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

1,639 papers, page 22 of 33

1051. NeurIPS 2025What Can RL Bring to VLA Generalization? An Empirical Study
1052. NeurIPS 2025What Do Latent Action Models Actually Learn?
1053. NeurIPS 2025With Limited Data for Multimodal Alignment, Let the STRUCTURE Guide You
1054. CVPR 2024A Pedestrian is Worth One Prompt: Towards Language Guidance Person Re-Identification
1055. CVPR 2024A Vision Check-up for Language Models
1056. CVPR 2024Action-slot: Visual Action-centric Representations for Multi-label Atomic Activity Recognition in Traffic Scenes
1057. CVPR 2024Active Prompt Learning in Vision Language Models
1058. CVPR 2024Adapting Short-Term Transformers for Action Detection in Untrimmed Videos
1059. CVPR 2024AHIVE: Anatomy-aware Hierarchical Vision Encoding for Interactive Radiology Report Retrieval
1060. CVPR 2024AM-RADIO: Agglomerative Vision Foundation Model Reduce All Domains Into One
1061. CVPR 2024Anchor-based Robust Finetuning of Vision-Language Models
1062. CVPR 2024ArGue: Attribute-Guided Prompt Tuning for Vision-Language Models
1063. CVPR 2024AUEditNet: Dual-Branch Facial Action Unit Intensity Manipulation with Implicit Disentanglement
1064. CVPR 2024Benchmarking the Robustness of Temporal Action Detection Models Against Temporal Corruptions
1065. CVPR 2024BEVSpread: Spread Voxel Pooling for Bird's-Eye-View Representation in Vision-based Roadside 3D Object Detection
1066. CVPR 2024BigGait: Learning Gait Representation You Want by Large Vision Models
1067. CVPR 2024BlockGCN: Redefine Topology Awareness for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition
1068. CVPR 2024Boosting Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models via Mixture-of-Experts Adapters
1069. CVPR 2024Can't Make an Omelette Without Breaking Some Eggs: Plausible Action Anticipation Using Large Video-Language Models
1070. CVPR 2024Coherent Temporal Synthesis for Incremental Action Segmentation
1071. CVPR 2024ConCon-Chi: Concept-Context Chimera Benchmark for Personalized Vision-Language Tasks
1072. CVPR 2024Consistency and Uncertainty: Identifying Unreliable Responses From Black-Box Vision-Language Models for Selective Visual Question Answering
1073. CVPR 2024COTR: Compact Occupancy TRansformer for Vision-based 3D Occupancy Prediction
1074. CVPR 2024CPR-Coach: Recognizing Composite Error Actions based on Single-class Training
1075. CVPR 2024Decomposing Disease Descriptions for Enhanced Pathology Detection: A Multi-Aspect Vision-Language Pre-training Framework
1076. CVPR 2024Dense Vision Transformer Compression with Few Samples
1077. CVPR 2024Distilling Vision-Language Models on Millions of Videos
1078. CVPR 2024Do Vision and Language Encoders Represent the World Similarly?
1079. CVPR 2024DRESS: Instructing Large Vision-Language Models to Align and Interact with Humans via Natural Language Feedback
1080. CVPR 2024Dual Memory Networks: A Versatile Adaptation Approach for Vision-Language Models
1081. CVPR 2024DUSt3R: Geometric 3D Vision Made Easy
1082. CVPR 2024Efficient Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models
1083. CVPR 2024Efficient Vision-Language Pre-training by Cluster Masking
1084. CVPR 2024EgoThink: Evaluating First-Person Perspective Thinking Capability of Vision-Language Models
1085. CVPR 2024End-to-End Spatio-Temporal Action Localisation with Video Transformers
1086. CVPR 2024End-to-End Temporal Action Detection with 1B Parameters Across 1000 Frames
1087. CVPR 2024Enhancing Vision-Language Pre-training with Rich Supervisions
1088. CVPR 2024ExACT: Language-guided Conceptual Reasoning and Uncertainty Estimation for Event-based Action Recognition and More
1089. CVPR 2024Explaining CLIP's Performance Disparities on Data from Blind/Low Vision Users
1090. CVPR 2024FACT: Frame-Action Cross-Attention Temporal Modeling for Efficient Action Segmentation
1091. CVPR 2024FairCLIP: Harnessing Fairness in Vision-Language Learning
1092. CVPR 2024FFF: Fixing Flawed Foundations in Contrastive Pre-Training Results in Very Strong Vision-Language Models
1093. CVPR 2024Finding Lottery Tickets in Vision Models via Data-driven Spectral Foresight Pruning
1094. CVPR 2024FineParser: A Fine-grained Spatio-temporal Action Parser for Human-centric Action Quality Assessment
1095. CVPR 2024FineSports: A Multi-person Hierarchical Sports Video Dataset for Fine-grained Action Understanding
1096. CVPR 2024Florence-2: Advancing a Unified Representation for a Variety of Vision Tasks
1097. CVPR 2024Fooling Polarization-Based Vision using Locally Controllable Polarizing Projection
1098. CVPR 2024From Isolated Islands to Pangea: Unifying Semantic Space for Human Action Understanding
1099. CVPR 2024GeoChat: Grounded Large Vision-Language Model for Remote Sensing
1100. CVPR 2024Grounding Everything: Emerging Localization Properties in Vision-Language Transformers

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.