Motion Planning papers, 2023–2026
Trajectory planning
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 225 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 34 |
| 2024 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 32 | 53 |
| 2025 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 27 | 55 |
| 2026 | 28 | 8 | 10 | 37 | 83 |
Representative papers
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- 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
26 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICML 2026Energy-based Compositional Diffusion Planning
- ICML 2026Motion Planning in Compressed Representation Spaces
- ICML 2026MotionMAR: Multi-scale Auto-Regressive Human Motion Reconstruction from Sparse Observations
- ICML 2026NOMAD: Lifelong Trajectory Planning via Non-Parametric Bayesian Memory-Adaptive Diffusion Experts
- ICML 2026On the Ability of Transformers to Verify Plans
- ICML 2026PolyFlow: Safe and Efficient Polytope-Constrained Flow Matching with Constraint Embedding and Projection-free Update
- ICML 2026RefineEvo: Planning-Guided Heuristic Evolution with Bidirectional Experience
- ICML 2026Second-Order Smooth Planning with Optimal-Transport Bellman Smoothing
- ICML 2026Temporal Straightening for Latent Planning
- ICML 2026Trajectory-Aware Heuristic Learning for Combinatorial Search
- ICML 2025Direct Motion Models for Assessing Generated Videos
- ICML 2025Efficient Motion Prompt Learning for Robust Visual Tracking
- ICML 2025Falcon: Fast Visuomotor Policies via Partial Denoising
- ICML 2025Goal-Space Planning with Subgoal Models
- ICML 2025Monte-Carlo Tree Search with Uncertainty Propagation via Optimal Transport
- ICML 2024Bringing Motion Taxonomies to Continuous Domains via GPLVM on Hyperbolic manifolds
- ICML 2024DNCs Require More Planning Steps
- ICML 2024Learning Scale-Aware Spatio-temporal Implicit Representation for Event-based Motion Deblurring
- ICML 2024Position: LLMs Can’t Plan, But Can Help Planning in LLM-Modulo Frameworks
- ICML 2024Potential Based Diffusion Motion Planning
- ICML 2024Prototypical Transformer As Unified Motion Learners
- ICML 2024RoboMP$^2$: A Robotic Multimodal Perception-Planning Framework with Multimodal Large Language Models
- ICML 2023Motion Question Answering via Modular Motion Programs
- ICML 2023Optimistic Planning by Regularized Dynamic Programming
- ICML 2023Retrosynthetic Planning with Dual Value Networks
- ICML 2023Stabilizing GANs' Training with Brownian Motion Controller
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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.