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. ICLR 2025Brain-inspired $L_p$-Convolution benefits large kernels and aligns better with visual cortex
152. ICLR 2025C-CLIP: Multimodal Continual Learning for Vision-Language Model
153. ICLR 2025Can We Talk Models Into Seeing the World Differently?
154. ICLR 2025ColPali: Efficient Document Retrieval with Vision Language Models
155. ICLR 2025Compositional Entailment Learning for Hyperbolic Vision-Language Models
156. ICLR 2025Control-oriented Clustering of Visual Latent Representation
157. ICLR 2025DAMO: Decoding by Accumulating Activations Momentum for Mitigating Hallucinations in Vision-Language Models
158. ICLR 2025Do Vision-Language Models Represent Space and How? Evaluating Spatial Frame of Reference under Ambiguities
159. ICLR 2025Do You Keep an Eye on What I Ask? Mitigating Multimodal Hallucination via Attention-Guided Ensemble Decoding
160. ICLR 2025Dynamic Multimodal Evaluation with Flexible Complexity by Vision-Language Bootstrapping
161. ICLR 2025Dynamic-LLaVA: Efficient Multimodal Large Language Models via Dynamic Vision-language Context Sparsification
162. ICLR 2025Efficient Action-Constrained Reinforcement Learning via Acceptance-Rejection Method and Augmented MDPs
163. ICLR 2025Efficient Off-Policy Learning for High-Dimensional Action Spaces
164. ICLR 2025ELFS: Label-Free Coreset Selection with Proxy Training Dynamics
165. ICLR 2025Enhancing End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Latent World Model
166. ICLR 2025ETA: Evaluating Then Aligning Safety of Vision Language Models at Inference Time
167. ICLR 2025Geometry of Neural Reinforcement Learning in Continuous State and Action Spaces
168. ICLR 2025GravMAD: Grounded Spatial Value Maps Guided Action Diffusion for Generalized 3D Manipulation
169. ICLR 2025Improving Large Language Model Planning with Action Sequence Similarity
170. ICLR 2025Inference Optimal VLMs Need Fewer Visual Tokens and More Parameters
171. ICLR 2025Interpreting and Editing Vision-Language Representations to Mitigate Hallucinations
172. ICLR 2025Kronecker Mask and Interpretive Prompts are Language-Action Video Learners
173. ICLR 2025Latent Action Pretraining from Videos
174. ICLR 2025Locality Alignment Improves Vision-Language Models
175. ICLR 2025Masked Temporal Interpolation Diffusion for Procedure Planning in Instructional Videos
176. ICLR 2025MGMapNet: Multi-Granularity Representation Learning for End-to-End Vectorized HD Map Construction
177. ICLR 2025Mixture of Experts Made Personalized: Federated Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models
178. ICLR 2025MMFakeBench: A Mixed-Source Multimodal Misinformation Detection Benchmark for LVLMs
179. ICLR 2025Model merging with SVD to tie the Knots
180. ICLR 2025Neural Eulerian Scene Flow Fields
181. ICLR 2025OS-ATLAS: Foundation Action Model for Generalist GUI Agents
182. ICLR 2025PADRe: A Unifying Polynomial Attention Drop-in Replacement for Efficient Vision Transformer
183. ICLR 2025PETRA: Parallel End-to-end Training with Reversible Architectures
184. ICLR 2025POTEC: Off-Policy Contextual Bandits for Large Action Spaces via Policy Decomposition
185. ICLR 2025Reducing Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models via Latent Space Steering
186. ICLR 2025REMEDY: Recipe Merging Dynamics in Large Vision-Language Models
187. ICLR 2025Revealing and Reducing Gender Biases in Vision and Language Assistants (VLAs)
188. ICLR 2025Self-Correcting Decoding with Generative Feedback for Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models
189. ICLR 2025Self-Introspective Decoding: Alleviating Hallucinations for Large Vision-Language Models
190. ICLR 2025Solving Token Gradient Conflict in Mixture-of-Experts for Large Vision-Language Model
191. ICLR 2025TASAR: Transfer-based Attack on Skeletal Action Recognition
192. ICLR 2025TEOChat: A Large Vision-Language Assistant for Temporal Earth Observation Data
193. ICLR 2025Think Then React: Towards Unconstrained Action-to-Reaction Motion Generation
194. ICLR 2025TLDR: Token-Level Detective Reward Model for Large Vision Language Models
195. ICLR 2025Towards Realistic UAV Vision-Language Navigation: Platform, Benchmark, and Methodology
196. ICLR 2025TraceVLA: Visual Trace Prompting Enhances Spatial-Temporal Awareness for Generalist Robotic Policies
197. ICLR 2025Tree of Attributes Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models
198. ICLR 2025TULIP: Token-length Upgraded CLIP
199. ICLR 2025Two Effects, One Trigger: On the Modality Gap, Object Bias, and Information Imbalance in Contrastive Vision-Language Models
200. ICLR 2025VCR: A Task for Pixel-Level Complex Reasoning in Vision Language Models via Restoring Occluded Text

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.