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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751. NeurIPS 2026Single Shot HDR Recovery via a Video Diffusion Prior
752. NeurIPS 2026SLVMBench: Skill Learning from Video Memory
753. NeurIPS 2026Solaris: Building a Multiplayer Video World Model in Minecraft
754. NeurIPS 2026Sparkle: Realizing Lively Instruction-Guided Video Background Replacement via Decoupled Guidance
755. NeurIPS 2026Sparse Video Generation Propels Real-World Beyond-the-View Vision-Language Navigation
756. NeurIPS 2026Spectral Progressive Diffusion for Efficient Image and Video Generation
757. NeurIPS 2026SphereVAD: Training-Free Video Anomaly Detection via Geodesic Inference on the Unit Hypersphere
758. NeurIPS 2026StakeBench: Evaluating Language Understanding Grounded in Market Commitment
759. NeurIPS 2026StreamGaze: Gaze-Guided Temporal Reasoning and Proactive Understanding in Streaming Videos
760. NeurIPS 2026Streaming Interventions: Can Video LLMs Correct Mistakes as They Occur?
761. NeurIPS 2026StreamOV: Streaming Omni-Video Understanding via Evidence-Guided Memory and Response Triggering
762. NeurIPS 2026Structure Over Scale: Learning Visual Reasoning from Pedagogical Video
763. NeurIPS 2026Subject-Relative Micro-Motion and Sleep Dynamics for Near-Infrared Video Sleep Staging
764. NeurIPS 2026SUGAR: A Scalable Human-Video-Driven Generalizable Humanoid Loco-Manipulation Learning Framework
765. NeurIPS 2026SynthForensics: Benchmarking and Evaluating People-Centric Synthetic Video Deepfakes
766. NeurIPS 2026TACO: Towards Task-Consistent Open-Vocabulary Adaptation in Video Recognition
767. NeurIPS 2026TailCon: Mitigating Tail Signal Erosion through Memory Consolidation for Long-Tailed Recognition
768. NeurIPS 2026TeMPO: Frame-Causal Token Compression for Efficient Video Large Language Model
769. NeurIPS 2026Temporal Slice Learning for AI-Generated Video Detection with 400× Fewer FLOPs
770. NeurIPS 2026The Invisible Hand of Physics: When Video Diffusion Models Know More Than They Show
771. NeurIPS 2026The VLM as Sensor: Bayesian Active Search for Long Video Understanding
772. NeurIPS 2026Toward Interactive Understanding of Code APIs
773. NeurIPS 2026Toward Multimodal Sheet Music Recognition and Understanding
774. NeurIPS 2026Towards Generalizable Partially Relevant Video Retrieval
775. NeurIPS 2026Towards Understanding and Measuring Cognitive Atrophy in LLM Behaviour
776. NeurIPS 2026Towards Understanding Momentum Acceleration in River-Valley Loss Landscape
777. NeurIPS 2026Towards Understanding Self-Pretraining for Sequence Classification
778. NeurIPS 2026Towards Understanding the Power and Limits of the Muon Optimizer: A River-Valley Perspective
779. NeurIPS 2026TRACE: Trajectory-Aware Conceps for Explainable Video Understanding
780. NeurIPS 2026Track4D: Representing Dense 3D Tracking for Video Diffusion Models
781. NeurIPS 2026TrackCraft3R: Repurposing Video Diffusion Transformers for Dense 3D Tracking
782. NeurIPS 2026TrAction: Action Recognition with Sparse Trajectories
783. NeurIPS 2026Transformers Converge to Invariant Algorithmic Cores
784. NeurIPS 2026Transforming Image Editors into Video Editors
785. NeurIPS 2026Tri-Prompting: Controllable Video Generation with Scene, Subject, and Motion Prompts
786. NeurIPS 2026TTVidT: Decoupling the Temporal Axis for Efficient Motion-Centric Video Pretraining
787. NeurIPS 2026U-Bench: A Comprehensive Understanding of U-Net through 100-Variant Benchmarking
788. NeurIPS 2026Understanding and Defending VLM Jailbreaks via Jailbreak-Related Representation Shift
789. NeurIPS 2026Understanding and Mitigating Under-Confidence in GNNs from the Final Layer
790. NeurIPS 2026Understanding axial attention in TSFMs through single location regression
791. NeurIPS 2026Understanding Circulant Permutation to Extend the CMinHash Estimator
792. NeurIPS 2026Understanding diffusion models requires rethinking (again) generalization
793. NeurIPS 2026Understanding Double Descent through Universal Compression
794. NeurIPS 2026Understanding Generalization Requires Universal Induction
795. NeurIPS 2026Understanding Layer Patching in Model Size Interpolation
796. NeurIPS 2026Understanding Multi-View Transformers
797. NeurIPS 2026Understanding Randomization in Greedy Model Search
798. NeurIPS 2026Understanding Sample Efficiency in Predictive Coding
799. NeurIPS 2026Understanding the Challenges in Iterative Generative Optimization with LLMs
800. NeurIPS 2026Understanding the Co-evolutionary Solution Exchange of the MOEA/D: Minimal Communication Gives Maximal Speed-Ups

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.