PDF Understanding papers, 2023–2026
Long document understanding
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 102 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 2024 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 22 |
| 2025 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 18 | 35 |
| 2026 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 39 |
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
10 papers, page 1 of 1
- CVPR 2026AdaSpark Adaptive Sparsity for Efficient Long-Video Understanding
- CVPR 2026Efficient Frame Selection for Long Video Understanding via Reinforcement Learning
- CVPR 2026META Meta Evolution of Tool Trajectory Adaptation for Long-Video Understanding
- CVPR 2026MS-Temba Multi-Scale Temporal Mamba for Understanding Long Untrimmed Videos
- CVPR 2026Question-guided Visual Compression with Memory Feedback for Long-Term Video Understanding
- CVPR 2026Scaling the Long Video Understanding of Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2026Understanding Accelerating and Improving MeanFlow Training
- CVPR 2026Video Panels for Long Video Understanding
- CVPR 2026VideoARM Agentic Reasoning over Hierarchical Memory for Long-Form Video Understanding
- CVPR 2026VirtueBench Evaluating Trustworthiness under Uncertainty in Long Video Understanding
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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.