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

188 papers, page 1 of 4

1. NeurIPS 2026A Control-Theoretic Approximation to Predictive Coding Dynamics
2. NeurIPS 2026A latent control model for realistic rodent motion
3. NeurIPS 2026A Mean-Field Framework for Inference-Time Distributional Control of Diffusion Models
4. NeurIPS 2026A Surrogate Perspective on Convergence of Fixed-Target DQN
5. NeurIPS 2026ABC-Align: Prediction-Powered Alignment with Adaptive Bias Control
6. NeurIPS 2026Act, Validate, Adapt: Closing the Causal Discovery-Control Loop
7. NeurIPS 2026AdKnob: Ad Intensity Control and Labeling for LLM-Native Advertising
8. NeurIPS 2026AdvJudge-Zero: Binary Decision Flips in LLM-as-a-Judge via Adversarial Control Tokens
9. NeurIPS 2026AI Control for Sandbagging on Fuzzy Tasks
10. NeurIPS 2026Anytime-Valid Conformal Risk Control
11. NeurIPS 2026Bellman Residual Minimization for Control: Geometry, Stationarity, and Convergence
12. NeurIPS 2026Calibration Is Not Control: Intervention Advantage for LLM-Agent Oversight
13. NeurIPS 2026Can Entry-Wise Clipping Give Spectral Control of Stochastic Gradients?
14. NeurIPS 2026Causal Discovery with False Positive Error Control
15. NeurIPS 2026CCTimeBoost: Learning Time-Varying Relative Risk with Case-Control Boosted Trees
16. NeurIPS 2026Conformal Selective Acting: Anytime-Valid Risk Control for RLVR-Trained LLMs
17. NeurIPS 2026CorridorLight: Cooperation as Task Negotiation with Causal Gating for Traffic Signal Control
18. NeurIPS 2026DARPAN: Controllability-Aware Residual Filtering for Pretrained Physical Control
19. NeurIPS 2026Data-Driven Soft Labeling Scales DNA Read Classification to Whole-Body Cell-Type Deconvolution
20. NeurIPS 2026DBPS: Doob-Bridge Posterior Sampler with Balanced Endpoint-Population Control for Unpaired Neurodegenerative Pathology Transport
21. NeurIPS 2026Decoupled Safety Control: A Safety-Control Algorithm for Training-Free Safety Guidance
22. NeurIPS 2026Differentiable Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
23. NeurIPS 2026EpiPivot: Learning to Control the Simplex Method under Epistemic Uncertainty
24. NeurIPS 2026Finite Resources False Discovery Rate Control on Structured Hypothesis Spaces
25. NeurIPS 2026Finite-Memory Control of POMDPs: Fundamental Limits and Efficient Design
26. NeurIPS 2026FluxLite: Inference-Time Proposal Control for Discrete Diffusion Models
27. NeurIPS 2026ForceBody: Force-Paired Parametric Body Motion with Torque Uncertainty
28. NeurIPS 2026FRESCO: A Novel Consistency Control for Asynchronous Pipeline Parallel Training
29. NeurIPS 2026High Probability Risk Control for Online Policy Learning
30. NeurIPS 2026High-Dimensional Robotic Reinforcement Learning with Developing Synergies
31. NeurIPS 2026Humanoid Horizon: Extending Task Horizon in Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation via Parallel Training, Dynamic Starting, and Reward Gating
32. NeurIPS 2026Hydra-DP3: Frequency-Aware Right-Sizing of 3D Diffusion Policies for Visuomotor Control
33. NeurIPS 2026Instruct-Particulate: Scaling Feed-Forward 3D Object Articulation with Kinematic Control
34. NeurIPS 2026Inverted Detection and Control in Steering Vectors
35. NeurIPS 2026Inverting Retargeting: Humanoid Datasets Remember Their Operators
36. NeurIPS 2026Iterative Gumbel Planning for Continuous Control
37. NeurIPS 2026Iterative ILP with Update-Size Control for Reducing Surrogate-Task Mismatch in Bit-Width Selection
38. NeurIPS 2026K-PWM: Control-Oriented Structured World Models under Partial Observation
39. NeurIPS 2026KL for a KL: On-Policy Distillation with Control Variate Baseline
40. NeurIPS 2026Language Models Can Coarsely Modulate Entropy Under Instruction
41. NeurIPS 2026Language-Based Agent Control
42. NeurIPS 2026Learning From Failures: Efficient Reinforcement Learning Control with Episodic Memory
43. NeurIPS 2026Learning Options for Compositional Motor Control with Adapter Banks
44. NeurIPS 2026LessMimic: Versatile Humanoid-Object Interaction with Unified Distance Field Representations
45. NeurIPS 2026LinuxArena: A Control Setting for AI Agents in Live Production Software Environments
46. NeurIPS 2026LLMs Keep Thinking When Told Not To
47. NeurIPS 2026Matched-Control Tests of Partition-Source Claims in One Routed Distillation Family
48. NeurIPS 2026Model-Agnostic FDR Control via Group Gaussian Mirror and Permutation SHAP
49. NeurIPS 2026Model-based Bootstrap of Controlled Markov Chains
50. NeurIPS 2026MUST: Stage-Adaptive Stability Control for Test-Time Scaling in Multimodal Reasoning

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.