Vision-Language-Action papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Vision-Language-Action went from 257 papers in 2023 to 708 in 2026, roughly 2.8x in three years.
• CVPR publishes the most Vision-Language-Action work: 640 papers from 2023 to 2026, 39% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Applications · computer vision: papers tagged with both rose from 21 in 2023 to 135 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Robotics and Embodied AI, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Humanoid Control, is up 3.8x versus 2.8x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026A Dual-Domain Vision Transformer with Spectral Positional Bias
• ICML 2026FOCA: Future-Oriented Conditioning for Data-Efficient Vision-Language-Action Adaptation
• ICLR 2026Curvature-Guided Task Synergy for Skeleton based Temporal Action Segmentation
• CVPR 2026ActAvatar Temporally-Aware Precise Action Control for Talking Avatars
• NeurIPS 2025Doodle to Detect: A Goofy but Powerful Approach to Skeleton-based Hand Gesture Recognition
• ICML 2025Feasible Action Search for Bandit Linear Programs via Thompson Sampling
• ICLR 2025Action Sequence Augmentation for Action Anticipation
• CVPR 2025Active Event-based Stereo Vision
• NeurIPS 2024GAIA: Rethinking Action Quality Assessment for AI-Generated Videos
• ICML 2024Causal Action Influence Aware Counterfactual Data Augmentation
• ICLR 2024Matrix Manifold Neural Networks++
• CVPR 2024End-to-End Spatio-Temporal Action Localisation with Video Transformers
• NeurIPS 2023Activity Grammars for Temporal Action Segmentation
• ICML 2023Algorithmic Collective Action in Machine Learning
• ICLR 2023A Theoretical Understanding of Shallow Vision Transformers: Learning, Generalization, and Sample Complexity
• CVPR 20233Mformer: Multi-Order Multi-Mode Transformer for Skeletal Action Recognition
• NeurIPS 2026A Statistical Framework for Algorithmic Collective Action with Multiple Collectives
• ICML 2026From Abstraction to Instantiation: Learning Behavioral Representation for Vision-Language-Action Model
• ICLR 2026EAST: Early Action Prediction Sampling Strategy with Token Masking
• CVPR 2026DarkShake-DVS Event-based Human Action Recognition under Low-light and Shaking Camera

