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
38 papers, page 1 of 1
- NeurIPS 2024A provable control of sensitivity of neural networks through a direct parameterization of the overall bi-Lipschitzness
- NeurIPS 2024Adaptable Logical Control for Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024Aligning Large Language Models with Representation Editing: A Control Perspective
- NeurIPS 2024Aligning Model Properties via Conformal Risk Control
- NeurIPS 2024Bigger, Regularized, Optimistic: scaling for compute and sample efficient continuous control
- NeurIPS 2024ChatCam: Empowering Camera Control through Conversational AI
- NeurIPS 2024Contrastive dimension reduction: when and how?
- NeurIPS 2024Covariate Shift Corrected Conditional Randomization Test
- NeurIPS 2024Cross-model Control: Improving Multiple Large Language Models in One-time Training
- NeurIPS 2024Disentangling Linear Quadratic Control with Untrusted ML Predictions
- NeurIPS 2024DMC-VB: A Benchmark for Representation Learning for Control with Visual Distractors
- NeurIPS 2024DynaMo: In-Domain Dynamics Pretraining for Visuo-Motor Control
- NeurIPS 2024Fast yet Safe: Early-Exiting with Risk Control
- NeurIPS 2024Feedback control guides credit assignment in recurrent neural networks
- NeurIPS 2024Fine-grained Control of Generative Data Augmentation in IoT Sensing
- NeurIPS 2024Flexible task abstractions emerge in linear networks with fast and bounded units
- NeurIPS 2024Humanoid Locomotion as Next Token Prediction
- NeurIPS 2024Localized Adaptive Risk Control
- NeurIPS 2024Meta-Controller: Few-Shot Imitation of Unseen Embodiments and Tasks in Continuous Control
- NeurIPS 2024NeuralFluid: Nueral Fluidic System Design and Control with Differentiable Simulation
- NeurIPS 2024NeuralPlane: An Efficiently Parallelizable Platform for Fixed-wing Aircraft Control with Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Omnigrasp: Grasping Diverse Objects with Simulated Humanoids
- NeurIPS 2024On the Effects of Data Scale on UI Control Agents
- NeurIPS 2024Online Control in Population Dynamics
- NeurIPS 2024Performative Control for Linear Dynamical Systems
- NeurIPS 2024Reinforcement Learning with Euclidean Data Augmentation for State-Based Continuous Control
- NeurIPS 2024Relating Hopfield Networks to Episodic Control
- NeurIPS 2024ReVideo: Remake a Video with Motion and Content Control
- NeurIPS 2024Risk-sensitive control as inference with Rényi divergence
- NeurIPS 2024Selective Attention: Enhancing Transformer through Principled Context Control
- NeurIPS 2024Solving Inverse Problems via Diffusion Optimal Control
- NeurIPS 2024Solving Minimum-Cost Reach Avoid using Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Stochastic Optimal Control and Estimation with Multiplicative and Internal Noise
- NeurIPS 2024Stochastic Optimal Control for Diffusion Bridges in Function Spaces
- NeurIPS 2024Stochastic Optimal Control Matching
- NeurIPS 2024Tight Rates for Bandit Control Beyond Quadratics
- NeurIPS 2024Unlock the Intermittent Control Ability of Model Free Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2024When to Sense and Control? A Time-adaptive Approach for Continuous-Time RL
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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.