Vision-Language-Action papers, 2023–2026
VLA and end-to-end driving
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 1,639 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 88 | 30 | 34 | 105 | 257 |
| 2024 | 108 | 29 | 62 | 130 | 329 |
| 2025 | 108 | 64 | 33 | 140 | 345 |
| 2026 | 204 | 113 | 126 | 265 | 708 |
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
1,639 papers, page 30 of 33
- CVPR 2023Re2TAL: Rewiring Pretrained Video Backbones for Reversible Temporal Action Localization
- CVPR 2023ReasonNet: End-to-End Driving With Temporal and Global Reasoning
- CVPR 2023Reducing the Label Bias for Timestamp Supervised Temporal Action Segmentation
- CVPR 2023RGB No More: Minimally-Decoded JPEG Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2023RIFormer: Keep Your Vision Backbone Effective but Removing Token Mixer
- CVPR 2023Search-Map-Search: A Frame Selection Paradigm for Action Recognition
- CVPR 2023Seeing What You Miss: Vision-Language Pre-Training With Semantic Completion Learning
- CVPR 2023Slide-Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer With Local Self-Attention
- CVPR 2023Soft-Landing Strategy for Alleviating the Task Discrepancy Problem in Temporal Action Localization Tasks
- CVPR 2023SparseViT: Revisiting Activation Sparsity for Efficient High-Resolution Vision Transformer
- CVPR 2023Sparsifiner: Learning Sparse Instance-Dependent Attention for Efficient Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2023STMixer: A One-Stage Sparse Action Detector
- CVPR 2023STMT: A Spatial-Temporal Mesh Transformer for MoCap-Based Action Recognition
- CVPR 2023SVFormer: Semi-Supervised Video Transformer for Action Recognition
- CVPR 2023Task Residual for Tuning Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2023TBP-Former: Learning Temporal Bird's-Eye-View Pyramid for Joint Perception and Prediction in Vision-Centric Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2023Teaching Matters: Investigating the Role of Supervision in Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2023Teaching Structured Vision & Language Concepts to Vision & Language Models
- CVPR 2023The Wisdom of Crowds: Temporal Progressive Attention for Early Action Prediction
- CVPR 2023Therbligs in Action: Video Understanding Through Motion Primitives
- CVPR 2023Think Twice Before Driving: Towards Scalable Decoders for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2023TimeBalance: Temporally-Invariant and Temporally-Distinctive Video Representations for Semi-Supervised Action Recognition
- CVPR 2023Token Turing Machines
- CVPR 2023Trade-Off Between Robustness and Accuracy of Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2023Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Vision Transformers With Token Gradient Regularization
- CVPR 2023TriDet: Temporal Action Detection With Relative Boundary Modeling
- CVPR 2023TrojViT: Trojan Insertion in Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2023Two-Stream Networks for Weakly-Supervised Temporal Action Localization With Semantic-Aware Mechanisms
- CVPR 2023Uncertainty-Aware Vision-Based Metric Cross-View Geolocalization
- CVPR 2023Uni-Perceiver v2: A Generalist Model for Large-Scale Vision and Vision-Language Tasks
- CVPR 2023Unified Keypoint-Based Action Recognition Framework via Structured Keypoint Pooling
- CVPR 2023Vision Transformer With Super Token Sampling
- CVPR 2023Vision Transformers Are Good Mask Auto-Labelers
- CVPR 2023Visual Atoms: Pre-Training Vision Transformers With Sinusoidal Waves
- CVPR 2023What You Can Reconstruct From a Shadow
- CVPR 2023X-Pruner: eXplainable Pruning for Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2023You Need Multiple Exiting: Dynamic Early Exiting for Accelerating Unified Vision Language Model
- ICLR 2023$\mathrm{SE}(3)$-Equivariant Attention Networks for Shape Reconstruction in Function Space
- ICLR 2023A Theoretical Understanding of Shallow Vision Transformers: Learning, Generalization, and Sample Complexity
- ICLR 2023AIM: Adapting Image Models for Efficient Video Action Recognition
- ICLR 2023Budgeted Training for Vision Transformer
- ICLR 2023CLIP-Dissect: Automatic Description of Neuron Representations in Deep Vision Networks
- ICLR 2023Conditional Positional Encodings for Vision Transformers
- ICLR 2023Contextual Convolutional Networks
- ICLR 2023Diagnosing and Rectifying Vision Models using Language
- ICLR 2023Distributionally Robust Recourse Action
- ICLR 2023Efficient Planning in a Compact Latent Action Space
- ICLR 2023GAIN: On the Generalization of Instructional Action Understanding
- ICLR 2023GPViT: A High Resolution Non-Hierarchical Vision Transformer with Group Propagation
- ICLR 2023Graph Contrastive Learning for Skeleton-based Action Recognition
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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.