All Vision-Language-Action papers

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451. NeurIPS 2023Enhancing Motion Deblurring in High-Speed Scenes with Spike Streams
452. NeurIPS 2023Exploring Diverse In-Context Configurations for Image Captioning
453. NeurIPS 2023Exploring Geometry of Blind Spots in Vision models
454. NeurIPS 2023Fast Attention Over Long Sequences With Dynamic Sparse Flash Attention
455. NeurIPS 2023Fine-grained Late-interaction Multi-modal Retrieval for Retrieval Augmented Visual Question Answering
456. NeurIPS 2023FlowPG: Action-constrained Policy Gradient with Normalizing Flows
457. NeurIPS 2023For SALE: State-Action Representation Learning for Deep Reinforcement Learning
458. NeurIPS 2023Frequency-Enhanced Data Augmentation for Vision-and-Language Navigation
459. NeurIPS 2023From Pixels to UI Actions: Learning to Follow Instructions via Graphical User Interfaces
460. NeurIPS 2023Generating Images with Multimodal Language Models
461. NeurIPS 2023GenEval: An object-focused framework for evaluating text-to-image alignment
462. NeurIPS 2023GraphAdapter: Tuning Vision-Language Models With Dual Knowledge Graph
463. NeurIPS 2023Hardware Resilience Properties of Text-Guided Image Classifiers
464. NeurIPS 2023Into the Single Cell Multiverse: an End-to-End Dataset for Procedural Knowledge Extraction in Biomedical Texts
465. NeurIPS 2023Joint Attribute and Model Generalization Learning for Privacy-Preserving Action Recognition
466. NeurIPS 2023LAMM: Language-Assisted Multi-Modal Instruction-Tuning Dataset, Framework, and Benchmark
467. NeurIPS 2023Language Model Tokenizers Introduce Unfairness Between Languages
468. NeurIPS 2023Large language models transition from integrating across position-yoked, exponential windows to structure-yoked, power-law windows
469. NeurIPS 2023Learning Human Action Recognition Representations Without Real Humans
470. NeurIPS 2023Learning-to-Rank Meets Language: Boosting Language-Driven Ordering Alignment for Ordinal Classification
471. NeurIPS 2023Leveraging Vision-Centric Multi-Modal Expertise for 3D Object Detection
472. NeurIPS 2023Lightweight Vision Transformer with Bidirectional Interaction
473. NeurIPS 2023LLaVA-Med: Training a Large Language-and-Vision Assistant for Biomedicine in One Day
474. NeurIPS 2023Lookaround Optimizer: $k$ steps around, 1 step average
475. NeurIPS 2023LOVM: Language-Only Vision Model Selection
476. NeurIPS 2023M3Exam: A Multilingual, Multimodal, Multilevel Benchmark for Examining Large Language Models
477. NeurIPS 2023Mass-Producing Failures of Multimodal Systems with Language Models
478. NeurIPS 2023Med-UniC: Unifying Cross-Lingual Medical Vision-Language Pre-Training by Diminishing Bias
479. NeurIPS 2023MEGABYTE: Predicting Million-byte Sequences with Multiscale Transformers
480. NeurIPS 2023Meta-Adapter: An Online Few-shot Learner for Vision-Language Model
481. NeurIPS 2023MG-ViT: A Multi-Granularity Method for Compact and Efficient Vision Transformers
482. NeurIPS 2023Multi-modal Queried Object Detection in the Wild
483. NeurIPS 2023Normalization Layers Are All That Sharpness-Aware Minimization Needs
484. NeurIPS 2023On Evaluating Adversarial Robustness of Large Vision-Language Models
485. NeurIPS 2023On Occlusions in Video Action Detection: Benchmark Datasets And Training Recipes
486. NeurIPS 2023PackQViT: Faster Sub-8-bit Vision Transformers via Full and Packed Quantization on the Mobile
487. NeurIPS 2023Parts of Speech–Grounded Subspaces in Vision-Language Models
488. NeurIPS 2023Patch n’ Pack: NaViT, a Vision Transformer for any Aspect Ratio and Resolution
489. NeurIPS 2023Regularized Behavior Cloning for Blocking the Leakage of Past Action Information
490. NeurIPS 2023Revealing the unseen: Benchmarking video action recognition under occlusion
491. NeurIPS 2023Rewrite Caption Semantics: Bridging Semantic Gaps for Language-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
492. NeurIPS 2023RIO: A Benchmark for Reasoning Intention-Oriented Objects in Open Environments
493. NeurIPS 2023RoboCLIP: One Demonstration is Enough to Learn Robot Policies
494. NeurIPS 2023Scattering Vision Transformer: Spectral Mixing Matters
495. NeurIPS 2023Stable and low-precision training for large-scale vision-language models
496. NeurIPS 2023State-Action Similarity-Based Representations for Off-Policy Evaluation
497. NeurIPS 2023Text Promptable Surgical Instrument Segmentation with Vision-Language Models
498. NeurIPS 2023Time Series as Images: Vision Transformer for Irregularly Sampled Time Series
499. NeurIPS 2023Towards Label-free Scene Understanding by Vision Foundation Models
500. NeurIPS 2023Type-to-Track: Retrieve Any Object via Prompt-based Tracking

FAQ

How many Vision-Language-Action papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

1,639 in total: 257 in 2023, 329 in 2024, 345 in 2025, 708 in 2026.

How many Vision-Language-Action papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 204 Vision-Language-Action papers, versus 108 the year before.

How many Vision-Language-Action papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 113 Vision-Language-Action papers, versus 64 the year before.

How many Vision-Language-Action papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 126 Vision-Language-Action papers, versus 33 the year before.

How many Vision-Language-Action papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 265 Vision-Language-Action papers, versus 140 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Vision-Language-Action papers?

CVPR, with 640 papers from 2023 to 2026.