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

329 papers, page 2 of 7

51. CVPR 2024InternVL: Scaling up Vision Foundation Models and Aligning for Generic Visual-Linguistic Tasks
52. CVPR 2024Investigating Compositional Challenges in Vision-Language Models for Visual Grounding
53. CVPR 2024Is Ego Status All You Need for Open-Loop End-to-End Autonomous Driving?
54. CVPR 2024Iterated Learning Improves Compositionality in Large Vision-Language Models
55. CVPR 2024Jack of All Tasks Master of Many: Designing General-Purpose Coarse-to-Fine Vision-Language Model
56. CVPR 2024JoAPR: Cleaning the Lens of Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models
57. CVPR 2024Label Propagation for Zero-shot Classification with Vision-Language Models
58. CVPR 2024Language Models as Black-Box Optimizers for Vision-Language Models
59. CVPR 2024Learning Correlation Structures for Vision Transformers
60. CVPR 2024Learning Vision from Models Rivals Learning Vision from Data
61. CVPR 2024Leveraging Vision-Language Models for Improving Domain Generalization in Image Classification
62. CVPR 2024LLMs are Good Action Recognizers
63. CVPR 2024LMDrive: Closed-Loop End-to-End Driving with Large Language Models
64. CVPR 2024Lookahead Exploration with Neural Radiance Representation for Continuous Vision-Language Navigation
65. CVPR 2024Low-power Continuous Remote Behavioral Localization with Event Cameras
66. CVPR 2024MADTP: Multimodal Alignment-Guided Dynamic Token Pruning for Accelerating Vision-Language Transformer
67. CVPR 2024MAFA: Managing False Negatives for Vision-Language Pre-training
68. CVPR 2024MAPLM: A Real-World Large-Scale Vision-Language Benchmark for Map and Traffic Scene Understanding
69. CVPR 2024MaskCLR: Attention-Guided Contrastive Learning for Robust Action Representation Learning
70. CVPR 2024MoPE-CLIP: Structured Pruning for Efficient Vision-Language Models with Module-wise Pruning Error Metric
71. CVPR 2024MoST: Motion Style Transformer Between Diverse Action Contents
72. CVPR 2024Multi-scale Dynamic and Hierarchical Relationship Modeling for Facial Action Units Recognition
73. CVPR 2024MULTIFLOW: Shifting Towards Task-Agnostic Vision-Language Pruning
74. CVPR 2024Multiscale Vision Transformers Meet Bipartite Matching for Efficient Single-stage Action Localization
75. CVPR 2024Narrative Action Evaluation with Prompt-Guided Multimodal Interaction
76. CVPR 2024Non-autoregressive Sequence-to-Sequence Vision-Language Models
77. CVPR 2024Not All Prompts Are Secure: A Switchable Backdoor Attack Against Pre-trained Vision Transfomers
78. CVPR 2024On Scaling Up a Multilingual Vision and Language Model
79. CVPR 2024On the Faithfulness of Vision Transformer Explanations
80. CVPR 2024Once for Both: Single Stage of Importance and Sparsity Search for Vision Transformer Compression
81. CVPR 2024One Prompt Word is Enough to Boost Adversarial Robustness for Pre-trained Vision-Language Models
82. CVPR 2024OOSTraj: Out-of-Sight Trajectory Prediction With Vision-Positioning Denoising
83. CVPR 2024OVER-NAV: Elevating Iterative Vision-and-Language Navigation with Open-Vocabulary Detection and StructurEd Representation
84. CVPR 2024PACER+: On-Demand Pedestrian Animation Controller in Driving Scenarios
85. CVPR 2024PartDistill: 3D Shape Part Segmentation by Vision-Language Model Distillation
86. CVPR 2024PeVL: Pose-Enhanced Vision-Language Model for Fine-Grained Human Action Recognition
87. CVPR 2024PracticalDG: Perturbation Distillation on Vision-Language Models for Hybrid Domain Generalization
88. CVPR 2024Pre-trained Vision and Language Transformers Are Few-Shot Incremental Learners
89. CVPR 2024Pre-training Vision Models with Mandelbulb Variations
90. CVPR 2024Progress-Aware Online Action Segmentation for Egocentric Procedural Task Videos
91. CVPR 2024PromptKD: Unsupervised Prompt Distillation for Vision-Language Models
92. CVPR 2024Question Aware Vision Transformer for Multimodal Reasoning
93. CVPR 2024Realigning Confidence with Temporal Saliency Information for Point-Level Weakly-Supervised Temporal Action Localization
94. CVPR 2024ReGenNet: Towards Human Action-Reaction Synthesis
95. CVPR 2024RMT: Retentive Networks Meet Vision Transformers
96. CVPR 2024SaCo Loss: Sample-wise Affinity Consistency for Vision-Language Pre-training
97. CVPR 2024SC-Tune: Unleashing Self-Consistent Referential Comprehension in Large Vision Language Models
98. CVPR 2024Selective Interpretable and Motion Consistent Privacy Attribute Obfuscation for Action Recognition
99. CVPR 2024SelfOcc: Self-Supervised Vision-Based 3D Occupancy Prediction
100. CVPR 2024Semantic Shield: Defending Vision-Language Models Against Backdooring and Poisoning via Fine-grained Knowledge Alignment

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.