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. ICLR 2025Vision and Language Synergy for Rehearsal Free Continual Learning
202. ICLR 2025VL-Cache: Sparsity and Modality-Aware KV Cache Compression for Vision-Language Model Inference Acceleration
203. ICLR 2025VLAS: Vision-Language-Action Model with Speech Instructions for Customized Robot Manipulation
204. ICLR 2025VLM2Vec: Training Vision-Language Models for Massive Multimodal Embedding Tasks
205. ICML 2025Action Dubber: Timing Audible Actions via Inflectional Flow
206. ICML 2025Action-Constrained Imitation Learning
207. ICML 2025Action-Dependent Optimality-Preserving Reward Shaping
208. ICML 2025ActionPiece: Contextually Tokenizing Action Sequences for Generative Recommendation
209. ICML 2025Canonical Rank Adaptation: An Efficient Fine-Tuning Strategy for Vision Transformers
210. ICML 2025Do Vision-Language Models Really Understand Visual Language?
211. ICML 2025Double-Filter: Efficient Fine-tuning of Pre-trained Vision-Language Models via Patch&Layer Filtering
212. ICML 2025DVI:A Derivative-based Vision Network for INR
213. ICML 2025Enhancing Rating-Based Reinforcement Learning to Effectively Leverage Feedback from Large Vision-Language Models
214. ICML 2025ERICT: Enhancing Robustness by Identifying Concept Tokens in Zero-Shot Vision Language Models
215. ICML 2025Exploring Large Action Sets with Hyperspherical Embeddings using von Mises-Fisher Sampling
216. ICML 2025Feasible Action Search for Bandit Linear Programs via Thompson Sampling
217. ICML 2025From Local Details to Global Context: Advancing Vision-Language Models with Attention-Based Selection
218. ICML 2025Hi Robot: Open-Ended Instruction Following with Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Models
219. ICML 2025Kernel-based Unsupervised Embedding Alignment for Enhanced Visual Representation in Vision-language Models
220. ICML 2025Large Displacement Motion Transfer with Unsupervised Anytime Interpolation
221. ICML 2025Latent Action Learning Requires Supervision in the Presence of Distractors
222. ICML 2025LieRE: Lie Rotational Positional Encodings
223. ICML 2025OmniBal: Towards Fast Instruction-Tuning for Vision-Language Models via Omniverse Computation Balance
224. ICML 2025On the Convergence of Continuous Single-timescale Actor-critic
225. ICML 2025OTTER: A Vision-Language-Action Model with Text-Aware Visual Feature Extraction
226. ICML 2025RePaViT: Scalable Vision Transformer Acceleration via Structural Reparameterization on Feedforward Network Layers
227. ICML 2025S2-Track: A Simple yet Strong Approach for End-to-End 3D Multi-Object Tracking
228. ICML 2025SafeMap: Robust HD Map Construction from Incomplete Observations
229. ICML 2025SparseVLM: Visual Token Sparsification for Efficient Vision-Language Model Inference
230. ICML 2025Stochastic Layer-Wise Shuffle for Improving Vision Mamba Training
231. ICML 2025Targeted Unlearning with Single Layer Unlearning Gradient
232. ICML 2025Test-time Adapted Reinforcement Learning with Action Entropy Regularization
233. ICML 2025Textural or Textual: How Vision-Language Models Read Text in Images
234. ICML 2025The Courage to Stop: Overcoming Sunk Cost Fallacy in Deep Reinforcement Learning
235. ICML 2025Vintix: Action Model via In-Context Reinforcement Learning
236. ICML 2025Vision Graph Prompting via Semantic Low-Rank Decomposition
237. ICML 2025Zero Shot Generalization of Vision-Based RL Without Data Augmentation
238. NeurIPS 20254D-VLA: Spatiotemporal Vision-Language-Action Pretraining with Cross-Scene Calibration
239. NeurIPS 2025A Circular Argument: Does RoPE need to be Equivariant for Vision?
240. 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
241. NeurIPS 2025Active Test-time Vision-Language Navigation
242. NeurIPS 2025AdvEDM: Fine-grained Adversarial Attack against VLM-based Embodied Agents
243. NeurIPS 2025AGI-Elo: How Far Are We From Mastering A Task?
244. NeurIPS 2025AlignVLM: Bridging Vision and Language Latent Spaces for Multimodal Document Understanding
245. NeurIPS 2025Approximate Domain Unlearning for Vision-Language Models
246. NeurIPS 2025AutoVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Adaptive Reasoning and Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
247. NeurIPS 2025BadVLA: Towards Backdoor Attacks on Vision-Language-Action Models via Objective-Decoupled Optimization
248. NeurIPS 2025Balanced Token Pruning: Accelerating Vision Language Models Beyond Local Optimization
249. NeurIPS 2025BEAST: Efficient Tokenization of B-Splines Encoded Action Sequences for Imitation Learning
250. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Scalars: Concept-Based Alignment Analysis in Vision Transformers

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.