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

265 papers, page 4 of 6

151. CVPR 2026PDCR Perception-Decomposed Confidence Reward for Vision-Language Reasoning
152. CVPR 2026Percept-WAM Perception-Enhanced World-Awareness-Action Model for Robust End-to-End Autonomous Driving
153. CVPR 2026Polyphony Diffusion-based Dual-Hand Action Segmentation with Alternating Vision Transformer and
154. CVPR 2026PP-OCRv5 A Specialized 5M-Parameter Model Rivaling Billion-Parameter Vision-Language Models on
155. CVPR 2026Prefill-Time Intervention for Mitigating Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models
156. CVPR 2026Principled Steering via Null-space Projection for Jailbreak Defense in Vision-Language
157. CVPR 2026PRISM Learning a Shared Primitive Space for Transferable Skeleton Action
158. CVPR 2026Probing and Bridging Geometry-Interaction Cues for Affordance Reasoning in Vision
159. CVPR 2026Progress-Think Semantic Progress Reasoning for Vision-Language Navigation
160. CVPR 2026Progressive Cross-Modal Causal Intervention for Long-Term Action Recognition
161. CVPR 2026Prompt-Anchored Vision-Text Distillation for Lifelong Person Re-identification
162. CVPR 2026PromptDepth Efficient and Promptable Geometric 3D Vision Model for Embodied
163. CVPR 2026Prototypical Action Reasoning Facilitated by Vision-Language Alignment for Egocentric Action
164. CVPR 2026Proxy3D Efficient 3D Representations for Vision-Language Models via Semantic Clustering
165. CVPR 2026Prune2Drive A Plug-and-Play Framework for Accelerating Vision-Language Models in Autonomous
166. CVPR 2026QUANTIPHY A Quantitative Benchmark Evaluating Physical Reasoning Abilities of Vision-Language
167. CVPR 2026QuantVLA Scale-Calibrated Post-Training Quantization for Vision-Language-Action Models
168. CVPR 2026QuietPrune Query-Guided Early Token Pruning for Vision-Language Models
169. CVPR 2026Random Wins All Rethinking Grouping Strategies for Vision Tokens
170. CVPR 2026RE-VLM Event-Augmented Vision-Language Model for Scene Understanding
171. CVPR 2026Reading Your Actions Learning Generalizable Action Representations via Pre-training AEMG
172. CVPR 2026ResAD Normalized Residual Trajectory Modeling for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
173. CVPR 2026Residual Decoding Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models via History-Aware
174. CVPR 2026Rethinking Asymmetric Quantization Hidden Symmetry in Vision Model Weights
175. CVPR 2026Rethinking Token Reduction for Large Vision-Language Models
176. CVPR 2026Saliency-Driven Token Merging for Vision Transformers
177. CVPR 2026Saliency-R1 Enforcing Interpretable and Faithful Vision-language Reasoning via Saliency-map Alignment
178. CVPR 2026Same or Not Enhancing Visual Perception in Vision-Language Models
179. CVPR 2026SaPaVe Towards Active Perception and Manipulation in Vision-Language Action Models
180. CVPR 2026Scaling Parallel Sequence Models to Vision Foundation Models
181. CVPR 2026Scaling Test-Time Robustness of Vision-Language Models via Self-Critical Inference Framework
182. CVPR 2026SCoRe Salience-Coverage Reduction for Vision Token Pruning in Vision-Language Models
183. CVPR 2026SEA-Vision A Multilingual Benchmark for Comprehensive Document and Scene Text
184. CVPR 2026See What I Mean Aligning Vision and Language Representations for
185. CVPR 2026Seeing Clearly Reasoning Confidently Plug-and-Play Remedies for Vision Language Model
186. CVPR 2026Seeing Motion Through Polarity for Event-based Action Recognition
187. CVPR 2026SemanticVLA Towards Semantic Reasoning over Action Memorization via Synergistic Explicit
188. CVPR 2026ShelfOcc Native 3D Supervision beyond LiDAR for Vision-Based Occupancy Estimation
189. CVPR 2026SIF Semantically In-Distribution Fingerprints for Large Vision-Language Models
190. CVPR 2026SigLino Efficient Multi-Teacher Distillation for Agglomerative Vision Foundation Models
191. CVPR 2026SIMPACT Simulation-Enabled Action Planning using Vision-Language Models
192. CVPR 2026Simple-ViLMedSAM Simple Text Prompts Meet Vision-Language Models for Medical Image
193. CVPR 2026SineProject Machine Unlearning for Stable Vision-Language Alignment
194. CVPR 2026SkeletonContext Skeleton-side Context Prompt Learning for Zero-Shot Skeleton-based Action Recognition
195. CVPR 2026SMV-EAR Bring Spatiotemporal Multi-View Representation Learning into Efficient Event-Based Action
196. CVPR 2026SpaceMind Camera-Guided Modality Fusion for Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
197. CVPR 2026SpatiaLQA A Benchmark for Evaluating Spatial Logical Reasoning in Vision-Language
198. CVPR 2026Spatio-Temporal Difference Guided Motion Deblurring with the Complementary Vision Sensor
199. CVPR 2026Spectral Scalpel Amplifying Adjacent Action Discrepancy via Frequency-Selective Filtering for
200. CVPR 2026SpeeDiff Scalable Pixel-Anchored End-to-End Latent Diffusion Model

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.