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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201. NeurIPS 2026When a Window Is Not an Action: Selective Phase-Script Deliberation for Sliding-Window Human Activity Recognition
202. NeurIPS 2026When Depth Lies: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models on Mirror-Induced RGB-D Ambiguity
203. NeurIPS 2026Words Before Pixels: Selective Modality Routing for Vision-Language Model Unlearning
204. NeurIPS 2026World Action Verifier: Self-Improving World Models via Forward-Inverse Asymmetry
205. NeurIPS 20254D-VLA: Spatiotemporal Vision-Language-Action Pretraining with Cross-Scene Calibration
206. NeurIPS 2025A Circular Argument: Does RoPE need to be Equivariant for Vision?
207. NeurIPS 2025A Frustratingly Simple Yet Highly Effective Attack Baseline: Over 90% Success Rate Against the Strong Black-box Models of GPT-4.5/4o/o1
208. NeurIPS 2025Active Test-time Vision-Language Navigation
209. NeurIPS 2025AdvEDM: Fine-grained Adversarial Attack against VLM-based Embodied Agents
210. NeurIPS 2025AGI-Elo: How Far Are We From Mastering A Task?
211. NeurIPS 2025AlignVLM: Bridging Vision and Language Latent Spaces for Multimodal Document Understanding
212. NeurIPS 2025Approximate Domain Unlearning for Vision-Language Models
213. NeurIPS 2025AutoVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Adaptive Reasoning and Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
214. NeurIPS 2025BadVLA: Towards Backdoor Attacks on Vision-Language-Action Models via Objective-Decoupled Optimization
215. NeurIPS 2025Balanced Token Pruning: Accelerating Vision Language Models Beyond Local Optimization
216. NeurIPS 2025BEAST: Efficient Tokenization of B-Splines Encoded Action Sequences for Imitation Learning
217. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Scalars: Concept-Based Alignment Analysis in Vision Transformers
218. NeurIPS 2025BiggerGait: Unlocking Gait Recognition with Layer-wise Representations from Large Vision Models
219. NeurIPS 2025BraVE: Offline Reinforcement Learning for Discrete Combinatorial Action Spaces
220. NeurIPS 2025Bridging Brains and Concepts: Interpretable Visual Decoding from fMRI with Semantic Bottlenecks
221. NeurIPS 2025ChatVLA-2: Vision-Language-Action Model with Open-World Reasoning
222. NeurIPS 2025Chirality in Action: Time-Aware Video Representation Learning by Latent Straightening
223. NeurIPS 2025CHOICE: Benchmarking the Remote Sensing Capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models
224. NeurIPS 2025CHPO: Constrained Hybrid-action Policy Optimization for Reinforcement Learning
225. NeurIPS 2025Coarse-to-fine Q-Network with Action Sequence for Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning
226. NeurIPS 2025CoC-VLA: Delving into Adversarial Domain Transfer for Explainable Autonomous Driving via Chain-of-Causality Visual-Language-Action Model
227. NeurIPS 2025CogVLA: Cognition-Aligned Vision-Language-Action Models via Instruction-Driven Routing & Sparsification
228. NeurIPS 2025Computational Budget Should Be Considered in Data Selection
229. NeurIPS 2025Cross-modal Associations in Vision and Language Models: Revisiting the Bouba-Kiki Effect
230. NeurIPS 2025DEXTER: Diffusion-Guided EXplanations with TExtual Reasoning for Vision Models
231. NeurIPS 2025Disentangled Concepts Speak Louder Than Words: Explainable Video Action Recognition
232. NeurIPS 2025Doodle to Detect: A Goofy but Powerful Approach to Skeleton-based Hand Gesture Recognition
233. NeurIPS 2025DreamVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model Dreamed with Comprehensive World Knowledge
234. NeurIPS 2025DynaAct: Large Language Model Reasoning with Dynamic Action Spaces
235. NeurIPS 2025Dynam3D: Dynamic Layered 3D Tokens Empower VLM for Vision-and-Language Navigation
236. NeurIPS 2025Each Complexity Deserves a Pruning Policy
237. NeurIPS 2025EfficientVLA: Training-Free Acceleration and Compression for Vision-Language-Action Models
238. NeurIPS 2025EgoVid-5M: A Large-Scale Video-Action Dataset for Egocentric Videos Generation
239. NeurIPS 2025Embodied Cognition Augmented End2End Autonomous Driving
240. NeurIPS 2025Emerging Risks from Embodied AI Require Urgent Policy Action
241. NeurIPS 2025End-to-End Vision Tokenizer Tuning
242. NeurIPS 2025Enhancing Vision-Language Model Reliability with Uncertainty-Guided Dropout Decoding
243. NeurIPS 2025Eve3D: Elevating Vision Models for Enhanced 3D Surface Reconstruction via Gaussian Splatting
244. NeurIPS 2025ExGra-Med: Extended Context Graph Alignment for Medical Vision-Language Models
245. NeurIPS 2025Explicitly Modeling Subcortical Vision with a Neuro-Inspired Front-End Improves CNN Robustness
246. NeurIPS 2025Exploiting the Asymmetric Uncertainty Structure of Pre-trained VLMs on the Unit Hypersphere
247. NeurIPS 2025Exploring the Limits of Vision-Language-Action Manipulation in Cross-task Generalization
248. NeurIPS 2025Fast-in-Slow: A Dual-System VLA Model Unifying Fast Manipulation within Slow Reasoning
249. NeurIPS 2025FLiP: Towards Comprehensive and Reliable Evaluation of Federated Prompt Learning
250. NeurIPS 2025FlowCut: Rethinking Redundancy via Information Flow for Efficient 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.