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 30 of 46
- NeurIPS 2025Understanding Adam Requires Better Rotation Dependent Assumptions
- NeurIPS 2025Understanding and Enhancing Mask-Based Pretraining towards Universal Representations
- NeurIPS 2025Understanding and Enhancing Message Passing on Heterophilic Graphs via Compatibility Matrix
- NeurIPS 2025Understanding and Improving Adversarial Robustness of Neural Probabilistic Circuits
- NeurIPS 2025Understanding and Improving Fast Adversarial Training against $l_0$ Bounded Perturbations
- NeurIPS 2025Understanding and Mitigating Numerical Sources of Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
- NeurIPS 2025Understanding and Rectifying Safety Perception Distortion in VLMs
- NeurIPS 2025Understanding Bias Terms in Neural Representations
- NeurIPS 2025Understanding challenges to the interpretation of disaggregated evaluations of algorithmic fairness
- NeurIPS 2025Understanding Contrastive Learning via Gaussian Mixture Models
- NeurIPS 2025Understanding Data Influence in Reinforcement Finetuning
- NeurIPS 2025Understanding Differential Transformer Unchains Pretrained Self-Attentions
- NeurIPS 2025Understanding Generalization in Physics Informed Models through Affine Variety Dimensions
- NeurIPS 2025Understanding LLM Behaviors via Compression: Data Generation, Knowledge Acquisition and Scaling Laws
- NeurIPS 2025Understanding outer learning rates in Local SGD
- NeurIPS 2025Understanding Parametric and Contextual Knowledge Reconciliation within Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Understanding Prompt Tuning and In-Context Learning via Meta-Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Understanding Representation Dynamics of Diffusion Models via Low-Dimensional Modeling
- NeurIPS 2025Understanding Softmax Attention Layers:\\ Exact Mean-Field Analysis on a Toy Problem
- NeurIPS 2025Understanding the Evolution of the Neural Tangent Kernel at the Edge of Stability
- NeurIPS 2025Understanding the Gain from Data Filtering in Multimodal Contrastive Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Understanding the Generalization of Stochastic Gradient Adam in Learning Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2025Understanding while Exploring: Semantics-driven Active Mapping
- NeurIPS 2025UniCTokens: Boosting Personalized Understanding and Generation via Unified Concept Tokens
- NeurIPS 2025UniRelight: Learning Joint Decomposition and Synthesis for Video Relighting
- NeurIPS 2025UniTok: a Unified Tokenizer for Visual Generation and Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025Universal Video Temporal Grounding with Generative Multi-modal Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Universal Visuo-Tactile Video Understanding for Embodied Interaction
- NeurIPS 2025UniViT: Unifying Image and Video Understanding in One Vision Encoder
- NeurIPS 2025Unleashing Hour-Scale Video Training for Long Video-Language Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025URLs Help, Topics Guide: Understanding Metadata Utility in LLM Training
- NeurIPS 2025UVE: Are MLLMs Unified Evaluators for AI-Generated Videos?
- NeurIPS 2025VADB: A Large-Scale Video Aesthetic Database with Professional and Multi-Dimensional Annotations
- NeurIPS 2025VADTree: Explainable Training-Free Video Anomaly Detection via Hierarchical Granularity-Aware Tree
- NeurIPS 2025VaporTok: RL-Driven Adaptive Video Tokenizer with Prior & Task Awareness
- NeurIPS 2025VFRTok: Variable Frame Rates Video Tokenizer with Duration-Proportional Information Assumption
- NeurIPS 2025Vgent: Graph-based Retrieval-Reasoning-Augmented Generation For Long Video Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025Vid-SME: Membership Inference Attacks against Large Video Understanding Models
- NeurIPS 2025ViDAR: Video Diffusion-Aware 4D Reconstruction From Monocular Inputs
- NeurIPS 2025VidEmo: Affective-Tree Reasoning for Emotion-Centric Video Foundation Models
- NeurIPS 2025Video Diffusion Models Excel at Tracking Similar-Looking Objects Without Supervision
- NeurIPS 2025Video-RAG: Visually-aligned Retrieval-Augmented Long Video Comprehension
- NeurIPS 2025VideoGameQA-Bench: Evaluating Vision-Language Models for Video Game Quality Assurance
- NeurIPS 2025VideoLucy: Deep Memory Backtracking for Long Video Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025VideoMAR: Autoregressive Video Generation with Continuous Tokens
- NeurIPS 2025VideoTitans: Scalable Video Prediction with Integrated Short- and Long-term Memory
- NeurIPS 2025VideoVLA: Video Generators Can Be Generalizable Robot Manipulators
- NeurIPS 2025Visual Sync: Multi‑Camera Synchronization via Cross‑View Object Motion
- NeurIPS 2025Visual Thoughts: A Unified Perspective of Understanding Multimodal Chain-of-Thought
- NeurIPS 2025VITRIX-CLIPIN: Enhancing Fine-Grained Visual Understanding in CLIP via Instruction-Editing Data and Long Captions
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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.