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 18 of 33

851. ICLR 2025Action abstractions for amortized sampling
852. ICLR 2025Action Sequence Augmentation for Action Anticipation
853. ICLR 2025ALBAR: Adversarial Learning approach to mitigate Biases in Action Recognition
854. ICLR 2025Are Large Vision Language Models Good Game Players?
855. ICLR 2025Asymmetric Factorized Bilinear Operation for Vision Transformer
856. ICLR 2025Attribute-based Visual Reprogramming for Vision-Language Models
857. ICLR 2025Bidirectional Decoding: Improving Action Chunking via Guided Test-Time Sampling
858. ICLR 2025BlueSuffix: Reinforced Blue Teaming for Vision-Language Models Against Jailbreak Attacks
859. ICLR 2025Brain-inspired $L_p$-Convolution benefits large kernels and aligns better with visual cortex
860. ICLR 2025C-CLIP: Multimodal Continual Learning for Vision-Language Model
861. ICLR 2025Can We Talk Models Into Seeing the World Differently?
862. ICLR 2025ColPali: Efficient Document Retrieval with Vision Language Models
863. ICLR 2025Compositional Entailment Learning for Hyperbolic Vision-Language Models
864. ICLR 2025Control-oriented Clustering of Visual Latent Representation
865. ICLR 2025DAMO: Decoding by Accumulating Activations Momentum for Mitigating Hallucinations in Vision-Language Models
866. ICLR 2025Do Vision-Language Models Represent Space and How? Evaluating Spatial Frame of Reference under Ambiguities
867. ICLR 2025Do You Keep an Eye on What I Ask? Mitigating Multimodal Hallucination via Attention-Guided Ensemble Decoding
868. ICLR 2025Dynamic Multimodal Evaluation with Flexible Complexity by Vision-Language Bootstrapping
869. ICLR 2025Dynamic-LLaVA: Efficient Multimodal Large Language Models via Dynamic Vision-language Context Sparsification
870. ICLR 2025Efficient Action-Constrained Reinforcement Learning via Acceptance-Rejection Method and Augmented MDPs
871. ICLR 2025Efficient Off-Policy Learning for High-Dimensional Action Spaces
872. ICLR 2025ELFS: Label-Free Coreset Selection with Proxy Training Dynamics
873. ICLR 2025Enhancing End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Latent World Model
874. ICLR 2025ETA: Evaluating Then Aligning Safety of Vision Language Models at Inference Time
875. ICLR 2025Geometry of Neural Reinforcement Learning in Continuous State and Action Spaces
876. ICLR 2025GravMAD: Grounded Spatial Value Maps Guided Action Diffusion for Generalized 3D Manipulation
877. ICLR 2025Improving Large Language Model Planning with Action Sequence Similarity
878. ICLR 2025Inference Optimal VLMs Need Fewer Visual Tokens and More Parameters
879. ICLR 2025Interpreting and Editing Vision-Language Representations to Mitigate Hallucinations
880. ICLR 2025Kronecker Mask and Interpretive Prompts are Language-Action Video Learners
881. ICLR 2025Latent Action Pretraining from Videos
882. ICLR 2025Locality Alignment Improves Vision-Language Models
883. ICLR 2025Masked Temporal Interpolation Diffusion for Procedure Planning in Instructional Videos
884. ICLR 2025MGMapNet: Multi-Granularity Representation Learning for End-to-End Vectorized HD Map Construction
885. ICLR 2025Mixture of Experts Made Personalized: Federated Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models
886. ICLR 2025MMFakeBench: A Mixed-Source Multimodal Misinformation Detection Benchmark for LVLMs
887. ICLR 2025Model merging with SVD to tie the Knots
888. ICLR 2025Neural Eulerian Scene Flow Fields
889. ICLR 2025OS-ATLAS: Foundation Action Model for Generalist GUI Agents
890. ICLR 2025PADRe: A Unifying Polynomial Attention Drop-in Replacement for Efficient Vision Transformer
891. ICLR 2025PETRA: Parallel End-to-end Training with Reversible Architectures
892. ICLR 2025POTEC: Off-Policy Contextual Bandits for Large Action Spaces via Policy Decomposition
893. ICLR 2025Reducing Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models via Latent Space Steering
894. ICLR 2025REMEDY: Recipe Merging Dynamics in Large Vision-Language Models
895. ICLR 2025Revealing and Reducing Gender Biases in Vision and Language Assistants (VLAs)
896. ICLR 2025Self-Correcting Decoding with Generative Feedback for Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models
897. ICLR 2025Self-Introspective Decoding: Alleviating Hallucinations for Large Vision-Language Models
898. ICLR 2025Solving Token Gradient Conflict in Mixture-of-Experts for Large Vision-Language Model
899. ICLR 2025TASAR: Transfer-based Attack on Skeletal Action Recognition
900. ICLR 2025TEOChat: A Large Vision-Language Assistant for Temporal Earth Observation Data

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.