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

38 papers, page 1 of 1

1. NeurIPS 2025A Temporal Difference Method for Stochastic Continuous Dynamics
2. NeurIPS 2025Activation Control for Efficiently Eliciting Long Chain-of-thought Ability of Language Models
3. NeurIPS 2025Actor-Free Continuous Control via Structurally Maximizable Q-Functions
4. NeurIPS 2025Adversarial Locomotion and Motion Imitation for Humanoid Policy Learning
5. NeurIPS 2025Asymptotically Stable Quaternion-valued Hopfield-structured Neural Network with Periodic Projection-based Supervised Learning Rules
6. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Greedy Exits: Improved Early Exit Decisions for Risk Control and Reliability
7. NeurIPS 2025Characterizing control between interacting subsystems with deep Jacobian estimation
8. NeurIPS 2025Coarse-to-fine Q-Network with Action Sequence for Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning
9. NeurIPS 2025CoDA: Coordinated Diffusion Noise Optimization for Whole-Body Manipulation of Articulated Objects
10. NeurIPS 2025Conformal Risk Training: End-to-End Optimization of Conformal Risk Control
11. NeurIPS 2025Constrained Diffusers for Safe Planning and Control
12. NeurIPS 2025Continuous Q-Score Matching: Diffusion Guided Reinforcement Learning for Continuous-Time Control
13. NeurIPS 2025Crucible: Quantifying the Potential of Control Algorithms through LLM Agents
14. NeurIPS 2025DiCoFlex: Model-Agnostic Diverse Counterfactuals with Flexible Control
15. NeurIPS 2025DISCO: DISCrete nOise for Conditional Control in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
16. NeurIPS 2025Enhancing Tactile-based Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Control
17. NeurIPS 2025From Experts to a Generalist: Toward General Whole-Body Control for Humanoid Robots
18. NeurIPS 2025Globally Optimal Policy Gradient Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning with PID Control Policies
19. NeurIPS 2025Improving Bilinear RNN with Closed-loop Control
20. NeurIPS 2025KL Penalty Control via Perturbation for Direct Preference Optimization
21. NeurIPS 2025KungfuBot: Physics-Based Humanoid Whole-Body Control for Learning Highly-Dynamic Skills
22. NeurIPS 2025Learning to Control Free-Form Soft Swimmers
23. NeurIPS 2025Lyapunov-Stable Adaptive Control for Multimodal Concept Drift
24. NeurIPS 2025Maximizing the Value of Predictions in Control: Accuracy Is Not Enough
25. NeurIPS 2025Non-equilibrium Annealed Adjoint Sampler
26. NeurIPS 2025Optimal Control for Transformer Architectures: Enhancing Generalization, Robustness and Efficiency
27. NeurIPS 2025Performative Risk Control: Calibrating Models for Reliable Deployment under Performativity
28. NeurIPS 2025Permissioned LLMs: Enforcing Access Control in Large Language Models
29. NeurIPS 2025Prohibiting Generative AI in any Form of Weapon Control
30. NeurIPS 2025Proxy Target: Bridging the Gap Between Discrete Spiking Neural Networks and Continuous Control
31. NeurIPS 2025Safe and Stable Control via Lyapunov-Guided Diffusion Models
32. NeurIPS 2025Stabilizing LTI Systems under Partial Observability: Sample Complexity and Fundamental Limits
33. NeurIPS 2025Succeed or Learn Slowly: Sample Efficient Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for Mobile App Control
34. NeurIPS 2025The $\varphi$ Curve: The Shape of Generalization through the Lens of Norm-based Capacity Control
35. NeurIPS 2025Trust Region Constrained Measure Transport in Path Space for Stochastic Optimal Control and Inference
36. NeurIPS 2025User-Instructed Disparity-aware Defocus Control
37. NeurIPS 2025Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction
38. NeurIPS 2025XVerse: Consistent Multi-Subject Control of Identity and Semantic Attributes via DiT Modulation

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.