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 2025SceneTAP: Scene-Coherent Typographic Adversarial Planner against Vision-Language Models in Real-World Environments
102. CVPR 2025Seeing the Abstract: Translating the Abstract Language for Vision Language Models
103. CVPR 2025Semantic-guided Cross-Modal Prompt Learning for Skeleton-based Zero-shot Action Recognition
104. CVPR 2025ShowUI: One Vision-Language-Action Model for GUI Visual Agent
105. CVPR 2025Similarity-Guided Layer-Adaptive Vision Transformer for UAV Tracking
106. CVPR 2025SimLingo: Vision-Only Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving with Language-Action Alignment
107. CVPR 2025Skip Tuning: Pre-trained Vision-Language Models are Effective and Efficient Adapters Themselves
108. CVPR 2025SkySense-O: Towards Open-World Remote Sensing Interpretation with Vision-Centric Visual-Language Modeling
109. CVPR 2025SLADE: Shielding against Dual Exploits in Large Vision-Language Models
110. CVPR 2025SmartCLIP: Modular Vision-language Alignment with Identification Guarantees
111. CVPR 2025SOAP: Vision-Centric 3D Semantic Scene Completion with Scene-Adaptive Decoder and Occluded Region-Aware View Projection
112. CVPR 2025SOLAMI: Social Vision-Language-Action Modeling for Immersive Interaction with 3D Autonomous Characters
113. CVPR 2025SOLVE: Synergy of Language-Vision and End-to-End Networks for Autonomous Driving
114. CVPR 2025SPARC: Score Prompting and Adaptive Fusion for Zero-Shot Multi-Label Recognition in Vision-Language Models
115. CVPR 2025Spatiotemporal Decoupling for Efficient Vision-Based Occupancy Forecasting
116. CVPR 2025Steering Away from Harm: An Adaptive Approach to Defending Vision Language Model Against Jailbreaks
117. CVPR 2025Stochastic Human Motion Prediction with Memory of Action Transition and Action Characteristic
118. CVPR 2025SVLTA: Benchmarking Vision-Language Temporal Alignment via Synthetic Video Situation
119. CVPR 2025TAPT: Test-Time Adversarial Prompt Tuning for Robust Inference in Vision-Language Models
120. CVPR 2025Task-Aware Clustering for Prompting Vision-Language Models
121. CVPR 2025Taxonomy-Aware Evaluation of Vision-Language Models
122. CVPR 2025Temporal Action Detection Model Compression by Progressive Block Drop
123. CVPR 2025TopV: Compatible Token Pruning with Inference Time Optimization for Fast and Low-Memory Multimodal Vision Language Model
124. CVPR 2025VideoGEM: Training-free Action Grounding in Videos
125. CVPR 2025VILA-M3: Enhancing Vision-Language Models with Medical Expert Knowledge
126. CVPR 2025Vision-Guided Action: Enhancing 3D Human Motion Prediction with Gaze-informed Affordance in 3D Scenes
127. CVPR 2025Vision-Language Embodiment for Monocular Depth Estimation
128. CVPR 2025Vision-Language Gradient Descent-driven All-in-One Deep Unfolding Networks
129. CVPR 2025Vision-Language Model IP Protection via Prompt-based Learning
130. CVPR 2025Vision-Language Models Do Not Understand Negation
131. CVPR 2025VisionPAD: A Vision-Centric Pre-training Paradigm for Autonomous Driving
132. CVPR 2025VisionZip: Longer is Better but Not Necessary in Vision Language Models
133. CVPR 2025VL-RewardBench: A Challenging Benchmark for Vision-Language Generative Reward Models
134. CVPR 2025VLMs-Guided Representation Distillation for Efficient Vision-Based Reinforcement Learning
135. CVPR 2025VLsI: Verbalized Layers-to-Interactions from Large to Small Vision Language Models
136. CVPR 2025Weakly Supervised Temporal Action Localization via Dual-Prior Collaborative Learning Guided by Multimodal Large Language Models
137. CVPR 2025What's in the Image? A Deep-Dive into the Vision of Vision Language Models
138. CVPR 2025Words or Vision: Do Vision-Language Models Have Blind Faith in Text?
139. CVPR 2025Your Large Vision-Language Model Only Needs A Few Attention Heads For Visual Grounding
140. CVPR 2025Zero-shot RGB-D Point Cloud Registration with Pre-trained Large Vision Model
141. ICLR 2025A Decade's Battle on Dataset Bias: Are We There Yet?
142. ICLR 2025Accessing Vision Foundation Models via ImageNet-1K
143. ICLR 2025Action abstractions for amortized sampling
144. ICLR 2025Action Sequence Augmentation for Action Anticipation
145. ICLR 2025ALBAR: Adversarial Learning approach to mitigate Biases in Action Recognition
146. ICLR 2025Are Large Vision Language Models Good Game Players?
147. ICLR 2025Asymmetric Factorized Bilinear Operation for Vision Transformer
148. ICLR 2025Attribute-based Visual Reprogramming for Vision-Language Models
149. ICLR 2025Bidirectional Decoding: Improving Action Chunking via Guided Test-Time Sampling
150. ICLR 2025BlueSuffix: Reinforced Blue Teaming for Vision-Language Models Against Jailbreak Attacks

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.