Video Understanding papers, 2023–2026
Video recognition and understanding
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 2,261 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 47 | 44 | 34 | 194 | 319 |
| 2024 | 113 | 47 | 67 | 204 | 431 |
| 2025 | 222 | 95 | 64 | 298 | 679 |
| 2026 | 229 | 148 | 114 | 341 | 832 |
Representative papers
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- 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
2,261 papers, page 25 of 46
- ICLR 2025Towards Understanding Why FixMatch Generalizes Better Than Supervised Learning
- ICLR 2025Towards Understanding Why Label Smoothing Degrades Selective Classification and How to Fix It
- ICLR 2025TRACE: Temporal Grounding Video LLM via Causal Event Modeling
- ICLR 2025Understanding and Enhancing the Transferability of Jailbreaking Attacks
- ICLR 2025Understanding and Mitigating Bottlenecks of State Space Models through the Lens of Recency and Over-smoothing
- ICLR 2025Understanding and Mitigating Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models via Modular Attribution and Intervention
- ICLR 2025Understanding Constraint Inference in Safety-Critical Inverse Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2025Understanding Factual Recall in Transformers via Associative Memories
- ICLR 2025Understanding Long Videos with Multimodal Language Models
- ICLR 2025Understanding Matrix Function Normalizations in Covariance Pooling through the Lens of Riemannian Geometry
- ICLR 2025Understanding Optimization in Deep Learning with Central Flows
- ICLR 2025Understanding the Generalization of In-Context Learning in Transformers: An Empirical Study
- ICLR 2025Understanding the Stability-based Generalization of Personalized Federated Learning
- ICLR 2025Understanding Virtual Nodes: Oversquashing and Node Heterogeneity
- ICLR 2025Understanding Warmup-Stable-Decay Learning Rates: A River Valley Loss Landscape View
- ICLR 2025Unhackable Temporal Reward for Scalable Video MLLMs
- ICLR 2025ViBiDSampler: Enhancing Video Interpolation Using Bidirectional Diffusion Sampler
- ICLR 2025Video In-context Learning: Autoregressive Transformers are Zero-Shot Video Imitators
- ICLR 2025Video-STaR: Self-Training Enables Video Instruction Tuning with Any Supervision
- ICLR 2025VideoGrain: Modulating Space-Time Attention for Multi-Grained Video Editing
- ICLR 2025VideoWebArena: Evaluating Long Context Multimodal Agents with Video Understanding Web Tasks
- ICLR 2025Watch Less, Do More: Implicit Skill Discovery for Video-Conditioned Policy
- ICLR 2025Weakly Supervised Video Scene Graph Generation via Natural Language Supervision
- ICLR 2025What Secrets Do Your Manifolds Hold? Understanding the Local Geometry of Generative Models
- ICLR 2025World Model on Million-Length Video And Language With Blockwise RingAttention
- ICML 2025$\infty$-Video: A Training-Free Approach to Long Video Understanding via Continuous-Time Memory Consolidation
- ICML 2025$\mathcal{V}ista\mathcal{DPO}$: Video Hierarchical Spatial-Temporal Direct Preference Optimization for Large Video Models
- ICML 2025A Closer Look at Transformers for Time Series Forecasting: Understanding Why They Work and Where They Struggle
- ICML 2025Action Dubber: Timing Audible Actions via Inflectional Flow
- ICML 2025AffectGPT: A New Dataset, Model, and Benchmark for Emotion Understanding with Multimodal Large Language Models
- ICML 2025AsymRnR: Video Diffusion Transformers Acceleration with Asymmetric Reduction and Restoration
- ICML 2025BDC-CLIP: Brownian Distance Covariance for Adapting CLIP to Action Recognition
- ICML 2025Calibrating Video Watch-time Predictions with Credible Prototype Alignment
- ICML 2025Compositional Condition Question Answering in Tabular Understanding
- ICML 2025Compositional Scene Understanding through Inverse Generative Modeling
- ICML 2025Explanatory Instructions: Towards Unified Vision Tasks Understanding and Zero-shot Generalization
- ICML 2025HaploVL: A Single-Transformer Baseline for Multi-Modal Understanding
- ICML 2025Imitation Learning from a Single Temporally Misaligned Video
- ICML 2025Improving LLM Video Understanding with 16 Frames Per Second
- ICML 2025Learning Event Completeness for Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection
- ICML 2025LongVU: Spatiotemporal Adaptive Compression for Long Video-Language Understanding
- ICML 2025Massive Values in Self-Attention Modules are the Key to Contextual Knowledge Understanding
- ICML 2025MedXpertQA: Benchmarking Expert-Level Medical Reasoning and Understanding
- ICML 2025MODA: MOdular Duplex Attention for Multimodal Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Understanding
- ICML 2025Modularized Self-Reflected Video Reasoner for Multimodal LLM with Application to Video Question Answering
- ICML 2025MoMa: Modulating Mamba for Adapting Image Foundation Models to Video Recognition
- ICML 2025On Understanding Attention-Based In-Context Learning for Categorical Data
- ICML 2025PlaySlot: Learning Inverse Latent Dynamics for Controllable Object-Centric Video Prediction and Planning
- ICML 2025Position: Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different
- ICML 2025Position: We Can’t Understand AI Using our Existing Vocabulary
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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.