Motion Planning papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Motion Planning went from 34 papers in 2023 to 83 in 2026, roughly 2.4x in three years.
• CVPR publishes the most Motion Planning work: 115 papers from 2023 to 2026, 51% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Diffusion Models: papers tagged with both rose from 2 in 2023 to 16 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Autonomous Driving, it ranks #4 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Occupancy Prediction, is up 2.3x versus 2.4x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026Coherence-Aware Transition-Intent Fusion for LTL Planning under Uncertain Semantic Maps
• ICML 2026Trajectory-Aware Heuristic Learning for Combinatorial Search
• ICLR 2026Efficient Differentiable Contact Model with Long-range Influence
• CVPR 2026EgoPoseFormer v2 Accurate Egocentric Human Motion Estimation for ARVR
• NeurIPS 2025Place Cells as Multi-Scale Position Embeddings: Random Walk Transition Kernels for Path Planning
• ICML 2025Goal-Space Planning with Subgoal Models
• ICLR 20253DTrajMaster: Mastering 3D Trajectory for Multi-Entity Motion in Video Generation
• CVPR 2025A Polarization-Aided Transformer for Image Deblurring via Motion Vector Decomposition
• NeurIPS 2024Text to Blind Motion
• ICML 2024Bringing Motion Taxonomies to Continuous Domains via GPLVM on Hyperbolic manifolds
• ICLR 2024Grounding Language Plans in Demonstrations Through Counterfactual Perturbations
• CVPR 2024DeMatch: Deep Decomposition of Motion Field for Two-View Correspondence Learning
• NeurIPS 2023Accelerating Motion Planning via Optimal Transport
• ICML 2023Motion Question Answering via Modular Motion Programs
• ICLR 2023Integrating Symmetry into Differentiable Planning with Steerable Convolutions
• CVPR 20233D-POP - An Automated Annotation Approach to Facilitate Markerless 2D-3D Tracking of Freely Moving Birds With Marker-Based Motion Capture
• NeurIPS 2026ControlJEPA: Principled Trajectory Regularization via Lyapunov Tube Loss
• ICML 2026Second-Order Smooth Planning with Optimal-Transport Bellman Smoothing
• ICLR 2026NeMo-map: Neural Implicit Flow Fields for Spatio-Temporal Motion Mapping
• CVPR 2026Event-based Motion Deblurring with Unpaired Data

