UI Understanding papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• UI Understanding went from 15 papers in 2023 to 27 in 2026, roughly 1.8x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most UI Understanding work: 23 papers from 2023 to 2026, 30% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with AI Agents: papers tagged with both rose from 0 in 2023 to 9 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Education and HCI, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, User Modeling, is up 2.9x versus 1.8x 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 2026Towards Understanding the Shape of Representations in Protein Language Models
• CVPR 2026RISE Single Static Radar-based Indoor 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 2025MP-GUI: Modality Perception with MLLMs for GUI Understanding
• ICML 2024CompeteAI: Understanding the Competition Dynamics of Large Language Model-based Agents
• ICLR 2024Understanding In-Context Learning from Repetitions
• CVPR 2024PanoContext-Former: Panoramic Total Scene Understanding with a Transformer
• NeurIPS 2023Understanding the detrimental class-level effects of data augmentation
• ICML 2023How Do Transformers Learn Topic Structure: Towards a Mechanistic Understanding
• ICLR 2023First Steps Toward Understanding the Extrapolation of Nonlinear Models to Unseen Domains
• CVPR 2023AssemblyHands: Towards Egocentric Activity Understanding via 3D Hand Pose Estimation
• NeurIPS 2026Shifting the Gradient: Understanding How Defensive Training Methods Protect Language Model Integrity
• ICML 2026Understanding the Parameter Space Geometry of Transformers Encoding Boolean Functions
• ICLR 2026Understanding In-Context Learning on Structured Manifolds: Bridging Attention to Kernel Methods
• CVPR 20264D-RGPT Toward Region-level 4D Understanding via Perceptual Distillation
• NeurIPS 2025Towards a Geometric Understanding of Tensor Learning via the t-Product

All UI Understanding papers

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1. CVPR 20264D-RGPT Toward Region-level 4D Understanding via Perceptual Distillation
2. CVPR 2026Agentic Video Summarization via Self-Reflecting Multimodal Understanding
3. CVPR 2026BAMI Training-Free Bias Mitigation in GUI Grounding
4. CVPR 2026GUI-SAGE Enhancing GUI Automation with Self-Explanatory Learning
5. CVPR 2026RISE Single Static Radar-based Indoor Scene Understanding
6. CVPR 2026See Think Act Teaching Multimodal Agents to Effectively Interact with
7. CVPR 2026TimeRipples Accelerating vDiTs by Understanding the Spatio-Temporal Correlations in Latent
8. ICLR 2026Towards Understanding the Shape of Representations in Protein Language Models
9. ICLR 2026Understanding In-Context Learning on Structured Manifolds: Bridging Attention to Kernel Methods
10. ICML 2026A Single Layer to Explain Them All: Understanding Massive Values in Large Language Models
11. ICML 2026Understanding the Parameter Space Geometry of Transformers Encoding Boolean Functions
12. NeurIPS 2026Agentic Abstention: Do Agents Know When to Stop Instead of Act?
13. NeurIPS 2026AgentSSL: Can MLE Agents Leverage Unlabeled Data?
14. NeurIPS 2026AIRA 2: Overcoming Bottlenecks in AI Research Agents
15. NeurIPS 2026Denoise First, Orthogonalize Later: Understanding Momentum in Muon via Spectral Filtering
16. NeurIPS 2026DiagEval: Trajectory-Conditioned Diagnosis for Reliable Software Evaluation with GUI Agents
17. NeurIPS 2026ECHO: Terminal Agents Learn World Models for Free
18. NeurIPS 2026How to Train a Surgeon? Benchmarking Generalist Agents in Surgical Scene Understanding
19. NeurIPS 2026Reinforcement Learning Agents Are Swimmers
20. NeurIPS 2026Shifting the Gradient: Understanding How Defensive Training Methods Protect Language Model Integrity
21. NeurIPS 2026SWE Atlas: Benchmarking Coding Agents Beyond Issue Resolution
22. NeurIPS 2026SWE-Marathon: Can AI Agents Autonomously Complete Ultra-Long-Horizon Software Work?
23. NeurIPS 2026Understanding Circulant Permutation to Extend the CMinHash Estimator
24. NeurIPS 2026Understanding Layer Patching in Model Size Interpolation
25. NeurIPS 2026Understanding Sample Efficiency in Predictive Coding
26. NeurIPS 2026Understanding the Co-evolutionary Solution Exchange of the MOEA/D: Minimal Communication Gives Maximal Speed-Ups
27. NeurIPS 2026Understanding the Curse of Unrolling
28. CVPR 2025FSBench: A Figure Skating Benchmark for Advancing Artistic Sports Understanding
29. CVPR 2025GUI-Xplore: Empowering Generalizable GUI Agents with One Exploration
30. CVPR 2025HUSH: Holistic Panoramic 3D Scene Understanding using Spherical Harmonics
31. CVPR 2025MP-GUI: Modality Perception with MLLMs for GUI Understanding
32. CVPR 2025PEACE: Empowering Geologic Map Holistic Understanding with MLLMs
33. CVPR 2025SpiritSight Agent: Advanced GUI Agent with One Look
34. ICLR 2025Ferret-UI 2: Mastering Universal User Interface Understanding Across Platforms
35. ICLR 2025Toward Understanding In-context vs. In-weight Learning
36. ICML 2025On Understanding Attention-Based In-Context Learning for Categorical Data
37. ICML 2025Position: AI Agents Need Authenticated Delegation
38. ICML 2025Understanding Mode Connectivity via Parameter Space Symmetry
39. ICML 2025Understanding Nonlinear Implicit Bias via Region Counts in Input Space
40. ICML 2025Understanding the Kronecker Matrix-Vector Complexity of Linear Algebra
41. NeurIPS 2025The Graphon Limit Hypothesis: Understanding Neural Network Pruning via Infinite Width Analysis
42. NeurIPS 2025Towards a Geometric Understanding of Tensor Learning via the t-Product
43. NeurIPS 2025Towards Understanding Transformers in Learning Random Walks
44. NeurIPS 2025Understanding Adam Requires Better Rotation Dependent Assumptions
45. NeurIPS 2025Understanding Bias Terms in Neural Representations
46. NeurIPS 2025Understanding the Evolution of the Neural Tangent Kernel at the Edge of Stability
47. CVPR 2024CogAgent: A Visual Language Model for GUI Agents
48. CVPR 2024From Isolated Islands to Pangea: Unifying Semantic Space for Human Action Understanding
49. CVPR 2024PanoContext-Former: Panoramic Total Scene Understanding with a Transformer
50. CVPR 2024SurroundSDF: Implicit 3D Scene Understanding Based on Signed Distance Field

FAQ

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

77 in total: 15 in 2023, 16 in 2024, 19 in 2025, 27 in 2026.

How many UI Understanding papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 16 UI Understanding papers, versus 6 the year before.

How many UI Understanding papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 2 UI Understanding papers, versus 2 the year before.

How many UI Understanding papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 2 UI Understanding papers, versus 5 the year before.

How many UI Understanding papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 7 UI Understanding papers, versus 6 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most UI Understanding papers?

NeurIPS, with 23 papers from 2023 to 2026.