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

54 papers, page 1 of 2

1. ICML 2026$\tau^2$-Bench: Evaluating Conversational Agents in a Dual-Control Environment
2. ICML 2026A Control-Theoretic View of Mamba on Stability and Robustness
3. ICML 2026A Two-Layer Framework for Joint Online Configuration Selection and Admission Control
4. ICML 2026A Unified Density Operator View of Flow Control and Merging
5. ICML 2026Adversarially Robust Control of Conditional Value-at-Risk via Rockafellar-Uryasev Conformal Inference
6. ICML 2026Attention with Routed-Memory for Learnable Sparse Control
7. ICML 2026Calibrating Decision Robustness via Inverse Conformal Risk Control
8. ICML 2026Chebyshev Policies and the Mountain Car Problem: Reinforcement Learning for Low-Dimensional Control Tasks
9. ICML 2026CONCUR: High-Throughput Agentic Batch Inference of LLM via Congestion-Based Concurrency Control
10. ICML 2026Conf-Gen: Conformal Uncertainty Quantification for Generative Models
11. ICML 2026Conformal Policy Control
12. ICML 2026Continual Learning through Control Minimization
13. ICML 2026Control Consistency Losses for Diffusion Bridges
14. ICML 2026CORAL: Uncertainty-Aware Regulation of Exposure Concentration in Recommender Systems
15. ICML 2026Coverage ≠ Exposure: Auditable Control of Same-Support Tail Failures under Multimodal Missingness
16. ICML 2026Debiased Model-based Representations for Sample-efficient Continuous Control
17. ICML 2026Demystifying Entropy Control in LLM RL Training: Theoretical Analysis and Dynamic Scheduling
18. ICML 2026Differentiable Weightless Controllers: Learning Logic Circuits for Continuous Control
19. ICML 2026Diffusion Bridge or Flow Matching? A Unifying Framework and Comparative Analysis
20. ICML 2026Discrete Adjoint Schrödinger Bridge Sampler
21. ICML 2026Dream-MPC: Gradient-Based Model Predictive Control with Latent Imagination
22. ICML 2026Error Amplification Limits ANN-to-SNN Conversion in Continuous Control
23. ICML 2026Error Propagation in Dynamic Programming: From Stochastic Control to American Option Pricing
24. ICML 2026Fast Mixing Steady-State Control in Markov Decision Processes
25. ICML 2026Generalized Boundary FDR Control under Arbitrary Dependence: An Approach on Closure Principle
26. ICML 2026Geometric Control of Out-of-Distribution Shift in Safe Offline RL
27. ICML 2026Knowledge Diversion for Efficient Morphology Control and Policy Transfer
28. ICML 2026Learning to Perceive the World Through Control: Empowerment-Based Representation Learning
29. ICML 2026Learning to Reconfigure: Configuration-Control Co-optimization of Reconfigurable Robots for Heterogeneous Locomotion
30. ICML 2026Learning Transferable Interaction Primitives from Game Videos for Humanoid Locomotion
31. ICML 2026Learning Treatment Allocations with Risk Control Under Partial Identifiability
32. ICML 2026LEC: Linear Expectation Constraints for Selection-Conditioned Risk Control in Selective Prediction and Routing Systems
33. ICML 2026Letting Trajectories Spread: Quality-Preserving Control for Diverse Flow Matching
34. ICML 2026Manifold-Optimal Guidance: A Unified Riemannian Control View of Diffusion Guidance
35. ICML 2026Model-Based Diffusion Sampling for Predictive Control in Offline Decision Making
36. ICML 2026Modular Pretraining Enables Access Control
37. ICML 2026No More, No Less: Least-Privilege Language Models
38. ICML 2026OGPO: Sample Efficient Full-Finetuning of Generative Control Policies
39. ICML 2026Optimal Transport–Guided Stochastic Control for Graph Combinatorial Optimization
40. ICML 2026Posterior Sampling Reinforcement Learning with Gaussian Processes for Continuous Control: Sublinear Regret Bounds for Unbounded State Spaces
41. ICML 2026Practical Mechanism for Fault-Tolerant Spiking Neural Networks via Simple Input Control Based on Learnable Fragmentation
42. ICML 2026ProMeCD: Unifying Long-Tailed and Noisy Label Learning via White-Box Control
43. ICML 2026RACER: Risk-Aware Calibrated Efficient Routing for Large Language Models
44. ICML 2026RBCBF: Decoding Time Safety Alignment via Risk Guided Rollback and Barrier Control
45. ICML 2026Reward Shaping Control Variates for Off-Policy Evaluation Under Sparse Rewards
46. ICML 2026Scalable and General Whole-Body Control for Cross-Humanoid Locomotion
47. ICML 2026ScaleMoE: Mixture-of-Experts for Scalable Continuous Control in Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning
48. ICML 2026SCORE: A Unified Framework for Overshoot Refund in Online FDR Control
49. ICML 2026Solving Inverse Problems with Flow-based Models via Model Predictive Control
50. ICML 2026Star Elastic: Many-in-One Reasoning LLMs with Efficient Budget 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.