Video Understanding papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Video Understanding went from 319 papers in 2023 to 832 in 2026, roughly 2.6x in three years.
• CVPR publishes the most Video Understanding work: 1,037 papers from 2023 to 2026, 46% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Diffusion Models: papers tagged with both rose from 8 in 2023 to 116 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Computer Vision, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Image Generation, is up 2.2x versus 2.6x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026Articulation in Prime: Primitive-Based Articulated Object Understanding from a Single Casual Video
• ICML 2026A Single Layer to Explain Them All: Understanding Massive Values in Large Language Models
• ICLR 2026Action-Guided Attention for Video Action Anticipation
• CVPR 20264D-RGPT Toward Region-level 4D Understanding via Perceptual Distillation
• NeurIPS 20254DGCPro: Efficient Hierarchical 4D Gaussian Compression for Progressive Volumetric Video Streaming
• ICML 2025$\infty$-Video: A Training-Free Approach to Long Video Understanding via Continuous-Time Memory Consolidation
• ICLR 2025Answer, Assemble, Ace: Understanding How LMs Answer Multiple Choice Questions
• CVPR 20254D-Fly: Fast 4D Reconstruction from a Single Monocular Video
• NeurIPS 2024$E^3$: Exploring Embodied Emotion Through A Large-Scale Egocentric Video Dataset
• ICML 2024Enhancing Sufficient Dimension Reduction via Hellinger Correlation
• ICLR 2024Don't Judge by the Look: Towards Motion Coherent Video Representation
• CVPR 2024Dancing with Still Images: Video Distillation via Static-Dynamic Disentanglement
• NeurIPS 2023A Multi-modal Global Instance Tracking Benchmark (MGIT): Better Locating Target in Complex Spatio-temporal and Causal Relationship
• ICML 2023Dissecting the Effects of SGD Noise in Distinct Regimes of Deep Learning
• ICLR 2023A Theoretical Understanding of Shallow Vision Transformers: Learning, Generalization, and Sample Complexity
• CVPR 20231000 FPS HDR Video With a Spike-RGB Hybrid Camera
• NeurIPS 2026AsymHP: Load-Balanced Sparse Attention for Video Diffusion Transformers
• ICML 2026AnyMod-LLVE: Low-Light Video Enhancement with Modality-Agnostic Inference
• ICLR 2026Emotions Where Art Thou: Understanding and Characterizing the Emotional Latent Space of Large Language Models
• CVPR 2026Accelerating Streaming Video Large Language Models via Hierarchical Token Compression

