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

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151. NeurIPS 2026SEAR: Sample Efficient Action Chunking Reinforcement Learning
152. NeurIPS 2026See it to Place it: Evolving Macro Placements with Vision Language Models
153. NeurIPS 2026Segment and Select: Vision-Language Segmentation in 3D Scenarios
154. NeurIPS 2026SelfCritic-VLA: Language as Intrinsic Critic for Vision Language Action Models in Autonomous Driving
155. NeurIPS 2026Semantic Consistency of Vision Tokens: A Vision-Centric Perspective on Multimodal Large Language Models
156. NeurIPS 2026Senses Wide Shut: A Representation-Action Gap in Omnimodal LLMs
157. NeurIPS 2026SF-DST: Adapting Vision-Language Models for Anomaly Detection via Asymmetric Modulation and A-LoRA
158. NeurIPS 2026Simple yet Effective Semi-supervised Knowledge Distillation from Vision-Language Models via Dual-Head Optimization
159. NeurIPS 2026SimVLA: Attributing Gains in VLA Models Through Controlled Ablation
160. NeurIPS 2026SOLA: A Structured Operator Library for Attention in Pretrained Vision Transformers
161. NeurIPS 2026Sophon: A Procedural Diagnostic for Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
162. NeurIPS 2026SP$^2$ec: Adaptive Self-Speculative Decoding for Vision-Language Models
163. NeurIPS 2026Spatial Representation Distillation and Knowledge Routing for Vision-Language-Action Models
164. NeurIPS 2026SpatialClaw: Rethinking Action Interface for Agentic Spatial Reasoning
165. NeurIPS 2026SPHQuant: Efficient extreme low bit weight quantization for Vision-Language Models
166. NeurIPS 2026Stage-wise Attention-Guided Region Sequencing for Adversarial Attacks on Large Vision-Language Models
167. NeurIPS 2026State-Action Selection in General Stochastic Games under Regularized Policy Gradient Methods
168. NeurIPS 2026Static-Dynamic Disentanglement for Efficient Multi-Frame Vision-Language-Action Models
169. NeurIPS 2026StreamPI: Streaming Multimodal Temporal Modeling for Vision-Language-Action Models
170. NeurIPS 2026SurGe: Improved Surface Geometry in Point Maps
171. NeurIPS 2026Task-Induced Riemannian Metrics for Vision Transformer Feature Spaces
172. NeurIPS 2026The Sign Code: The Hidden Binary Nature of Deep Networks
173. NeurIPS 2026Theory of Mind and Persuasion Beyond Conversation: Assessing the Capacity of LLMs to Induce Belief States via Planning and Action
174. NeurIPS 2026Think Densely, Act Sparsely: Latent Expert Cognitive Chains for Vision-Language-Action Autonomous Driving
175. NeurIPS 2026TopoCurve: Geometry-Aware Topology Reasoning via Bézier Curves in Autonomous Driving
176. NeurIPS 2026Towards Effective and Transferable Physical Camouflage against Multi-View BEV-based 3D Perception in Autonomous Driving
177. NeurIPS 2026Towards Generalizable Data Valuation: Learning an End-to-end Deep Model to Compute Shapley Values
178. NeurIPS 2026Towards Reliable VLM Judges: State-Conditional Invariance and Presentation-Aware Diagnostics
179. NeurIPS 2026TrAction: Action Recognition with Sparse Trajectories
180. NeurIPS 2026Transferring Visual Explainability from Self-Explaining to Prediction-Only Vision Transformers via Task Arithmetic
181. NeurIPS 2026Triggering Generalist Reasoning via Predictive Uncertainty for Dual-System VLA
182. NeurIPS 2026Tuna-2: Pixel Embeddings Beat Vision Encoders for Multimodal Understanding and Generation
183. NeurIPS 2026Two-Fidelity Best-Action Identification for Stochastic Minimax Tree
184. NeurIPS 2026Uncovering and Shaping the Latent Representation of 3D Scene Topology in Vision-Language Models
185. NeurIPS 2026UNIVERSE: Unified Video Action Models for Autonomous Driving with Flexible Mask-Modulated Modality Generation
186. NeurIPS 2026UniVLR: Unifying Text and Vision in Visual Latent Reasoning for Multimodal LLMs
187. NeurIPS 2026V1-Inspired Dynamic Vision System: A Bio-Plausible Video Embedding Framework with Decoupled Shape–Color Pathways and Long-Range Spatiotemporal Perception
188. NeurIPS 2026VersaCamVLA: Camera-Configurable VLA Policies for Robotic Manipulation
189. NeurIPS 2026VFIG: Vectorizing Complex Figures in SVG with Vision-Language Models
190. NeurIPS 2026ViLo: LiDAR Localization with Vision-Language Priors
191. NeurIPS 2026VIPER: An Expert-Curated Benchmark for Vision-Language Models in Veterinary Pathology
192. NeurIPS 2026Vision Token Pruning via Query-Vision Interaction Decomposition
193. NeurIPS 2026Vision Transformers Learn Gestalt-Like Figure-Ground Cues from Natural Images
194. NeurIPS 2026Vision-Language Grounding as Bidirectional Concept Correspondence
195. NeurIPS 2026Vision-OPD: Learning to See Fine Details for Multimodal LLMs via On-Policy Self-Distillation
196. NeurIPS 2026VISTA: Support-Anchored Value Targeting for Fast Flow-Based Vision-Language-Action Policies
197. NeurIPS 2026ViT-AdaLA: Adapting Vision Transformers with Linear Attention
198. NeurIPS 2026VLA-REPLICA: A Low-Cost, Reproducible Benchmark for Real-World Evaluation of Vision-Language-Action Models
199. NeurIPS 2026VLM$^3$: Vision Language Models Are Native 3D Learners
200. NeurIPS 2026VLRS-Bench: A Vision-Language Reasoning Benchmark for Remote Sensing

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.