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

431 papers, page 5 of 9

201. CVPR 2024VMC: Video Motion Customization using Temporal Attention Adaption for Text-to-Video Diffusion Models
202. CVPR 2024VTimeLLM: Empower LLM to Grasp Video Moments
203. CVPR 2024Weakly Supervised Video Individual Counting
204. CVPR 2024Your Image is My Video: Reshaping the Receptive Field via Image-To-Video Differentiable AutoAugmentation and Fusion
205. ICLR 2024Boundary Denoising for Video Activity Localization
206. ICLR 2024Don't Judge by the Look: Towards Motion Coherent Video Representation
207. ICLR 2024Efficient Video Diffusion Models via Content-Frame Motion-Latent Decomposition
208. ICLR 2024Exploring Weight Balancing on Long-Tailed Recognition Problem
209. ICLR 2024FreeNoise: Tuning-Free Longer Video Diffusion via Noise Rescheduling
210. ICLR 2024Grokking in Linear Estimators -- A Solvable Model that Groks without Understanding
211. ICLR 2024How Do Transformers Learn In-Context Beyond Simple Functions? A Case Study on Learning with Representations
212. ICLR 2024InternVid: A Large-scale Video-Text Dataset for Multimodal Understanding and Generation
213. ICLR 2024Is ImageNet worth 1 video? Learning strong image encoders from 1 long unlabelled video
214. ICLR 2024Large Content And Behavior Models To Understand, Simulate, And Optimize Content And Behavior
215. ICLR 2024Latent Intuitive Physics: Learning to Transfer Hidden Physics from A 3D Video
216. ICLR 2024MiniGPT-4: Enhancing Vision-Language Understanding with Advanced Large Language Models
217. ICLR 2024Multi-granularity Correspondence Learning from Long-term Noisy Videos
218. ICLR 2024Neural Rate Control for Learned Video Compression
219. ICLR 2024Nougat: Neural Optical Understanding for Academic Documents
220. ICLR 2024Pose Modulated Avatars from Video
221. ICLR 2024Progressive Fourier Neural Representation for Sequential Video Compilation
222. ICLR 2024Pseudo-Generalized Dynamic View Synthesis from a Video
223. ICLR 2024Quadratic models for understanding catapult dynamics of neural networks
224. ICLR 2024ReFusion: Improving Natural Language Understanding with Computation-Efficient Retrieval Representation Fusion
225. ICLR 2024Semantic Flow: Learning Semantic Fields of Dynamic Scenes from Monocular Videos
226. ICLR 2024Structured Video-Language Modeling with Temporal Grouping and Spatial Grounding
227. ICLR 2024The All-Seeing Project: Towards Panoptic Visual Recognition and Understanding of the Open World
228. ICLR 2024Theoretical Understanding of Learning from Adversarial Perturbations
229. ICLR 2024Towards Understanding Factual Knowledge of Large Language Models
230. ICLR 2024Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models
231. ICLR 2024Understanding Addition in Transformers
232. ICLR 2024Understanding and Mitigating the Label Noise in Pre-training on Downstream Tasks
233. ICLR 2024Understanding Augmentation-based Self-Supervised Representation Learning via RKHS Approximation and Regression
234. ICLR 2024Understanding Catastrophic Forgetting in Language Models via Implicit Inference
235. ICLR 2024Understanding Certified Training with Interval Bound Propagation
236. ICLR 2024Understanding Convergence and Generalization in Federated Learning through Feature Learning Theory
237. ICLR 2024Understanding Domain Generalization: A Noise Robustness Perspective
238. ICLR 2024Understanding Expressivity of GNN in Rule Learning
239. ICLR 2024Understanding In-Context Learning from Repetitions
240. ICLR 2024Understanding In-Context Learning in Transformers and LLMs by Learning to Learn Discrete Functions
241. ICLR 2024Understanding prompt engineering may not require rethinking generalization
242. ICLR 2024Understanding Reconstruction Attacks with the Neural Tangent Kernel and Dataset Distillation
243. ICLR 2024Understanding the Robustness of Multi-modal Contrastive Learning to Distribution Shift
244. ICLR 2024Understanding the Robustness of Randomized Feature Defense Against Query-Based Adversarial Attacks
245. ICLR 2024Understanding Transferable Representation Learning and Zero-shot Transfer in CLIP
246. ICLR 2024Understanding when Dynamics-Invariant Data Augmentations Benefit Model-free Reinforcement Learning Updates
247. ICLR 2024Unraveling the Key Components of OOD Generalization via Diversification
248. ICLR 2024Video Decomposition Prior: Editing Videos Layer by Layer
249. ICLR 2024Video Language Planning
250. ICLR 2024VONet: Unsupervised Video Object Learning With Parallel U-Net Attention and Object-wise Sequential VAE

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.