Humanoid Control papers, 2023–2026
Biped and whole-body control
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 475 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 18 | 16 | 16 | 9 | 59 |
| 2024 | 38 | 15 | 30 | 15 | 98 |
| 2025 | 38 | 16 | 23 | 15 | 92 |
| 2026 | 94 | 33 | 54 | 45 | 226 |
Representative papers
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- 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 10 of 10
- ICML 2023On Pre-Training for Visuo-Motor Control: Revisiting a Learning-from-Scratch Baseline
- ICML 2023Online Nonstochastic Control with Adversarial and Static Constraints
- ICML 2023Probably Anytime-Safe Stochastic Combinatorial Semi-Bandits
- ICML 2023Tensor Decompositions Meet Control Theory: Learning General Mixtures of Linear Dynamical Systems
- ICML 2023The Regret of Exploration and the Control of Bad Episodes in Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2023Universal Morphology Control via Contextual Modulation
- ICML 2023Vector-Valued Control Variates
- NeurIPS 2023Active Observing in Continuous-time Control
- NeurIPS 2023AMDP: An Adaptive Detection Procedure for False Discovery Rate Control in High-Dimensional Mediation Analysis
- NeurIPS 2023AndroidInTheWild: A Large-Scale Dataset For Android Device Control
- NeurIPS 2023Conformal PID Control for Time Series Prediction
- NeurIPS 2023Derandomized novelty detection with FDR control via conformal e-values
- NeurIPS 2023Dis-inhibitory neuronal circuits can control the sign of synaptic plasticity
- NeurIPS 2023Distributionally Robust Linear Quadratic Control
- NeurIPS 2023Exploiting Correlated Auxiliary Feedback in Parameterized Bandits
- NeurIPS 2023False Discovery Proportion control for aggregated Knockoffs
- NeurIPS 2023Gradient Flossing: Improving Gradient Descent through Dynamic Control of Jacobians
- NeurIPS 2023Ignorance is Bliss: Robust Control via Information Gating
- NeurIPS 2023Model-Based Control with Sparse Neural Dynamics
- NeurIPS 2023PID-Inspired Inductive Biases for Deep Reinforcement Learning in Partially Observable Control Tasks
- NeurIPS 2023Practical Equivariances via Relational Conditional Neural Processes
- NeurIPS 2023Probabilistic inverse optimal control for non-linear partially observable systems disentangles perceptual uncertainty and behavioral costs
- NeurIPS 2023Stochastic Optimal Control for Collective Variable Free Sampling of Molecular Transition Paths
- NeurIPS 2023Towards Robust and Expressive Whole-body Human Pose and Shape Estimation
- NeurIPS 2023When can Regression-Adjusted Control Variate Help? Rare Events, Sobolev Embedding and Minimax Optimality
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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.