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

236 papers, page 4 of 5

151. ICLR 2025MMFakeBench: A Mixed-Source Multimodal Misinformation Detection Benchmark for LVLMs
152. ICLR 2025Model merging with SVD to tie the Knots
153. ICLR 2025Neural Eulerian Scene Flow Fields
154. ICLR 2025OS-ATLAS: Foundation Action Model for Generalist GUI Agents
155. ICLR 2025PADRe: A Unifying Polynomial Attention Drop-in Replacement for Efficient Vision Transformer
156. ICLR 2025PETRA: Parallel End-to-end Training with Reversible Architectures
157. ICLR 2025POTEC: Off-Policy Contextual Bandits for Large Action Spaces via Policy Decomposition
158. ICLR 2025Reducing Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models via Latent Space Steering
159. ICLR 2025REMEDY: Recipe Merging Dynamics in Large Vision-Language Models
160. ICLR 2025Revealing and Reducing Gender Biases in Vision and Language Assistants (VLAs)
161. ICLR 2025Self-Correcting Decoding with Generative Feedback for Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models
162. ICLR 2025Self-Introspective Decoding: Alleviating Hallucinations for Large Vision-Language Models
163. ICLR 2025Solving Token Gradient Conflict in Mixture-of-Experts for Large Vision-Language Model
164. ICLR 2025TASAR: Transfer-based Attack on Skeletal Action Recognition
165. ICLR 2025TEOChat: A Large Vision-Language Assistant for Temporal Earth Observation Data
166. ICLR 2025Think Then React: Towards Unconstrained Action-to-Reaction Motion Generation
167. ICLR 2025TLDR: Token-Level Detective Reward Model for Large Vision Language Models
168. ICLR 2025Towards Realistic UAV Vision-Language Navigation: Platform, Benchmark, and Methodology
169. ICLR 2025TraceVLA: Visual Trace Prompting Enhances Spatial-Temporal Awareness for Generalist Robotic Policies
170. ICLR 2025Tree of Attributes Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models
171. ICLR 2025TULIP: Token-length Upgraded CLIP
172. ICLR 2025Two Effects, One Trigger: On the Modality Gap, Object Bias, and Information Imbalance in Contrastive Vision-Language Models
173. ICLR 2025VCR: A Task for Pixel-Level Complex Reasoning in Vision Language Models via Restoring Occluded Text
174. ICLR 2025Vision and Language Synergy for Rehearsal Free Continual Learning
175. ICLR 2025VL-Cache: Sparsity and Modality-Aware KV Cache Compression for Vision-Language Model Inference Acceleration
176. ICLR 2025VLAS: Vision-Language-Action Model with Speech Instructions for Customized Robot Manipulation
177. ICLR 2025VLM2Vec: Training Vision-Language Models for Massive Multimodal Embedding Tasks
178. ICLR 2024A Simple Romance Between Multi-Exit Vision Transformer and Token Reduction
179. ICLR 2024Achieving Sample and Computational Efficient Reinforcement Learning by Action Space Reduction via Grouping
180. ICLR 2024AntGPT: Can Large Language Models Help Long-term Action Anticipation from Videos?
181. ICLR 2024Boundary Denoising for Video Activity Localization
182. ICLR 2024Cascading Reinforcement Learning
183. ICLR 2024Decoupling regularization from the action space
184. ICLR 2024Dynamic Neighborhood Construction for Structured Large Discrete Action Spaces
185. ICLR 2024ECoFLaP: Efficient Coarse-to-Fine Layer-Wise Pruning for Vision-Language Models
186. ICLR 2024EmerNeRF: Emergent Spatial-Temporal Scene Decomposition via Self-Supervision
187. ICLR 2024EventRPG: Event Data Augmentation with Relevance Propagation Guidance
188. ICLR 2024Faithful Vision-Language Interpretation via Concept Bottleneck Models
189. ICLR 2024FROSTER: Frozen CLIP is A Strong Teacher for Open-Vocabulary Action Recognition
190. ICLR 2024How to Fine-Tune Vision Models with SGD
191. ICLR 2024Image Clustering Conditioned on Text Criteria
192. ICLR 2024Inducing High Energy-Latency of Large Vision-Language Models with Verbose Images
193. ICLR 2024INViTE: INterpret and Control Vision-Language Models with Text Explanations
194. ICLR 2024Large Language Models as Automated Aligners for benchmarking Vision-Language Models
195. ICLR 2024Learning Grounded Action Abstractions from Language
196. ICLR 2024Learning Optimal Contracts: How to Exploit Small Action Spaces
197. ICLR 2024Leveraging Unpaired Data for Vision-Language Generative Models via Cycle Consistency
198. ICLR 2024Matrix Manifold Neural Networks++
199. ICLR 2024Measuring Vision-Language STEM Skills of Neural Models
200. ICLR 2024MMICL: Empowering Vision-language Model with Multi-Modal In-Context Learning

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.