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

329 papers, page 3 of 7

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
131. ICLR 2024A Simple Romance Between Multi-Exit Vision Transformer and Token Reduction
132. ICLR 2024Achieving Sample and Computational Efficient Reinforcement Learning by Action Space Reduction via Grouping
133. ICLR 2024AntGPT: Can Large Language Models Help Long-term Action Anticipation from Videos?
134. ICLR 2024Boundary Denoising for Video Activity Localization
135. ICLR 2024Cascading Reinforcement Learning
136. ICLR 2024Decoupling regularization from the action space
137. ICLR 2024Dynamic Neighborhood Construction for Structured Large Discrete Action Spaces
138. ICLR 2024ECoFLaP: Efficient Coarse-to-Fine Layer-Wise Pruning for Vision-Language Models
139. ICLR 2024EmerNeRF: Emergent Spatial-Temporal Scene Decomposition via Self-Supervision
140. ICLR 2024EventRPG: Event Data Augmentation with Relevance Propagation Guidance
141. ICLR 2024Faithful Vision-Language Interpretation via Concept Bottleneck Models
142. ICLR 2024FROSTER: Frozen CLIP is A Strong Teacher for Open-Vocabulary Action Recognition
143. ICLR 2024How to Fine-Tune Vision Models with SGD
144. ICLR 2024Image Clustering Conditioned on Text Criteria
145. ICLR 2024Inducing High Energy-Latency of Large Vision-Language Models with Verbose Images
146. ICLR 2024INViTE: INterpret and Control Vision-Language Models with Text Explanations
147. ICLR 2024Large Language Models as Automated Aligners for benchmarking Vision-Language Models
148. ICLR 2024Learning Grounded Action Abstractions from Language
149. ICLR 2024Learning Optimal Contracts: How to Exploit Small Action Spaces
150. ICLR 2024Leveraging Unpaired Data for Vision-Language Generative Models via Cycle Consistency

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.