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

236 papers, page 2 of 5

51. ICLR 2026Language-Instructed Vision Embeddings for Controllable and Generalizable Perception
52. ICLR 2026Learning Robust Intervention Representations with Delta Embeddings
53. ICLR 2026Learning to Reason as Action Abstractions with Scalable Mid-Training RL
54. ICLR 2026Local Reinforcement Learning with Action-Conditioned Root Mean Squared Q-Functions
55. ICLR 2026Long-tailed Test-Time Adaptation for Vision-Language Models
56. ICLR 2026M$^3$E: Continual Vision-and-Language Navigation via Mixture of Macro and Micro Experts
57. ICLR 2026MemoryVLA: Perceptual-Cognitive Memory in Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation
58. ICLR 2026Naming to Learn: Class Incremental Learning for Vision-Language Model with Unlabeled Data
59. ICLR 2026On Discriminative vs. Generative classifiers: Rethinking MLLMs for Action Understanding
60. ICLR 2026On Robustness of Vision-Language-Action Model against Multi-Modal Perturbations
61. ICLR 2026OneTwoVLA: A Unified Vision-Language-Action Model with Adaptive Reasoning
62. ICLR 2026Online Decision Making with Generative Action Sets
63. ICLR 2026Pay Less Attention to Function Words for Free Robustness of Vision-Language Models
64. ICLR 2026PHyCLIP: $\ell_1$-Product of Hyperbolic Factors Unifies Hierarchy and Compositionality in Vision-Language Representation Learning
65. ICLR 2026PixelVLA: Advancing Pixel-level Understanding in Vision-Language-Action Model
66. ICLR 2026Pose-RFT: Aligning MLLMs for 3D Pose Generation via Hybrid Action Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
67. ICLR 2026Post-hoc Probabilistic Vision-Language Models
68. ICLR 2026Primary-Fine Decoupling for Action Generation in Robotic Imitation
69. ICLR 2026Procedural Mistake Detection via Action Effect Modeling
70. ICLR 2026Real-Time Robot Execution with Masked Action Chunking
71. ICLR 2026ReCAPA: Hierarchical Predictive Correction to Mitigate Cascading Failures
72. ICLR 2026ReCogDrive: A Reinforced Cognitive Framework for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
73. ICLR 2026Reversible Primitive–Composition Alignment for Continual Vision–Language Learning
74. ICLR 2026Revisiting Multimodal Positional Encoding in Vision–Language Models
75. ICLR 2026RoboCasa365: A Large-Scale Simulation Framework for Training and Benchmarking Generalist Robots
76. ICLR 2026Robust Fine-tuning of Vision-Language-Action Robot Policies via Parameter Merging
77. ICLR 2026Rodrigues Network for Learning Robot Actions
78. ICLR 2026Scaling up Memory for Robotic Control via Experience Retrieval
79. ICLR 2026Seeing Across Views: Benchmarking Spatial Reasoning of Vision-Language Models in Robotic Scenes
80. ICLR 2026Seeing Through Deception: Uncovering Misleading Creator Intent in Multimodal News with Vision-Language Models
81. ICLR 2026Self-Improving Vision-Language-Action Models with Data Generation via Residual RL
82. ICLR 2026Self-Rewarding Vision-Language Model via Reasoning Decomposition and Multi-Reward Policy Optimization
83. ICLR 2026Sim2Real VLA: Zero-Shot Generalization of Synthesized Skills to Realistic Manipulation
84. ICLR 2026SiNGER: A Clearer Voice Distills Vision Transformers Further
85. ICLR 2026SP-VLA: A Joint Model Scheduling and Token Pruning Approach for VLA Model Acceleration
86. ICLR 2026Spatial Forcing: Implicit Spatial Representation Alignment for Vision-language-action Model
87. ICLR 2026SpatiaLab: Can Vision–Language Models Perform Spatial Reasoning in the Wild?
88. ICLR 2026Spatially Guided Training for Vision-Language-Action Model
89. ICLR 2026Subspace Kernel Learning on Tensor Sequences
90. ICLR 2026Time Optimal Execution of Action Chunk Policies Beyond Demonstration Speed
91. ICLR 2026To Sink or Not to Sink: Visual Information Pathways in Large Vision-Language Models
92. ICLR 2026Toward Universal and Transferable Jailbreak Attacks on Vision-Language Models
93. ICLR 2026TwinVLA: Data-Efficient Bimanual Manipulation with Twin Single-Arm Vision-Language-Action Models
94. ICLR 2026Unified Diffusion VLA: Vision-Language-Action Model via Joint Discrete Diffusion Diffusion Process
95. ICLR 2026Unified Vision-Language-Action Model
96. ICLR 2026Unifying Diffusion and Autoregression for Generalizable Vision-Language-Action Model
97. ICLR 2026VADv2: End-to-End Autonomous Driving via Probabilistic Planning
98. ICLR 2026VEAttack: Downstream-agnostic Vision Encoder Attack against Large Vision Language Models
99. ICLR 2026Verifier-free Test-Time Sampling for Vision Language Action Models
100. ICLR 2026Video-STAR: Reinforcing Open-Vocabulary Action Recognition with Tools

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.