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 32 of 33

1551. ICML 2023UPop: Unified and Progressive Pruning for Compressing Vision-Language Transformers
1552. NeurIPS 2023Active Vision Reinforcement Learning under Limited Visual Observability
1553. NeurIPS 2023Activity Grammars for Temporal Action Segmentation
1554. NeurIPS 2023Adaptive Contextual Perception: How To Generalize To New Backgrounds and Ambiguous Objects
1555. NeurIPS 2023AiluRus: A Scalable ViT Framework for Dense Prediction
1556. NeurIPS 2023Are Diffusion Models Vision-And-Language Reasoners?
1557. NeurIPS 2023Auslan-Daily: Australian Sign Language Translation for Daily Communication and News
1558. NeurIPS 2023AVIS: Autonomous Visual Information Seeking with Large Language Model Agent
1559. NeurIPS 2023AVOIDDS: Aircraft Vision-based Intruder Detection Dataset and Simulator
1560. NeurIPS 2023Benchmarking Robustness of Adaptation Methods on Pre-trained Vision-Language Models
1561. NeurIPS 2023BERT Lost Patience Won't Be Robust to Adversarial Slowdown
1562. NeurIPS 2023Brain encoding models based on multimodal transformers can transfer across language and vision
1563. NeurIPS 2023Bullying10K: A Large-Scale Neuromorphic Dataset towards Privacy-Preserving Bullying Recognition
1564. NeurIPS 2023Bypassing the Simulator: Near-Optimal Adversarial Linear Contextual Bandits
1565. NeurIPS 2023Category-Extensible Out-of-Distribution Detection via Hierarchical Context Descriptions
1566. NeurIPS 2023Cheap and Quick: Efficient Vision-Language Instruction Tuning for Large Language Models
1567. NeurIPS 2023Clifford Group Equivariant Neural Networks
1568. NeurIPS 2023Coherent Soft Imitation Learning
1569. NeurIPS 2023Compressed Video Prompt Tuning
1570. NeurIPS 2023ComSL: A Composite Speech-Language Model for End-to-End Speech-to-Text Translation
1571. NeurIPS 2023Contrast, Attend and Diffuse to Decode High-Resolution Images from Brain Activities
1572. NeurIPS 2023Convolutions Die Hard: Open-Vocabulary Segmentation with Single Frozen Convolutional CLIP
1573. NeurIPS 2023DataComp: In search of the next generation of multimodal datasets
1574. NeurIPS 2023DesCo: Learning Object Recognition with Rich Language Descriptions
1575. NeurIPS 2023DiffVL: Scaling Up Soft Body Manipulation using Vision-Language Driven Differentiable Physics
1576. NeurIPS 2023Distilling Out-of-Distribution Robustness from Vision-Language Foundation Models
1577. NeurIPS 2023Diversify Your Vision Datasets with Automatic Diffusion-based Augmentation
1578. NeurIPS 2023Efficient Batched Algorithm for Contextual Linear Bandits with Large Action Space via Soft Elimination
1579. NeurIPS 2023EgoSchema: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Very Long-form Video Language Understanding
1580. NeurIPS 2023EmbodiedGPT: Vision-Language Pre-Training via Embodied Chain of Thought
1581. NeurIPS 2023Enhancing CLIP with CLIP: Exploring Pseudolabeling for Limited-Label Prompt Tuning
1582. NeurIPS 2023Enhancing Motion Deblurring in High-Speed Scenes with Spike Streams
1583. NeurIPS 2023Exploring Diverse In-Context Configurations for Image Captioning
1584. NeurIPS 2023Exploring Geometry of Blind Spots in Vision models
1585. NeurIPS 2023Fast Attention Over Long Sequences With Dynamic Sparse Flash Attention
1586. NeurIPS 2023Fine-grained Late-interaction Multi-modal Retrieval for Retrieval Augmented Visual Question Answering
1587. NeurIPS 2023FlowPG: Action-constrained Policy Gradient with Normalizing Flows
1588. NeurIPS 2023For SALE: State-Action Representation Learning for Deep Reinforcement Learning
1589. NeurIPS 2023Frequency-Enhanced Data Augmentation for Vision-and-Language Navigation
1590. NeurIPS 2023From Pixels to UI Actions: Learning to Follow Instructions via Graphical User Interfaces
1591. NeurIPS 2023Generating Images with Multimodal Language Models
1592. NeurIPS 2023GenEval: An object-focused framework for evaluating text-to-image alignment
1593. NeurIPS 2023GraphAdapter: Tuning Vision-Language Models With Dual Knowledge Graph
1594. NeurIPS 2023Hardware Resilience Properties of Text-Guided Image Classifiers
1595. NeurIPS 2023Into the Single Cell Multiverse: an End-to-End Dataset for Procedural Knowledge Extraction in Biomedical Texts
1596. NeurIPS 2023Joint Attribute and Model Generalization Learning for Privacy-Preserving Action Recognition
1597. NeurIPS 2023LAMM: Language-Assisted Multi-Modal Instruction-Tuning Dataset, Framework, and Benchmark
1598. NeurIPS 2023Language Model Tokenizers Introduce Unfairness Between Languages
1599. NeurIPS 2023Large language models transition from integrating across position-yoked, exponential windows to structure-yoked, power-law windows
1600. NeurIPS 2023Learning Human Action Recognition Representations Without Real Humans

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.