UI Understanding papers, 2023–2026
GUI agents
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 77 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 15 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 16 |
| 2025 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 19 |
| 2026 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 27 |
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
20 papers, page 1 of 1
- CVPR 20264D-RGPT Toward Region-level 4D Understanding via Perceptual Distillation
- CVPR 2026Agentic Video Summarization via Self-Reflecting Multimodal Understanding
- CVPR 2026BAMI Training-Free Bias Mitigation in GUI Grounding
- CVPR 2026GUI-SAGE Enhancing GUI Automation with Self-Explanatory Learning
- CVPR 2026RISE Single Static Radar-based Indoor Scene Understanding
- CVPR 2026See Think Act Teaching Multimodal Agents to Effectively Interact with
- CVPR 2026TimeRipples Accelerating vDiTs by Understanding the Spatio-Temporal Correlations in Latent
- CVPR 2025FSBench: A Figure Skating Benchmark for Advancing Artistic Sports Understanding
- CVPR 2025GUI-Xplore: Empowering Generalizable GUI Agents with One Exploration
- CVPR 2025HUSH: Holistic Panoramic 3D Scene Understanding using Spherical Harmonics
- CVPR 2025MP-GUI: Modality Perception with MLLMs for GUI Understanding
- CVPR 2025PEACE: Empowering Geologic Map Holistic Understanding with MLLMs
- CVPR 2025SpiritSight Agent: Advanced GUI Agent with One Look
- CVPR 2024CogAgent: A Visual Language Model for GUI Agents
- CVPR 2024From Isolated Islands to Pangea: Unifying Semantic Space for Human Action Understanding
- CVPR 2024PanoContext-Former: Panoramic Total Scene Understanding with a Transformer
- CVPR 2024SurroundSDF: Implicit 3D Scene Understanding Based on Signed Distance Field
- CVPR 2023AssemblyHands: Towards Egocentric Activity Understanding via 3D Hand Pose Estimation
- CVPR 2023Panoptic Lifting for 3D Scene Understanding With Neural Fields
- CVPR 2023PanoSwin: A Pano-Style Swin Transformer for Panorama Understanding
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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.