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

255 papers, page 4 of 6

151. ICML 2025SparseVLM: Visual Token Sparsification for Efficient Vision-Language Model Inference
152. ICML 2025Stochastic Layer-Wise Shuffle for Improving Vision Mamba Training
153. ICML 2025Targeted Unlearning with Single Layer Unlearning Gradient
154. ICML 2025Test-time Adapted Reinforcement Learning with Action Entropy Regularization
155. ICML 2025Textural or Textual: How Vision-Language Models Read Text in Images
156. ICML 2025The Courage to Stop: Overcoming Sunk Cost Fallacy in Deep Reinforcement Learning
157. ICML 2025Vintix: Action Model via In-Context Reinforcement Learning
158. ICML 2025Vision Graph Prompting via Semantic Low-Rank Decomposition
159. ICML 2025Zero Shot Generalization of Vision-Based RL Without Data Augmentation
160. ICML 2024A Contextual Combinatorial Bandit Approach to Negotiation
161. ICML 2024A Touch, Vision, and Language Dataset for Multimodal Alignment
162. ICML 2024AD3: Implicit Action is the Key for World Models to Distinguish the Diverse Visual Distractors
163. ICML 2024Amend to Alignment: Decoupled Prompt Tuning for Mitigating Spurious Correlation in Vision-Language Models
164. ICML 2024An Embodied Generalist Agent in 3D World
165. ICML 2024An Empirical Study Into What Matters for Calibrating Vision-Language Models
166. ICML 2024Beyond Sole Strength: Customized Ensembles for Generalized Vision-Language Models
167. ICML 2024Candidate Pseudolabel Learning: Enhancing Vision-Language Models by Prompt Tuning with Unlabeled Data
168. ICML 2024Careful with that Scalpel: Improving Gradient Surgery with an EMA
169. ICML 2024Causal Action Influence Aware Counterfactual Data Augmentation
170. ICML 2024COALA: A Practical and Vision-Centric Federated Learning Platform
171. ICML 2024Connecting the Dots: Collaborative Fine-tuning for Black-Box Vision-Language Models
172. ICML 2024CrossGET: Cross-Guided Ensemble of Tokens for Accelerating Vision-Language Transformers
173. ICML 2024Data-efficient Large Vision Models through Sequential Autoregression
174. ICML 2024Diagnosing the Compositional Knowledge of Vision Language Models from a Game-Theoretic View
175. ICML 2024Enhancing Value Function Estimation through First-Order State-Action Dynamics in Offline Reinforcement Learning
176. ICML 2024Enhancing Vision Transformer: Amplifying Non-Linearity in Feedforward Network Module
177. ICML 2024ERQ: Error Reduction for Post-Training Quantization of Vision Transformers
178. ICML 2024Evaluating and Analyzing Relationship Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models
179. ICML 2024Explaining Probabilistic Models with Distributional Values
180. ICML 2024Exploring Intrinsic Dimension for Vision-Language Model Pruning
181. ICML 2024Factored-Reward Bandits with Intermediate Observations
182. ICML 2024Failures Are Fated, But Can Be Faded: Characterizing and Mitigating Unwanted Behaviors in Large-Scale Vision and Language Models
183. ICML 2024Fast-Slow Test-Time Adaptation for Online Vision-and-Language Navigation
184. ICML 2024FiT: Flexible Vision Transformer for Diffusion Model
185. ICML 2024Fool Your (Vision and) Language Model with Embarrassingly Simple Permutations
186. ICML 2024GeoReasoner: Geo-localization with Reasoning in Street Views using a Large Vision-Language Model
187. ICML 2024How to Leverage Diverse Demonstrations in Offline Imitation Learning
188. ICML 2024Image Fusion via Vision-Language Model
189. ICML 2024Improving Interpretation Faithfulness for Vision Transformers
190. ICML 2024In-Context Reinforcement Learning for Variable Action Spaces
191. ICML 2024Investigating Pre-Training Objectives for Generalization in Vision-Based Reinforcement Learning
192. ICML 2024Learning Adaptive and View-Invariant Vision Transformer for Real-Time UAV Tracking
193. ICML 2024Learning Exceptional Subgroups by End-to-End Maximizing KL-Divergence
194. ICML 2024Libra: Building Decoupled Vision System on Large Language Models
195. ICML 2024Machine Vision Therapy: Multimodal Large Language Models Can Enhance Visual Robustness via Denoising In-Context Learning
196. ICML 2024Memory-Space Visual Prompting for Efficient Vision-Language Fine-Tuning
197. ICML 2024Mimicking Better by Matching the Approximate Action Distribution
198. ICML 2024MMT-Bench: A Comprehensive Multimodal Benchmark for Evaluating Large Vision-Language Models Towards Multitask AGI
199. ICML 2024Model-based Reinforcement Learning for Parameterized Action Spaces
200. ICML 2024Modeling Caption Diversity in Contrastive Vision-Language Pretraining

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.