Video Understanding papers, 2023–2026
Video recognition and understanding
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 2,261 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 47 | 44 | 34 | 194 | 319 |
| 2024 | 113 | 47 | 67 | 204 | 431 |
| 2025 | 222 | 95 | 64 | 298 | 679 |
| 2026 | 229 | 148 | 114 | 341 | 832 |
Representative papers
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- 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 8 of 46
- ICLR 2026Barriers for Learning in an Evolving World: Mathematical Understanding of Loss of Plasticity
- ICLR 2026Beyond Static Vision: Scene Dynamic Field Unlocks Intuitive Physics Understanding in Multi-modal Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026Boosting Medical Visual Understanding From Multi-Granular Language Learning
- ICLR 2026BWCache: Accelerating Video Diffusion Transformers through Block-Wise Caching
- ICLR 2026CaReBench: A Fine-grained Benchmark for Video Captioning and Retrieval
- ICLR 2026Concept-TRAK: Understanding how diffusion models learn concepts through concept attribution
- ICLR 2026Context Tokens are Anchors: Understanding the Repetition Curse in Diffusion MLLMs from an Information Flow Perspective
- ICLR 2026Controllable Video Generation with Provable Disentanglement
- ICLR 2026Cosmos Policy: Fine-Tuning Video Models for Visuomotor Control and Planning
- ICLR 2026DanceTogether: Generating Interactive Multi-Person Video without Identity Drifting
- ICLR 2026Decomposed Attention Fusion in MLLMs for Training-free Video Reasoning Segmentation
- ICLR 2026Deforming Videos to Masks: Flow Matching for Referring Video Segmentation
- ICLR 2026Divid: Disentangled Spatial-Temporal Modeling within LLMs for Temporally Grounded Video Understanding
- ICLR 2026Dynamic Reflections: Probing Video Representations with Text Alignment
- ICLR 2026EasyCreator: Empowering 4D Creation through Video Inpainting
- ICLR 2026EchoMotion: Unified Human Video and Motion Generation via Dual-Modality Diffusion Transformer
- ICLR 2026EgoDex: Learning Dexterous Manipulation from Large-Scale Egocentric Video
- ICLR 2026EmotionHallucer: Evaluating Emotion Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026Emotions Where Art Thou: Understanding and Characterizing the Emotional Latent Space of Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026Enhancing Visual Token Representations for Video Large Language Models via Training-free Spatial-Temporal Pooling and Gridding
- ICLR 2026Evaluating Intuitive Physics Understanding in Video Diffusion Models via Likelihood Preference
- ICLR 2026Exploring the Potential of Encoder-free Architectures in 3D LMMs
- ICLR 2026ExpVid: A Benchmark for Experiment Video Understanding & Reasoning
- ICLR 2026FastVMT: Eliminating Redundancy in Video Motion Transfer
- ICLR 2026FlashVID: Efficient Video Large Language Models via Training-free Tree-based Spatiotemporal Token Merging
- ICLR 2026FLoC: Facility Location-Based Efficient Visual Token Compression for Long Video Understanding
- ICLR 2026FlowNIB: An Information Bottleneck Analysis of Bidirectional vs. Unidirectional Language Models
- ICLR 2026FOCUS: Efficient Keyframe Selection for Long Video Understanding
- ICLR 2026Frame Guidance: Training-Free Guidance for Frame-Level Control in Video Diffusion Model
- ICLR 2026FreeViS: Training-free Video Stylization with Inconsistent References
- ICLR 2026From Collapse to Control: Understanding and Extending Context Length in Emerging Hybrid Models via Universal Position Interpolation
- ICLR 2026GenCompositor: Generative Video Compositing with Diffusion Transformer
- ICLR 2026Geometry-aware 4D Video Generation for Robot Manipulation
- ICLR 2026Gistify: Codebase-Level Understanding via Runtime Execution
- ICLR 2026HFSTI-Net: Hierarchical Frequency-spatial-temporal Interactions for Video Polyp Segmentation
- ICLR 2026HiTeA: Hierarchical Temporal Alignment for Training-Free Long-Video Temporal Grounding
- ICLR 2026IF-VidCap: Can Video Caption Models Follow Instructions?
- ICLR 2026Improving Autoregressive Video Modeling with History Understanding
- ICLR 2026InclusiveVidPose: Bridging the Pose Estimation Gap for Individuals with Limb Deficiencies in Video-Based Motion
- ICLR 2026InfoTok: Adaptive Discrete Video Tokenizer via Information-Theoretic Compression
- ICLR 2026Invert4TVG: A Temporal Video Grounding Framework with Inversion Tasks Preserving Action Understanding Ability
- ICLR 2026IWR-Bench: Can LVLMs reconstruct interactive webpage from a user interaction video?
- ICLR 2026Jailbreaking on Text-to-Video Models via Scene Splitting Strategy
- ICLR 2026Let's Split Up: Zero-Shot Classifier Edits for Fine-Grained Video Understanding
- ICLR 2026LH-DECEPTION: Simulating and Understanding LLM Deceptive Behaviors in Long-Horizon Interactions
- ICLR 2026LightCtrl: Training-free Controllable Video Relighting
- ICLR 2026Linear Mechanisms for Spatiotemporal Reasoning in Vision Language Models
- ICLR 2026LLaVAction: evaluating and training multi-modal large language models for action understanding
- ICLR 2026Lost in Tokenization: Context as the Key to Unlocking Biomolecular Understanding in Scientific LLMs
- ICLR 2026Map the Flow: Revealing Hidden Pathways of Information in VideoLLMs
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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.