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

236 papers, page 3 of 5

101. ICLR 2026villa-X: Enhancing Latent Action Modeling in Vision-Language-Action Models
102. ICLR 2026ViPRA: Video Prediction for Robot Actions
103. ICLR 2026Vision-Language-Action Instruction Tuning: From Understanding to Manipulation
104. ICLR 2026VITA: Vision-to-Action Flow Matching Policy
105. ICLR 2026ViTSP: A Vision Language Models Guided Framework for Large-Scale Traveling Salesman Problems
106. ICLR 2026VL-JEPA: Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture for Vision-language
107. ICLR 2026Vlaser: Vision-Language-Action Model with Synergistic Embodied Reasoning
108. ICLR 2026VLM4VLA: Revisiting Vision-Language-Models in Vision-Language-Action Models
109. ICLR 2026VLMgineer: Vision-Language Models as Robotic Toolsmiths
110. ICLR 2026Vulcan: Crafting Compact Class-Specific Vision Transformers For Edge Intelligence
111. ICLR 2026WRING Out The Bias: A Rotation-Based Alternative To Projection Debiasing
112. ICLR 2026WSVD: Weighted Low-Rank Approximation for Fast and Efficient Execution of Low-Precision Vision-Language Models
113. ICLR 2026X-VLA: Soft-Prompted Transformer as Scalable Cross-Embodiment Vision-Language-Action Model
114. ICLR 2025A Decade's Battle on Dataset Bias: Are We There Yet?
115. ICLR 2025Accessing Vision Foundation Models via ImageNet-1K
116. ICLR 2025Action abstractions for amortized sampling
117. ICLR 2025Action Sequence Augmentation for Action Anticipation
118. ICLR 2025ALBAR: Adversarial Learning approach to mitigate Biases in Action Recognition
119. ICLR 2025Are Large Vision Language Models Good Game Players?
120. ICLR 2025Asymmetric Factorized Bilinear Operation for Vision Transformer
121. ICLR 2025Attribute-based Visual Reprogramming for Vision-Language Models
122. ICLR 2025Bidirectional Decoding: Improving Action Chunking via Guided Test-Time Sampling
123. ICLR 2025BlueSuffix: Reinforced Blue Teaming for Vision-Language Models Against Jailbreak Attacks
124. ICLR 2025Brain-inspired $L_p$-Convolution benefits large kernels and aligns better with visual cortex
125. ICLR 2025C-CLIP: Multimodal Continual Learning for Vision-Language Model
126. ICLR 2025Can We Talk Models Into Seeing the World Differently?
127. ICLR 2025ColPali: Efficient Document Retrieval with Vision Language Models
128. ICLR 2025Compositional Entailment Learning for Hyperbolic Vision-Language Models
129. ICLR 2025Control-oriented Clustering of Visual Latent Representation
130. ICLR 2025DAMO: Decoding by Accumulating Activations Momentum for Mitigating Hallucinations in Vision-Language Models
131. ICLR 2025Do Vision-Language Models Represent Space and How? Evaluating Spatial Frame of Reference under Ambiguities
132. ICLR 2025Do You Keep an Eye on What I Ask? Mitigating Multimodal Hallucination via Attention-Guided Ensemble Decoding
133. ICLR 2025Dynamic Multimodal Evaluation with Flexible Complexity by Vision-Language Bootstrapping
134. ICLR 2025Dynamic-LLaVA: Efficient Multimodal Large Language Models via Dynamic Vision-language Context Sparsification
135. ICLR 2025Efficient Action-Constrained Reinforcement Learning via Acceptance-Rejection Method and Augmented MDPs
136. ICLR 2025Efficient Off-Policy Learning for High-Dimensional Action Spaces
137. ICLR 2025ELFS: Label-Free Coreset Selection with Proxy Training Dynamics
138. ICLR 2025Enhancing End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Latent World Model
139. ICLR 2025ETA: Evaluating Then Aligning Safety of Vision Language Models at Inference Time
140. ICLR 2025Geometry of Neural Reinforcement Learning in Continuous State and Action Spaces
141. ICLR 2025GravMAD: Grounded Spatial Value Maps Guided Action Diffusion for Generalized 3D Manipulation
142. ICLR 2025Improving Large Language Model Planning with Action Sequence Similarity
143. ICLR 2025Inference Optimal VLMs Need Fewer Visual Tokens and More Parameters
144. ICLR 2025Interpreting and Editing Vision-Language Representations to Mitigate Hallucinations
145. ICLR 2025Kronecker Mask and Interpretive Prompts are Language-Action Video Learners
146. ICLR 2025Latent Action Pretraining from Videos
147. ICLR 2025Locality Alignment Improves Vision-Language Models
148. ICLR 2025Masked Temporal Interpolation Diffusion for Procedure Planning in Instructional Videos
149. ICLR 2025MGMapNet: Multi-Granularity Representation Learning for End-to-End Vectorized HD Map Construction
150. ICLR 2025Mixture of Experts Made Personalized: Federated Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models

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.