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 4 of 6

151. ICML 2025Train for the Worst, Plan for the Best: Understanding Token Ordering in Masked Diffusions
152. ICML 2025TUMTraf VideoQA: Dataset and Benchmark for Unified Spatio-Temporal Video Understanding in Traffic Scenes
153. ICML 2025Understanding and Improving Length Generalization in Recurrent Models
154. ICML 2025Understanding and Mitigating Memorization in Diffusion Models for Tabular Data
155. ICML 2025Understanding and Mitigating Memorization in Generative Models via Sharpness of Probability Landscapes
156. ICML 2025Understanding and Mitigating Miscalibration in Prompt Tuning for Vision-Language Models
157. ICML 2025Understanding Chain-of-Thought in LLMs through Information Theory
158. ICML 2025Understanding Fixed Predictions via Confined Regions
159. ICML 2025Understanding Generalization in Quantum Machine Learning with Margins
160. ICML 2025Understanding High-Dimensional Bayesian Optimization
161. ICML 2025Understanding Input Selectivity in Mamba: Impact on Approximation Power, Memorization, and Associative Recall Capacity
162. ICML 2025Understanding Mode Connectivity via Parameter Space Symmetry
163. ICML 2025Understanding Model Reprogramming for CLIP via Decoupling Visual Prompts
164. ICML 2025Understanding Multimodal LLMs Under Distribution Shifts: An Information-Theoretic Approach
165. ICML 2025Understanding Nonlinear Implicit Bias via Region Counts in Input Space
166. ICML 2025Understanding Sharpness Dynamics in NN Training with a Minimalist Example: The Effects of Dataset Difficulty, Depth, Stochasticity, and More
167. ICML 2025Understanding the difficulties of posterior predictive estimation
168. ICML 2025Understanding the Emergence of Multimodal Representation Alignment
169. ICML 2025Understanding the Forgetting of (Replay-based) Continual Learning via Feature Learning: Angle Matters
170. ICML 2025Understanding the Kronecker Matrix-Vector Complexity of Linear Algebra
171. ICML 2025Understanding the Limits of Deep Tabular Methods with Temporal Shift
172. ICML 2025Understanding the Statistical Accuracy-Communication Trade-off in Personalized Federated Learning with Minimax Guarantees
173. ICML 2025Understanding the Unfairness in Network Quantization
174. ICML 2025Unifying Specialized Visual Encoders for Video Language Models
175. ICML 2025Video-Enhanced Offline Reinforcement Learning: A Model-Based Approach
176. ICML 2025VideoJAM: Joint Appearance-Motion Representations for Enhanced Motion Generation in Video Models
177. ICML 2025VideoRoPE: What Makes for Good Video Rotary Position Embedding?
178. ICML 2025WikiBigEdit: Understanding the Limits of Lifelong Knowledge Editing in LLMs
179. ICML 2024A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity
180. ICML 2024An Infinite-Width Analysis on the Jacobian-Regularised Training of a Neural Network
181. ICML 2024AST-T5: Structure-Aware Pretraining for Code Generation and Understanding
182. ICML 2024Boximator: Generating Rich and Controllable Motions for Video Synthesis
183. ICML 2024Conditional Language Learning with Context
184. ICML 2024Convex Relaxations of ReLU Neural Networks Approximate Global Optima in Polynomial Time
185. ICML 2024DoraemonGPT: Toward Understanding Dynamic Scenes with Large Language Models (Exemplified as A Video Agent)
186. ICML 2024Enhancing Sufficient Dimension Reduction via Hellinger Correlation
187. ICML 2024EVEREST: Efficient Masked Video Autoencoder by Removing Redundant Spatiotemporal Tokens
188. ICML 2024EvTexture: Event-driven Texture Enhancement for Video Super-Resolution
189. ICML 2024Exploring the Complexity of Deep Neural Networks through Functional Equivalence
190. ICML 2024Feature Reuse and Scaling: Understanding Transfer Learning with Protein Language Models
191. ICML 2024Few-Shot Character Understanding in Movies as an Assessment to Meta-Learning of Theory-of-Mind
192. ICML 2024FRAG: Frequency Adapting Group for Diffusion Video Editing
193. ICML 2024High-Dimensional Kernel Methods under Covariate Shift: Data-Dependent Implicit Regularization
194. ICML 2024How Does Goal Relabeling Improve Sample Efficiency?
195. ICML 2024How Smooth Is Attention?
196. ICML 2024Improving Context Understanding in Multimodal Large Language Models via Multimodal Composition Learning
197. ICML 2024Improving fine-grained understanding in image-text pre-training
198. ICML 2024Initial Guessing Bias: How Untrained Networks Favor Some Classes
199. ICML 2024IOI: Invisible One-Iteration Adversarial Attack on No-Reference Image- and Video-Quality Metrics
200. ICML 2024LangCell: Language-Cell Pre-training for Cell Identity Understanding

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.