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 9 of 9

401. NeurIPS 2024TopoFR: A Closer Look at Topology Alignment on Face Recognition
402. NeurIPS 2024Towards a Theoretical Understanding of the 'Reversal Curse' via Training Dynamics
403. NeurIPS 2024Towards Understanding Evolving Patterns in Sequential Data
404. NeurIPS 2024Towards Understanding Extrapolation: a Causal Lens
405. NeurIPS 2024Towards Understanding How Transformers Learn In-context Through a Representation Learning Lens
406. NeurIPS 2024TrackIME: Enhanced Video Point Tracking via Instance Motion Estimation
407. NeurIPS 2024Understanding and Improving Adversarial Collaborative Filtering for Robust Recommendation
408. NeurIPS 2024Understanding and Minimising Outlier Features in Transformer Training
409. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Bias in Large-Scale Visual Datasets
410. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Emergent Abilities of Language Models from the Loss Perspective
411. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Generalizability of Diffusion Models Requires Rethinking the Hidden Gaussian Structure
412. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Hallucinations in Diffusion Models through Mode Interpolation
413. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Representation of Deep Equilibrium Models from Neural Collapse Perspective
414. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Scaling Laws with Statistical and Approximation Theory for Transformer Neural Networks on Intrinsically Low-dimensional Data
415. NeurIPS 2024Understanding the Differences in Foundation Models: Attention, State Space Models, and Recurrent Neural Networks
416. NeurIPS 2024Understanding the Expressive Power and Mechanisms of Transformer for Sequence Modeling
417. NeurIPS 2024Understanding the Expressivity and Trainability of Fourier Neural Operator: A Mean-Field Perspective
418. NeurIPS 2024Understanding the Gains from Repeated Self-Distillation
419. NeurIPS 2024Understanding the Role of Equivariance in Self-supervised Learning
420. NeurIPS 2024Understanding the Transferability of Representations via Task-Relatedness
421. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Transformers via N-Gram Statistics
422. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Visual Feature Reliance through the Lens of Complexity
423. NeurIPS 2024VERIFIED: A Video Corpus Moment Retrieval Benchmark for Fine-Grained Video Understanding
424. NeurIPS 2024VFIMamba: Video Frame Interpolation with State Space Models
425. NeurIPS 2024Video Diffusion Models are Training-free Motion Interpreter and Controller
426. NeurIPS 2024Video Token Merging for Long Video Understanding
427. NeurIPS 2024VideoLLM-MoD: Efficient Video-Language Streaming with Mixture-of-Depths Vision Computation
428. NeurIPS 2024VidProM: A Million-scale Real Prompt-Gallery Dataset for Text-to-Video Diffusion Models
429. NeurIPS 2024Vript: A Video Is Worth Thousands of Words
430. NeurIPS 2024Warped Diffusion: Solving Video Inverse Problems with Image Diffusion Models
431. NeurIPS 2024When LLMs Meet Cunning Texts: A Fallacy Understanding Benchmark for Large Language Models

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.