All Video Understanding papers

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551. NeurIPS 2024Understanding the Gains from Repeated Self-Distillation
552. NeurIPS 2024Understanding the Role of Equivariance in Self-supervised Learning
553. NeurIPS 2024Understanding the Transferability of Representations via Task-Relatedness
554. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Transformers via N-Gram Statistics
555. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Visual Feature Reliance through the Lens of Complexity
556. NeurIPS 2024VERIFIED: A Video Corpus Moment Retrieval Benchmark for Fine-Grained Video Understanding
557. NeurIPS 2024VFIMamba: Video Frame Interpolation with State Space Models
558. NeurIPS 2024Video Diffusion Models are Training-free Motion Interpreter and Controller
559. NeurIPS 2024Video Token Merging for Long Video Understanding
560. NeurIPS 2024VideoLLM-MoD: Efficient Video-Language Streaming with Mixture-of-Depths Vision Computation
561. NeurIPS 2024VidProM: A Million-scale Real Prompt-Gallery Dataset for Text-to-Video Diffusion Models
562. NeurIPS 2024Vript: A Video Is Worth Thousands of Words
563. NeurIPS 2024Warped Diffusion: Solving Video Inverse Problems with Image Diffusion Models
564. NeurIPS 2024When LLMs Meet Cunning Texts: A Fallacy Understanding Benchmark for Large Language Models
565. NeurIPS 2023A Multi-modal Global Instance Tracking Benchmark (MGIT): Better Locating Target in Complex Spatio-temporal and Causal Relationship
566. NeurIPS 2023ASL Citizen: A Community-Sourced Dataset for Advancing Isolated Sign Language Recognition
567. NeurIPS 2023Balance, Imbalance, and Rebalance: Understanding Robust Overfitting from a Minimax Game Perspective
568. NeurIPS 2023Bitstream-Corrupted Video Recovery: A Novel Benchmark Dataset and Method
569. NeurIPS 2023CAST: Cross-Attention in Space and Time for Video Action Recognition
570. NeurIPS 2023Compressed Video Prompt Tuning
571. NeurIPS 2023Curriculum Learning With Infant Egocentric Videos
572. NeurIPS 2023Diversifying Spatial-Temporal Perception for Video Domain Generalization
573. NeurIPS 2023Dynamic Non-monotone Submodular Maximization
574. NeurIPS 2023Ego4D Goal-Step: Toward Hierarchical Understanding of Procedural Activities
575. NeurIPS 2023EgoDistill: Egocentric Head Motion Distillation for Efficient Video Understanding
576. NeurIPS 2023EgoEnv: Human-centric environment representations from egocentric video
577. NeurIPS 2023EgoSchema: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Very Long-form Video Language Understanding
578. NeurIPS 2023EPIC Fields: Marrying 3D Geometry and Video Understanding
579. NeurIPS 2023Explore In-Context Learning for 3D Point Cloud Understanding
580. NeurIPS 2023From ViT Features to Training-free Video Object Segmentation via Streaming-data Mixture Models
581. NeurIPS 2023HA-ViD: A Human Assembly Video Dataset for Comprehensive Assembly Knowledge Understanding
582. NeurIPS 2023HT-Step: Aligning Instructional Articles with How-To Videos
583. NeurIPS 2023InfoPrompt: Information-Theoretic Soft Prompt Tuning for Natural Language Understanding
584. NeurIPS 2023Language-based Action Concept Spaces Improve Video Self-Supervised Learning
585. NeurIPS 2023NurViD: A Large Expert-Level Video Database for Nursing Procedure Activity Understanding
586. NeurIPS 2023On the choice of Perception Loss Function for Learned Video Compression
587. NeurIPS 2023Opening the Vocabulary of Egocentric Actions
588. NeurIPS 2023Revealing the unseen: Benchmarking video action recognition under occlusion
589. NeurIPS 2023RVD: A Handheld Device-Based Fundus Video Dataset for Retinal Vessel Segmentation
590. NeurIPS 2023Scan and Snap: Understanding Training Dynamics and Token Composition in 1-layer Transformer
591. NeurIPS 2023Self-supervised video pretraining yields robust and more human-aligned visual representations
592. NeurIPS 2023Small batch deep reinforcement learning
593. NeurIPS 2023SNAP: Self-Supervised Neural Maps for Visual Positioning and Semantic Understanding
594. NeurIPS 2023SOC: Semantic-Assisted Object Cluster for Referring Video Object Segmentation
595. NeurIPS 2023State2Explanation: Concept-Based Explanations to Benefit Agent Learning and User Understanding
596. NeurIPS 2023Towards a fuller understanding of neurons with Clustered Compositional Explanations
597. NeurIPS 2023Towards A Richer 2D Understanding of Hands at Scale
598. NeurIPS 2023Towards Understanding the Dynamics of Gaussian-Stein Variational Gradient Descent
599. NeurIPS 2023Understanding and Addressing the Pitfalls of Bisimulation-based Representations in Offline Reinforcement Learning
600. NeurIPS 2023Understanding and Improving Ensemble Adversarial Defense

FAQ

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

2,261 in total: 319 in 2023, 431 in 2024, 679 in 2025, 832 in 2026.

How many Video Understanding papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 229 Video Understanding papers, versus 222 the year before.

How many Video Understanding papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 148 Video Understanding papers, versus 95 the year before.

How many Video Understanding papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 114 Video Understanding papers, versus 64 the year before.

How many Video Understanding papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 341 Video Understanding papers, versus 298 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Video Understanding papers?

CVPR, with 1,037 papers from 2023 to 2026.