Spoken Language Understanding papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Spoken Language Understanding went from 40 papers in 2023 to 61 in 2026, roughly 1.5x in three years.
• CVPR publishes the most Spoken Language Understanding work: 62 papers from 2023 to 2026, 33% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Multimodal LLMs: papers tagged with both rose from 3 in 2023 to 14 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Audio and Speech, it ranks #4 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Audio Generation, is up 4.3x versus 1.5x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026Denoise First, Orthogonalize Later: Understanding Momentum in Muon via Spectral Filtering
• ICML 2026A Single Layer to Explain Them All: Understanding Massive Values in Large Language Models
• ICLR 2026Neuron-Level Analysis of Cultural Understanding in Large Language Models
• CVPR 2026Consistent Instance Field for Dynamic Scene Understanding
• NeurIPS 2025The Graphon Limit Hypothesis: Understanding Neural Network Pruning via Infinite Width Analysis
• ICML 2025On Understanding Attention-Based In-Context Learning for Categorical Data
• ICLR 2025Toward Understanding In-context vs. In-weight Learning
• CVPR 2025HUSH: Holistic Panoramic 3D Scene Understanding using Spherical Harmonics
• NeurIPS 2024SD-Eval: A Benchmark Dataset for Spoken Dialogue Understanding Beyond Words
• ICML 2024Understanding Server-Assisted Federated Learning in the Presence of Incomplete Client Participation
• ICLR 2024Understanding Addition in Transformers
• CVPR 2024SurroundSDF: Implicit 3D Scene Understanding Based on Signed Distance Field
• NeurIPS 2023ATMAN: Understanding Transformer Predictions Through Memory Efficient Attention Manipulation
• ICML 2023How Do Transformers Learn Topic Structure: Towards a Mechanistic Understanding
• ICLR 2023Towards Understanding Why Mask Reconstruction Pretraining Helps in Downstream Tasks
• CVPR 2023AssemblyHands: Towards Egocentric Activity Understanding via 3D Hand Pose Estimation
• NeurIPS 2026EmbodiedObject: All-in-One Object Understanding with SLAT
• ICML 2026Understanding the Parameter Space Geometry of Transformers Encoding Boolean Functions
• ICLR 2026Towards Understanding the Shape of Representations in Protein Language Models
• CVPR 2026Lifting Unlabeled Internet-level Data for 3D Scene Understanding

