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

832 papers, page 13 of 17

601. ICML 2026VideoTemp-o3: Harmonizing Temporal Grounding and Video Understanding in Agentic Thinking-with-Videos
602. ICML 2026VidLaDA: Bidirectional Diffusion Large Language Models for Efficient Video Understanding
603. ICML 2026Words Towards Explainability: Caption Label-Free Learning via Dual Loop Agentic Time Series Captioning
604. NeurIPS 20263DSPA: A 3D Semantic Point Autoencoder for Evaluating Video Realism
605. NeurIPS 2026A Local Geometric Analysis of Maximal Coding Rate Reduction via Error Bounds
606. NeurIPS 2026A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness Judgments of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models
607. NeurIPS 2026A Principled Optimal Transport Framework for Frame Selection in Long Video Understanding
608. NeurIPS 2026A Training-Free Video Moment Retrieval Framework via Selection from Multiple Visual Prompts
609. NeurIPS 2026A Unified Image and Video Encoder for Multimodal LLMs
610. NeurIPS 2026Accelerating Video Inverse Problem Solvers with Autoregressive Diffusion Models
611. NeurIPS 2026ActO: Extracting Action Representations from MLLM Embeddings for Video World Models
612. NeurIPS 2026AdaCodec: A Predictive Visual Code for Video MLLMs
613. NeurIPS 2026AdaState: Self-Evolving Anchors for Streaming Video Generation
614. NeurIPS 2026Addressable Memory for Video World Models
615. NeurIPS 2026AdShot: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Video Advertisement Clipping
616. NeurIPS 2026AEON: Unifying Video and 3D World Models
617. NeurIPS 2026AgenticVBench: Can AI Agents Complete Real-World Video Production Tasks?
618. NeurIPS 2026Aligning Forest and Trees in Images & Long Captions for Visually Grounded Understanding
619. NeurIPS 2026AmbiguousWorld: Benchmarking and Resolving Ambiguous Instructions in Video World Models
620. NeurIPS 2026Apple-$\pi$: Benchmarking Thinking with Video Towards Law-Grounded Physical Intelligence
621. NeurIPS 2026AR-Edit: Training-Free Streaming Video Editing without Inversion
622. NeurIPS 2026Articulation in Prime: Primitive-Based Articulated Object Understanding from a Single Casual Video
623. NeurIPS 2026ASAP: Attention Sink Anchored Pruning
624. NeurIPS 2026AsymHP: Load-Balanced Sparse Attention for Video Diffusion Transformers
625. NeurIPS 2026Attend Locally, Remember Linearly: Linear Attention as Cross-Frame Memory for Autoregressive Video Diffusion
626. NeurIPS 2026Automated Kernel Discovery Towards Understanding High-dimensional Bayesian Optimization
627. NeurIPS 2026AVENUE: Audio-Video Editing Understanding and Evaluation
628. NeurIPS 2026AVOC: Enhancing Hour-Level Audio-Video Understanding in Omni-Modal LLMs via Retrieval-Inspired Token Compression
629. NeurIPS 2026BasicLT: Basic-Level Abstraction and Selective Differentiation for Long-Tailed Recognition
630. NeurIPS 2026BEAST3D: animal behavioral analysis and neural encoding from multi-view video via Gaussian splatting
631. NeurIPS 2026Behavior Pack Optimization for Video MLLM Post-Training
632. NeurIPS 2026Behavioral Geometric Supervision Aligns Video Foundation Models with Human Social Perception
633. NeurIPS 2026Benchmarking Fine-Grained Spatio-Temporal Awareness in Embodied Brain Models
634. NeurIPS 2026Bernini: Latent Semantic Planning for Video Diffusion
635. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Flat Frames: Hierarchical Graph Reasoning for Long Video Understanding
636. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Oversquashing: Understanding Signal Propagation in GNNs Via Observables
637. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Single Expert: Harmonizing Diverse Visual Priors in MLLMs for Spatial Understanding
638. NeurIPS 2026Bidirectional Sparse Attention for Faster Video Diffusion Training
639. NeurIPS 2026Breaking the Second Barrier: Sub-Second Timestamped Omni-Modal Captioning
640. NeurIPS 2026Breaking the Uniformity Trap: Scaling Video Diffusion Model via SplitMoE
641. NeurIPS 2026Bridging Modalities, Spanning Time: Structured Memory for Ultra-Long Agentic Video Reasoning
642. NeurIPS 2026CAIRN: Cross-Room 3D Scene Understanding with Topology-Aware Large Multimodal Models
643. NeurIPS 2026CARVE: Counterfactual Video Editing for Auditing and Hardening Video Detectors
644. NeurIPS 2026CoANeRV: Coordinate-Aware Token-Space Neural Video Representation
645. NeurIPS 2026ColorConceptBench: A Benchmark for Probabilistic Color-Concept Understanding in Text-to-Image Models
646. NeurIPS 2026Computational Depth Predicts Quantization Sensitivity in Multimodal Models
647. NeurIPS 2026Conditional Multi-Event Temporal Grounding in Long-Form Video
648. NeurIPS 2026Controllable Multi-label Video Safety Detection via Adaptive Tversky Policy Optimization
649. NeurIPS 2026CoPE-VideoLM: Leveraging Codec Primitives For Efficient Video Language Modelling
650. NeurIPS 2026CoRDS: Coreset-Based Representative and Diverse Selection for Streaming Video Understanding

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.