All Motion Planning papers

225 papers, page 2 of 5

51. ICML 2026PolyFlow: Safe and Efficient Polytope-Constrained Flow Matching with Constraint Embedding and Projection-free Update
52. ICML 2026RefineEvo: Planning-Guided Heuristic Evolution with Bidirectional Experience
53. ICML 2026Second-Order Smooth Planning with Optimal-Transport Bellman Smoothing
54. ICML 2026Temporal Straightening for Latent Planning
55. ICML 2026Trajectory-Aware Heuristic Learning for Combinatorial Search
56. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Expected Values: Risk-Sensitive Planning with Distributional Monte-Carlo Tree Search
57. NeurIPS 2026Bridging Scene Generation and Planning: Driving with World Model via Unifying Vision and Motion Representation
58. NeurIPS 2026Coarse-to-Fine Compositional Diffusion for Long-Horizon Planning
59. NeurIPS 2026Coherence-Aware Transition-Intent Fusion for LTL Planning under Uncertain Semantic Maps
60. NeurIPS 2026ControlJEPA: Principled Trajectory Regularization via Lyapunov Tube Loss
61. NeurIPS 2026Corrupted Plans, Clean Traces: What Planning-Execution Decoupling Reveals About CoT Monitoring
62. NeurIPS 2026CycleSpectra: Cyclic Motion Spectra for Phase-Queryable 4D Cardiac Reconstruction
63. NeurIPS 2026DAGent: Evaluate-then-Grow Planning for Deep Research Agents
64. NeurIPS 2026DiRecT: Safe Diffusion-Based Planning via Receding-Horizon Denoising
65. NeurIPS 2026EgoHMP: Achieving Precise Human Motion Prediction in 3D Scenes via Egocentric Cues
66. NeurIPS 2026FacEDiT: Talking Head Video Editing via Facial Motion Infilling
67. NeurIPS 2026ForceBody: Force-Paired Parametric Body Motion with Torque Uncertainty
68. NeurIPS 2026Geometric Prompt-Trajectory Planning for Test-Time Scaling
69. NeurIPS 2026Implicit-Euler Value Iteration: Long-Horizon Planning via Stable Integration of the Bellman Residual Flow
70. NeurIPS 2026Learning Motion-Appearance Coupling Priors for Solving Video Inverse Problems
71. NeurIPS 2026Locating and Repairing Domain Shift in VLM Trajectory Planning
72. NeurIPS 2026MoCAR: Motion-code Coordinate-aware AutoRegression for Continuous Trajectory Forecasting
73. NeurIPS 2026Model-Based Online Decision Making via Generative Trajectory Planning
74. NeurIPS 2026Offline Inverse Reinforcement Learning with Unified Diffusion Planning
75. NeurIPS 2026OmniEgoCap: Camera-Agnostic Sequence-Level Egocentric Motion Reconstruction
76. NeurIPS 2026Ordinal Geometry Complements Reconstruction: Diagnosing Planning with Compressed Value Functions
77. NeurIPS 2026Point4D: Long-range 4D Motion Reconstruction
78. NeurIPS 2026Refining Compositional Diffusion for Reliable Long-Horizon Planning
79. NeurIPS 2026REINS: A Self-Evolving Agent Harness for Real-Time Trajectory Planning
80. NeurIPS 2026Risk-Averse Online POMDP Planning via CVaR of the Immediate Cost with Performance Guarantees
81. NeurIPS 2026Sparse Planning in Visual World Models via Cost Gradients
82. NeurIPS 2026Trajectory Planning without Trajectory Data: A Manifold-Guided Approach
83. NeurIPS 2026TrajLoc: Trajectory-Attention Localization for Multi-Object Motion Control
84. CVPR 2025A Polarization-Aided Transformer for Image Deblurring via Motion Vector Decomposition
85. CVPR 2025BiM-VFI: Bidirectional Motion Field-Guided Frame Interpolation for Video with Non-uniform Motions
86. CVPR 2025CarPlanner: Consistent Auto-regressive Trajectory Planning for Large-Scale Reinforcement Learning in Autonomous Driving
87. CVPR 2025ColabSfM: Collaborative Structure-from-Motion by Point Cloud Registration
88. CVPR 2025Continuous Space-Time Video Resampling with Invertible Motion Steganography
89. CVPR 2025Dense-SfM: Structure from Motion with Dense Consistent Matching
90. CVPR 2025Dyn-HaMR: Recovering 4D Interacting Hand Motion from a Dynamic Camera
91. CVPR 2025Dynamic Motion Blending for Versatile Motion Editing
92. CVPR 2025DynaMoDe-NeRF: Motion-aware Deblurring Neural Radiance Field for Dynamic Scenes
93. CVPR 2025EchoWorld: Learning Motion-Aware World Models for Echocardiography Probe Guidance
94. CVPR 2025HaWoR: World-Space Hand Motion Reconstruction from Egocentric Videos
95. CVPR 2025How Do I Do That? Synthesizing 3D Hand Motion and Contacts for Everyday Interactions
96. CVPR 2025Human Motion Instruction Tuning
97. CVPR 2025LAL: Enhancing 3D Human Motion Prediction with Latency-aware Auxiliary Learning
98. CVPR 2025Layered Motion Fusion: Lifting Motion Segmentation to 3D in Egocentric Videos
99. CVPR 2025Lifting Motion to the 3D World via 2D Diffusion
100. CVPR 2025Light3R-SfM: Towards Feed-forward Structure-from-Motion

FAQ

How many Motion Planning papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

225 in total: 34 in 2023, 53 in 2024, 55 in 2025, 83 in 2026.

How many Motion Planning papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 28 Motion Planning papers, versus 12 the year before.

How many Motion Planning papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 8 Motion Planning papers, versus 11 the year before.

How many Motion Planning papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 10 Motion Planning papers, versus 5 the year before.

How many Motion Planning papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 37 Motion Planning papers, versus 27 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Motion Planning papers?

CVPR, with 115 papers from 2023 to 2026.