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 2025HoVLE: Unleashing the Power of Monolithic Vision-Language Models with Holistic Vision-Language Embedding
52. CVPR 2025Hyperbolic Safety-Aware Vision-Language Models
53. CVPR 2025Identifying and Mitigating Position Bias of Multi-image Vision-Language Models
54. CVPR 2025Improving Visual and Downstream Performance of Low-Light Enhancer with Vision Foundation Models Collaboration
55. CVPR 2025It's a (Blind) Match! Towards Vision-Language Correspondence without Parallel Data
56. CVPR 2025LayoutVLM: Differentiable Optimization of 3D Layout via Vision-Language Models
57. CVPR 2025Libra-Merging: Importance-redundancy and Pruning-merging Trade-off for Acceleration Plug-in in Large Vision-Language Model
58. CVPR 2025LibraGrad: Balancing Gradient Flow for Universally Better Vision Transformer Attributions
59. CVPR 2025LLAVIDAL: A Large LAnguage VIsion Model for Daily Activities of Living
60. CVPR 2025Mamba-Reg: Vision Mamba Also Needs Registers
61. CVPR 2025MambaOut: Do We Really Need Mamba for Vision?
62. CVPR 2025MambaVision: A Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Vision Backbone
63. CVPR 2025MambaVLT: Time-Evolving Multimodal State Space Model for Vision-Language Tracking
64. CVPR 2025MANTA: Diffusion Mamba for Efficient and Effective Stochastic Long-Term Dense Action Anticipation
65. CVPR 2025MAP: Unleashing Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Vision Backbone's Potential with Masked Autoregressive Pretraining
66. CVPR 2025MBQ: Modality-Balanced Quantization for Large Vision-Language Models
67. CVPR 2025MDP: Multidimensional Vision Model Pruning with Latency Constraint
68. CVPR 2025MIMO: A Medical Vision Language Model with Visual Referring Multimodal Input and Pixel Grounding Multimodal Output
69. CVPR 2025Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models via DPO: On-Policy Data Hold the Key
70. CVPR 2025Mitigating Object Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models with Assembly of Global and Local Attention
71. CVPR 2025Modeling Multiple Normal Action Representations for Error Detection in Procedural Tasks
72. CVPR 2025Molmo and PixMo: Open Weights and Open Data for State-of-the-Art Vision-Language Models
73. CVPR 2025MoManipVLA: Transferring Vision-language-action Models for General Mobile Manipulation
74. CVPR 2025Multimodal Autoregressive Pre-training of Large Vision Encoders
75. CVPR 2025NLPrompt: Noise-Label Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models
76. CVPR 2025Not Only Text: Exploring Compositionality of Visual Representations in Vision-Language Models
77. CVPR 2025Nullu: Mitigating Object Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models via HalluSpace Projection
78. CVPR 2025O-TPT: Orthogonality Constraints for Calibrating Test-time Prompt Tuning in Vision-Language Models
79. CVPR 2025Object-Centric Prompt-Driven Vision-Language-Action Model for Robotic Manipulation
80. CVPR 2025Olympus: A Universal Task Router for Computer Vision Tasks
81. CVPR 2025Once-Tuning-Multiple-Variants: Tuning Once and Expanded as Multiple Vision-Language Model Variants
82. CVPR 2025Optimus-2: Multimodal Minecraft Agent with Goal-Observation-Action Conditioned Policy
83. CVPR 2025PARC: A Quantitative Framework Uncovering the Symmetries within Vision Language Models
84. CVPR 2025PatchGuard: Adversarially Robust Anomaly Detection and Localization through Vision Transformers and Pseudo Anomalies
85. CVPR 2025Phoenix: A Motion-based Self-Reflection Framework for Fine-grained Robotic Action Correction
86. CVPR 2025Post-pre-training for Modality Alignment in Vision-Language Foundation Models
87. CVPR 2025Prompt-CAM: Making Vision Transformers Interpretable for Fine-Grained Analysis
88. CVPR 2025PVC: Progressive Visual Token Compression for Unified Image and Video Processing in Large Vision-Language Models
89. CVPR 2025R2C: Mapping Room to Chessboard to Unlock LLM As Low-Level Action Planner
90. CVPR 2025RADIOv2.5: Improved Baselines for Agglomerative Vision Foundation Models
91. CVPR 2025RC-AutoCalib: An End-to-End Radar-Camera Automatic Calibration Network
92. CVPR 2025Realistic Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models
93. CVPR 2025Reproducible Vision-Language Models Meet Concepts Out of Pre-Training
94. CVPR 2025ResCLIP: Residual Attention for Training-free Dense Vision-language Inference
95. CVPR 2025Rethinking Vision-Language Model in Face Forensics: Multi-Modal Interpretable Forged Face Detector
96. CVPR 2025Revealing Key Details to See Differences: A Novel Prototypical Perspective for Skeleton-based Action Recognition
97. CVPR 2025ReVisionLLM: Recursive Vision-Language Model for Temporal Grounding in Hour-Long Videos
98. CVPR 2025RoboGround: Robotic Manipulation with Grounded Vision-Language Priors
99. CVPR 2025RoboSpatial: Teaching Spatial Understanding to 2D and 3D Vision-Language Models for Robotics
100. CVPR 2025Scaling Vision Pre-Training to 4K Resolution

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.