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. ICML 2026SLAP: The Semantic Least Action Principle for Variational Video-Language Modeling
102. ICML 2026SPAR: Support-Preserving Action Rectification
103. ICML 2026Spatial Memory for Out-of-Vision Manipulation in Vision-Language-Action
104. ICML 2026SpecPrune-VLA: Accelerating Vision-Language-Action Models via Action-Aware Self-Speculative Pruning
105. ICML 2026Spectral Heat Flow for Conservative Token Condensation in Vision-Language Models
106. ICML 2026StableVLA: Towards Robust Vision-Language-Action Models without Extra Data
107. ICML 2026Tabero: Learning Gentle Manipulation with Closed-Loop Force Feedback from Vision, Touch, and Language
108. ICML 2026Temporal Difference Calibration in Sequential Tasks: Application to Vision-Language-Action Models
109. ICML 2026TGV-KV: Text-Grounded KV Eviction for Vision-Language Models
110. ICML 2026The Lie We Tell: Correcting the Euclidean Fallacy in Vision Language Action Policies via Score Matching on Tangent Space
111. ICML 2026TRAP: Hijacking VLA CoT-Reasoning via Adversarial Patches
112. ICML 2026UHR-BAT: Budget-Aware Token Compression Vision-Language model for Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing
113. ICML 2026Understanding Behavior Cloning with Action Quantization
114. ICML 2026Unlocking Noise-Resistant Vision: Key Architectural Secrets for Robust Models Against Gaussian Noise
115. ICML 2026VEQ: Modality-Adaptive Quantization for MoE Vision-Language Models
116. ICML 2026VERA-V: Variational Inference Framework for Jailbreaking Vision-Language Models
117. ICML 2026Vision Language Models Cannot Reason About Physical Transformation
118. ICML 2026Vision Transformer Finetuning Benefits from Non-Smooth Components
119. ICML 2026Vision-DeepResearch: Incentivizing DeepResearch Capability in Multimodal Large Language Models
120. ICML 2026Vision-Language-Action Pretraining from Large-Scale Human Videos
121. ICML 2026ViSurf: Visual Supervised-and-Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Large Vision-and-Language Models
122. ICML 2026VLA-Arena: An Open-Source Framework for Benchmarking Vision-Language-Action Models
123. ICML 2026VLANeXt: Recipes for Building Strong VLA Models
124. ICML 2026VLM-RobustBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Robustness of Vision-Language Models
125. ICML 2026What Does Vision Tool-Use Reinforcement Learning Really Learn? Disentangling Tool-Induced and Intrinsic Effects for Crop-and-Zoom
126. ICML 2026XR-1: Towards Versatile Vision-Language-Action Models via Learning Unified Vision-Motion Representations

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.