PDF Understanding papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• PDF Understanding went from 6 papers in 2023 to 39 in 2026, roughly 6.5x in three years.
• CVPR publishes the most PDF Understanding work: 39 papers from 2023 to 2026, 38% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Multimodal LLMs: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 17 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Document and Layout, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026DocScope: Benchmarking Verifiable Reasoning for Trustworthy Long-Document Understanding
• ICML 2026Explainable Forensics of Manipulated Segments in Untrimmed Long Videos
• ICLR 2026Smooth Reading: Bridging the Gap of Recurrent LLM to Self-Attention LLM on Long-Context Understanding
• CVPR 2026MS-Temba Multi-Scale Temporal Mamba for Understanding Long Untrimmed Videos
• NeurIPS 2025Return of ChebNet: Understanding and Improving an Overlooked GNN on Long Range Tasks
• ICML 2025Position: Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different
• ICLR 2025Oryx MLLM: On-Demand Spatial-Temporal Understanding at Arbitrary Resolution
• CVPR 2025Fish-Vista: A Multi-Purpose Dataset for Understanding & Identification of Traits from Images
• NeurIPS 2024SRFUND: A Multi-Granularity Hierarchical Structure Reconstruction Benchmark in Form Understanding
• ICML 2024Towards Understanding the Word Sensitivity of Attention Layers: A Study via Random Features
• ICLR 2024Nougat: Neural Optical Understanding for Academic Documents
• CVPR 2024Action Scene Graphs for Long-Form Understanding of Egocentric Videos
• NeurIPS 2023Balance, Imbalance, and Rebalance: Understanding Robust Overfitting from a Minimax Game Perspective
• ICLR 2023Understanding Edge-of-Stability Training Dynamics with a Minimalist Example
• CVPR 2023Long Range Pooling for 3D Large-Scale Scene Understanding
• NeurIPS 2026Towards Understanding Momentum Acceleration in River-Valley Loss Landscape
• ICML 2026SCOUT: Active Information Foraging for Long-Text Understanding with Decoupled Epistemic States
• ICLR 2026Understanding the Learning Phases in Self-Supervised Learning via Critical Periods
• CVPR 2026Understanding Accelerating and Improving MeanFlow Training
• NeurIPS 2025PaceLLM: Brain-Inspired Large Language Models for Long-Context Understanding

