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

1,639 papers, page 15 of 33

701. NeurIPS 2026ViT-AdaLA: Adapting Vision Transformers with Linear Attention
702. NeurIPS 2026VLA-REPLICA: A Low-Cost, Reproducible Benchmark for Real-World Evaluation of Vision-Language-Action Models
703. NeurIPS 2026VLM$^3$: Vision Language Models Are Native 3D Learners
704. NeurIPS 2026VLRS-Bench: A Vision-Language Reasoning Benchmark for Remote Sensing
705. NeurIPS 2026When a Window Is Not an Action: Selective Phase-Script Deliberation for Sliding-Window Human Activity Recognition
706. NeurIPS 2026When Depth Lies: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models on Mirror-Induced RGB-D Ambiguity
707. NeurIPS 2026Words Before Pixels: Selective Modality Routing for Vision-Language Model Unlearning
708. NeurIPS 2026World Action Verifier: Self-Improving World Models via Forward-Inverse Asymmetry
709. CVPR 2025Accelerating Multimodal Large Language Models by Searching Optimal Vision Token Reduction
710. CVPR 2025Action Detail Matters: Refining Video Recognition with Local Action Queries
711. CVPR 2025Active Event-based Stereo Vision
712. CVPR 2025Adventurer: Optimizing Vision Mamba Architecture Designs for Efficiency
713. CVPR 2025APHQ-ViT: Post-Training Quantization with Average Perturbation Hessian Based Reconstruction for Vision Transformers
714. CVPR 2025Are Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolution Networks for Human Action Recognition Over-Parameterized?
715. CVPR 2025Argus: Vision-Centric Reasoning with Grounded Chain-of-Thought
716. CVPR 2025Assessing and Learning Alignment of Unimodal Vision and Language Models
717. CVPR 2025ATP-LLaVA: Adaptive Token Pruning for Large Vision Language Models
718. CVPR 2025Benchmarking Large Vision-Language Models via Directed Scene Graph for Comprehensive Image Captioning
719. CVPR 2025BHViT: Binarized Hybrid Vision Transformer
720. CVPR 2025Bias for Action: Video Implicit Neural Representations with Bias Modulation
721. CVPR 2025BiomedCoOp: Learning to Prompt for Biomedical Vision-Language Models
722. CVPR 2025Boosting Point-Supervised Temporal Action Localization through Integrating Query Reformation and Optimal Transport
723. CVPR 2025Bridge the Gap: From Weak to Full Supervision for Temporal Action Localization with PseudoFormer
724. CVPR 2025Bridging Past and Future: End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Historical Prediction and Planning
725. CVPR 2025Building Vision Models upon Heat Conduction
726. CVPR 2025CALICO: Part-Focused Semantic Co-Segmentation with Large Vision-Language Models
727. CVPR 2025Can Large Vision-Language Models Correct Semantic Grounding Errors By Themselves?
728. CVPR 2025Conical Visual Concentration for Efficient Large Vision-Language Models
729. CVPR 2025Context-Enhanced Memory-Refined Transformer for Online Action Detection
730. CVPR 2025COSMOS: Cross-Modality Self-Distillation for Vision Language Pre-training
731. CVPR 2025CoSpace: Benchmarking Continuous Space Perception Ability for Vision-Language Models
732. CVPR 2025CoT-VLA: Visual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Vision-Language-Action Models
733. CVPR 2025CountLLM: Towards Generalizable Repetitive Action Counting via Large Language Model
734. CVPR 2025Cropper: Vision-Language Model for Image Cropping through In-Context Learning
735. CVPR 2025DA-VPT: Semantic-Guided Visual Prompt Tuning for Vision Transformers
736. CVPR 2025DeepCompress-ViT: Rethinking Model Compression to Enhance Efficiency of Vision Transformers at the Edge
737. CVPR 2025DepthCues: Evaluating Monocular Depth Perception in Large Vision Models
738. CVPR 2025Devils in Middle Layers of Large Vision-Language Models: Interpreting, Detecting and Mitigating Object Hallucinations via Attention Lens
739. CVPR 2025DH-Set: Improving Vision-Language Alignment with Diverse and Hybrid Set-Embeddings Learning
740. CVPR 2025DiGIT: Multi-Dilated Gated Encoder and Central-Adjacent Region Integrated Decoder for Temporal Action Detection Transformer
741. CVPR 2025DINOv2 Meets Text: A Unified Framework for Image- and Pixel-Level Vision-Language Alignment
742. CVPR 2025Do Visual Imaginations Improve Vision-and-Language Navigation Agents?
743. CVPR 2025DPC: Dual-Prompt Collaboration for Tuning Vision-Language Models
744. CVPR 2025DriveGPT4-V2: Harnessing Large Language Model Capabilities for Enhanced Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving
745. CVPR 2025Driving by the Rules: A Benchmark for Integrating Traffic Sign Regulations into Vectorized HD Map
746. CVPR 2025DSPNet: Dual-vision Scene Perception for Robust 3D Question Answering
747. CVPR 2025EfficientLLaVA: Generalizable Auto-Pruning for Large Vision-language Models
748. CVPR 2025Enhancing Vision-Language Compositional Understanding with Multimodal Synthetic Data
749. CVPR 2025Evaluating Vision-Language Models as Evaluators in Path Planning
750. CVPR 2025FastVLM: Efficient Vision Encoding for Vision Language Models

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.