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

222 papers, page 3 of 5

101. NeurIPS 2025Positional Fragility in LLMs: How Offset Effects Reshape Our Understanding of Memorization Risks
102. NeurIPS 2025Prior Forgetting and In-Context Overfitting
103. NeurIPS 2025Prompt-guided Disentangled Representation for Action Recognition
104. NeurIPS 2025PUO-Bench: A Panel Understanding and Operation Benchmark with A Privacy-Preserving Framework
105. NeurIPS 2025Puzzles: Unbounded Video-Depth Augmentation for Scalable End-to-End 3D Reconstruction
106. NeurIPS 2025Reading Recognition in the Wild
107. NeurIPS 2025Rebalancing Contrastive Alignment with Bottlenecked Semantic Increments in Text-Video Retrieval
108. NeurIPS 2025Recurrent Attention-based Token Selection for Efficient Streaming Video-LLMs
109. NeurIPS 2025RePO: Understanding Preference Learning Through ReLU-Based Optimization
110. NeurIPS 2025RepoMaster: Autonomous Exploration and Understanding of GitHub Repositories for Complex Task Solving
111. NeurIPS 2025Restage4D: Reanimating Deformable 3D Reconstruction from a Single Video
112. NeurIPS 2025Return of ChebNet: Understanding and Improving an Overlooked GNN on Long Range Tasks
113. NeurIPS 2025Robust Egocentric Referring Video Object Segmentation via Dual-Modal Causal Intervention
114. NeurIPS 2025ROVER: Recursive Reasoning Over Videos with Vision-Language Models for Embodied Tasks
115. NeurIPS 2025RTV-Bench: Benchmarking MLLM Continuous Perception, Understanding and Reasoning through Real-Time Video
116. NeurIPS 2025SAGE: A Unified Framework for Generalizable Object State Recognition with State-Action Graph Embedding
117. NeurIPS 2025SAMA: Towards Multi-Turn Referential Grounded Video Chat with Large Language Models
118. NeurIPS 2025SD-VLM: Spatial Measuring and Understanding with Depth-Encoded Vision-Language Models
119. NeurIPS 2025See&Trek: Training-Free Spatial Prompting for Multimodal Large Language Model
120. NeurIPS 2025Seeing the Arrow of Time in Large Multimodal Models
121. NeurIPS 2025Seeing What Matters: Generalizable AI-generated Video Detection with Forensic-Oriented Augmentation
122. NeurIPS 2025Self-alignment of Large Video Language Models with Refined Regularized Preference Optimization
123. NeurIPS 2025Self-supervised Learning of Echocardiographic Video Representations via Online Cluster Distillation
124. NeurIPS 2025Self-Supervised Learning of Motion Concepts by Optimizing Counterfactuals
125. NeurIPS 2025ShapeLLM-Omni: A Native Multimodal LLM for 3D Generation and Understanding
126. NeurIPS 2025ShotBench: Expert-Level Cinematic Understanding in Vision-Language Models
127. NeurIPS 2025SIU3R: Simultaneous Scene Understanding and 3D Reconstruction Beyond Feature Alignment
128. NeurIPS 2025Smooth Regularization for Efficient Video Recognition
129. NeurIPS 2025Spatial-MLLM: Boosting MLLM Capabilities in Visual-based Spatial Intelligence
130. NeurIPS 2025SpikingVTG: A Spiking Detection Transformer for Video Temporal Grounding
131. NeurIPS 2025Spiral: Semantic-Aware Progressive LiDAR Scene Generation and Understanding
132. NeurIPS 2025Stable Part Diffusion 4D: Multi-View RGB and Kinematic Parts Video Generation
133. NeurIPS 2025State Space Prompting via Gathering and Spreading Spatio-Temporal Information for Video Understanding
134. NeurIPS 2025Stitch and Tell: A Structured Data Augmentation Method for Spatial Understanding
135. NeurIPS 2025Storyboard-guided Alignment for Fine-grained Video Action Recognition
136. NeurIPS 2025StreamBridge: Turning Your Offline Video Large Language Model into a Proactive Streaming Assistant
137. NeurIPS 2025StreamForest: Efficient Online Video Understanding with Persistent Event Memory
138. NeurIPS 2025TaiwanVQA: Benchmarking and Enhancing Cultural Understanding in Vision-Language Models
139. NeurIPS 2025Talk2Event: Grounded Understanding of Dynamic Scenes from Event Cameras
140. NeurIPS 2025TAPVid-360: Tracking Any Point in 360 from Narrow Field of View Video
141. NeurIPS 2025Temporal Chain of Thought: Long-Video Understanding by Thinking in Frames
142. NeurIPS 2025Temporal In‑Context Fine‑Tuning for Versatile Control of Video Diffusion Models
143. NeurIPS 2025The Graphon Limit Hypothesis: Understanding Neural Network Pruning via Infinite Width Analysis
144. NeurIPS 2025The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
145. NeurIPS 2025The Underappreciated Power of Vision Models for Graph Structural Understanding
146. NeurIPS 2025Through the River: Understanding the Benefit of Schedule-Free Methods for Language Model Training
147. NeurIPS 2025To Distill or Decide? Understanding the Algorithmic Trade-off in Partially Observable RL
148. NeurIPS 2025Topology of Reasoning: Understanding Large Reasoning Models through Reasoning Graph Properties
149. NeurIPS 2025Toward a Unified Geometry Understanding : Riemannian Diffusion Framework for Graph Generation and Prediction
150. NeurIPS 2025Towards a Geometric Understanding of Tensor Learning via the t-Product

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.