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

226 papers, page 4 of 5

151. NeurIPS 2026Data-Driven Soft Labeling Scales DNA Read Classification to Whole-Body Cell-Type Deconvolution
152. NeurIPS 2026DBPS: Doob-Bridge Posterior Sampler with Balanced Endpoint-Population Control for Unpaired Neurodegenerative Pathology Transport
153. NeurIPS 2026Decoupled Safety Control: A Safety-Control Algorithm for Training-Free Safety Guidance
154. NeurIPS 2026Differentiable Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
155. NeurIPS 2026EpiPivot: Learning to Control the Simplex Method under Epistemic Uncertainty
156. NeurIPS 2026Finite Resources False Discovery Rate Control on Structured Hypothesis Spaces
157. NeurIPS 2026Finite-Memory Control of POMDPs: Fundamental Limits and Efficient Design
158. NeurIPS 2026FluxLite: Inference-Time Proposal Control for Discrete Diffusion Models
159. NeurIPS 2026ForceBody: Force-Paired Parametric Body Motion with Torque Uncertainty
160. NeurIPS 2026FRESCO: A Novel Consistency Control for Asynchronous Pipeline Parallel Training
161. NeurIPS 2026High Probability Risk Control for Online Policy Learning
162. NeurIPS 2026High-Dimensional Robotic Reinforcement Learning with Developing Synergies
163. NeurIPS 2026Humanoid Horizon: Extending Task Horizon in Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation via Parallel Training, Dynamic Starting, and Reward Gating
164. NeurIPS 2026Hydra-DP3: Frequency-Aware Right-Sizing of 3D Diffusion Policies for Visuomotor Control
165. NeurIPS 2026Instruct-Particulate: Scaling Feed-Forward 3D Object Articulation with Kinematic Control
166. NeurIPS 2026Inverted Detection and Control in Steering Vectors
167. NeurIPS 2026Inverting Retargeting: Humanoid Datasets Remember Their Operators
168. NeurIPS 2026Iterative Gumbel Planning for Continuous Control
169. NeurIPS 2026Iterative ILP with Update-Size Control for Reducing Surrogate-Task Mismatch in Bit-Width Selection
170. NeurIPS 2026K-PWM: Control-Oriented Structured World Models under Partial Observation
171. NeurIPS 2026KL for a KL: On-Policy Distillation with Control Variate Baseline
172. NeurIPS 2026Language Models Can Coarsely Modulate Entropy Under Instruction
173. NeurIPS 2026Language-Based Agent Control
174. NeurIPS 2026Learning From Failures: Efficient Reinforcement Learning Control with Episodic Memory
175. NeurIPS 2026Learning Options for Compositional Motor Control with Adapter Banks
176. NeurIPS 2026LessMimic: Versatile Humanoid-Object Interaction with Unified Distance Field Representations
177. NeurIPS 2026LinuxArena: A Control Setting for AI Agents in Live Production Software Environments
178. NeurIPS 2026LLMs Keep Thinking When Told Not To
179. NeurIPS 2026Matched-Control Tests of Partition-Source Claims in One Routed Distillation Family
180. NeurIPS 2026Model-Agnostic FDR Control via Group Gaussian Mirror and Permutation SHAP
181. NeurIPS 2026Model-based Bootstrap of Controlled Markov Chains
182. NeurIPS 2026MUST: Stage-Adaptive Stability Control for Test-Time Scaling in Multimodal Reasoning
183. NeurIPS 2026NesyProAct: Proactive Neural-Symbolic Control for Web Agents
184. NeurIPS 2026Neural-Behavioral Representation of Natural Whole-body Movement in Monkeys
185. NeurIPS 2026Neuro-Inspired Inverse Learning for Planning and Control
186. NeurIPS 2026ObsConDA: Observability-Constrained Data Assimilation with Control-Space Inference
187. NeurIPS 2026Occupancy-based Quantile Risk Control
188. NeurIPS 2026Offline Reinforcement Learning for Plasma Control in Nuclear Fusion: Codebase and Benchmark
189. NeurIPS 2026Online Control with Multiple Sensors
190. NeurIPS 2026PAGER: Bridging the Semantic-Execution Gap in Point-Precise Geometric GUI Control
191. NeurIPS 2026PDF-HR: Pose Distance Fields for Humanoid Robots
192. NeurIPS 2026PISCO: Precise Video Instance Insertion with Sparse Control
193. NeurIPS 2026Position: Reconciling Open Access with Owner Control in AI Model Distribution Deserves More Research Effort
194. NeurIPS 2026Posterior Alternative Calibration in Ambiguous Inverse Problems
195. NeurIPS 2026Prompt–Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions
196. NeurIPS 2026PuppetGait: Generalizing Gait Recognition via 3D Body-Aligned LVM Features
197. NeurIPS 2026QMaxCal: Path-Space Regularization for Open Quantum Control via Girsanov's Theorem
198. NeurIPS 2026RA-CFGCache: From Branch-Level Criteria to Guided-Risk Control under Classifier-Free Guidance
199. NeurIPS 2026Relaxation-Aligned State Control for Test-Time Scaling in Generative Combinatorial Optimization
200. NeurIPS 2026Representing Part-Whole Hierarchy with Nested Neuronal Coherence

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.