humanoid
25. CVPR 2026Layer-wise Instance Binding for Regional and Occlusion Control in Text-to-Image
26. CVPR 2026Learning to Control Physically-simulated 3D Characters via Generating and Mimicking
27. CVPR 2026NIL No-data Imitation Learning
28. CVPR 2026Opening the Sim-to-Real Door for Humanoid Pixel-to-Action Policy Transfer
29. CVPR 2026PaNDaS Learnable Shape Interpolation Modeling with Localized Control
30. CVPR 2026PPISP Physically-Plausible Compensation and Control of Photometric Variations in Radiance
31. CVPR 2026Protect to Adapt Orthogonal Subspace Control with Ranked Negative-Prompt Curriculum
32. CVPR 2026PvP Data-Efficient Humanoid Robot Learning with Proprioceptive-Privileged Contrastive Representations
33. CVPR 2026Real2Edit2Real Generating Robotic Demonstrations via a 3D Control Interface
34. CVPR 2026Scalable Trajectory Generation for Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation
35. CVPR 2026SliderEdit Continuous Image Editing with Fine-Grained Instruction Control
36. CVPR 2026Spectral Conformal Risk Control Distribution-Free Tail Guarantees via Bayesian Quadrature
37. CVPR 2026STAvatar Soft Binding and Temporal Density Control for Monocular 3D
38. CVPR 2026SymphoMotion Joint Control of Camera Motion and Object Dynamics for
39. CVPR 2026Task-Oriented Data Synthesis and Control-Rectify Sampling for Remote Sensing Semantic
40. CVPR 2026Thinking in 360deg Humanoid Visual Search in the Wild
41. CVPR 2026TokenLight Precise Lighting Control in Images using Attribute Tokens
42. CVPR 2026Toward Generalizable Whole Brain Representations with High-Resolution Light-Sheet Data
43. CVPR 2026Towards Motion Turing Test Evaluating Human-Likeness in Humanoid Robots
44. CVPR 2026UniDex A Robot Foundation Suite for Universal Dexterous Hand Control
45. CVPR 2026Unifying Precise Keyframes and Semantic Control via Multi-level Diffusion
46. ICLR 2026A New Initialization to Control Gradients in Sinusoidal Neural Networks
47. ICLR 2026A Schrödinger Eigenfunction Method for Long-Horizon Stochastic Optimal Control
48. ICLR 2026BFM-Zero: A Promptable Behavioral Foundation Model for Humanoid Control Using Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning
49. ICLR 2026CardioComposer: Leveraging Differentiable Geometry for Compositional Control of Anatomical Diffusion Models
50. ICLR 2026Causal-Steer: Disentangled Continuous Style Control without Parallel Corpora

FAQ

How many Humanoid Control papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

475 in total: 59 in 2023, 98 in 2024, 92 in 2025, 226 in 2026.

How many Humanoid Control papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 94 Humanoid Control papers, versus 38 the year before.

How many Humanoid Control papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 33 Humanoid Control papers, versus 16 the year before.

How many Humanoid Control papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 54 Humanoid Control papers, versus 23 the year before.

How many Humanoid Control papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 45 Humanoid Control papers, versus 15 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Humanoid Control papers?

NeurIPS, with 188 papers from 2023 to 2026.