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
30 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICML 2024Adapting Pretrained ViTs with Convolution Injector for Visuo-Motor Control
- ICML 2024Adaptive Observation Cost Control for Variational Quantum Eigensolvers
- ICML 2024AI Control: Improving Safety Despite Intentional Subversion
- ICML 2024Bring Your Own (Non-Robust) Algorithm to Solve Robust MDPs by Estimating The Worst Kernel
- ICML 2024ByMI: Byzantine Machine Identification with False Discovery Rate Control
- ICML 2024Causal Inference out of Control: Estimating Performativity without Treatment Randomization
- ICML 2024Chain-of-Thought Predictive Control
- ICML 2024Complexity Matters: Feature Learning in the Presence of Spurious Correlations
- ICML 2024Criterion Collapse and Loss Distribution Control
- ICML 2024Distilling Morphology-Conditioned Hypernetworks for Efficient Universal Morphology Control
- ICML 2024DynSyn: Dynamical Synergistic Representation for Efficient Learning and Control in Overactuated Embodied Systems
- ICML 2024Early Time Classification with Accumulated Accuracy Gap Control
- ICML 2024EfficientZero V2: Mastering Discrete and Continuous Control with Limited Data
- ICML 2024Enabling Few-Shot Learning with PID Control: A Layer Adaptive Optimizer
- ICML 2024Fair Risk Control: A Generalized Framework for Calibrating Multi-group Fairness Risks
- ICML 2024Handling Heterogeneous Curvatures in Bandit LQR Control
- ICML 2024How Deep Do We Need: Accelerating Training and Inference of Neural ODEs via Control Perspective
- ICML 2024Hybrid Inverse Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2024Implicit Bias of Policy Gradient in Linear Quadratic Control: Extrapolation to Unseen Initial States
- ICML 2024Infinite-Horizon Distributionally Robust Regret-Optimal Control
- ICML 2024Larimar: Large Language Models with Episodic Memory Control
- ICML 2024Learning the Uncertainty Sets of Linear Control Systems via Set Membership: A Non-asymptotic Analysis
- ICML 2024Lyapunov-stable Neural Control for State and Output Feedback: A Novel Formulation
- ICML 2024Mimicking Better by Matching the Approximate Action Distribution
- ICML 2024PIDformer: Transformer Meets Control Theory
- ICML 2024Position: AI/ML Influencers Have a Place in the Academic Process
- ICML 2024PRISE: LLM-Style Sequence Compression for Learning Temporal Action Abstractions in Control
- ICML 2024Regularized Q-learning through Robust Averaging
- ICML 2024Reinforcement Learning and Regret Bounds for Admission Control
- ICML 2024Sliced-Wasserstein Estimation with Spherical Harmonics as Control Variates
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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.