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

188 papers, page 2 of 4

51. NeurIPS 2026NesyProAct: Proactive Neural-Symbolic Control for Web Agents
52. NeurIPS 2026Neural-Behavioral Representation of Natural Whole-body Movement in Monkeys
53. NeurIPS 2026Neuro-Inspired Inverse Learning for Planning and Control
54. NeurIPS 2026ObsConDA: Observability-Constrained Data Assimilation with Control-Space Inference
55. NeurIPS 2026Occupancy-based Quantile Risk Control
56. NeurIPS 2026Offline Reinforcement Learning for Plasma Control in Nuclear Fusion: Codebase and Benchmark
57. NeurIPS 2026Online Control with Multiple Sensors
58. NeurIPS 2026PAGER: Bridging the Semantic-Execution Gap in Point-Precise Geometric GUI Control
59. NeurIPS 2026PDF-HR: Pose Distance Fields for Humanoid Robots
60. NeurIPS 2026PISCO: Precise Video Instance Insertion with Sparse Control
61. NeurIPS 2026Position: Reconciling Open Access with Owner Control in AI Model Distribution Deserves More Research Effort
62. NeurIPS 2026Posterior Alternative Calibration in Ambiguous Inverse Problems
63. NeurIPS 2026Prompt–Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions
64. NeurIPS 2026PuppetGait: Generalizing Gait Recognition via 3D Body-Aligned LVM Features
65. NeurIPS 2026QMaxCal: Path-Space Regularization for Open Quantum Control via Girsanov's Theorem
66. NeurIPS 2026RA-CFGCache: From Branch-Level Criteria to Guided-Risk Control under Classifier-Free Guidance
67. NeurIPS 2026Relaxation-Aligned State Control for Test-Time Scaling in Generative Combinatorial Optimization
68. NeurIPS 2026Representing Part-Whole Hierarchy with Nested Neuronal Coherence
69. NeurIPS 2026Residual Paving: Diagnosing the Routing Bottleneck in Selective Refusal Editing
70. NeurIPS 2026Rethink Action Chunking in VLA Through Human Motor Control
71. NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Diffusion Decoding via Structural Commitment
72. NeurIPS 2026Rethinking State Tracking in Recurrent Models Through Error Control Dynamics
73. NeurIPS 2026Riemannian Lyapunov Framework: Optimization as Closed-Loop Control on Riemannian Manifolds
74. NeurIPS 2026Securing AI Agents with Information-Flow Control
75. NeurIPS 2026Shared Modular Recurrence in Contextual MDPs for Universal Morphology Control
76. NeurIPS 2026Simulation-aided Reinforcement Learning with Control Variates
77. NeurIPS 2026Sparse Internal Control of Language Models
78. NeurIPS 2026Split Then Select: Moment-Preserving Density Control for Generalized Primitive Splatting
79. NeurIPS 2026SRL-MPC: Shape-Aware Reinforcement Learned Model Predictive Control
80. NeurIPS 2026STABLE: A Continual Learning Optimizer with Adaptive Drift Control
81. NeurIPS 2026Stop or Restart? Principled Inference Control for Large Reasoning Models via the Pandora's Box
82. NeurIPS 2026Subliminal Learning as Trait-Direction Drift: A Mechanism and Targeted Control under SFT Distillation
83. NeurIPS 2026SUGAR: A Scalable Human-Video-Driven Generalizable Humanoid Loco-Manipulation Learning Framework
84. NeurIPS 2026Targeted Synthetic Control Method
85. NeurIPS 2026The Block Catastrophe of Marginal Calibration in Certified Requirements Traceability
86. NeurIPS 2026The Optimal Control Foundation of Early Exits – Turnpikes and ResNets
87. NeurIPS 2026Timing Is All You Need: SpikeCore, Learnable Delays, and Gain Control for Neuromorphic Classification
88. NeurIPS 2026Towards more general control of diffusion models using Jeffrey Guidance
89. NeurIPS 2026Towards Scalable Egocentric HOI for Humanoids: Benchmarking Whole-Body Dexterous Interaction with Tactile Prediction
90. NeurIPS 2026Tracing Psychometric Inference in Large Language Models
91. NeurIPS 2026Unified Loss-Aware Density Control for 3D Gaussian Splatting
92. NeurIPS 2026Where to Look Is Not How to Fix: Pre-Denoising Diagnostics and Modality-Dependent Control in Diffusion Composition
93. NeurIPS 2026Why Transformer-Based Language Models Need Explicit Mechanisms of Cognitive Control
94. NeurIPS 2026Zeroth-Order Stackelberg Control in Combinatorial Congestion Games
95. NeurIPS 2025A Temporal Difference Method for Stochastic Continuous Dynamics
96. NeurIPS 2025Activation Control for Efficiently Eliciting Long Chain-of-thought Ability of Language Models
97. NeurIPS 2025Actor-Free Continuous Control via Structurally Maximizable Q-Functions
98. NeurIPS 2025Adversarial Locomotion and Motion Imitation for Humanoid Policy Learning
99. NeurIPS 2025Asymptotically Stable Quaternion-valued Hopfield-structured Neural Network with Periodic Projection-based Supervised Learning Rules
100. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Greedy Exits: Improved Early Exit Decisions for Risk Control and Reliability

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.