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
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 5 of 5
- NeurIPS 2026Residual Paving: Diagnosing the Routing Bottleneck in Selective Refusal Editing
- NeurIPS 2026Rethink Action Chunking in VLA Through Human Motor Control
- NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Diffusion Decoding via Structural Commitment
- NeurIPS 2026Rethinking State Tracking in Recurrent Models Through Error Control Dynamics
- NeurIPS 2026Riemannian Lyapunov Framework: Optimization as Closed-Loop Control on Riemannian Manifolds
- NeurIPS 2026Securing AI Agents with Information-Flow Control
- NeurIPS 2026Shared Modular Recurrence in Contextual MDPs for Universal Morphology Control
- NeurIPS 2026Simulation-aided Reinforcement Learning with Control Variates
- NeurIPS 2026Sparse Internal Control of Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Split Then Select: Moment-Preserving Density Control for Generalized Primitive Splatting
- NeurIPS 2026SRL-MPC: Shape-Aware Reinforcement Learned Model Predictive Control
- NeurIPS 2026STABLE: A Continual Learning Optimizer with Adaptive Drift Control
- NeurIPS 2026Stop or Restart? Principled Inference Control for Large Reasoning Models via the Pandora's Box
- NeurIPS 2026Subliminal Learning as Trait-Direction Drift: A Mechanism and Targeted Control under SFT Distillation
- NeurIPS 2026SUGAR: A Scalable Human-Video-Driven Generalizable Humanoid Loco-Manipulation Learning Framework
- NeurIPS 2026Targeted Synthetic Control Method
- NeurIPS 2026The Block Catastrophe of Marginal Calibration in Certified Requirements Traceability
- NeurIPS 2026The Optimal Control Foundation of Early Exits – Turnpikes and ResNets
- NeurIPS 2026Timing Is All You Need: SpikeCore, Learnable Delays, and Gain Control for Neuromorphic Classification
- NeurIPS 2026Towards more general control of diffusion models using Jeffrey Guidance
- NeurIPS 2026Towards Scalable Egocentric HOI for Humanoids: Benchmarking Whole-Body Dexterous Interaction with Tactile Prediction
- NeurIPS 2026Tracing Psychometric Inference in Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Unified Loss-Aware Density Control for 3D Gaussian Splatting
- NeurIPS 2026Where to Look Is Not How to Fix: Pre-Denoising Diagnostics and Modality-Dependent Control in Diffusion Composition
- NeurIPS 2026Why Transformer-Based Language Models Need Explicit Mechanisms of Cognitive Control
- NeurIPS 2026Zeroth-Order Stackelberg Control in Combinatorial Congestion Games
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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.