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

832 papers, page 9 of 17

401. ICLR 2026MARC: Memory-Augmented RL Token Compression for Efficient Video Understanding
402. ICLR 2026Measure Twice, Cut Once: A Semantic-Oriented Approach to Video Temporal Localization with Video LLMs
403. ICLR 2026Memento: Toward an All-Day Proactive Assistant for Ultra-Long Streaming Video
404. ICLR 2026Midway Network: Learning Representations for Recognition and Motion from Latent Dynamics
405. ICLR 2026MMDuet2: Enhancing Proactive Interaction of Video MLLMs with Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning
406. ICLR 2026MoAlign: Motion-Centric Representation Alignment for Video Diffusion Models
407. ICLR 2026Model Already Knows the Best Noise: Bayesian Active Noise Selection via Attention in Video Diffusion Model
408. ICLR 2026Monocular Normal Estimation via Shading Sequence Estimation
409. ICLR 2026MotionSight: Boosting Fine-Grained Motion Understanding in Multimodal LLMs
410. ICLR 2026NeRV-Diffusion: Diffuse Implicit Neural Representation for Video Synthesis
411. ICLR 2026Neuron-Level Analysis of Cultural Understanding in Large Language Models
412. ICLR 2026OmniSTVG: Toward Spatio-Temporal Omni-Object Video Grounding
413. ICLR 2026OmniVinci: Enhancing Architecture and Data for Omni-Modal Understanding LLM
414. ICLR 2026On the Limits of Sparse Autoencoders: A Theoretical Framework and Reweighted Remedy
415. ICLR 2026On the Spectral Differences Between NTK and CNTK and Their Implications for Point Cloud Recognition
416. ICLR 2026Only Brains Align with Brains: Cross-Region Patterns Expose Limits of Normative Models
417. ICLR 2026Orak: A Foundational Benchmark for Training and Evaluating LLM Agents on Diverse Video Games
418. ICLR 2026ParallelBench: Understanding the Trade-offs of Parallel Decoding in Diffusion LLMs
419. ICLR 2026Plug, Play, and Fortify: A Low-Cost Module for Robust Multimodal Image Understanding Models
420. ICLR 2026Post-Training Quantization for Video Matting
421. ICLR 2026PPLLaVA: Varied Video Sequence Understanding With Prompt Guidance
422. ICLR 2026Privacy Beyond Pixels: Latent Anonymization for Privacy-Preserving Video Understanding
423. ICLR 2026Procedural Mistake Detection via Action Effect Modeling
424. ICLR 2026Progressive Online Video Understanding with Evidence-Aligned Timing and Transparent Decisions
425. ICLR 2026Prune-then-Quantize or Quantize-then-Prune? Understanding the Impact of Compression Order in Joint Model Compression
426. ICLR 2026QueryStream: Advancing Streaming Video Understanding with Query-Aware Pruning and Proactive Response
427. ICLR 2026Reading Images Like Texts: Sequential Image Understanding in Vision-Language Models
428. ICLR 2026RelayFormer: A Unified Local-Global Attention Framework for Scalable Image and Video Manipulation Localization
429. ICLR 2026Rethinking JEPA: Compute‑Efficient Video Self-Supervised Learning with Frozen Teachers
430. ICLR 2026RIVER: Real-time Video Interaction Benchmark
431. ICLR 2026ScaleLong: A Multi-Timescale Benchmark for Long Video Understanding
432. ICLR 2026Seeing What’s Not There: Negation Understanding Needs More Than Training
433. ICLR 2026SPIKE-RL: Video-LLMs meet Bayesian Surprise
434. ICLR 2026ST-SimDiff: Balancing Spatiotemporal Similarity and Difference for Efficient Video Understanding with MLLMs
435. ICLR 2026StochasTok: Improving Fine-Grained Subword Understanding in LLMs
436. ICLR 2026StPR: Spatiotemporal Preservation and Routing for Exemplar-Free Video Class-Incremental Learning
437. ICLR 2026Streaming Drag-Oriented Interactive Video Manipulation: Drag Anything, Anytime!
438. ICLR 2026StreamingVLM: Real-Time Understanding for Infinite Video Streams
439. ICLR 2026SURGE: Surprise-Guided Token Reduction for Efficient Video Understanding with VLMs
440. ICLR 2026The Human Brain as a Dynamic Mixture of Expert Models in Video Understanding
441. ICLR 2026Threading Keyframe with Narratives: MLLMs as Strong Long Video Comprehenders
442. ICLR 2026Towards a Theoretical Understanding of In-context Learning: Stability and Non-I.I.D Generalisation
443. ICLR 2026Towards Spatial Supersensing in Video
444. ICLR 2026Towards Understanding Subliminal Learning: When and How Hidden Biases Transfer
445. ICLR 2026Towards Understanding The Calibration Benefits of Sharpness-Aware Minimization
446. ICLR 2026Towards Understanding the Shape of Representations in Protein Language Models
447. ICLR 2026Towards Understanding Valuable Preference Data for Large Language Model Alignment
448. ICLR 2026TPDiff: Temporal Pyramid Video Diffusion Model
449. ICLR 2026TPRU: Advancing Temporal and Procedural Understanding in Large Multimodal Models
450. ICLR 2026Trace Anything: Representing Any Video in 4D via Trajectory Fields

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.