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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601. CVPR 2023Prompt-Guided Zero-Shot Anomaly Action Recognition Using Pretrained Deep Skeleton Features
602. CVPR 2023Proposal-Based Multiple Instance Learning for Weakly-Supervised Temporal Action Localization
603. CVPR 2023Q: How To Specialize Large Vision-Language Models to Data-Scarce VQA Tasks? A: Self-Train on Unlabeled Images!
604. CVPR 2023Re2TAL: Rewiring Pretrained Video Backbones for Reversible Temporal Action Localization
605. CVPR 2023ReasonNet: End-to-End Driving With Temporal and Global Reasoning
606. CVPR 2023Reducing the Label Bias for Timestamp Supervised Temporal Action Segmentation
607. CVPR 2023RGB No More: Minimally-Decoded JPEG Vision Transformers
608. CVPR 2023RIFormer: Keep Your Vision Backbone Effective but Removing Token Mixer
609. CVPR 2023Search-Map-Search: A Frame Selection Paradigm for Action Recognition
610. CVPR 2023Seeing What You Miss: Vision-Language Pre-Training With Semantic Completion Learning
611. CVPR 2023Slide-Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer With Local Self-Attention
612. CVPR 2023Soft-Landing Strategy for Alleviating the Task Discrepancy Problem in Temporal Action Localization Tasks
613. CVPR 2023SparseViT: Revisiting Activation Sparsity for Efficient High-Resolution Vision Transformer
614. CVPR 2023Sparsifiner: Learning Sparse Instance-Dependent Attention for Efficient Vision Transformers
615. CVPR 2023STMixer: A One-Stage Sparse Action Detector
616. CVPR 2023STMT: A Spatial-Temporal Mesh Transformer for MoCap-Based Action Recognition
617. CVPR 2023SVFormer: Semi-Supervised Video Transformer for Action Recognition
618. CVPR 2023Task Residual for Tuning Vision-Language Models
619. CVPR 2023TBP-Former: Learning Temporal Bird's-Eye-View Pyramid for Joint Perception and Prediction in Vision-Centric Autonomous Driving
620. CVPR 2023Teaching Matters: Investigating the Role of Supervision in Vision Transformers
621. CVPR 2023Teaching Structured Vision & Language Concepts to Vision & Language Models
622. CVPR 2023The Wisdom of Crowds: Temporal Progressive Attention for Early Action Prediction
623. CVPR 2023Therbligs in Action: Video Understanding Through Motion Primitives
624. CVPR 2023Think Twice Before Driving: Towards Scalable Decoders for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
625. CVPR 2023TimeBalance: Temporally-Invariant and Temporally-Distinctive Video Representations for Semi-Supervised Action Recognition
626. CVPR 2023Token Turing Machines
627. CVPR 2023Trade-Off Between Robustness and Accuracy of Vision Transformers
628. CVPR 2023Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Vision Transformers With Token Gradient Regularization
629. CVPR 2023TriDet: Temporal Action Detection With Relative Boundary Modeling
630. CVPR 2023TrojViT: Trojan Insertion in Vision Transformers
631. CVPR 2023Two-Stream Networks for Weakly-Supervised Temporal Action Localization With Semantic-Aware Mechanisms
632. CVPR 2023Uncertainty-Aware Vision-Based Metric Cross-View Geolocalization
633. CVPR 2023Uni-Perceiver v2: A Generalist Model for Large-Scale Vision and Vision-Language Tasks
634. CVPR 2023Unified Keypoint-Based Action Recognition Framework via Structured Keypoint Pooling
635. CVPR 2023Vision Transformer With Super Token Sampling
636. CVPR 2023Vision Transformers Are Good Mask Auto-Labelers
637. CVPR 2023Visual Atoms: Pre-Training Vision Transformers With Sinusoidal Waves
638. CVPR 2023What You Can Reconstruct From a Shadow
639. CVPR 2023X-Pruner: eXplainable Pruning for Vision Transformers
640. CVPR 2023You Need Multiple Exiting: Dynamic Early Exiting for Accelerating Unified Vision Language Model

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.