Vision-Language-Action papers, 2023–2026
VLA and end-to-end driving
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 1,639 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 88 | 30 | 34 | 105 | 257 |
| 2024 | 108 | 29 | 62 | 130 | 329 |
| 2025 | 108 | 64 | 33 | 140 | 345 |
| 2026 | 204 | 113 | 126 | 265 | 708 |
Representative papers
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- 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 23 of 33
- CVPR 2024HallusionBench: An Advanced Diagnostic Suite for Entangled Language Hallucination and Visual Illusion in Large Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024HEAL-SWIN: A Vision Transformer On The Sphere
- CVPR 2024Instance-Aware Group Quantization for Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2024InternVL: Scaling up Vision Foundation Models and Aligning for Generic Visual-Linguistic Tasks
- CVPR 2024Investigating Compositional Challenges in Vision-Language Models for Visual Grounding
- CVPR 2024Is Ego Status All You Need for Open-Loop End-to-End Autonomous Driving?
- CVPR 2024Iterated Learning Improves Compositionality in Large Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024Jack of All Tasks Master of Many: Designing General-Purpose Coarse-to-Fine Vision-Language Model
- CVPR 2024JoAPR: Cleaning the Lens of Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024Label Propagation for Zero-shot Classification with Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024Language Models as Black-Box Optimizers for Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024Learning Correlation Structures for Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2024Learning Vision from Models Rivals Learning Vision from Data
- CVPR 2024Leveraging Vision-Language Models for Improving Domain Generalization in Image Classification
- CVPR 2024LLMs are Good Action Recognizers
- CVPR 2024LMDrive: Closed-Loop End-to-End Driving with Large Language Models
- CVPR 2024Lookahead Exploration with Neural Radiance Representation for Continuous Vision-Language Navigation
- CVPR 2024Low-power Continuous Remote Behavioral Localization with Event Cameras
- CVPR 2024MADTP: Multimodal Alignment-Guided Dynamic Token Pruning for Accelerating Vision-Language Transformer
- CVPR 2024MAFA: Managing False Negatives for Vision-Language Pre-training
- CVPR 2024MAPLM: A Real-World Large-Scale Vision-Language Benchmark for Map and Traffic Scene Understanding
- CVPR 2024MaskCLR: Attention-Guided Contrastive Learning for Robust Action Representation Learning
- CVPR 2024MoPE-CLIP: Structured Pruning for Efficient Vision-Language Models with Module-wise Pruning Error Metric
- CVPR 2024MoST: Motion Style Transformer Between Diverse Action Contents
- CVPR 2024Multi-scale Dynamic and Hierarchical Relationship Modeling for Facial Action Units Recognition
- CVPR 2024MULTIFLOW: Shifting Towards Task-Agnostic Vision-Language Pruning
- CVPR 2024Multiscale Vision Transformers Meet Bipartite Matching for Efficient Single-stage Action Localization
- CVPR 2024Narrative Action Evaluation with Prompt-Guided Multimodal Interaction
- CVPR 2024Non-autoregressive Sequence-to-Sequence Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024Not All Prompts Are Secure: A Switchable Backdoor Attack Against Pre-trained Vision Transfomers
- CVPR 2024On Scaling Up a Multilingual Vision and Language Model
- CVPR 2024On the Faithfulness of Vision Transformer Explanations
- CVPR 2024Once for Both: Single Stage of Importance and Sparsity Search for Vision Transformer Compression
- CVPR 2024One Prompt Word is Enough to Boost Adversarial Robustness for Pre-trained Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024OOSTraj: Out-of-Sight Trajectory Prediction With Vision-Positioning Denoising
- CVPR 2024OVER-NAV: Elevating Iterative Vision-and-Language Navigation with Open-Vocabulary Detection and StructurEd Representation
- CVPR 2024PACER+: On-Demand Pedestrian Animation Controller in Driving Scenarios
- CVPR 2024PartDistill: 3D Shape Part Segmentation by Vision-Language Model Distillation
- CVPR 2024PeVL: Pose-Enhanced Vision-Language Model for Fine-Grained Human Action Recognition
- CVPR 2024PracticalDG: Perturbation Distillation on Vision-Language Models for Hybrid Domain Generalization
- CVPR 2024Pre-trained Vision and Language Transformers Are Few-Shot Incremental Learners
- CVPR 2024Pre-training Vision Models with Mandelbulb Variations
- CVPR 2024Progress-Aware Online Action Segmentation for Egocentric Procedural Task Videos
- CVPR 2024PromptKD: Unsupervised Prompt Distillation for Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024Question Aware Vision Transformer for Multimodal Reasoning
- CVPR 2024Realigning Confidence with Temporal Saliency Information for Point-Level Weakly-Supervised Temporal Action Localization
- CVPR 2024ReGenNet: Towards Human Action-Reaction Synthesis
- CVPR 2024RMT: Retentive Networks Meet Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2024SaCo Loss: Sample-wise Affinity Consistency for Vision-Language Pre-training
- CVPR 2024SC-Tune: Unleashing Self-Consistent Referential Comprehension in Large Vision Language Models
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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.