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

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51. CVPR 2025HumanRig: Learning Automatic Rigging for Humanoid Character in a Large Scale Dataset
52. CVPR 2025HunyuanPortrait: Implicit Condition Control for Enhanced Portrait Animation
53. CVPR 2025InterMimic: Towards Universal Whole-Body Control for Physics-Based Human-Object Interactions
54. CVPR 2025Learning Heterogeneous Tissues with Mixture of Experts for Gigapixel Whole Slide Images
55. CVPR 2025Multi-party Collaborative Attention Control for Image Customization
56. CVPR 2025Multitwine: Multi-Object Compositing with Text and Layout Control
57. CVPR 2025REWIND: Real-Time Egocentric Whole-Body Motion Diffusion with Exemplar-Based Identity Conditioning
58. CVPR 2025Steepest Descent Density Control for Compact 3D Gaussian Splatting
59. CVPR 2025StyleStudio: Text-Driven Style Transfer with Selective Control of Style Elements
60. CVPR 2025Text Embedding is Not All You Need: Attention Control for Text-to-Image Semantic Alignment with Text Self-Attention Maps
61. CVPR 2024Alchemist: Parametric Control of Material Properties with Diffusion Models
62. CVPR 2024Egocentric Whole-Body Motion Capture with FisheyeViT and Diffusion-Based Motion Refinement
63. CVPR 2024Forecasting of 3D Whole-body Human Poses with Grasping Objects
64. CVPR 2024FreeControl: Training-Free Spatial Control of Any Text-to-Image Diffusion Model with Any Condition
65. CVPR 2024It's All About Your Sketch: Democratising Sketch Control in Diffusion Models
66. CVPR 2024Learning to Control Camera Exposure via Reinforcement Learning
67. CVPR 2024LightIt: Illumination Modeling and Control for Diffusion Models
68. CVPR 2024Model Adaptation for Time Constrained Embodied Control
69. CVPR 2024Programmable Motion Generation for Open-Set Motion Control Tasks
70. CVPR 2024RAM-Avatar: Real-time Photo-Realistic Avatar from Monocular Videos with Full-body Control
71. CVPR 2024Readout Guidance: Learning Control from Diffusion Features
72. CVPR 2024StyLitGAN: Image-Based Relighting via Latent Control
73. CVPR 2024Total Selfie: Generating Full-Body Selfies
74. CVPR 2024Training Generative Image Super-Resolution Models by Wavelet-Domain Losses Enables Better Control of Artifacts
75. CVPR 2024Zero-Painter: Training-Free Layout Control for Text-to-Image Synthesis
76. CVPR 2023DC2: Dual-Camera Defocus Control by Learning To Refocus
77. CVPR 2023EC2: Emergent Communication for Embodied Control
78. CVPR 2023Ego-Body Pose Estimation via Ego-Head Pose Estimation
79. CVPR 2023FLEX: Full-Body Grasping Without Full-Body Grasps
80. CVPR 2023Fresnel Microfacet BRDF: Unification of Polari-Radiometric Surface-Body Reflection
81. CVPR 2023Learning Personalized High Quality Volumetric Head Avatars From Monocular RGB Videos
82. CVPR 2023Neural Koopman Pooling: Control-Inspired Temporal Dynamics Encoding for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition
83. CVPR 2023Neural Volumetric Memory for Visual Locomotion Control
84. CVPR 2023One-Stage 3D Whole-Body Mesh Recovery With Component Aware Transformer

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.