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

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1. CVPR 2025AC3D: Analyzing and Improving 3D Camera Control in Video Diffusion Transformers
2. CVPR 2025BLADE: Single-view Body Mesh Estimation through Accurate Depth Estimation
3. CVPR 2025Continuous, Subject-Specific Attribute Control in T2I Models by Identifying Semantic Directions
4. CVPR 2025ControlFace: Harnessing Facial Parametric Control for Face Rigging
5. CVPR 2025EchoMimicV2: Towards Striking, Simplified, and Semi-Body Human Animation
6. CVPR 2025HumanRig: Learning Automatic Rigging for Humanoid Character in a Large Scale Dataset
7. CVPR 2025HunyuanPortrait: Implicit Condition Control for Enhanced Portrait Animation
8. CVPR 2025InterMimic: Towards Universal Whole-Body Control for Physics-Based Human-Object Interactions
9. CVPR 2025Learning Heterogeneous Tissues with Mixture of Experts for Gigapixel Whole Slide Images
10. CVPR 2025Multi-party Collaborative Attention Control for Image Customization
11. CVPR 2025Multitwine: Multi-Object Compositing with Text and Layout Control
12. CVPR 2025REWIND: Real-Time Egocentric Whole-Body Motion Diffusion with Exemplar-Based Identity Conditioning
13. CVPR 2025Steepest Descent Density Control for Compact 3D Gaussian Splatting
14. CVPR 2025StyleStudio: Text-Driven Style Transfer with Selective Control of Style Elements
15. CVPR 2025Text Embedding is Not All You Need: Attention Control for Text-to-Image Semantic Alignment with Text Self-Attention Maps
16. ICLR 2025Bisimulation Metric for Model Predictive Control
17. ICLR 2025ConcreTizer: Model Inversion Attack via Occupancy Classification and Dispersion Control for 3D Point Cloud Restoration
18. ICLR 2025Control-oriented Clustering of Visual Latent Representation
19. ICLR 2025Data Selection via Optimal Control for Language Models
20. ICLR 2025Effective post-training embedding compression via temperature control in contrastive training
21. ICLR 2025Enhancing Graph Of Thought: Enhancing Prompts with LLM Rationales and Dynamic Temperature Control
22. ICLR 2025I2VControl-Camera: Precise Video Camera Control with Adjustable Motion Strength
23. ICLR 2025Inspection and Control of Self-Generated-Text Recognition Ability in Llama3-8b-Instruct
24. ICLR 2025MamKO: Mamba-based Koopman operator for modeling and predictive control
25. ICLR 2025Overcoming Slow Decision Frequencies in Continuous Control: Model-Based Sequence Reinforcement Learning for Model-Free Control
26. ICLR 2025RB-Modulation: Training-Free Stylization using Reference-Based Modulation
27. ICLR 2025Remove Symmetries to Control Model Expressivity and Improve Optimization
28. ICLR 2025Residual-MPPI: Online Policy Customization for Continuous Control
29. ICLR 2025Select before Act: Spatially Decoupled Action Repetition for Continuous Control
30. ICLR 2025Training Free Guided Flow-Matching with Optimal Control
31. ICLR 2025Zero-Shot Whole-Body Humanoid Control via Behavioral Foundation Models
32. ICML 2025A Forget-and-Grow Strategy for Deep Reinforcement Learning Scaling in Continuous Control
33. ICML 2025Conditioning Diffusions Using Malliavin Calculus
34. ICML 2025Conformal Tail Risk Control for Large Language Model Alignment
35. ICML 2025Consensus Based Stochastic Optimal Control
36. ICML 2025DiLQR: Differentiable Iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator via Implicit Differentiation
37. ICML 2025e-GAI: e-value-based Generalized $\alpha$-Investing for Online False Discovery Rate Control
38. ICML 2025End-to-End Learning Framework for Solving Non-Markovian Optimal Control
39. ICML 2025EvoControl: Multi-Frequency Bi-Level Control for High-Frequency Continuous Control
40. ICML 2025False Coverage Proportion Control for Conformal Prediction
41. ICML 2025Geometric Contact Flows: Contactomorphisms for Dynamics and Control
42. ICML 2025Learn to Vaccinate: Combining Structure Learning and Effective Vaccination for Epidemic and Outbreak Control
43. ICML 2025Learning Distribution-wise Control in Representation Space for Language Models
44. ICML 2025Learning Dynamics under Environmental Constraints via Measurement-Induced Bundle Structures
45. ICML 2025Learning from Suboptimal Data in Continuous Control via Auto-Regressive Soft Q-Network
46. ICML 2025LineFlow: A Framework to Learn Active Control of Production Lines
47. ICML 2025Neural Event-Triggered Control with Optimal Scheduling
48. ICML 2025Optimal Sensor Scheduling and Selection for Continuous-Discrete Kalman Filtering with Auxiliary Dynamics
49. ICML 2025Reinforcement Learning for Quantum Control under Physical Constraints
50. ICML 2025Stochastic Control for Fine-tuning Diffusion Models: Optimality, Regularity, and Convergence

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.