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. ICML 2023Global Context Vision Transformers
152. ICML 2023Hiera: A Hierarchical Vision Transformer without the Bells-and-Whistles
153. ICML 2023ILLUME: Rationalizing Vision-Language Models through Human Interactions
154. ICML 2023Improving Visual Prompt Tuning for Self-supervised Vision Transformers
155. ICML 2023Infinite Action Contextual Bandits with Reusable Data Exhaust
156. ICML 2023Learning Intuitive Policies Using Action Features
157. ICML 2023LIV: Language-Image Representations and Rewards for Robotic Control
158. ICML 2023MAGANet: Achieving Combinatorial Generalization by Modeling a Group Action
159. ICML 2023Multi-Environment Pretraining Enables Transfer to Action Limited Datasets
160. ICML 2023Oscillation-free Quantization for Low-bit Vision Transformers
161. ICML 2023PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model
162. ICML 2023Quantum Policy Gradient Algorithm with Optimized Action Decoding
163. ICML 2023Scaling Vision Transformers to 22 Billion Parameters
164. ICML 2023Short-lived High-volume Bandits
165. ICML 2023Ske2Grid: Skeleton-to-Grid Representation Learning for Action Recognition
166. ICML 2023Tuning Computer Vision Models With Task Rewards
167. ICML 2023Understanding and Defending Patched-based Adversarial Attacks for Vision Transformer
168. ICML 2023Unifying Molecular and Textual Representations via Multi-task Language Modelling
169. ICML 2023UPop: Unified and Progressive Pruning for Compressing Vision-Language Transformers
170. NeurIPS 2023Active Vision Reinforcement Learning under Limited Visual Observability
171. NeurIPS 2023Activity Grammars for Temporal Action Segmentation
172. NeurIPS 2023Adaptive Contextual Perception: How To Generalize To New Backgrounds and Ambiguous Objects
173. NeurIPS 2023AiluRus: A Scalable ViT Framework for Dense Prediction
174. NeurIPS 2023Are Diffusion Models Vision-And-Language Reasoners?
175. NeurIPS 2023Auslan-Daily: Australian Sign Language Translation for Daily Communication and News
176. NeurIPS 2023AVIS: Autonomous Visual Information Seeking with Large Language Model Agent
177. NeurIPS 2023AVOIDDS: Aircraft Vision-based Intruder Detection Dataset and Simulator
178. NeurIPS 2023Benchmarking Robustness of Adaptation Methods on Pre-trained Vision-Language Models
179. NeurIPS 2023BERT Lost Patience Won't Be Robust to Adversarial Slowdown
180. NeurIPS 2023Brain encoding models based on multimodal transformers can transfer across language and vision
181. NeurIPS 2023Bullying10K: A Large-Scale Neuromorphic Dataset towards Privacy-Preserving Bullying Recognition
182. NeurIPS 2023Bypassing the Simulator: Near-Optimal Adversarial Linear Contextual Bandits
183. NeurIPS 2023Category-Extensible Out-of-Distribution Detection via Hierarchical Context Descriptions
184. NeurIPS 2023Cheap and Quick: Efficient Vision-Language Instruction Tuning for Large Language Models
185. NeurIPS 2023Clifford Group Equivariant Neural Networks
186. NeurIPS 2023Coherent Soft Imitation Learning
187. NeurIPS 2023Compressed Video Prompt Tuning
188. NeurIPS 2023ComSL: A Composite Speech-Language Model for End-to-End Speech-to-Text Translation
189. NeurIPS 2023Contrast, Attend and Diffuse to Decode High-Resolution Images from Brain Activities
190. NeurIPS 2023Convolutions Die Hard: Open-Vocabulary Segmentation with Single Frozen Convolutional CLIP
191. NeurIPS 2023DataComp: In search of the next generation of multimodal datasets
192. NeurIPS 2023DesCo: Learning Object Recognition with Rich Language Descriptions
193. NeurIPS 2023DiffVL: Scaling Up Soft Body Manipulation using Vision-Language Driven Differentiable Physics
194. NeurIPS 2023Distilling Out-of-Distribution Robustness from Vision-Language Foundation Models
195. NeurIPS 2023Diversify Your Vision Datasets with Automatic Diffusion-based Augmentation
196. NeurIPS 2023Efficient Batched Algorithm for Contextual Linear Bandits with Large Action Space via Soft Elimination
197. NeurIPS 2023EgoSchema: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Very Long-form Video Language Understanding
198. NeurIPS 2023EmbodiedGPT: Vision-Language Pre-Training via Embodied Chain of Thought
199. NeurIPS 2023Enhancing CLIP with CLIP: Exploring Pseudolabeling for Limited-Label Prompt Tuning
200. NeurIPS 2023Enhancing Motion Deblurring in High-Speed Scenes with Spike Streams

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.