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. CVPR 2023Masked Jigsaw Puzzle: A Versatile Position Embedding for Vision Transformers
52. CVPR 2023Meta-Explore: Exploratory Hierarchical Vision-and-Language Navigation Using Scene Object Spectrum Grounding
53. CVPR 2023MMG-Ego4D: Multimodal Generalization in Egocentric Action Recognition
54. CVPR 2023NeMo: Learning 3D Neural Motion Fields From Multiple Video Instances of the Same Action
55. CVPR 2023Neural Koopman Pooling: Control-Inspired Temporal Dynamics Encoding for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition
56. CVPR 2023Neural Map Prior for Autonomous Driving
57. CVPR 2023NoisyQuant: Noisy Bias-Enhanced Post-Training Activation Quantization for Vision Transformers
58. CVPR 2023NoPe-NeRF: Optimising Neural Radiance Field With No Pose Prior
59. CVPR 2023On the Benefits of 3D Pose and Tracking for Human Action Recognition
60. CVPR 2023On the Importance of Accurate Geometry Data for Dense 3D Vision Tasks
61. CVPR 2023Open Set Action Recognition via Multi-Label Evidential Learning
62. CVPR 2023PaCa-ViT: Learning Patch-to-Cluster Attention in Vision Transformers
63. CVPR 2023PivoTAL: Prior-Driven Supervision for Weakly-Supervised Temporal Action Localization
64. CVPR 2023Position-Guided Text Prompt for Vision-Language Pre-Training
65. CVPR 2023Post-Processing Temporal Action Detection
66. CVPR 2023Prompt-Guided Zero-Shot Anomaly Action Recognition Using Pretrained Deep Skeleton Features
67. CVPR 2023Proposal-Based Multiple Instance Learning for Weakly-Supervised Temporal Action Localization
68. CVPR 2023Q: How To Specialize Large Vision-Language Models to Data-Scarce VQA Tasks? A: Self-Train on Unlabeled Images!
69. CVPR 2023Re2TAL: Rewiring Pretrained Video Backbones for Reversible Temporal Action Localization
70. CVPR 2023ReasonNet: End-to-End Driving With Temporal and Global Reasoning
71. CVPR 2023Reducing the Label Bias for Timestamp Supervised Temporal Action Segmentation
72. CVPR 2023RGB No More: Minimally-Decoded JPEG Vision Transformers
73. CVPR 2023RIFormer: Keep Your Vision Backbone Effective but Removing Token Mixer
74. CVPR 2023Search-Map-Search: A Frame Selection Paradigm for Action Recognition
75. CVPR 2023Seeing What You Miss: Vision-Language Pre-Training With Semantic Completion Learning
76. CVPR 2023Slide-Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer With Local Self-Attention
77. CVPR 2023Soft-Landing Strategy for Alleviating the Task Discrepancy Problem in Temporal Action Localization Tasks
78. CVPR 2023SparseViT: Revisiting Activation Sparsity for Efficient High-Resolution Vision Transformer
79. CVPR 2023Sparsifiner: Learning Sparse Instance-Dependent Attention for Efficient Vision Transformers
80. CVPR 2023STMixer: A One-Stage Sparse Action Detector
81. CVPR 2023STMT: A Spatial-Temporal Mesh Transformer for MoCap-Based Action Recognition
82. CVPR 2023SVFormer: Semi-Supervised Video Transformer for Action Recognition
83. CVPR 2023Task Residual for Tuning Vision-Language Models
84. CVPR 2023TBP-Former: Learning Temporal Bird's-Eye-View Pyramid for Joint Perception and Prediction in Vision-Centric Autonomous Driving
85. CVPR 2023Teaching Matters: Investigating the Role of Supervision in Vision Transformers
86. CVPR 2023Teaching Structured Vision & Language Concepts to Vision & Language Models
87. CVPR 2023The Wisdom of Crowds: Temporal Progressive Attention for Early Action Prediction
88. CVPR 2023Therbligs in Action: Video Understanding Through Motion Primitives
89. CVPR 2023Think Twice Before Driving: Towards Scalable Decoders for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
90. CVPR 2023TimeBalance: Temporally-Invariant and Temporally-Distinctive Video Representations for Semi-Supervised Action Recognition
91. CVPR 2023Token Turing Machines
92. CVPR 2023Trade-Off Between Robustness and Accuracy of Vision Transformers
93. CVPR 2023Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Vision Transformers With Token Gradient Regularization
94. CVPR 2023TriDet: Temporal Action Detection With Relative Boundary Modeling
95. CVPR 2023TrojViT: Trojan Insertion in Vision Transformers
96. CVPR 2023Two-Stream Networks for Weakly-Supervised Temporal Action Localization With Semantic-Aware Mechanisms
97. CVPR 2023Uncertainty-Aware Vision-Based Metric Cross-View Geolocalization
98. CVPR 2023Uni-Perceiver v2: A Generalist Model for Large-Scale Vision and Vision-Language Tasks
99. CVPR 2023Unified Keypoint-Based Action Recognition Framework via Structured Keypoint Pooling
100. CVPR 2023Vision Transformer With Super Token Sampling

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.