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 25 of 33

1201. ICLR 2024Learning Grounded Action Abstractions from Language
1202. ICLR 2024Learning Optimal Contracts: How to Exploit Small Action Spaces
1203. ICLR 2024Leveraging Unpaired Data for Vision-Language Generative Models via Cycle Consistency
1204. ICLR 2024Matrix Manifold Neural Networks++
1205. ICLR 2024Measuring Vision-Language STEM Skills of Neural Models
1206. ICLR 2024MMICL: Empowering Vision-language Model with Multi-Modal In-Context Learning
1207. ICLR 2024Nemesis: Normalizing the Soft-prompt Vectors of Vision-Language Models
1208. ICLR 2024Open-ended VQA benchmarking of Vision-Language models by exploiting Classification datasets and their semantic hierarchy
1209. ICLR 2024Overcoming the Pitfalls of Vision-Language Model Finetuning for OOD Generalization
1210. ICLR 2024Skip-Attention: Improving Vision Transformers by Paying Less Attention
1211. ICLR 2024SpikePoint: An Efficient Point-based Spiking Neural Network for Event Cameras Action Recognition
1212. ICLR 2024Vision Transformers Need Registers
1213. ICML 2024A Contextual Combinatorial Bandit Approach to Negotiation
1214. ICML 2024A Touch, Vision, and Language Dataset for Multimodal Alignment
1215. ICML 2024AD3: Implicit Action is the Key for World Models to Distinguish the Diverse Visual Distractors
1216. ICML 2024Amend to Alignment: Decoupled Prompt Tuning for Mitigating Spurious Correlation in Vision-Language Models
1217. ICML 2024An Embodied Generalist Agent in 3D World
1218. ICML 2024An Empirical Study Into What Matters for Calibrating Vision-Language Models
1219. ICML 2024Beyond Sole Strength: Customized Ensembles for Generalized Vision-Language Models
1220. ICML 2024Candidate Pseudolabel Learning: Enhancing Vision-Language Models by Prompt Tuning with Unlabeled Data
1221. ICML 2024Careful with that Scalpel: Improving Gradient Surgery with an EMA
1222. ICML 2024Causal Action Influence Aware Counterfactual Data Augmentation
1223. ICML 2024COALA: A Practical and Vision-Centric Federated Learning Platform
1224. ICML 2024Connecting the Dots: Collaborative Fine-tuning for Black-Box Vision-Language Models
1225. ICML 2024CrossGET: Cross-Guided Ensemble of Tokens for Accelerating Vision-Language Transformers
1226. ICML 2024Data-efficient Large Vision Models through Sequential Autoregression
1227. ICML 2024Diagnosing the Compositional Knowledge of Vision Language Models from a Game-Theoretic View
1228. ICML 2024Enhancing Value Function Estimation through First-Order State-Action Dynamics in Offline Reinforcement Learning
1229. ICML 2024Enhancing Vision Transformer: Amplifying Non-Linearity in Feedforward Network Module
1230. ICML 2024ERQ: Error Reduction for Post-Training Quantization of Vision Transformers
1231. ICML 2024Evaluating and Analyzing Relationship Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models
1232. ICML 2024Explaining Probabilistic Models with Distributional Values
1233. ICML 2024Exploring Intrinsic Dimension for Vision-Language Model Pruning
1234. ICML 2024Factored-Reward Bandits with Intermediate Observations
1235. ICML 2024Failures Are Fated, But Can Be Faded: Characterizing and Mitigating Unwanted Behaviors in Large-Scale Vision and Language Models
1236. ICML 2024Fast-Slow Test-Time Adaptation for Online Vision-and-Language Navigation
1237. ICML 2024FiT: Flexible Vision Transformer for Diffusion Model
1238. ICML 2024Fool Your (Vision and) Language Model with Embarrassingly Simple Permutations
1239. ICML 2024GeoReasoner: Geo-localization with Reasoning in Street Views using a Large Vision-Language Model
1240. ICML 2024How to Leverage Diverse Demonstrations in Offline Imitation Learning
1241. ICML 2024Image Fusion via Vision-Language Model
1242. ICML 2024Improving Interpretation Faithfulness for Vision Transformers
1243. ICML 2024In-Context Reinforcement Learning for Variable Action Spaces
1244. ICML 2024Investigating Pre-Training Objectives for Generalization in Vision-Based Reinforcement Learning
1245. ICML 2024Learning Adaptive and View-Invariant Vision Transformer for Real-Time UAV Tracking
1246. ICML 2024Learning Exceptional Subgroups by End-to-End Maximizing KL-Divergence
1247. ICML 2024Libra: Building Decoupled Vision System on Large Language Models
1248. ICML 2024Machine Vision Therapy: Multimodal Large Language Models Can Enhance Visual Robustness via Denoising In-Context Learning
1249. ICML 2024Memory-Space Visual Prompting for Efficient Vision-Language Fine-Tuning
1250. ICML 2024Mimicking Better by Matching the Approximate Action Distribution

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.