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

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401. ICML 2025Calibrating Video Watch-time Predictions with Credible Prototype Alignment
402. ICML 2025Compositional Condition Question Answering in Tabular Understanding
403. ICML 2025Compositional Scene Understanding through Inverse Generative Modeling
404. ICML 2025Explanatory Instructions: Towards Unified Vision Tasks Understanding and Zero-shot Generalization
405. ICML 2025HaploVL: A Single-Transformer Baseline for Multi-Modal Understanding
406. ICML 2025Imitation Learning from a Single Temporally Misaligned Video
407. ICML 2025Improving LLM Video Understanding with 16 Frames Per Second
408. ICML 2025Learning Event Completeness for Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection
409. ICML 2025LongVU: Spatiotemporal Adaptive Compression for Long Video-Language Understanding
410. ICML 2025Massive Values in Self-Attention Modules are the Key to Contextual Knowledge Understanding
411. ICML 2025MedXpertQA: Benchmarking Expert-Level Medical Reasoning and Understanding
412. ICML 2025MODA: MOdular Duplex Attention for Multimodal Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Understanding
413. ICML 2025Modularized Self-Reflected Video Reasoner for Multimodal LLM with Application to Video Question Answering
414. ICML 2025MoMa: Modulating Mamba for Adapting Image Foundation Models to Video Recognition
415. ICML 2025On Understanding Attention-Based In-Context Learning for Categorical Data
416. ICML 2025PlaySlot: Learning Inverse Latent Dynamics for Controllable Object-Centric Video Prediction and Planning
417. ICML 2025Position: Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different
418. ICML 2025Position: We Can’t Understand AI Using our Existing Vocabulary
419. ICML 2025Potemkin Understanding in Large Language Models
420. ICML 2025RIFLEx: A Free Lunch for Length Extrapolation in Video Diffusion Transformers
421. ICML 2025Scaling Video-Language Models to 10K Frames via Hierarchical Differential Distillation
422. ICML 2025SpargeAttention: Accurate and Training-free Sparse Attention Accelerating Any Model Inference
423. ICML 2025Sparse Video-Gen: Accelerating Video Diffusion Transformers with Spatial-Temporal Sparsity
424. ICML 2025SpikeVideoFormer: An Efficient Spike-Driven Video Transformer with Hamming Attention and $\mathcal{O}(T)$ Complexity
425. ICML 2025Time to Spike? Understanding the Representational Power of Spiking Neural Networks in Discrete Time
426. ICML 2025Towards Theoretical Understanding of Sequential Decision Making with Preference Feedback
427. ICML 2025Towards Understanding Catastrophic Forgetting in Two-layer Convolutional Neural Networks
428. ICML 2025Towards Understanding Gradient Dynamics of the Sliced-Wasserstein Distance via Critical Point Analysis
429. ICML 2025Towards Understanding Parametric Generalized Category Discovery on Graphs
430. ICML 2025Train for the Worst, Plan for the Best: Understanding Token Ordering in Masked Diffusions
431. ICML 2025TUMTraf VideoQA: Dataset and Benchmark for Unified Spatio-Temporal Video Understanding in Traffic Scenes
432. ICML 2025Understanding and Improving Length Generalization in Recurrent Models
433. ICML 2025Understanding and Mitigating Memorization in Diffusion Models for Tabular Data
434. ICML 2025Understanding and Mitigating Memorization in Generative Models via Sharpness of Probability Landscapes
435. ICML 2025Understanding and Mitigating Miscalibration in Prompt Tuning for Vision-Language Models
436. ICML 2025Understanding Chain-of-Thought in LLMs through Information Theory
437. ICML 2025Understanding Fixed Predictions via Confined Regions
438. ICML 2025Understanding Generalization in Quantum Machine Learning with Margins
439. ICML 2025Understanding High-Dimensional Bayesian Optimization
440. ICML 2025Understanding Input Selectivity in Mamba: Impact on Approximation Power, Memorization, and Associative Recall Capacity
441. ICML 2025Understanding Mode Connectivity via Parameter Space Symmetry
442. ICML 2025Understanding Model Reprogramming for CLIP via Decoupling Visual Prompts
443. ICML 2025Understanding Multimodal LLMs Under Distribution Shifts: An Information-Theoretic Approach
444. ICML 2025Understanding Nonlinear Implicit Bias via Region Counts in Input Space
445. ICML 2025Understanding Sharpness Dynamics in NN Training with a Minimalist Example: The Effects of Dataset Difficulty, Depth, Stochasticity, and More
446. ICML 2025Understanding the difficulties of posterior predictive estimation
447. ICML 2025Understanding the Emergence of Multimodal Representation Alignment
448. ICML 2025Understanding the Forgetting of (Replay-based) Continual Learning via Feature Learning: Angle Matters
449. ICML 2025Understanding the Kronecker Matrix-Vector Complexity of Linear Algebra
450. ICML 2025Understanding the Limits of Deep Tabular Methods with Temporal Shift

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.