All Spoken Language Understanding papers

189 papers, page 1 of 4

1. CVPR 20264D-RGPT Toward Region-level 4D Understanding via Perceptual Distillation
2. CVPR 2026Blink Dynamic Visual Token Resolution for Enhanced Multimodal Understanding
3. CVPR 2026Consistent Instance Field for Dynamic Scene Understanding
4. CVPR 2026EarlyTom Early Token Compression Completes Fast Video Understanding
5. CVPR 2026EgoSound Benchmarking Sound Understanding in Egocentric Videos
6. CVPR 2026FPS-Bench A Benchmark for High Frame-Rate Video Understanding
7. CVPR 2026Latent Diffusion Inversion Requires Understanding the Latent Space
8. CVPR 2026Learning to Generate via Understanding Understanding-Driven Intrinsic Rewarding for Unified
9. CVPR 2026Lifting Unlabeled Internet-level Data for 3D Scene Understanding
10. CVPR 2026MA-Bench Towards Fine-grained Micro-Action Understanding
11. CVPR 2026Mistake Attribution Fine-Grained Mistake Understanding in Egocentric Videos
12. CVPR 2026MMLandmarks a Cross-View Instance-Level Benchmark for Geo-Spatial Understanding
13. CVPR 2026RISE Single Static Radar-based Indoor Scene Understanding
14. CVPR 2026TimeRipples Accelerating vDiTs by Understanding the Spatio-Temporal Correlations in Latent
15. CVPR 2026Towards Generalized Representations for Low-Light Understanding When Signal Constancy Meets
16. CVPR 2026ViKey Enhancing Temporal Understanding in Videos via Visual Prompting
17. CVPR 2026When Token Pruning is Worse than Random Understanding Visual Token
18. CVPR 2026World in a Frame Understanding Culture Mixing as a New
19. ICLR 2026MMSU: A Massive Multi-task Spoken Language Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark
20. ICLR 2026Neuron-Level Analysis of Cultural Understanding in Large Language Models
21. ICLR 2026Towards Understanding the Shape of Representations in Protein Language Models
22. ICLR 2026Understanding In-Context Learning on Structured Manifolds: Bridging Attention to Kernel Methods
23. ICLR 2026Understanding Language Prior of LVLMs by Contrasting Chain-of-Embedding
24. ICLR 2026Understanding the Mixture-of-Experts with Nadaraya-Watson Kernel
25. ICML 20263DPoV: Improving 3D understanding via Patch Ordering on Videos
26. ICML 2026A Single Layer to Explain Them All: Understanding Massive Values in Large Language Models
27. ICML 2026AudioChat: Unified Audio Storytelling, Editing, and Understanding with Transfusion Forcing
28. ICML 2026CURVE: Learning Causality-Inspired Invariant Representations for Robust Scene Understanding via Uncertainty-Guided Regularization
29. ICML 2026From Denoising to De-Channeling: Integrating Physical Channel Priors into Diffusion Models for Radio Signal Understanding
30. ICML 2026MetaphorVU: Towards Metaphorical Video Understanding
31. ICML 2026Positive Distribution Shift as a Framework for Understanding Tractable Learning
32. ICML 2026Toward Understanding Adversarial Distillation: Why Robust Teachers Fail
33. ICML 2026Towards Understanding Steering Strength
34. ICML 2026Understanding Dynamics of Adam in Zero-Sum Games: An ODE Approach
35. ICML 2026Understanding SAM through Minimax Perspective
36. ICML 2026Understanding the Parameter Space Geometry of Transformers Encoding Boolean Functions
37. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Oversquashing: Understanding Signal Propagation in GNNs Via Observables
38. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Single Expert: Harmonizing Diverse Visual Priors in MLLMs for Spatial Understanding
39. NeurIPS 2026Denoise First, Orthogonalize Later: Understanding Momentum in Muon via Spectral Filtering
40. NeurIPS 2026EmbodiedObject: All-in-One Object Understanding with SLAT
41. NeurIPS 2026Emergent Semantic Role Understanding in Language Models
42. NeurIPS 2026Evaluating Multimodal Narrative Understanding of Popular Hollywood Films
43. NeurIPS 2026Incorporating Hierarchical Semantics in Sparse Autoencoder Architectures
44. NeurIPS 2026Overcoming State Inertia in Full-Duplex Spoken Language Models via Activation Steering
45. NeurIPS 2026RAVEN-Bench: A Paired EO-IR Video QA Benchmark for Aerial Multimodal Understanding
46. NeurIPS 2026SceneScaffold: Active Scene-State Construction for Unified 3D Scene Understanding
47. NeurIPS 2026Shifting the Gradient: Understanding How Defensive Training Methods Protect Language Model Integrity
48. NeurIPS 2026StakeBench: Evaluating Language Understanding Grounded in Market Commitment
49. NeurIPS 2026TELEVAL: A Benchmark Designed for Spoken Language Models in Chinese Interactive Scenarios
50. NeurIPS 2026U-Bench: A Comprehensive Understanding of U-Net through 100-Variant Benchmarking

FAQ

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

189 in total: 40 in 2023, 38 in 2024, 50 in 2025, 61 in 2026.

How many Spoken Language Understanding papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 25 Spoken Language Understanding papers, versus 14 the year before.

How many Spoken Language Understanding papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 6 Spoken Language Understanding papers, versus 7 the year before.

How many Spoken Language Understanding papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 12 Spoken Language Understanding papers, versus 10 the year before.

How many Spoken Language Understanding papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 18 Spoken Language Understanding papers, versus 19 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Spoken Language Understanding papers?

CVPR, with 62 papers from 2023 to 2026.