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

1,639 papers, page 31 of 33

1501. ICLR 2023Human MotionFormer: Transferring Human Motions with Vision Transformers
1502. ICLR 2023Hyperbolic Self-paced Learning for Self-supervised Skeleton-based Action Representations
1503. ICLR 2023Learning to Estimate Shapley Values with Vision Transformers
1504. ICLR 2023Learning to Jointly Share and Prune Weights for Grounding Based Vision and Language Models
1505. ICLR 2023LipsFormer: Introducing Lipschitz Continuity to Vision Transformers
1506. ICLR 2023Masked Vision and Language Modeling for Multi-modal Representation Learning
1507. ICLR 2023Mid-Vision Feedback
1508. ICLR 2023MixPro: Data Augmentation with MaskMix and Progressive Attention Labeling for Vision Transformer
1509. ICLR 2023MOAT: Alternating Mobile Convolution and Attention Brings Strong Vision Models
1510. ICLR 2023Moving Forward by Moving Backward: Embedding Action Impact over Action Semantics
1511. ICLR 2023PLOT: Prompt Learning with Optimal Transport for Vision-Language Models
1512. ICLR 2023Programmatically Grounded, Compositionally Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
1513. ICLR 2023Quasi-optimal Reinforcement Learning with Continuous Actions
1514. ICLR 2023Sparse Token Transformer with Attention Back Tracking
1515. ICLR 2023Universal Vision-Language Dense Retrieval: Learning A Unified Representation Space for Multi-Modal Retrieval
1516. ICLR 2023Vision Transformer Adapter for Dense Predictions
1517. ICLR 2023Write and Paint: Generative Vision-Language Models are Unified Modal Learners
1518. ICML 2023A Critical View of Vision-Based Long-Term Dynamics Prediction Under Environment Misalignment
1519. ICML 2023A Kernel-Based View of Language Model Fine-Tuning
1520. ICML 2023Algorithmic Collective Action in Machine Learning
1521. ICML 2023An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Nonstationary Bandit Learning
1522. ICML 2023Approximation and Estimation Ability of Transformers for Sequence-to-Sequence Functions with Infinite Dimensional Input
1523. ICML 2023Boosting Offline Reinforcement Learning with Action Preference Query
1524. ICML 2023Combinatorial Neural Bandits
1525. ICML 2023COMCAT: Towards Efficient Compression and Customization of Attention-Based Vision Models
1526. ICML 2023Delayed Bandits: When Do Intermediate Observations Help?
1527. ICML 2023Distilling Internet-Scale Vision-Language Models into Embodied Agents
1528. ICML 2023Dynamical Linear Bandits
1529. ICML 2023Efficient Self-supervised Learning with Contextualized Target Representations for Vision, Speech and Language
1530. ICML 2023End-to-end Differentiable Clustering with Associative Memories
1531. ICML 2023End-to-end Training of Deep Boltzmann Machines by Unbiased Contrastive Divergence with Local Mode Initialization
1532. ICML 2023For Pre-Trained Vision Models in Motor Control, Not All Policy Learning Methods are Created Equal
1533. ICML 2023Global Context Vision Transformers
1534. ICML 2023Hiera: A Hierarchical Vision Transformer without the Bells-and-Whistles
1535. ICML 2023ILLUME: Rationalizing Vision-Language Models through Human Interactions
1536. ICML 2023Improving Visual Prompt Tuning for Self-supervised Vision Transformers
1537. ICML 2023Infinite Action Contextual Bandits with Reusable Data Exhaust
1538. ICML 2023Learning Intuitive Policies Using Action Features
1539. ICML 2023LIV: Language-Image Representations and Rewards for Robotic Control
1540. ICML 2023MAGANet: Achieving Combinatorial Generalization by Modeling a Group Action
1541. ICML 2023Multi-Environment Pretraining Enables Transfer to Action Limited Datasets
1542. ICML 2023Oscillation-free Quantization for Low-bit Vision Transformers
1543. ICML 2023PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model
1544. ICML 2023Quantum Policy Gradient Algorithm with Optimized Action Decoding
1545. ICML 2023Scaling Vision Transformers to 22 Billion Parameters
1546. ICML 2023Short-lived High-volume Bandits
1547. ICML 2023Ske2Grid: Skeleton-to-Grid Representation Learning for Action Recognition
1548. ICML 2023Tuning Computer Vision Models With Task Rewards
1549. ICML 2023Understanding and Defending Patched-based Adversarial Attacks for Vision Transformer
1550. ICML 2023Unifying Molecular and Textual Representations via Multi-task Language Modelling

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.