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

319 papers, page 6 of 7

251. ICML 2023Reinforcement Learning from Passive Data via Latent Intentions
252. ICML 2023Reliable Measures of Spread in High Dimensional Latent Spaces
253. ICML 2023SpotEM: Efficient Video Search for Episodic Memory
254. ICML 2023Temporally Consistent Transformers for Video Generation
255. ICML 2023Towards a better understanding of representation dynamics under TD-learning
256. ICML 2023Towards Theoretical Understanding of Inverse Reinforcement Learning
257. ICML 2023Towards Understanding and Improving GFlowNet Training
258. ICML 2023Towards Understanding and Reducing Graph Structural Noise for GNNs
259. ICML 2023Towards Understanding Ensemble Distillation in Federated Learning
260. ICML 2023Transformers Meet Directed Graphs
261. ICML 2023Understanding Backdoor Attacks through the Adaptability Hypothesis
262. ICML 2023Understanding Gradient Regularization in Deep Learning: Efficient Finite-Difference Computation and Implicit Bias
263. ICML 2023Understanding Incremental Learning of Gradient Descent: A Fine-grained Analysis of Matrix Sensing
264. ICML 2023Understanding Int4 Quantization for Language Models: Latency Speedup, Composability, and Failure Cases
265. ICML 2023Understanding Oversquashing in GNNs through the Lens of Effective Resistance
266. ICML 2023Understanding Plasticity in Neural Networks
267. ICML 2023Understanding Self-Distillation in the Presence of Label Noise
268. ICML 2023Understanding Self-Predictive Learning for Reinforcement Learning
269. ICML 2023Understanding the Role of Feedback in Online Learning with Switching Costs
270. ICML 2023What Can Be Learnt With Wide Convolutional Neural Networks?
271. ICML 2023When and How Does Known Class Help Discover Unknown Ones? Provable Understanding Through Spectral Analysis
272. ICML 2023WL meet VC
273. NeurIPS 2023A Multi-modal Global Instance Tracking Benchmark (MGIT): Better Locating Target in Complex Spatio-temporal and Causal Relationship
274. NeurIPS 2023ASL Citizen: A Community-Sourced Dataset for Advancing Isolated Sign Language Recognition
275. NeurIPS 2023Balance, Imbalance, and Rebalance: Understanding Robust Overfitting from a Minimax Game Perspective
276. NeurIPS 2023Bitstream-Corrupted Video Recovery: A Novel Benchmark Dataset and Method
277. NeurIPS 2023CAST: Cross-Attention in Space and Time for Video Action Recognition
278. NeurIPS 2023Compressed Video Prompt Tuning
279. NeurIPS 2023Curriculum Learning With Infant Egocentric Videos
280. NeurIPS 2023Diversifying Spatial-Temporal Perception for Video Domain Generalization
281. NeurIPS 2023Dynamic Non-monotone Submodular Maximization
282. NeurIPS 2023Ego4D Goal-Step: Toward Hierarchical Understanding of Procedural Activities
283. NeurIPS 2023EgoDistill: Egocentric Head Motion Distillation for Efficient Video Understanding
284. NeurIPS 2023EgoEnv: Human-centric environment representations from egocentric video
285. NeurIPS 2023EgoSchema: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Very Long-form Video Language Understanding
286. NeurIPS 2023EPIC Fields: Marrying 3D Geometry and Video Understanding
287. NeurIPS 2023Explore In-Context Learning for 3D Point Cloud Understanding
288. NeurIPS 2023From ViT Features to Training-free Video Object Segmentation via Streaming-data Mixture Models
289. NeurIPS 2023HA-ViD: A Human Assembly Video Dataset for Comprehensive Assembly Knowledge Understanding
290. NeurIPS 2023HT-Step: Aligning Instructional Articles with How-To Videos
291. NeurIPS 2023InfoPrompt: Information-Theoretic Soft Prompt Tuning for Natural Language Understanding
292. NeurIPS 2023Language-based Action Concept Spaces Improve Video Self-Supervised Learning
293. NeurIPS 2023NurViD: A Large Expert-Level Video Database for Nursing Procedure Activity Understanding
294. NeurIPS 2023On the choice of Perception Loss Function for Learned Video Compression
295. NeurIPS 2023Opening the Vocabulary of Egocentric Actions
296. NeurIPS 2023Revealing the unseen: Benchmarking video action recognition under occlusion
297. NeurIPS 2023RVD: A Handheld Device-Based Fundus Video Dataset for Retinal Vessel Segmentation
298. NeurIPS 2023Scan and Snap: Understanding Training Dynamics and Token Composition in 1-layer Transformer
299. NeurIPS 2023Self-supervised video pretraining yields robust and more human-aligned visual representations
300. NeurIPS 2023Small batch deep reinforcement learning

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.