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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51. NeurIPS 2026DynamicVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Dynamic Object Manipulation
52. NeurIPS 2026E0: Expressive Fine-Grained Discrete Action Prediction for Vision-Language-Action Models via Tweedie Discrete Diffusion
53. NeurIPS 2026EasyLens: A Training-Free Plug-and-Play Subtle-Lesion Representation Amplifier for Medical Vision-Language Models
54. NeurIPS 2026Efficient Computation and Best-Response Dynamics in Anonymous Two-Action Games with Linear Utilities
55. NeurIPS 2026EgoStream: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Streaming Episodic Memory in Egocentric Vision
56. NeurIPS 2026ElegantVLA: Learning When to Think for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models
57. NeurIPS 2026Enabling VLA Action Self-Verification via VLM Token Probability Bucketing
58. NeurIPS 2026EnvTrap: Revealing the Environment-Only Attack Surface in Embodied AI via Consequence-Blind Action Execution
59. NeurIPS 2026EpiStream: Utility-Aware Temporal Abstraction for Dense-Action Streams
60. NeurIPS 2026Evaluating Deployable Inference-Time Error Prediction in Vision MoEs
61. NeurIPS 2026Evaluating Spatiotemporal Reasoning of Vision-Language Models in Atari Gameplay
62. NeurIPS 2026Event-Grounded Sparse Autoencoders for Vision-Language-Action Policies
63. NeurIPS 2026Evo-Depth: A Lightweight Depth-Enhanced Vision-Language-Action Model
64. NeurIPS 2026Explicit Geometric Chain-of-Thought for Vision-Language-Action in Autonomous Driving
65. NeurIPS 2026Exploring the Limits of Compositional Generalization in Vision-Language-Action Manipulation
66. NeurIPS 2026Fast-WAM: Do World Action Models Need Test-time Future Imagination?
67. NeurIPS 2026FineVLA: Fine-Grained Instruction Alignment for Steerable Vision-Language-Action Policies
68. NeurIPS 2026FlowR2A: Learning Reward-to-Action Distribution for Multimodal Driving Planning
69. NeurIPS 2026Focus Matters: Attention-Value Dynamics for Hallucination Mitigation in Vision-Language Models
70. NeurIPS 2026FocusNav: Learning Task-directed Perception via Action-Aware Future Reconstruction in Vision-and-Language Navigation
71. NeurIPS 2026FocusVLA: Hijacking Attention to Break Visual Token Pruning in Vision-Language-Action Models
72. NeurIPS 2026ForesightFlow: Self-Guided Flow Matching for Improving Vision-Language-Action Models
73. NeurIPS 2026FreeAct: Demonstration-Free Robot Adaptation via Action-Grounded Generated Videos
74. NeurIPS 2026From Seeing to Foreseeing: Unleashing LVLM Thinking in Dynamic Latent Space
75. NeurIPS 2026From Views to Worlds: Active Exploration over 3D Worlds for Vision-Language Models
76. NeurIPS 2026Generation-for-Understanding with Structured Action Scripts for Embodied Multimodal Learning
77. NeurIPS 2026GLINT: Sparsely Gated Vision-Language Alignment for Fine-Grained Radiology Representations
78. NeurIPS 2026HEED: Density-Weighted Residual Alignment for Hybrid Vision-Language Model Distillation
79. NeurIPS 2026Hide-and-Seek in Trajectories: Discovering Failure Signals for VLA Runtime Monitoring
80. NeurIPS 2026Higher-Order Action Supervision Makes A Strong Policy Class
81. NeurIPS 2026HyrCap: Hybrid Rank-Calibration of Action Proposals for Temporal Event Understanding
82. NeurIPS 2026I-Perceive: A Foundation Model for Vision-Language Active Perception
83. NeurIPS 2026In-Context Learning Can Help Vision Language Models Overcome Training Prior
84. NeurIPS 2026In-Context Learning for Remote Sensing Vision: A Semantic-Aware Rotation-Robust Diffusion Framework
85. NeurIPS 2026Incentivizing Medical Vision Capabilities from Large-Scale Multimodal Pre-training
86. NeurIPS 2026Intend, Reflect, Refine: An Adaptive Multimodal Reflection Framework for Autonomous Driving
87. NeurIPS 2026LAFP: Preserving Latent Action Structure in Latent Policy Learning via Flow Matching
88. NeurIPS 2026Learning CLI Agents with Structured Action Credit under Selective Observation
89. NeurIPS 2026Learning Deployable Causal Action Geometry under Temporal Non-Stationarity
90. NeurIPS 2026Learning Fine-Grained Vision-Language Alignment from Discriminative Part Descriptions
91. NeurIPS 2026Learning Hierarchical Patch Splitting Policies for Faster Vision Transformers
92. NeurIPS 2026Learning to Ask: Metacognitive Action Policy for Large and Small Language Model Collaboration
93. NeurIPS 2026LEGO: Sizing Rules for Budget-Aware Dense-to-MoE Conversion of Vision-Language Models
94. NeurIPS 2026LeWorldModel: Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture from Pixels
95. NeurIPS 2026Lipschitz Dueling Bandits over Continuous Action Spaces
96. NeurIPS 2026LoMo: Local Modality Substitution for Deeper Vision-Language Fusion
97. NeurIPS 2026Long-term Embodied Visual Tracking with Lightweight Vision-Language-Action Models
98. NeurIPS 2026LookThere! Sparse Vision by Reinforced Selection
99. NeurIPS 2026Lost on Campus: Evaluating Embodied Spatial Reasoning of Vision-Language Models in the Wild
100. NeurIPS 2026Masked Diffusion Vision-Language Models for Temporal Action Localization

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.