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 28 of 33

1351. NeurIPS 2024Reinforcing LLM Agents via Policy Optimization with Action Decomposition
1352. NeurIPS 2024Revisiting the Integration of Convolution and Attention for Vision Backbone
1353. NeurIPS 2024Right this way: Can VLMs Guide Us to See More to Answer Questions?
1354. NeurIPS 2024RoboMamba: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model for Robotic Reasoning and Manipulation
1355. NeurIPS 2024ScaleKD: Strong Vision Transformers Could Be Excellent Teachers
1356. NeurIPS 2024Scaling White-Box Transformers for Vision
1357. NeurIPS 2024Shadowcast: Stealthy Data Poisoning Attacks Against Vision-Language Models
1358. NeurIPS 2024Slicing Vision Transformer for Flexible Inference
1359. NeurIPS 2024SlimSAM: 0.1% Data Makes Segment Anything Slim
1360. NeurIPS 2024SUGARCREPE++ Dataset: Vision-Language Model Sensitivity to Semantic and Lexical Alterations
1361. NeurIPS 2024Taming "data-hungry" reinforcement learning? Stability in continuous state-action spaces
1362. NeurIPS 2024Temporally Consistent Atmospheric Turbulence Mitigation with Neural Representations
1363. NeurIPS 2024Text-Infused Attention and Foreground-Aware Modeling for Zero-Shot Temporal Action Detection
1364. NeurIPS 2024TrAct: Making First-layer Pre-Activations Trainable
1365. NeurIPS 2024Transformer Doctor: Diagnosing and Treating Vision Transformers
1366. NeurIPS 2024Unveil Benign Overfitting for Transformer in Vision: Training Dynamics, Convergence, and Generalization
1367. NeurIPS 2024Unveiling Encoder-Free Vision-Language Models
1368. NeurIPS 2024Unveiling the Hidden: Online Vectorized HD Map Construction with Clip-Level Token Interaction and Propagation
1369. NeurIPS 2024Unveiling the Tapestry of Consistency in Large Vision-Language Models
1370. NeurIPS 2024V-PETL Bench: A Unified Visual Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning Benchmark
1371. NeurIPS 2024VHELM: A Holistic Evaluation of Vision Language Models
1372. NeurIPS 2024Vision Foundation Model Enables Generalizable Object Pose Estimation
1373. NeurIPS 2024Vision Mamba Mender
1374. NeurIPS 2024Vision Transformer Neural Architecture Search for Out-of-Distribution Generalization: Benchmark and Insights
1375. NeurIPS 2024VisionLLM v2: An End-to-End Generalist Multimodal Large Language Model for Hundreds of Vision-Language Tasks
1376. NeurIPS 2024Vista: A Generalizable Driving World Model with High Fidelity and Versatile Controllability
1377. NeurIPS 2024Vitron: A Unified Pixel-level Vision LLM for Understanding, Generating, Segmenting, Editing
1378. NeurIPS 2024VLG-CBM: Training Concept Bottleneck Models with Vision-Language Guidance
1379. NeurIPS 2024What matters when building vision-language models?
1380. NeurIPS 2024WikiDO: A New Benchmark Evaluating Cross-Modal Retrieval for Vision-Language Models
1381. NeurIPS 2024Wormhole Loss for Partial Shape Matching
1382. NeurIPS 2024Yo'LLaVA: Your Personalized Language and Vision Assistant
1383. CVPR 20233Mformer: Multi-Order Multi-Mode Transformer for Skeletal Action Recognition
1384. CVPR 2023Actionlet-Dependent Contrastive Learning for Unsupervised Skeleton-Based Action Recognition
1385. CVPR 2023AdamsFormer for Spatial Action Localization in the Future
1386. CVPR 2023Adaptive Zone-Aware Hierarchical Planner for Vision-Language Navigation
1387. CVPR 2023Are We Ready for Vision-Centric Driving Streaming Perception? The ASAP Benchmark
1388. CVPR 2023ASPnet: Action Segmentation With Shared-Private Representation of Multiple Data Sources
1389. CVPR 2023AUNet: Learning Relations Between Action Units for Face Forgery Detection
1390. CVPR 2023BEVHeight: A Robust Framework for Vision-Based Roadside 3D Object Detection
1391. CVPR 2023Bias in Pruned Vision Models: In-Depth Analysis and Countermeasures
1392. CVPR 2023Biomechanics-Guided Facial Action Unit Detection Through Force Modeling
1393. CVPR 2023Blind Image Quality Assessment via Vision-Language Correspondence: A Multitask Learning Perspective
1394. CVPR 2023Boost Vision Transformer With GPU-Friendly Sparsity and Quantization
1395. CVPR 2023Boosting Weakly-Supervised Temporal Action Localization With Text Information
1396. CVPR 2023Cascade Evidential Learning for Open-World Weakly-Supervised Temporal Action Localization
1397. CVPR 2023Castling-ViT: Compressing Self-Attention via Switching Towards Linear-Angular Attention at Vision Transformer Inference
1398. CVPR 2023Collaborative Static and Dynamic Vision-Language Streams for Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding
1399. CVPR 2023CompletionFormer: Depth Completion With Convolutions and Vision Transformers
1400. CVPR 2023CREPE: Can Vision-Language Foundation Models Reason Compositionally?

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.