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 2025From Human Attention to Diagnosis: Semantic Patch-Level Integration of Vision-Language Models in Medical Imaging
52. NeurIPS 2025Generate, but Verify: Reducing Hallucination in Vision-Language Models with Retrospective Resampling
53. NeurIPS 2025Glance2Gaze: Efficient Vision-Language Models from Glance Fusion to Gaze Compression
54. NeurIPS 2025GoalLadder: Incremental Goal Discovery with Vision-Language Models
55. NeurIPS 2025GRE Suite: Geo-localization Inference via Fine-Tuned Vision-Language Models and Enhanced Reasoning Chains
56. NeurIPS 2025HoPE: Hybrid of Position Embedding for Long Context Vision-Language Models
57. NeurIPS 2025HQA-VLAttack: Towards High Quality Adversarial Attack on Vision-Language Pre-Trained Models
58. NeurIPS 2025Impromptu VLA: Open Weights and Open Data for Driving Vision-Language-Action Models
59. NeurIPS 2025Knowledge Insulating Vision-Language-Action Models: Train Fast, Run Fast, Generalize Better
60. NeurIPS 2025Learning Human-Like RL Agents Through Trajectory Optimization With Action Quantization
61. NeurIPS 2025Learning Robust Vision-Language Models from Natural Latent Spaces
62. NeurIPS 2025Mamba Only Glances Once (MOGO): A Lightweight Framework for Efficient Video Action Detection
63. NeurIPS 2025Mint: A Simple Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models against Common Corruptions
64. NeurIPS 2025MMCSBench: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Large Vision-Language Models in Camouflage Scenes
65. NeurIPS 2025More effort is needed to protect pedestrian privacy in the era of AI
66. NeurIPS 2025Normalize Filters! Classical Wisdom for Deep Vision
67. NeurIPS 2025On Epistemic Uncertainty of Visual Tokens for Object Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models
68. NeurIPS 2025Optimize the Unseen - Fast NeRF Cleanup with Free Space Prior
69. NeurIPS 2025Prioritizing Perception-Guided Self-Supervision: A New Paradigm for Causal Modeling in End-to-End Autonomous Driving
70. NeurIPS 2025Prompt-guided Disentangled Representation for Action Recognition
71. NeurIPS 2025QSVD: Efficient Low-rank Approximation for Unified Query-Key-Value Weight Compression in Low-Precision Vision-Language Models
72. NeurIPS 2025Quantifying Uncertainty in Error Consistency: Towards Reliable Behavioral Comparison of Classifiers
73. NeurIPS 2025Quantization-Free Autoregressive Action Transformer
74. NeurIPS 2025Reinforcement Learning with Action Chunking
75. NeurIPS 2025REOrdering Patches Improves Vision Models
76. NeurIPS 2025Safe + Safe = Unsafe? Exploring How Safe Images Can Be Exploited to Jailbreak Large Vision-Language Models
77. NeurIPS 2025SAFE: Multitask Failure Detection for Vision-Language-Action Models
78. NeurIPS 2025SAGE: A Unified Framework for Generalizable Object State Recognition with State-Action Graph Embedding
79. NeurIPS 2025Seeing the Wind from a Falling Leaf
80. NeurIPS 2025SharpZO: Hybrid Sharpness-Aware Vision Language Model Prompt Tuning via Forward-Only Passes
81. NeurIPS 2025Sherlock: Self-Correcting Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
82. NeurIPS 2025ShotBench: Expert-Level Cinematic Understanding in Vision-Language Models
83. NeurIPS 2025SSR: Enhancing Depth Perception in Vision-Language Models via Rationale-Guided Spatial Reasoning
84. NeurIPS 2025Structured Initialization for Vision Transformers
85. NeurIPS 2025Structured Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Decision-Making
86. NeurIPS 2025SutureBot: A Precision Framework & Benchmark For Autonomous End-to-End Suturing
87. NeurIPS 2025The Underappreciated Power of Vision Models for Graph Structural Understanding
88. NeurIPS 2025ThinkAct: Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Reinforced Visual Latent Planning
89. NeurIPS 2025Towards Building Model/Prompt-Transferable Attackers against Large Vision-Language Models
90. NeurIPS 2025Towards Self-Refinement of Vision-Language Models with Triangular Consistency
91. NeurIPS 2025UAV-Flow Colosseo: A Real-World Benchmark for Flying-on-a-Word UAV Imitation Learning
92. NeurIPS 2025UniViT: Unifying Image and Video Understanding in One Vision Encoder
93. NeurIPS 2025Variational Regularized Unbalanced Optimal Transport: Single Network, Least Action
94. NeurIPS 2025VCM: Vision Concept Modeling with Adaptive Vision Token Compression via Instruction Fine-Tuning
95. NeurIPS 2025Vision Function Layer in Multimodal LLMs
96. NeurIPS 2025Vision Transformers Don't Need Trained Registers
97. NeurIPS 2025Vision Transformers with Self-Distilled Registers
98. NeurIPS 2025Vision-and-Language Training Helps Deploy Taxonomic Knowledge but Does Not Fundamentally Alter It
99. NeurIPS 2025Vision‑Language‑Vision Auto‑Encoder: Scalable Knowledge Distillation from Diffusion Models
100. NeurIPS 2025Visual Anagrams Reveal Hidden Differences in Holistic Shape Processing Across Vision 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.