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

130 papers, page 3 of 3

101. CVPR 2024Semantics-aware Motion Retargeting with Vision-Language Models
102. CVPR 2024Sequential Modeling Enables Scalable Learning for Large Vision Models
103. CVPR 2024Situational Awareness Matters in 3D Vision Language Reasoning
104. CVPR 2024SonicVisionLM: Playing Sound with Vision Language Models
105. CVPR 2024SparseOcc: Rethinking Sparse Latent Representation for Vision-Based Semantic Occupancy Prediction
106. CVPR 2024SpikingResformer: Bridging ResNet and Vision Transformer in Spiking Neural Networks
107. CVPR 2024SRTube: Video-Language Pre-Training with Action-Centric Video Tube Features and Semantic Role Labeling
108. CVPR 2024SyncMask: Synchronized Attentional Masking for Fashion-centric Vision-Language Pretraining
109. CVPR 2024Synthesize Diagnose and Optimize: Towards Fine-Grained Vision-Language Understanding
110. CVPR 2024TACO: Benchmarking Generalizable Bimanual Tool-ACtion-Object Understanding
111. CVPR 2024TE-TAD: Towards Full End-to-End Temporal Action Detection via Time-Aligned Coordinate Expression
112. CVPR 2024Temporally Consistent Unbalanced Optimal Transport for Unsupervised Action Segmentation
113. CVPR 2024Test-Time Zero-Shot Temporal Action Localization
114. CVPR 2024Three Pillars Improving Vision Foundation Model Distillation for Lidar
115. CVPR 2024THRONE: An Object-based Hallucination Benchmark for the Free-form Generations of Large Vision-Language Models
116. CVPR 2024Towards Better Vision-Inspired Vision-Language Models
117. CVPR 2024Uncertainty-aware Action Decoupling Transformer for Action Anticipation
118. CVPR 2024Uncertainty-Guided Never-Ending Learning to Drive
119. CVPR 2024Unified-IO 2: Scaling Autoregressive Multimodal Models with Vision Language Audio and Action
120. CVPR 2024VCoder: Versatile Vision Encoders for Multimodal Large Language Models
121. CVPR 2024ViLa-MIL: Dual-scale Vision-Language Multiple Instance Learning for Whole Slide Image Classification
122. CVPR 2024Vision-and-Language Navigation via Causal Learning
123. CVPR 2024Visual Program Distillation: Distilling Tools and Programmatic Reasoning into Vision-Language Models
124. CVPR 2024ViTamin: Designing Scalable Vision Models in the Vision-Language Era
125. CVPR 2024VLP: Vision Language Planning for Autonomous Driving
126. CVPR 2024Volumetric Environment Representation for Vision-Language Navigation
127. CVPR 2024What Do You See in Vehicle? Comprehensive Vision Solution for In-Vehicle Gaze Estimation
128. CVPR 2024What When and Where? Self-Supervised Spatio-Temporal Grounding in Untrimmed Multi-Action Videos from Narrated Instructions
129. CVPR 2024X-MIC: Cross-Modal Instance Conditioning for Egocentric Action Generalization
130. CVPR 2024You Only Need Less Attention at Each Stage in Vision 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.