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

679 papers, page 8 of 14

351. ICLR 2025Scalable Benchmarking and Robust Learning for Noise-Free Ego-Motion and 3D Reconstruction from Noisy Video
352. ICLR 2025See It from My Perspective: How Language Affects Cultural Bias in Image Understanding
353. ICLR 2025Shot2Story: A New Benchmark for Comprehensive Understanding of Multi-shot Videos
354. ICLR 2025Solving Video Inverse Problems Using Image Diffusion Models
355. ICLR 2025Streaming Video Question-Answering with In-context Video KV-Cache Retrieval
356. ICLR 2025Streaming Video Understanding and Multi-round Interaction with Memory-enhanced Knowledge
357. ICLR 2025StringLLM: Understanding the String Processing Capability of Large Language Models
358. ICLR 2025SVBench: A Benchmark with Temporal Multi-Turn Dialogues for Streaming Video Understanding
359. ICLR 2025SVG: 3D Stereoscopic Video Generation via Denoising Frame Matrix
360. ICLR 2025TAU-106K: A New Dataset for Comprehensive Understanding of Traffic Accident
361. ICLR 2025Teaching Human Behavior Improves Content Understanding Abilities Of VLMs
362. ICLR 2025TimeSuite: Improving MLLMs for Long Video Understanding via Grounded Tuning
363. ICLR 2025Topological Blindspots: Understanding and Extending Topological Deep Learning Through the Lens of Expressivity
364. ICLR 2025Toward Understanding In-context vs. In-weight Learning
365. ICLR 2025Towards a Theoretical Understanding of Synthetic Data in LLM Post-Training: A Reverse-Bottleneck Perspective
366. ICLR 2025Towards a Unified and Verified Understanding of Group-Operation Networks
367. ICLR 2025Towards Understanding the Robustness of Diffusion-Based Purification: A Stochastic Perspective
368. ICLR 2025Towards Understanding the Universality of Transformers for Next-Token Prediction
369. ICLR 2025Towards Understanding Why FixMatch Generalizes Better Than Supervised Learning
370. ICLR 2025Towards Understanding Why Label Smoothing Degrades Selective Classification and How to Fix It
371. ICLR 2025TRACE: Temporal Grounding Video LLM via Causal Event Modeling
372. ICLR 2025Understanding and Enhancing the Transferability of Jailbreaking Attacks
373. ICLR 2025Understanding and Mitigating Bottlenecks of State Space Models through the Lens of Recency and Over-smoothing
374. ICLR 2025Understanding and Mitigating Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models via Modular Attribution and Intervention
375. ICLR 2025Understanding Constraint Inference in Safety-Critical Inverse Reinforcement Learning
376. ICLR 2025Understanding Factual Recall in Transformers via Associative Memories
377. ICLR 2025Understanding Long Videos with Multimodal Language Models
378. ICLR 2025Understanding Matrix Function Normalizations in Covariance Pooling through the Lens of Riemannian Geometry
379. ICLR 2025Understanding Optimization in Deep Learning with Central Flows
380. ICLR 2025Understanding the Generalization of In-Context Learning in Transformers: An Empirical Study
381. ICLR 2025Understanding the Stability-based Generalization of Personalized Federated Learning
382. ICLR 2025Understanding Virtual Nodes: Oversquashing and Node Heterogeneity
383. ICLR 2025Understanding Warmup-Stable-Decay Learning Rates: A River Valley Loss Landscape View
384. ICLR 2025Unhackable Temporal Reward for Scalable Video MLLMs
385. ICLR 2025ViBiDSampler: Enhancing Video Interpolation Using Bidirectional Diffusion Sampler
386. ICLR 2025Video In-context Learning: Autoregressive Transformers are Zero-Shot Video Imitators
387. ICLR 2025Video-STaR: Self-Training Enables Video Instruction Tuning with Any Supervision
388. ICLR 2025VideoGrain: Modulating Space-Time Attention for Multi-Grained Video Editing
389. ICLR 2025VideoWebArena: Evaluating Long Context Multimodal Agents with Video Understanding Web Tasks
390. ICLR 2025Watch Less, Do More: Implicit Skill Discovery for Video-Conditioned Policy
391. ICLR 2025Weakly Supervised Video Scene Graph Generation via Natural Language Supervision
392. ICLR 2025What Secrets Do Your Manifolds Hold? Understanding the Local Geometry of Generative Models
393. ICLR 2025World Model on Million-Length Video And Language With Blockwise RingAttention
394. ICML 2025$\infty$-Video: A Training-Free Approach to Long Video Understanding via Continuous-Time Memory Consolidation
395. ICML 2025$\mathcal{V}ista\mathcal{DPO}$: Video Hierarchical Spatial-Temporal Direct Preference Optimization for Large Video Models
396. ICML 2025A Closer Look at Transformers for Time Series Forecasting: Understanding Why They Work and Where They Struggle
397. ICML 2025Action Dubber: Timing Audible Actions via Inflectional Flow
398. ICML 2025AffectGPT: A New Dataset, Model, and Benchmark for Emotion Understanding with Multimodal Large Language Models
399. ICML 2025AsymRnR: Video Diffusion Transformers Acceleration with Asymmetric Reduction and Restoration
400. ICML 2025BDC-CLIP: Brownian Distance Covariance for Adapting CLIP to Action Recognition

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.