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

33 papers, page 1 of 1

1. ICLR 2026A New Initialization to Control Gradients in Sinusoidal Neural Networks
2. ICLR 2026A Schrödinger Eigenfunction Method for Long-Horizon Stochastic Optimal Control
3. ICLR 2026BFM-Zero: A Promptable Behavioral Foundation Model for Humanoid Control Using Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning
4. ICLR 2026CardioComposer: Leveraging Differentiable Geometry for Compositional Control of Anatomical Diffusion Models
5. ICLR 2026Causal-Steer: Disentangled Continuous Style Control without Parallel Corpora
6. ICLR 2026ClarifyVC: Clarifying Ambiguous Commands in Vehicle Control with a Hybrid Data Augmentation Pipeline
7. ICLR 2026Conformal Robustness Control: A New Strategy for Robust Decision
8. ICLR 2026Control Tax: The Price of Keeping AI in Check
9. ICLR 2026CREPE: Controlling diffusion with REPlica Exchange
10. ICLR 2026Differentiable Model Predictive Control on the GPU
11. ICLR 2026DriftLite: Lightweight Drift Control for Inference-Time Scaling of Diffusion Models
12. ICLR 2026Dual Optimistic Ascent (PI Control) is the Augmented Lagrangian Method in Disguise
13. ICLR 2026Efficient Morphology–Control Co-Design via Stackelberg PPO under Non-Differentiable Leader–Follower Interfaces
14. ICLR 2026Endowing GPT-4 with a Humanoid Body: Building the Bridge Between Off-the-Shelf VLMs and the Physical World
15. ICLR 2026From Language to Locomotion: Retargeting-free Humanoid Control via Motion Latent Guidance
16. ICLR 2026Hierarchical Value-Decomposed Offline Reinforcement Learning for Whole-Body Control
17. ICLR 2026HOTA: Hamiltonian framework for Optimal Transport Advection
18. ICLR 2026HWC-Loco: A Hierarchical Whole-Body Control Approach to Robust Humanoid Locomotion
19. ICLR 2026Inference-Time Personalized Safety Control via Paired Difference-in-Means Intervention
20. ICLR 2026Learning Koopman Representations with Controllability Guarantees
21. ICLR 2026Less Is More: Clustered Cross-Covariance Control for Offline RL
22. ICLR 2026Masked Generative Policy for Robotic Control
23. ICLR 2026Much Ado About Noising: Dispelling the Myths of Generative Robotic Control
24. ICLR 2026Multilevel Control Functional
25. ICLR 2026Reliability-Adjusted Prioritized Experience Replay
26. ICLR 2026Scalable Exploration for High-Dimensional Continuous Control via Value-Guided Flow
27. ICLR 2026Shortcut Diffusion Training with Cumulative Consistency Loss: An Optimal Control View
28. ICLR 2026Solving Parameter-Robust Avoid Problems with Unknown Feasibility using Reinforcement Learning
29. ICLR 2026Stochastic Optimal Control for Continuous-Time fMRI Representation Learning
30. ICLR 2026Task Tokens: A Flexible Approach to Adapting Behavior Foundation Models
31. ICLR 2026Test-Time Accuracy-Cost Control in Neural Simulators via Recurrent-Depth
32. ICLR 2026THE END OF MANUAL DECODING: TOWARDS TRULY END-TO-END LANGUAGE MODELS
33. ICLR 2026WholeBodyVLA: Towards Unified Latent VLA for Whole-body Loco-manipulation Control

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.