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 45 of 46

2201. ICML 2023Towards Understanding Ensemble Distillation in Federated Learning
2202. ICML 2023Transformers Meet Directed Graphs
2203. ICML 2023Understanding Backdoor Attacks through the Adaptability Hypothesis
2204. ICML 2023Understanding Gradient Regularization in Deep Learning: Efficient Finite-Difference Computation and Implicit Bias
2205. ICML 2023Understanding Incremental Learning of Gradient Descent: A Fine-grained Analysis of Matrix Sensing
2206. ICML 2023Understanding Int4 Quantization for Language Models: Latency Speedup, Composability, and Failure Cases
2207. ICML 2023Understanding Oversquashing in GNNs through the Lens of Effective Resistance
2208. ICML 2023Understanding Plasticity in Neural Networks
2209. ICML 2023Understanding Self-Distillation in the Presence of Label Noise
2210. ICML 2023Understanding Self-Predictive Learning for Reinforcement Learning
2211. ICML 2023Understanding the Role of Feedback in Online Learning with Switching Costs
2212. ICML 2023What Can Be Learnt With Wide Convolutional Neural Networks?
2213. ICML 2023When and How Does Known Class Help Discover Unknown Ones? Provable Understanding Through Spectral Analysis
2214. ICML 2023WL meet VC
2215. NeurIPS 2023A Multi-modal Global Instance Tracking Benchmark (MGIT): Better Locating Target in Complex Spatio-temporal and Causal Relationship
2216. NeurIPS 2023ASL Citizen: A Community-Sourced Dataset for Advancing Isolated Sign Language Recognition
2217. NeurIPS 2023Balance, Imbalance, and Rebalance: Understanding Robust Overfitting from a Minimax Game Perspective
2218. NeurIPS 2023Bitstream-Corrupted Video Recovery: A Novel Benchmark Dataset and Method
2219. NeurIPS 2023CAST: Cross-Attention in Space and Time for Video Action Recognition
2220. NeurIPS 2023Compressed Video Prompt Tuning
2221. NeurIPS 2023Curriculum Learning With Infant Egocentric Videos
2222. NeurIPS 2023Diversifying Spatial-Temporal Perception for Video Domain Generalization
2223. NeurIPS 2023Dynamic Non-monotone Submodular Maximization
2224. NeurIPS 2023Ego4D Goal-Step: Toward Hierarchical Understanding of Procedural Activities
2225. NeurIPS 2023EgoDistill: Egocentric Head Motion Distillation for Efficient Video Understanding
2226. NeurIPS 2023EgoEnv: Human-centric environment representations from egocentric video
2227. NeurIPS 2023EgoSchema: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Very Long-form Video Language Understanding
2228. NeurIPS 2023EPIC Fields: Marrying 3D Geometry and Video Understanding
2229. NeurIPS 2023Explore In-Context Learning for 3D Point Cloud Understanding
2230. NeurIPS 2023From ViT Features to Training-free Video Object Segmentation via Streaming-data Mixture Models
2231. NeurIPS 2023HA-ViD: A Human Assembly Video Dataset for Comprehensive Assembly Knowledge Understanding
2232. NeurIPS 2023HT-Step: Aligning Instructional Articles with How-To Videos
2233. NeurIPS 2023InfoPrompt: Information-Theoretic Soft Prompt Tuning for Natural Language Understanding
2234. NeurIPS 2023Language-based Action Concept Spaces Improve Video Self-Supervised Learning
2235. NeurIPS 2023NurViD: A Large Expert-Level Video Database for Nursing Procedure Activity Understanding
2236. NeurIPS 2023On the choice of Perception Loss Function for Learned Video Compression
2237. NeurIPS 2023Opening the Vocabulary of Egocentric Actions
2238. NeurIPS 2023Revealing the unseen: Benchmarking video action recognition under occlusion
2239. NeurIPS 2023RVD: A Handheld Device-Based Fundus Video Dataset for Retinal Vessel Segmentation
2240. NeurIPS 2023Scan and Snap: Understanding Training Dynamics and Token Composition in 1-layer Transformer
2241. NeurIPS 2023Self-supervised video pretraining yields robust and more human-aligned visual representations
2242. NeurIPS 2023Small batch deep reinforcement learning
2243. NeurIPS 2023SNAP: Self-Supervised Neural Maps for Visual Positioning and Semantic Understanding
2244. NeurIPS 2023SOC: Semantic-Assisted Object Cluster for Referring Video Object Segmentation
2245. NeurIPS 2023State2Explanation: Concept-Based Explanations to Benefit Agent Learning and User Understanding
2246. NeurIPS 2023Towards a fuller understanding of neurons with Clustered Compositional Explanations
2247. NeurIPS 2023Towards A Richer 2D Understanding of Hands at Scale
2248. NeurIPS 2023Towards Understanding the Dynamics of Gaussian-Stein Variational Gradient Descent
2249. NeurIPS 2023Understanding and Addressing the Pitfalls of Bisimulation-based Representations in Offline Reinforcement Learning
2250. NeurIPS 2023Understanding and Improving Ensemble Adversarial Defense

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.