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

279 papers, page 3 of 6

101. ICML 2026V-LynX: Token Interface Alignment for Video+X LLMs
102. ICML 2026Veda: Scalable Video Diffusion via Distilled Sparse Attention
103. ICML 2026Video-Based Optimal Transport for Feedback-Efficient Offline Preference-Based Reinforcement Learning
104. ICML 2026Video-BCI: Bayesian Cognitive Integration of Self-Prior Hypotheses for Video Understanding
105. ICML 2026Video-in-the-Loop: Span-Grounded Long Video QA with Interleaved Reasoning
106. ICML 2026Video-MTR: Reinforced Multi-Turn Reasoning for Long Video Understanding
107. ICML 2026VideoFlexTok: Flexible-Length Coarse-to-Fine Video Tokenization
108. ICML 2026VideoKR: Towards Knowledge- and Reasoning-Intensive Video Understanding
109. ICML 2026VideoLoom: A Video Large Language Model for Joint Spatial-Temporal Understanding
110. ICML 2026VideoMAETok: Boosting Video Diffusion Models via Masked Autoencoders as Tokenizers
111. ICML 2026VideoSEAL: Mitigating Evidence Misalignment in Agentic Long Video Understanding by Decoupling Answer Authority
112. ICML 2026VideoTemp-o3: Harmonizing Temporal Grounding and Video Understanding in Agentic Thinking-with-Videos
113. ICML 2026VidLaDA: Bidirectional Diffusion Large Language Models for Efficient Video Understanding
114. ICML 2026Words Towards Explainability: Caption Label-Free Learning via Dual Loop Agentic Time Series Captioning
115. ICML 2025$\infty$-Video: A Training-Free Approach to Long Video Understanding via Continuous-Time Memory Consolidation
116. ICML 2025$\mathcal{V}ista\mathcal{DPO}$: Video Hierarchical Spatial-Temporal Direct Preference Optimization for Large Video Models
117. ICML 2025A Closer Look at Transformers for Time Series Forecasting: Understanding Why They Work and Where They Struggle
118. ICML 2025Action Dubber: Timing Audible Actions via Inflectional Flow
119. ICML 2025AffectGPT: A New Dataset, Model, and Benchmark for Emotion Understanding with Multimodal Large Language Models
120. ICML 2025AsymRnR: Video Diffusion Transformers Acceleration with Asymmetric Reduction and Restoration
121. ICML 2025BDC-CLIP: Brownian Distance Covariance for Adapting CLIP to Action Recognition
122. ICML 2025Calibrating Video Watch-time Predictions with Credible Prototype Alignment
123. ICML 2025Compositional Condition Question Answering in Tabular Understanding
124. ICML 2025Compositional Scene Understanding through Inverse Generative Modeling
125. ICML 2025Explanatory Instructions: Towards Unified Vision Tasks Understanding and Zero-shot Generalization
126. ICML 2025HaploVL: A Single-Transformer Baseline for Multi-Modal Understanding
127. ICML 2025Imitation Learning from a Single Temporally Misaligned Video
128. ICML 2025Improving LLM Video Understanding with 16 Frames Per Second
129. ICML 2025Learning Event Completeness for Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection
130. ICML 2025LongVU: Spatiotemporal Adaptive Compression for Long Video-Language Understanding
131. ICML 2025Massive Values in Self-Attention Modules are the Key to Contextual Knowledge Understanding
132. ICML 2025MedXpertQA: Benchmarking Expert-Level Medical Reasoning and Understanding
133. ICML 2025MODA: MOdular Duplex Attention for Multimodal Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Understanding
134. ICML 2025Modularized Self-Reflected Video Reasoner for Multimodal LLM with Application to Video Question Answering
135. ICML 2025MoMa: Modulating Mamba for Adapting Image Foundation Models to Video Recognition
136. ICML 2025On Understanding Attention-Based In-Context Learning for Categorical Data
137. ICML 2025PlaySlot: Learning Inverse Latent Dynamics for Controllable Object-Centric Video Prediction and Planning
138. ICML 2025Position: Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different
139. ICML 2025Position: We Can’t Understand AI Using our Existing Vocabulary
140. ICML 2025Potemkin Understanding in Large Language Models
141. ICML 2025RIFLEx: A Free Lunch for Length Extrapolation in Video Diffusion Transformers
142. ICML 2025Scaling Video-Language Models to 10K Frames via Hierarchical Differential Distillation
143. ICML 2025SpargeAttention: Accurate and Training-free Sparse Attention Accelerating Any Model Inference
144. ICML 2025Sparse Video-Gen: Accelerating Video Diffusion Transformers with Spatial-Temporal Sparsity
145. ICML 2025SpikeVideoFormer: An Efficient Spike-Driven Video Transformer with Hamming Attention and $\mathcal{O}(T)$ Complexity
146. ICML 2025Time to Spike? Understanding the Representational Power of Spiking Neural Networks in Discrete Time
147. ICML 2025Towards Theoretical Understanding of Sequential Decision Making with Preference Feedback
148. ICML 2025Towards Understanding Catastrophic Forgetting in Two-layer Convolutional Neural Networks
149. ICML 2025Towards Understanding Gradient Dynamics of the Sliced-Wasserstein Distance via Critical Point Analysis
150. ICML 2025Towards Understanding Parametric Generalized Category Discovery on Graphs

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.