All PDF Understanding papers

102 papers, page 1 of 3

1. CVPR 2026AdaSpark Adaptive Sparsity for Efficient Long-Video Understanding
2. CVPR 2026Efficient Frame Selection for Long Video Understanding via Reinforcement Learning
3. CVPR 2026META Meta Evolution of Tool Trajectory Adaptation for Long-Video Understanding
4. CVPR 2026MS-Temba Multi-Scale Temporal Mamba for Understanding Long Untrimmed Videos
5. CVPR 2026Question-guided Visual Compression with Memory Feedback for Long-Term Video Understanding
6. CVPR 2026Scaling the Long Video Understanding of Multimodal Large Language Models
7. CVPR 2026Understanding Accelerating and Improving MeanFlow Training
8. CVPR 2026Video Panels for Long Video Understanding
9. CVPR 2026VideoARM Agentic Reasoning over Hierarchical Memory for Long-Form Video Understanding
10. CVPR 2026VirtueBench Evaluating Trustworthiness under Uncertainty in Long Video Understanding
11. ICLR 2026LH-DECEPTION: Simulating and Understanding LLM Deceptive Behaviors in Long-Horizon Interactions
12. ICLR 2026PRISMM-Bench: A Benchmark of Peer-Review Grounded Multimodal Inconsistencies
13. ICLR 2026Revisiting Long-context Modeling from Context Denoising Perspective
14. ICLR 2026Smooth Reading: Bridging the Gap of Recurrent LLM to Self-Attention LLM on Long-Context Understanding
15. ICLR 2026SURGE: Surprise-Guided Token Reduction for Efficient Video Understanding with VLMs
16. ICLR 2026Understanding the Learning Phases in Self-Supervised Learning via Critical Periods
17. ICML 2026Explainable Forensics of Manipulated Segments in Untrimmed Long Videos
18. ICML 2026SCOUT: Active Information Foraging for Long-Text Understanding with Decoupled Epistemic States
19. NeurIPS 2026A Principled Optimal Transport Framework for Frame Selection in Long Video Understanding
20. NeurIPS 2026Aligning Forest and Trees in Images & Long Captions for Visually Grounded Understanding
21. NeurIPS 2026Articulation in Prime: Primitive-Based Articulated Object Understanding from a Single Casual Video
22. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Flat Frames: Hierarchical Graph Reasoning for Long Video Understanding
23. NeurIPS 2026Diagnosing and Correcting Bias in MLLM for Long Video Understanding
24. NeurIPS 2026DocScope: Benchmarking Verifiable Reasoning for Trustworthy Long-Document Understanding
25. NeurIPS 2026Elephant in the Fridge: Constant-Memory Frame Packing for Long Video Understanding
26. NeurIPS 2026FrameRouter: Frame Budget Routing for Long-Video Understanding on Video-MME-v2 and Beyond
27. NeurIPS 2026FrameScout: Scouting Query-Relevant Frames for Long Video Understanding
28. NeurIPS 2026HIMMEL: Hierarchical Interleaved Multi-stream Motion Encoding for Long Video Understanding
29. NeurIPS 2026InfiniteVL: A Systematic Approach to Highly-Efficient, Ultra-Long Multimodal Understanding
30. NeurIPS 2026MedHorizon: Towards Long-context Medical Video Understanding in the Wild
31. NeurIPS 2026MEMEVO: A Memory-Evolved Video Agent for Long Video Understanding
32. NeurIPS 2026PDF-HR: Pose Distance Fields for Humanoid Robots
33. NeurIPS 2026PIVOT: A Unified Agentic Framework for Streaming Long-Video Understanding
34. NeurIPS 2026Q-Focus: Let the Question Guide What to See in Long Videos
35. NeurIPS 2026The VLM as Sensor: Bayesian Active Search for Long Video Understanding
36. NeurIPS 2026Time to Pay Attention! Understanding High Complexity Corpus Reasoning Tasks
37. NeurIPS 2026Towards Understanding Momentum Acceleration in River-Valley Loss Landscape
38. NeurIPS 2026Towards Understanding Self-Pretraining for Sequence Classification
39. NeurIPS 2026UTOPI: Efficient Egocentric Long-Video Understanding in AR via User-Guided Token Pre-Compression
40. CVPR 2025A Simple yet Effective Layout Token in Large Language Models for Document Understanding
41. CVPR 2025AdaCM^2: On Understanding Extremely Long-Term Video with Adaptive Cross-Modality Memory Reduction
42. CVPR 2025Adaptive Keyframe Sampling for Long Video Understanding
43. CVPR 2025Adaptive Markup Language Generation for Contextually-Grounded Visual Document Understanding
44. CVPR 2025BOLT: Boost Large Vision-Language Model Without Training for Long-form Video Understanding
45. CVPR 2025DocLayLLM: An Efficient Multi-modal Extension of Large Language Models for Text-rich Document Understanding
46. CVPR 2025Docopilot: Improving Multimodal Models for Document-Level Understanding
47. CVPR 2025DrVideo: Document Retrieval Based Long Video Understanding
48. CVPR 2025DynFocus: Dynamic Cooperative Network Empowers LLMs with Video Understanding
49. CVPR 2025Fish-Vista: A Multi-Purpose Dataset for Understanding & Identification of Traits from Images
50. CVPR 2025Holmes-VAU: Towards Long-term Video Anomaly Understanding at Any Granularity

FAQ

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

102 in total: 6 in 2023, 22 in 2024, 35 in 2025, 39 in 2026.

How many PDF Understanding papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 21 PDF Understanding papers, versus 6 the year before.

How many PDF Understanding papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 6 PDF Understanding papers, versus 8 the year before.

How many PDF Understanding papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 2 PDF Understanding papers, versus 3 the year before.

How many PDF Understanding papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 10 PDF Understanding papers, versus 18 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most PDF Understanding papers?

CVPR, with 39 papers from 2023 to 2026.