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

257 papers, page 3 of 6

101. CVPR 2023Vision Transformers Are Good Mask Auto-Labelers
102. CVPR 2023Visual Atoms: Pre-Training Vision Transformers With Sinusoidal Waves
103. CVPR 2023What You Can Reconstruct From a Shadow
104. CVPR 2023X-Pruner: eXplainable Pruning for Vision Transformers
105. CVPR 2023You Need Multiple Exiting: Dynamic Early Exiting for Accelerating Unified Vision Language Model
106. ICLR 2023$\mathrm{SE}(3)$-Equivariant Attention Networks for Shape Reconstruction in Function Space
107. ICLR 2023A Theoretical Understanding of Shallow Vision Transformers: Learning, Generalization, and Sample Complexity
108. ICLR 2023AIM: Adapting Image Models for Efficient Video Action Recognition
109. ICLR 2023Budgeted Training for Vision Transformer
110. ICLR 2023CLIP-Dissect: Automatic Description of Neuron Representations in Deep Vision Networks
111. ICLR 2023Conditional Positional Encodings for Vision Transformers
112. ICLR 2023Contextual Convolutional Networks
113. ICLR 2023Diagnosing and Rectifying Vision Models using Language
114. ICLR 2023Distributionally Robust Recourse Action
115. ICLR 2023Efficient Planning in a Compact Latent Action Space
116. ICLR 2023GAIN: On the Generalization of Instructional Action Understanding
117. ICLR 2023GPViT: A High Resolution Non-Hierarchical Vision Transformer with Group Propagation
118. ICLR 2023Graph Contrastive Learning for Skeleton-based Action Recognition
119. ICLR 2023Human MotionFormer: Transferring Human Motions with Vision Transformers
120. ICLR 2023Hyperbolic Self-paced Learning for Self-supervised Skeleton-based Action Representations
121. ICLR 2023Learning to Estimate Shapley Values with Vision Transformers
122. ICLR 2023Learning to Jointly Share and Prune Weights for Grounding Based Vision and Language Models
123. ICLR 2023LipsFormer: Introducing Lipschitz Continuity to Vision Transformers
124. ICLR 2023Masked Vision and Language Modeling for Multi-modal Representation Learning
125. ICLR 2023Mid-Vision Feedback
126. ICLR 2023MixPro: Data Augmentation with MaskMix and Progressive Attention Labeling for Vision Transformer
127. ICLR 2023MOAT: Alternating Mobile Convolution and Attention Brings Strong Vision Models
128. ICLR 2023Moving Forward by Moving Backward: Embedding Action Impact over Action Semantics
129. ICLR 2023PLOT: Prompt Learning with Optimal Transport for Vision-Language Models
130. ICLR 2023Programmatically Grounded, Compositionally Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
131. ICLR 2023Quasi-optimal Reinforcement Learning with Continuous Actions
132. ICLR 2023Sparse Token Transformer with Attention Back Tracking
133. ICLR 2023Universal Vision-Language Dense Retrieval: Learning A Unified Representation Space for Multi-Modal Retrieval
134. ICLR 2023Vision Transformer Adapter for Dense Predictions
135. ICLR 2023Write and Paint: Generative Vision-Language Models are Unified Modal Learners
136. ICML 2023A Critical View of Vision-Based Long-Term Dynamics Prediction Under Environment Misalignment
137. ICML 2023A Kernel-Based View of Language Model Fine-Tuning
138. ICML 2023Algorithmic Collective Action in Machine Learning
139. ICML 2023An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Nonstationary Bandit Learning
140. ICML 2023Approximation and Estimation Ability of Transformers for Sequence-to-Sequence Functions with Infinite Dimensional Input
141. ICML 2023Boosting Offline Reinforcement Learning with Action Preference Query
142. ICML 2023Combinatorial Neural Bandits
143. ICML 2023COMCAT: Towards Efficient Compression and Customization of Attention-Based Vision Models
144. ICML 2023Delayed Bandits: When Do Intermediate Observations Help?
145. ICML 2023Distilling Internet-Scale Vision-Language Models into Embodied Agents
146. ICML 2023Dynamical Linear Bandits
147. ICML 2023Efficient Self-supervised Learning with Contextualized Target Representations for Vision, Speech and Language
148. ICML 2023End-to-end Differentiable Clustering with Associative Memories
149. ICML 2023End-to-end Training of Deep Boltzmann Machines by Unbiased Contrastive Divergence with Local Mode Initialization
150. ICML 2023For Pre-Trained Vision Models in Motor Control, Not All Policy Learning Methods are Created Equal

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.