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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1. ICLR 2026<SO$G_k$>: One LLM Token for Explicit Graph Structural Understanding
2. ICLR 2026A Training-Free Framework for Long Video Understanding via Video-Query-Options Similarity
3. ICLR 2026A.I.R.: Enabling Adaptive, Iterative, and Reasoning-based Frame Selection For Video Question Answering
4. ICLR 2026Action-Guided Attention for Video Action Anticipation
5. ICLR 2026Advancing Complex Video Object Segmentation via Progressive Concept Construction
6. ICLR 2026AFD-INSTRUCTION: A Comprehensive Antibody Instruction Dataset with Functional Annotations for LLM-Based Understanding and Design
7. ICLR 2026AlphaFlow: Understanding and Improving MeanFlow Models
8. ICLR 2026BAH Dataset for Ambivalence/Hesitancy Recognition in Videos for Behavioural Change
9. ICLR 2026BANZ-FS: BANZSL Fingerspelling Dataset
10. ICLR 2026Barriers for Learning in an Evolving World: Mathematical Understanding of Loss of Plasticity
11. ICLR 2026Beyond Static Vision: Scene Dynamic Field Unlocks Intuitive Physics Understanding in Multi-modal Large Language Models
12. ICLR 2026Boosting Medical Visual Understanding From Multi-Granular Language Learning
13. ICLR 2026BWCache: Accelerating Video Diffusion Transformers through Block-Wise Caching
14. ICLR 2026CaReBench: A Fine-grained Benchmark for Video Captioning and Retrieval
15. ICLR 2026Concept-TRAK: Understanding how diffusion models learn concepts through concept attribution
16. ICLR 2026Context Tokens are Anchors: Understanding the Repetition Curse in Diffusion MLLMs from an Information Flow Perspective
17. ICLR 2026Controllable Video Generation with Provable Disentanglement
18. ICLR 2026Cosmos Policy: Fine-Tuning Video Models for Visuomotor Control and Planning
19. ICLR 2026DanceTogether: Generating Interactive Multi-Person Video without Identity Drifting
20. ICLR 2026Decomposed Attention Fusion in MLLMs for Training-free Video Reasoning Segmentation
21. ICLR 2026Deforming Videos to Masks: Flow Matching for Referring Video Segmentation
22. ICLR 2026Divid: Disentangled Spatial-Temporal Modeling within LLMs for Temporally Grounded Video Understanding
23. ICLR 2026Dynamic Reflections: Probing Video Representations with Text Alignment
24. ICLR 2026EasyCreator: Empowering 4D Creation through Video Inpainting
25. ICLR 2026EchoMotion: Unified Human Video and Motion Generation via Dual-Modality Diffusion Transformer
26. ICLR 2026EgoDex: Learning Dexterous Manipulation from Large-Scale Egocentric Video
27. ICLR 2026EmotionHallucer: Evaluating Emotion Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models
28. ICLR 2026Emotions Where Art Thou: Understanding and Characterizing the Emotional Latent Space of Large Language Models
29. ICLR 2026Enhancing Visual Token Representations for Video Large Language Models via Training-free Spatial-Temporal Pooling and Gridding
30. ICLR 2026Evaluating Intuitive Physics Understanding in Video Diffusion Models via Likelihood Preference
31. ICLR 2026Exploring the Potential of Encoder-free Architectures in 3D LMMs
32. ICLR 2026ExpVid: A Benchmark for Experiment Video Understanding & Reasoning
33. ICLR 2026FastVMT: Eliminating Redundancy in Video Motion Transfer
34. ICLR 2026FlashVID: Efficient Video Large Language Models via Training-free Tree-based Spatiotemporal Token Merging
35. ICLR 2026FLoC: Facility Location-Based Efficient Visual Token Compression for Long Video Understanding
36. ICLR 2026FlowNIB: An Information Bottleneck Analysis of Bidirectional vs. Unidirectional Language Models
37. ICLR 2026FOCUS: Efficient Keyframe Selection for Long Video Understanding
38. ICLR 2026Frame Guidance: Training-Free Guidance for Frame-Level Control in Video Diffusion Model
39. ICLR 2026FreeViS: Training-free Video Stylization with Inconsistent References
40. ICLR 2026From Collapse to Control: Understanding and Extending Context Length in Emerging Hybrid Models via Universal Position Interpolation
41. ICLR 2026GenCompositor: Generative Video Compositing with Diffusion Transformer
42. ICLR 2026Geometry-aware 4D Video Generation for Robot Manipulation
43. ICLR 2026Gistify: Codebase-Level Understanding via Runtime Execution
44. ICLR 2026HFSTI-Net: Hierarchical Frequency-spatial-temporal Interactions for Video Polyp Segmentation
45. ICLR 2026HiTeA: Hierarchical Temporal Alignment for Training-Free Long-Video Temporal Grounding
46. ICLR 2026IF-VidCap: Can Video Caption Models Follow Instructions?
47. ICLR 2026Improving Autoregressive Video Modeling with History Understanding
48. ICLR 2026InclusiveVidPose: Bridging the Pose Estimation Gap for Individuals with Limb Deficiencies in Video-Based Motion
49. ICLR 2026InfoTok: Adaptive Discrete Video Tokenizer via Information-Theoretic Compression
50. ICLR 2026Invert4TVG: A Temporal Video Grounding Framework with Inversion Tasks Preserving Action Understanding Ability

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.