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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51. ICLR 2026IWR-Bench: Can LVLMs reconstruct interactive webpage from a user interaction video?
52. ICLR 2026Jailbreaking on Text-to-Video Models via Scene Splitting Strategy
53. ICLR 2026Let's Split Up: Zero-Shot Classifier Edits for Fine-Grained Video Understanding
54. ICLR 2026LH-DECEPTION: Simulating and Understanding LLM Deceptive Behaviors in Long-Horizon Interactions
55. ICLR 2026LightCtrl: Training-free Controllable Video Relighting
56. ICLR 2026Linear Mechanisms for Spatiotemporal Reasoning in Vision Language Models
57. ICLR 2026LLaVAction: evaluating and training multi-modal large language models for action understanding
58. ICLR 2026Lost in Tokenization: Context as the Key to Unlocking Biomolecular Understanding in Scientific LLMs
59. ICLR 2026Map the Flow: Revealing Hidden Pathways of Information in VideoLLMs
60. ICLR 2026MARC: Memory-Augmented RL Token Compression for Efficient Video Understanding
61. ICLR 2026Measure Twice, Cut Once: A Semantic-Oriented Approach to Video Temporal Localization with Video LLMs
62. ICLR 2026Memento: Toward an All-Day Proactive Assistant for Ultra-Long Streaming Video
63. ICLR 2026Midway Network: Learning Representations for Recognition and Motion from Latent Dynamics
64. ICLR 2026MMDuet2: Enhancing Proactive Interaction of Video MLLMs with Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning
65. ICLR 2026MoAlign: Motion-Centric Representation Alignment for Video Diffusion Models
66. ICLR 2026Model Already Knows the Best Noise: Bayesian Active Noise Selection via Attention in Video Diffusion Model
67. ICLR 2026Monocular Normal Estimation via Shading Sequence Estimation
68. ICLR 2026MotionSight: Boosting Fine-Grained Motion Understanding in Multimodal LLMs
69. ICLR 2026NeRV-Diffusion: Diffuse Implicit Neural Representation for Video Synthesis
70. ICLR 2026Neuron-Level Analysis of Cultural Understanding in Large Language Models
71. ICLR 2026OmniSTVG: Toward Spatio-Temporal Omni-Object Video Grounding
72. ICLR 2026OmniVinci: Enhancing Architecture and Data for Omni-Modal Understanding LLM
73. ICLR 2026On the Limits of Sparse Autoencoders: A Theoretical Framework and Reweighted Remedy
74. ICLR 2026On the Spectral Differences Between NTK and CNTK and Their Implications for Point Cloud Recognition
75. ICLR 2026Only Brains Align with Brains: Cross-Region Patterns Expose Limits of Normative Models
76. ICLR 2026Orak: A Foundational Benchmark for Training and Evaluating LLM Agents on Diverse Video Games
77. ICLR 2026ParallelBench: Understanding the Trade-offs of Parallel Decoding in Diffusion LLMs
78. ICLR 2026Plug, Play, and Fortify: A Low-Cost Module for Robust Multimodal Image Understanding Models
79. ICLR 2026Post-Training Quantization for Video Matting
80. ICLR 2026PPLLaVA: Varied Video Sequence Understanding With Prompt Guidance
81. ICLR 2026Privacy Beyond Pixels: Latent Anonymization for Privacy-Preserving Video Understanding
82. ICLR 2026Procedural Mistake Detection via Action Effect Modeling
83. ICLR 2026Progressive Online Video Understanding with Evidence-Aligned Timing and Transparent Decisions
84. ICLR 2026Prune-then-Quantize or Quantize-then-Prune? Understanding the Impact of Compression Order in Joint Model Compression
85. ICLR 2026QueryStream: Advancing Streaming Video Understanding with Query-Aware Pruning and Proactive Response
86. ICLR 2026Reading Images Like Texts: Sequential Image Understanding in Vision-Language Models
87. ICLR 2026RelayFormer: A Unified Local-Global Attention Framework for Scalable Image and Video Manipulation Localization
88. ICLR 2026Rethinking JEPA: Compute‑Efficient Video Self-Supervised Learning with Frozen Teachers
89. ICLR 2026RIVER: Real-time Video Interaction Benchmark
90. ICLR 2026ScaleLong: A Multi-Timescale Benchmark for Long Video Understanding
91. ICLR 2026Seeing What’s Not There: Negation Understanding Needs More Than Training
92. ICLR 2026SPIKE-RL: Video-LLMs meet Bayesian Surprise
93. ICLR 2026ST-SimDiff: Balancing Spatiotemporal Similarity and Difference for Efficient Video Understanding with MLLMs
94. ICLR 2026StochasTok: Improving Fine-Grained Subword Understanding in LLMs
95. ICLR 2026StPR: Spatiotemporal Preservation and Routing for Exemplar-Free Video Class-Incremental Learning
96. ICLR 2026Streaming Drag-Oriented Interactive Video Manipulation: Drag Anything, Anytime!
97. ICLR 2026StreamingVLM: Real-Time Understanding for Infinite Video Streams
98. ICLR 2026SURGE: Surprise-Guided Token Reduction for Efficient Video Understanding with VLMs
99. ICLR 2026The Human Brain as a Dynamic Mixture of Expert Models in Video Understanding
100. ICLR 2026Threading Keyframe with Narratives: MLLMs as Strong Long Video Comprehenders

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.