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

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101. CVPR 2026LA-Pose Latent Action Pretraining Meets Pose Estimation
102. CVPR 2026LaDy Lagrangian-Dynamic Informed Network for Skeleton-based Action Segmentation via Spatial-Temporal
103. CVPR 2026Language-Grounded Decoupled Action Representation for Robotic Manipulation
104. CVPR 2026Language-guided Frequency Modulation for Large Vision-Language Models
105. CVPR 2026LAOF Robust Latent Action Learning with Optical Flow Constraints
106. CVPR 2026LEAD Minimizing Learner-Expert Asymmetry in End-to-End Driving
107. CVPR 2026Learning a Unified Latent Action Space from Videos with Action-centric
108. CVPR 2026Learning from Itself Mining Internal Knowledge from Vision Language Models
109. CVPR 2026Learning Surgical Robotic Manipulation with 3D Spatial Priors
110. CVPR 2026Learning to Act Robustly with View-Invariant Latent Actions
111. CVPR 2026Learning to Reason in 4D Dynamic Spatial Understanding for Vision
112. CVPR 2026Learning What Helps Task-Aligned Context Selection for Vision Tasks
113. CVPR 2026Lenses Toward Polysemous Vision-Language Understanding
114. CVPR 2026LIBERO-Plus A Progressive Robustness Benchmark for Visual-Language-Action Models
115. CVPR 2026LLaVAShield Safeguarding Multimodal Multi-Turn Dialogues in Vision-Language Models
116. CVPR 2026Localizing Structuring and Rendering Bridging 3D and 2D Vision-Language-Action Models
117. CVPR 2026LOREAL Mitigating Low-Resolution Challenges in Vision-Language Models with Attribute-driven Prompt
118. CVPR 2026M3DocDep Multi-modal Multi-page Multi-document Dependency Chunking with Large Vision-Language Models
119. CVPR 2026MA-Bench Towards Fine-grained Micro-Action Understanding
120. CVPR 2026Mantis A Versatile Vision-Language-Action Model with Disentangled Visual Foresight
121. CVPR 2026MAPS Preserving Vision-Language Representations via Module-Wise Proximity Scheduling for Better
122. CVPR 2026Masking Teacher and Reinforcing Student for Distilling Vision-Language Models
123. CVPR 2026Medic-AD Towards Medical Vision-Language Models Clinical Intelligence
124. CVPR 2026Memory Matters Boosting Training-Free Zero-Shot Temporal Action Localization with a
125. CVPR 2026MergeVLA Cross-Skill Model Merging Toward a Generalist Vision-Language-Action Agent
126. CVPR 2026Models as Lego Builders Assembling Malice from Benign Blocks via
127. CVPR 2026MODIX A Training-Free Multimodal Information-Driven Positional Index Scaling for Vision-Language
128. CVPR 2026MoEActok A MoE-based Action Tokenizer for Vision-Language-Action Models
129. CVPR 2026MonoVLM Monocular 3D Visual Grounding with Vision Language Models
130. CVPR 2026More than the Sum Panorama-Language Models for Adverse Omni-Scenes
131. CVPR 2026Mostly Text Smart Visuals Asymmetric Text-Visual Pruning for Large Vision-Language
132. CVPR 2026Motus A Unified Latent Action World Model
133. CVPR 2026MoVie Broaden Your Views with Human Motion for Action Detection
134. CVPR 2026MPL Match-guided Prototype Learning for Few-shot Action Recognition
135. CVPR 2026Multimodal Distribution Matching for Vision-Language Dataset Distillation
136. CVPR 2026mVLM A Vision Language Model for mNPUs
137. CVPR 2026MVLM Template-Free Tracking via Vision-Language Margin Confidence and Memory-Gated Tracking
138. CVPR 2026NavForesee A Unified Vision-Language World Model for Hierarchical Planning and
139. CVPR 2026NeuroRule Bridging Vision and Logic with Differentiable Rule Induction
140. CVPR 2026Nonparametric Deep Fine-grained Clustering with Low-Rank Guided Vision-Language Model
141. CVPR 2026NoRD A Data-Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model that Drives without Reasoning
142. CVPR 2026OccuFly A 3D Vision Benchmark for Semantic Scene Completion from
143. CVPR 2026One Token Two Fates A Unified Framework via Vision Token
144. CVPR 2026OneSparse A Unified Framework for Sparse Activation Layers in Vision
145. CVPR 2026OpenMarcie Dataset for Multimodal Action Recognition in Industrial Environments
146. CVPR 2026ORIC Benchmarking Object Recognition under Contextual Incongruity in Large Vision-Language
147. CVPR 2026PA-Attack Guiding Gray-Box Attacks on LVLM Vision Encoders with Prototypes
148. CVPR 2026PACT Phase-Like Transition Constraints in Adapter-Based Continual Learning of Vision-Language
149. CVPR 2026Pano360 Perspective to Panoramic Vision with Geometric Consistency
150. CVPR 2026Parse Search and Confirmation Training-Free Aerial Vision-and-Dialog Navigation with Chain-of-Thought

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.