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
475 papers, page 7 of 10
- NeurIPS 2025KungfuBot: Physics-Based Humanoid Whole-Body Control for Learning Highly-Dynamic Skills
- NeurIPS 2025Learning to Control Free-Form Soft Swimmers
- NeurIPS 2025Lyapunov-Stable Adaptive Control for Multimodal Concept Drift
- NeurIPS 2025Maximizing the Value of Predictions in Control: Accuracy Is Not Enough
- NeurIPS 2025Non-equilibrium Annealed Adjoint Sampler
- NeurIPS 2025Optimal Control for Transformer Architectures: Enhancing Generalization, Robustness and Efficiency
- NeurIPS 2025Performative Risk Control: Calibrating Models for Reliable Deployment under Performativity
- NeurIPS 2025Permissioned LLMs: Enforcing Access Control in Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Prohibiting Generative AI in any Form of Weapon Control
- NeurIPS 2025Proxy Target: Bridging the Gap Between Discrete Spiking Neural Networks and Continuous Control
- NeurIPS 2025Safe and Stable Control via Lyapunov-Guided Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2025Stabilizing LTI Systems under Partial Observability: Sample Complexity and Fundamental Limits
- NeurIPS 2025Succeed or Learn Slowly: Sample Efficient Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for Mobile App Control
- NeurIPS 2025The $\varphi$ Curve: The Shape of Generalization through the Lens of Norm-based Capacity Control
- NeurIPS 2025Trust Region Constrained Measure Transport in Path Space for Stochastic Optimal Control and Inference
- NeurIPS 2025User-Instructed Disparity-aware Defocus Control
- NeurIPS 2025Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction
- NeurIPS 2025XVerse: Consistent Multi-Subject Control of Identity and Semantic Attributes via DiT Modulation
- CVPR 2024Alchemist: Parametric Control of Material Properties with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Egocentric Whole-Body Motion Capture with FisheyeViT and Diffusion-Based Motion Refinement
- CVPR 2024Forecasting of 3D Whole-body Human Poses with Grasping Objects
- CVPR 2024FreeControl: Training-Free Spatial Control of Any Text-to-Image Diffusion Model with Any Condition
- CVPR 2024It's All About Your Sketch: Democratising Sketch Control in Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Learning to Control Camera Exposure via Reinforcement Learning
- CVPR 2024LightIt: Illumination Modeling and Control for Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Model Adaptation for Time Constrained Embodied Control
- CVPR 2024Programmable Motion Generation for Open-Set Motion Control Tasks
- CVPR 2024RAM-Avatar: Real-time Photo-Realistic Avatar from Monocular Videos with Full-body Control
- CVPR 2024Readout Guidance: Learning Control from Diffusion Features
- CVPR 2024StyLitGAN: Image-Based Relighting via Latent Control
- CVPR 2024Total Selfie: Generating Full-Body Selfies
- CVPR 2024Training Generative Image Super-Resolution Models by Wavelet-Domain Losses Enables Better Control of Artifacts
- CVPR 2024Zero-Painter: Training-Free Layout Control for Text-to-Image Synthesis
- ICLR 2024Addressing Signal Delay in Deep Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2024Conformal Risk Control
- ICLR 2024DittoGym: Learning to Control Soft Shape-Shifting Robots
- ICLR 2024Generalized Policy Iteration using Tensor Approximation for Hybrid Control
- ICLR 2024Generalized Schrödinger Bridge Matching
- ICLR 2024GlucoBench: Curated List of Continuous Glucose Monitoring Datasets with Prediction Benchmarks
- ICLR 2024H-GAP: Humanoid Control with a Generalist Planner
- ICLR 2024Identifying Representations for Intervention Extrapolation
- ICLR 2024Impact of Computation in Integral Reinforcement Learning for Continuous-Time Control
- ICLR 2024INViTE: INterpret and Control Vision-Language Models with Text Explanations
- ICLR 2024Non-Exchangeable Conformal Risk Control
- ICLR 2024Prompt Risk Control: A Rigorous Framework for Responsible Deployment of Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024Robust Model Based Reinforcement Learning Using $\mathcal{L}_1$ Adaptive Control
- ICLR 2024Sliced Wasserstein Estimation with Control Variates
- ICLR 2024Universal Humanoid Motion Representations for Physics-Based Control
- ICML 2024Adapting Pretrained ViTs with Convolution Injector for Visuo-Motor Control
- ICML 2024Adaptive Observation Cost Control for Variational Quantum Eigensolvers
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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.