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

59 papers, page 1 of 2

1. CVPR 2023DC2: Dual-Camera Defocus Control by Learning To Refocus
2. CVPR 2023EC2: Emergent Communication for Embodied Control
3. CVPR 2023Ego-Body Pose Estimation via Ego-Head Pose Estimation
4. CVPR 2023FLEX: Full-Body Grasping Without Full-Body Grasps
5. CVPR 2023Fresnel Microfacet BRDF: Unification of Polari-Radiometric Surface-Body Reflection
6. CVPR 2023Learning Personalized High Quality Volumetric Head Avatars From Monocular RGB Videos
7. CVPR 2023Neural Koopman Pooling: Control-Inspired Temporal Dynamics Encoding for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition
8. CVPR 2023Neural Volumetric Memory for Visual Locomotion Control
9. CVPR 2023One-Stage 3D Whole-Body Mesh Recovery With Component Aware Transformer
10. ICLR 2023Calibrating the Rigged Lottery: Making All Tickets Reliable
11. ICLR 2023Curriculum-based Co-design of Morphology and Control of Voxel-based Soft Robots
12. ICLR 2023Dichotomy of Control: Separating What You Can Control from What You Cannot
13. ICLR 2023Diminishing Return of Value Expansion Methods in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
14. ICLR 2023Efficient Attention via Control Variates
15. ICLR 2023Efficiently Controlling Multiple Risks with Pareto Testing
16. ICLR 2023Learnable Behavior Control: Breaking Atari Human World Records via Sample-Efficient Behavior Selection
17. ICLR 2023Making Better Decision by Directly Planning in Continuous Control
18. ICLR 2023Minimum Description Length Control
19. ICLR 2023Neural Episodic Control with State Abstraction
20. ICLR 2023Offline RL with No OOD Actions: In-Sample Learning via Implicit Value Regularization
21. ICLR 2023Quantile Risk Control: A Flexible Framework for Bounding the Probability of High-Loss Predictions
22. ICLR 2023Represent to Control Partially Observed Systems: Representation Learning with Provable Sample Efficiency
23. ICLR 2023Solving Continuous Control via Q-learning
24. ICLR 2023SYNC: SAFETY-AWARE NEURAL CONTROL FOR STABILIZING STOCHASTIC DELAY-DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
25. ICLR 2023Timing is Everything: Learning to Act Selectively with Costly Actions and Budgetary Constraints
26. ICML 2023Fast Online Value-Maximizing Prediction Sets with Conformal Cost Control
27. ICML 2023For Pre-Trained Vision Models in Motor Control, Not All Policy Learning Methods are Created Equal
28. ICML 2023Generating Language Corrections for Teaching Physical Control Tasks
29. ICML 2023Graph Reinforcement Learning for Network Control via Bi-Level Optimization
30. ICML 2023How to Trust Your Diffusion Model: A Convex Optimization Approach to Conformal Risk Control
31. ICML 2023Learning Control by Iterative Inversion
32. ICML 2023Learning Control-Oriented Dynamical Structure from Data
33. ICML 2023LipsNet: A Smooth and Robust Neural Network with Adaptive Lipschitz Constant for High Accuracy Optimal Control
34. ICML 2023Masked Trajectory Models for Prediction, Representation, and Control
35. ICML 2023On Pre-Training for Visuo-Motor Control: Revisiting a Learning-from-Scratch Baseline
36. ICML 2023Online Nonstochastic Control with Adversarial and Static Constraints
37. ICML 2023Probably Anytime-Safe Stochastic Combinatorial Semi-Bandits
38. ICML 2023Tensor Decompositions Meet Control Theory: Learning General Mixtures of Linear Dynamical Systems
39. ICML 2023The Regret of Exploration and the Control of Bad Episodes in Reinforcement Learning
40. ICML 2023Universal Morphology Control via Contextual Modulation
41. ICML 2023Vector-Valued Control Variates
42. NeurIPS 2023Active Observing in Continuous-time Control
43. NeurIPS 2023AMDP: An Adaptive Detection Procedure for False Discovery Rate Control in High-Dimensional Mediation Analysis
44. NeurIPS 2023AndroidInTheWild: A Large-Scale Dataset For Android Device Control
45. NeurIPS 2023Conformal PID Control for Time Series Prediction
46. NeurIPS 2023Derandomized novelty detection with FDR control via conformal e-values
47. NeurIPS 2023Dis-inhibitory neuronal circuits can control the sign of synaptic plasticity
48. NeurIPS 2023Distributionally Robust Linear Quadratic Control
49. NeurIPS 2023Exploiting Correlated Auxiliary Feedback in Parameterized Bandits
50. NeurIPS 2023False Discovery Proportion control for aggregated Knockoffs

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.