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

1,639 papers, page 5 of 33

201. CVPR 2026STAR Test-Time Adaptation Can Enhance Universal Prompt Learning for Vision-Language
202. CVPR 2026StoryTailorA Zero-Shot Pipeline for Action-Rich Multi-Subject Visual Narratives
203. CVPR 2026Structural Graph Probing of Vision-Language Models
204. CVPR 2026StructXLIP Enhancing Vision-language Models with Multimodal Structural Cues
205. CVPR 2026Superman Unifying Skeleton and Vision for Human Motion Perception and
206. CVPR 2026SwiftVLA Unlocking Spatiotemporal Dynamics for Lightweight VLA Models at Minimal
207. CVPR 2026Synthesizing Visual Concepts as Vision-Language Programs
208. CVPR 2026TALO Pushing 3D Vision Foundation Models Towards Globally Consistent Online
209. CVPR 2026TANGO Text-Anchored Guided Optimization for Robust Fine-tuning Vision-Language Models under
210. CVPR 2026Teacher-Guided Routing for Sparse Vision Mixture-of-Experts
211. CVPR 2026Test-Time Attention Purification for Backdoored Large Vision Language Models
212. CVPR 2026Test-Time Perturbation Tuning with Delayed Feedback for Vision-Language-Action Models
213. CVPR 2026Test-time Sparsity for Extreme Fast Action Diffusion
214. CVPR 2026The LLM Bottleneck Why Open-Source Vision LLMs Struggle with Hierarchical
215. CVPR 2026Think Visually Reason Textually Vision-Language Synergy in Abstract Reasoning
216. CVPR 2026Think-as-You-See Streaming Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Large Vision-Language Models
217. CVPR 2026Thinking with Programming Vision Towards a Unified View for Thinking
218. CVPR 2026ThinkingViT Matryoshka Thinking Vision Transformer for Elastic Inference
219. CVPR 2026TimeViper A Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Vision-Language Model for Efficient Long Video
220. CVPR 2026Towards Calibrating Prompt Tuning of Vision- Language Models
221. CVPR 2026Towards GUI Agents Vision-Language Diffusion Models for GUI Grounding
222. CVPR 2026Towards Robust Vision Transformers Path Dependency Analysis and a Simple
223. CVPR 2026Transform to Transfer Boosting Adversarial Attack Transferability on Vision-Language Pre-training
224. CVPR 2026TransPrune Token Transition Pruning for Efficient Large Vision-Language Model
225. CVPR 2026TreeTeaming Autonomous Red-Teaming of Vision-Language Models via Hierarchical Strategy Exploration
226. CVPR 2026TRM-VLA Temporal-Aware Chain-of-Thought Reasoning and Memorization for Vision-Language-Action Models
227. CVPR 2026TTRV Test-Time Reinforcement Learning for Vision Language Models
228. CVPR 2026Turning Pre-Trained Vision Transformers into End-to-End Histopathology Whole Slide Image
229. CVPR 2026UARE A Unified Vision-Language Model for Image Quality Assessment Restoration
230. CVPR 2026Uncertainty-guided Compositional Alignment with Part-to-Whole Semantic Representativeness in Hyperbolic Vision-Language
231. CVPR 2026Understanding Counting Mechanisms in Large Language and Vision-Language Models
232. CVPR 2026Understanding Task Transfer in Vision-Language Models
233. CVPR 2026Unifying Language-Action Understanding and Generation for Autonomous Driving
234. CVPR 2026Unifying Perception and Action A Hybrid-Modality Pipeline with Implicit Visual
235. CVPR 2026Unlearning without Forgetting Securely Removing Targeted Concepts from Large-Scale Vision-Language
236. CVPR 2026Unleashing Vision-Language Semantics for Deepfake Video Detection
237. CVPR 2026Unleashing VLA Potentials in Autonomous Driving via Explicit Learning from
238. CVPR 2026Unlocking Motion from Large Vision Models with a Semantic and
239. CVPR 2026UVU Improving Multimodal Understanding via Vision-Language Unified Autoregressive Paradigm
240. CVPR 2026Variation-aware Vision Token Dropping for Faster Large Vision-Language Models
241. CVPR 2026VGGDrive Empowering Vision-Language Models with Cross-View Geometric Grounding for Autonomous
242. CVPR 2026VideoNet A Large-Scale Dataset for Domain-Specific Action Recognition
243. CVPR 2026Vision Foundation Models Can Be Good Tokenizers for Latent Diffusion
244. CVPR 2026VISion On Request Enhanced VLLM efficiency with sparse dynamically selected
245. CVPR 2026Vision Transformers Need More Than Registers
246. CVPR 2026Vision-Language Attribute Disentanglement and Reinforcement for Lifelong Person Re-Identification
247. CVPR 2026Vision-Language Model Guided Source-Free Domain Adaptation via Optimal Transport
248. CVPR 2026Vision-Oriented Lightweight Neural Architecture Search with Budget-Adaptive Evaluation
249. CVPR 2026VisMem Latent Vision Memory Unlocks Potential of Vision-Language Models
250. CVPR 2026VisPlay Self-Evolving Vision-Language Models

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.