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 5 of 6

201. ICML 2024OSSCAR: One-Shot Structured Pruning in Vision and Language Models with Combinatorial Optimization
202. ICML 2024Planning, Fast and Slow: Online Reinforcement Learning with Action-Free Offline Data via Multiscale Planners
203. ICML 2024Position: A Call to Action for a Human-Centered AutoML Paradigm
204. ICML 2024Position: Do Not Explain Vision Models Without Context
205. ICML 2024Position: The Platonic Representation Hypothesis
206. ICML 2024Premier-TACO is a Few-Shot Policy Learner: Pretraining Multitask Representation via Temporal Action-Driven Contrastive Loss
207. ICML 2024PRISE: LLM-Style Sequence Compression for Learning Temporal Action Abstractions in Control
208. ICML 2024Revealing Vision-Language Integration in the Brain with Multimodal Networks
209. ICML 2024Revisiting the Role of Language Priors in Vision-Language Models
210. ICML 2024RL-CFR: Improving Action Abstraction for Imperfect Information Extensive-Form Games with Reinforcement Learning
211. ICML 2024RL-VLM-F: Reinforcement Learning from Vision Language Foundation Model Feedback
212. ICML 2024Safety Fine-Tuning at (Almost) No Cost: A Baseline for Vision Large Language Models
213. ICML 2024Stochastic Q-learning for Large Discrete Action Spaces
214. ICML 2024Taylor Videos for Action Recognition
215. ICML 2024The Role of Learning Algorithms in Collective Action
216. ICML 2024TVE: Learning Meta-attribution for Transferable Vision Explainer
217. ICML 2024Using Left and Right Brains Together: Towards Vision and Language Planning
218. ICML 2024ViP: A Differentially Private Foundation Model for Computer Vision
219. ICML 2024Vision Transformers as Probabilistic Expansion from Learngene
220. ICML 2024Visual-Text Cross Alignment: Refining the Similarity Score in Vision-Language Models
221. ICML 2024When Do Skills Help Reinforcement Learning? A Theoretical Analysis of Temporal Abstractions
222. ICML 2023A Critical View of Vision-Based Long-Term Dynamics Prediction Under Environment Misalignment
223. ICML 2023A Kernel-Based View of Language Model Fine-Tuning
224. ICML 2023Algorithmic Collective Action in Machine Learning
225. ICML 2023An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Nonstationary Bandit Learning
226. ICML 2023Approximation and Estimation Ability of Transformers for Sequence-to-Sequence Functions with Infinite Dimensional Input
227. ICML 2023Boosting Offline Reinforcement Learning with Action Preference Query
228. ICML 2023Combinatorial Neural Bandits
229. ICML 2023COMCAT: Towards Efficient Compression and Customization of Attention-Based Vision Models
230. ICML 2023Delayed Bandits: When Do Intermediate Observations Help?
231. ICML 2023Distilling Internet-Scale Vision-Language Models into Embodied Agents
232. ICML 2023Dynamical Linear Bandits
233. ICML 2023Efficient Self-supervised Learning with Contextualized Target Representations for Vision, Speech and Language
234. ICML 2023End-to-end Differentiable Clustering with Associative Memories
235. ICML 2023End-to-end Training of Deep Boltzmann Machines by Unbiased Contrastive Divergence with Local Mode Initialization
236. ICML 2023For Pre-Trained Vision Models in Motor Control, Not All Policy Learning Methods are Created Equal
237. ICML 2023Global Context Vision Transformers
238. ICML 2023Hiera: A Hierarchical Vision Transformer without the Bells-and-Whistles
239. ICML 2023ILLUME: Rationalizing Vision-Language Models through Human Interactions
240. ICML 2023Improving Visual Prompt Tuning for Self-supervised Vision Transformers
241. ICML 2023Infinite Action Contextual Bandits with Reusable Data Exhaust
242. ICML 2023Learning Intuitive Policies Using Action Features
243. ICML 2023LIV: Language-Image Representations and Rewards for Robotic Control
244. ICML 2023MAGANet: Achieving Combinatorial Generalization by Modeling a Group Action
245. ICML 2023Multi-Environment Pretraining Enables Transfer to Action Limited Datasets
246. ICML 2023Oscillation-free Quantization for Low-bit Vision Transformers
247. ICML 2023PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model
248. ICML 2023Quantum Policy Gradient Algorithm with Optimized Action Decoding
249. ICML 2023Scaling Vision Transformers to 22 Billion Parameters
250. ICML 2023Short-lived High-volume Bandits

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.