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

2,261 papers, page 26 of 46

1251. ICML 2025Potemkin Understanding in Large Language Models
1252. ICML 2025RIFLEx: A Free Lunch for Length Extrapolation in Video Diffusion Transformers
1253. ICML 2025Scaling Video-Language Models to 10K Frames via Hierarchical Differential Distillation
1254. ICML 2025SpargeAttention: Accurate and Training-free Sparse Attention Accelerating Any Model Inference
1255. ICML 2025Sparse Video-Gen: Accelerating Video Diffusion Transformers with Spatial-Temporal Sparsity
1256. ICML 2025SpikeVideoFormer: An Efficient Spike-Driven Video Transformer with Hamming Attention and $\mathcal{O}(T)$ Complexity
1257. ICML 2025Time to Spike? Understanding the Representational Power of Spiking Neural Networks in Discrete Time
1258. ICML 2025Towards Theoretical Understanding of Sequential Decision Making with Preference Feedback
1259. ICML 2025Towards Understanding Catastrophic Forgetting in Two-layer Convolutional Neural Networks
1260. ICML 2025Towards Understanding Gradient Dynamics of the Sliced-Wasserstein Distance via Critical Point Analysis
1261. ICML 2025Towards Understanding Parametric Generalized Category Discovery on Graphs
1262. ICML 2025Train for the Worst, Plan for the Best: Understanding Token Ordering in Masked Diffusions
1263. ICML 2025TUMTraf VideoQA: Dataset and Benchmark for Unified Spatio-Temporal Video Understanding in Traffic Scenes
1264. ICML 2025Understanding and Improving Length Generalization in Recurrent Models
1265. ICML 2025Understanding and Mitigating Memorization in Diffusion Models for Tabular Data
1266. ICML 2025Understanding and Mitigating Memorization in Generative Models via Sharpness of Probability Landscapes
1267. ICML 2025Understanding and Mitigating Miscalibration in Prompt Tuning for Vision-Language Models
1268. ICML 2025Understanding Chain-of-Thought in LLMs through Information Theory
1269. ICML 2025Understanding Fixed Predictions via Confined Regions
1270. ICML 2025Understanding Generalization in Quantum Machine Learning with Margins
1271. ICML 2025Understanding High-Dimensional Bayesian Optimization
1272. ICML 2025Understanding Input Selectivity in Mamba: Impact on Approximation Power, Memorization, and Associative Recall Capacity
1273. ICML 2025Understanding Mode Connectivity via Parameter Space Symmetry
1274. ICML 2025Understanding Model Reprogramming for CLIP via Decoupling Visual Prompts
1275. ICML 2025Understanding Multimodal LLMs Under Distribution Shifts: An Information-Theoretic Approach
1276. ICML 2025Understanding Nonlinear Implicit Bias via Region Counts in Input Space
1277. ICML 2025Understanding Sharpness Dynamics in NN Training with a Minimalist Example: The Effects of Dataset Difficulty, Depth, Stochasticity, and More
1278. ICML 2025Understanding the difficulties of posterior predictive estimation
1279. ICML 2025Understanding the Emergence of Multimodal Representation Alignment
1280. ICML 2025Understanding the Forgetting of (Replay-based) Continual Learning via Feature Learning: Angle Matters
1281. ICML 2025Understanding the Kronecker Matrix-Vector Complexity of Linear Algebra
1282. ICML 2025Understanding the Limits of Deep Tabular Methods with Temporal Shift
1283. ICML 2025Understanding the Statistical Accuracy-Communication Trade-off in Personalized Federated Learning with Minimax Guarantees
1284. ICML 2025Understanding the Unfairness in Network Quantization
1285. ICML 2025Unifying Specialized Visual Encoders for Video Language Models
1286. ICML 2025Video-Enhanced Offline Reinforcement Learning: A Model-Based Approach
1287. ICML 2025VideoJAM: Joint Appearance-Motion Representations for Enhanced Motion Generation in Video Models
1288. ICML 2025VideoRoPE: What Makes for Good Video Rotary Position Embedding?
1289. ICML 2025WikiBigEdit: Understanding the Limits of Lifelong Knowledge Editing in LLMs
1290. NeurIPS 20254DGCPro: Efficient Hierarchical 4D Gaussian Compression for Progressive Volumetric Video Streaming
1291. NeurIPS 2025A Closer Look at TabPFN v2: Understanding Its Strengths and Extending Its Capabilities
1292. NeurIPS 2025A Signed Graph Approach to Understanding and Mitigating Oversmoothing
1293. NeurIPS 2025A2Seek: Towards Reasoning-Centric Benchmark for Aerial Anomaly Understanding
1294. NeurIPS 2025Achilles' Heel of Mamba: Essential difficulties of the Mamba architecture demonstrated by synthetic data
1295. NeurIPS 2025AdaVideoRAG: Omni-Contextual Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Efficient Long Video Understanding
1296. NeurIPS 2025AgMMU: A Comprehensive Agricultural Multimodal Understanding Benchmark
1297. NeurIPS 2025AlignVLM: Bridging Vision and Language Latent Spaces for Multimodal Document Understanding
1298. NeurIPS 2025An Analysis of Concept Bottleneck Models: Measuring, Understanding, and Mitigating the Impact of Noisy Annotations
1299. NeurIPS 2025Analyzing Fine-Grained Alignment and Enhancing Vision Understanding in Multimodal Language Models
1300. NeurIPS 2025Asymmetric Dual-Lens Video Deblurring

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.