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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651. NeurIPS 2025VADB: A Large-Scale Video Aesthetic Database with Professional and Multi-Dimensional Annotations
652. NeurIPS 2025VADTree: Explainable Training-Free Video Anomaly Detection via Hierarchical Granularity-Aware Tree
653. NeurIPS 2025VaporTok: RL-Driven Adaptive Video Tokenizer with Prior & Task Awareness
654. NeurIPS 2025VFRTok: Variable Frame Rates Video Tokenizer with Duration-Proportional Information Assumption
655. NeurIPS 2025Vgent: Graph-based Retrieval-Reasoning-Augmented Generation For Long Video Understanding
656. NeurIPS 2025Vid-SME: Membership Inference Attacks against Large Video Understanding Models
657. NeurIPS 2025ViDAR: Video Diffusion-Aware 4D Reconstruction From Monocular Inputs
658. NeurIPS 2025VidEmo: Affective-Tree Reasoning for Emotion-Centric Video Foundation Models
659. NeurIPS 2025Video Diffusion Models Excel at Tracking Similar-Looking Objects Without Supervision
660. NeurIPS 2025Video-RAG: Visually-aligned Retrieval-Augmented Long Video Comprehension
661. NeurIPS 2025VideoGameQA-Bench: Evaluating Vision-Language Models for Video Game Quality Assurance
662. NeurIPS 2025VideoLucy: Deep Memory Backtracking for Long Video Understanding
663. NeurIPS 2025VideoMAR: Autoregressive Video Generation with Continuous Tokens
664. NeurIPS 2025VideoTitans: Scalable Video Prediction with Integrated Short- and Long-term Memory
665. NeurIPS 2025VideoVLA: Video Generators Can Be Generalizable Robot Manipulators
666. NeurIPS 2025Visual Sync: Multi‑Camera Synchronization via Cross‑View Object Motion
667. NeurIPS 2025Visual Thoughts: A Unified Perspective of Understanding Multimodal Chain-of-Thought
668. NeurIPS 2025VITRIX-CLIPIN: Enhancing Fine-Grained Visual Understanding in CLIP via Instruction-Editing Data and Long Captions
669. NeurIPS 2025VividFace: A Robost and High-Fidelity Video Face Swapping Framework
670. NeurIPS 2025VQToken: Neural Discrete Token Representation Learning for Extreme Token Reduction in Video Large Language Models
671. NeurIPS 2025Web-Scale Collection of Video Data for 4D Animal Reconstruction
672. NeurIPS 2025What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink
673. NeurIPS 2025What Do Latent Action Models Actually Learn?
674. NeurIPS 2025What Happens During the Loss Plateau? Understanding Abrupt Learning in Transformers
675. NeurIPS 2025What We Miss Matters: Learning from the Overlooked in Point Cloud Transformers
676. NeurIPS 2025When Semantics Mislead Vision: Mitigating Large Multimodal Models Hallucinations in Scene Text Spotting and Understanding
677. NeurIPS 2025When Thinking Drifts: Evidential Grounding for Robust Video Reasoning
678. NeurIPS 2025ZeroPatcher: Training-free Sampler for Video Inpainting and Editing
679. NeurIPS 2025ZigzagPointMamba: Spatial-Semantic Mamba for Point Cloud 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.