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 6 of 6

251. ICML 2023Is Overfitting Necessary for Implicit Video Representation?
252. ICML 2023Learning Control by Iterative Inversion
253. ICML 2023Long-Term Rhythmic Video Soundtracker
254. ICML 2023MonoFlow: Rethinking Divergence GANs via the Perspective of Wasserstein Gradient Flows
255. ICML 2023Open-VCLIP: Transforming CLIP to an Open-vocabulary Video Model via Interpolated Weight Optimization
256. ICML 2023Pix2Struct: Screenshot Parsing as Pretraining for Visual Language Understanding
257. ICML 2023Quantifying the Variability Collapse of Neural Networks
258. ICML 2023Reinforcement Learning from Passive Data via Latent Intentions
259. ICML 2023Reliable Measures of Spread in High Dimensional Latent Spaces
260. ICML 2023SpotEM: Efficient Video Search for Episodic Memory
261. ICML 2023Temporally Consistent Transformers for Video Generation
262. ICML 2023Towards a better understanding of representation dynamics under TD-learning
263. ICML 2023Towards Theoretical Understanding of Inverse Reinforcement Learning
264. ICML 2023Towards Understanding and Improving GFlowNet Training
265. ICML 2023Towards Understanding and Reducing Graph Structural Noise for GNNs
266. ICML 2023Towards Understanding Ensemble Distillation in Federated Learning
267. ICML 2023Transformers Meet Directed Graphs
268. ICML 2023Understanding Backdoor Attacks through the Adaptability Hypothesis
269. ICML 2023Understanding Gradient Regularization in Deep Learning: Efficient Finite-Difference Computation and Implicit Bias
270. ICML 2023Understanding Incremental Learning of Gradient Descent: A Fine-grained Analysis of Matrix Sensing
271. ICML 2023Understanding Int4 Quantization for Language Models: Latency Speedup, Composability, and Failure Cases
272. ICML 2023Understanding Oversquashing in GNNs through the Lens of Effective Resistance
273. ICML 2023Understanding Plasticity in Neural Networks
274. ICML 2023Understanding Self-Distillation in the Presence of Label Noise
275. ICML 2023Understanding Self-Predictive Learning for Reinforcement Learning
276. ICML 2023Understanding the Role of Feedback in Online Learning with Switching Costs
277. ICML 2023What Can Be Learnt With Wide Convolutional Neural Networks?
278. ICML 2023When and How Does Known Class Help Discover Unknown Ones? Provable Understanding Through Spectral Analysis
279. ICML 2023WL meet VC

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.