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 2026Diagnosing and Repairing Unsafe Channels in Vision-Language Models via Causal
52. CVPR 2026Do Vision-Language Models Leak What They Learn Adaptive Token-Weighted Model
53. CVPR 2026Do Vision-Language Models Measure Up Benchmarking Visual Measurement Reading with
54. CVPR 2026DPL Decoupled Prototype Learning for Enhancing Robustness of Vision-Language Transformers
55. CVPR 2026Drive My Way Preference Alignment of Vision-Language-Action Model for Personalized
56. CVPR 2026DriveMoE Mixture-of-Experts for Vision-Language-Action Model in End-to-End Autonomous Driving
57. CVPR 2026DrivePI Spatial-aware 4D MLLM for Unified Autonomous Driving Understanding Perception
58. CVPR 2026DriveVLN Towards Mapless Vision-and-Language Navigation in Autonomous Driving
59. CVPR 2026Driving on Registers
60. CVPR 2026Dynamic Logits Adjustment and Exploration for Test-Time Adaptation in Vision
61. CVPR 2026Dynamic Token Reweighting for Robust Vision-Language Models
62. CVPR 2026E3AD An Emotion-Aware Vision-Language-Action Model for Human-Centric End-to-End Autonomous Driving
63. CVPR 2026EE-RL Vision Language Guided Reinforcement Learning with Explorer and Expert
64. CVPR 2026Ego Embedding-Guided Personalization of Vision-Language Models
65. CVPR 2026ElasticFormer Detecting Objects in HRW Shots via Elastic Computing Vision
66. CVPR 2026End-to-End Language-Action Model for Humanoid Whole Body Control
67. CVPR 2026Enhancing Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models via Dynamic Prefix Weighting
68. CVPR 2026Envision Attend Then Respond Counterfactual Hallucination Mitigation in Large Vision-Language
69. CVPR 2026EventDrive Event Cameras for Vision-Language Driving Intelligence
70. CVPR 2026EVLF Early Vision-Language Fusion for Generative Dataset Distillation
71. CVPR 2026Evo-1 Lightweight Vision-Language-Action Model with Preserved Semantic Alignment
72. CVPR 2026Exploring Adaptive Masked Reconstruction for Self-Supervised Skeleton-Based Action Recognition
73. CVPR 2026FantasyVLN Unified Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Vision-and-Language Navigation
74. CVPR 2026Fast-ThinkAct Efficient Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Verbalizable Latent Planning
75. CVPR 2026FedMPT Federated Multi-Label Prompt Tuning of Vision-Language Models
76. CVPR 2026Flat-Pack Bench Evaluating Spatio-Temporal Understanding in Large Vision-Language Models through
77. CVPR 2026FlowHijack A Dynamics-Aware Backdoor Attack on Flow-Matching Vision-Language-Action Models
78. CVPR 2026FM-Steer Enhance Generalist Policies with Value-Guided Cascaded Denoising
79. CVPR 2026ForeAct Steering Your VLA with Efficient Visual Foresight Planning
80. CVPR 2026From 3D Pose to Prose Biomechanics-Grounded Vision-Language Coaching
81. CVPR 2026From Observation to Action Latent Action-based Primitive Segmentation for VLA
82. CVPR 2026From Panel to Pixel Zoom-In Vision-Language Pretraining from Biomedical Scientific
83. CVPR 2026GeoDiT A Diffusion-based Vision-Language Model for Geospatial Understanding
84. CVPR 2026GeoPredict Leveraging Predictive Kinematics and 3D Gaussian Geometry for Precise
85. CVPR 2026Global Prior Meets Local Consistency Dual-Memory Augmented Vision-Language-Action Model for
86. CVPR 2026GraphVLM Benchmarking Vision Language Models for Multimodal Graph Learning
87. CVPR 2026Hierarchical Action Learning for Weakly-Supervised Action Segmentation
88. CVPR 2026Hierarchical Process Reward Models are Symbolic Vision Learners
89. CVPR 2026Hierarchically Robust Zero-shot Vision-language Models
90. CVPR 2026HiF-VLA Hindsight Insight and Foresight through Motion Representation for Vision-Language-Action
91. CVPR 2026HiSpatial Taming Hierarchical 3D Spatial Understanding in Vision-Language Models
92. CVPR 2026HoneyBee Data Recipes for Vision-Language Reasoners
93. CVPR 2026Hybrid Token Compression for Vision-Language Models
94. CVPR 2026HybridDriveVLA Vision-Language-Action Model with Visual CoT reasoning and ToT Evaluation
95. CVPR 2026IF-Prune Information-Flow Guided Token Pruning for Efficient Vision-Language Models
96. CVPR 2026Improving Calibration in Test-Time Prompt Tuning for Vision-Language Models via
97. CVPR 2026Improving Vision-language Models with Perception-centric Process Reward Models
98. CVPR 2026Inside-Out Measuring Generalization in Vision Transformers Through Inner Workings
99. CVPR 2026Jailbreaking Vision-Language Models via Dissonance-Guided Suffix Optimization and Image-Phrase Injection
100. CVPR 2026Joint-Aligned Latent Action Towards Scalable VLA Pretraining in the Wild

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.