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 6 of 33

251. CVPR 2026VITAL Vision-Encoder-centered Pre-training for LMMs in Visual Quality Assessment
252. CVPR 2026VL-Eraser Vacuum Distillation for Machine Unlearning in Vision-Language Models
253. CVPR 2026VL-RouterBench A Benchmark for Vision-Language Model Routing
254. CVPR 2026VLA Models Are More Generalizable Than You Think Revisiting Physical
255. CVPR 2026VLM-3R Vision-Language Models Augmented with Instruction-Aligned 3D Reconstruction
256. CVPR 2026VLM-Loc Localization in Point Cloud Maps via Vision-Language Models
257. CVPR 2026VLM-PTQ Efficient Post-Training Quantization for Large Vision-Language Models
258. CVPR 2026VLM4RSDet Collaborative Optimization with Vision-Language Model for Enhancing Remote Sensing
259. CVPR 2026VOLD Reasoning Transfer from LLMs to Vision-Language Models via On-Policy
260. CVPR 2026WeMMU Enhanced Bridging of Vision-Language Models and Diffusion Models via
261. CVPR 2026Where Does Vision Meet Language Understanding and Refining Visual Fusion
262. CVPR 2026White-Balance First Adjust Later Cross-Camera Color Constancy via Vision-Language Evaluation
263. CVPR 2026Zero-Shot Depth Completion with Vision-Language Model
264. CVPR 2026ZOO-Prune Training-Free Token Pruning via Zeroth-Order Gradient Estimation in Vision-Language
265. CVPR 2026ZoomEarth Active Perception for Ultra-High-Resolution Geospatial Vision-Language Tasks
266. ICLR 2026A Primer on SO(3) Action Representations in Deep Reinforcement Learning
267. ICLR 2026ACPBench Hard: Unrestrained Reasoning about Action, Change, and Planning
268. ICLR 2026Action Chunking and Data Augmentation Yield Exponential Improvements in Behavior Cloning for Continuous Spaces
269. ICLR 2026Action-aware Dynamic Pruning for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Manipulation
270. ICLR 2026Action-Free Offline-To-Online RL via Discretised State Policies
271. ICLR 2026Action-Guided Attention for Video Action Anticipation
272. ICLR 2026Align-Then-stEer: Adapting the Vision-Language Action Models through Unified Latent Guidance
273. ICLR 2026AutoBio: A Simulation and Benchmark for Robotic Automation in Digital Biology Laboratory
274. ICLR 2026AutoDrive-R²: Incentivizing Reasoning and Self-Reflection Capacity for VLA Model in Autonomous Driving
275. ICLR 2026AutoFly: Vision-Language-Action Model for UAV Autonomous Navigation in the Wild
276. ICLR 2026AutoQVLA: Not All Channels Are Equal in Vision-Language-Action Model's Quantization
277. ICLR 2026Beyond Markovian Drifts: Action-Biased Geometric Walks with Memory for Personalized Summarization
278. ICLR 2026Breaking the Total Variance Barrier: Sharp Sample Complexity for Linear Heteroscedastic Bandits with Fixed Action Set
279. ICLR 2026Can Vision-Language Models Answer Face to Face Questions in the Real-World?
280. ICLR 2026Contractive Diffusion Policies: Robust Action Diffusion via Contractive Score-Based Sampling with Differential Equations
281. ICLR 2026Curvature-Guided Task Synergy for Skeleton based Temporal Action Segmentation
282. ICLR 2026D2E: Scaling Vision-Action Pretraining on Desktop Data for Transfer to Embodied AI
283. ICLR 2026Decoupled Q-Chunking
284. ICLR 2026Delving into Spectral Clustering with Vision-Language Representations
285. ICLR 2026Demystifying Robot Diffusion Policies: Action Memorization and a Simple Lookup Table Alternative
286. ICLR 2026DepthLM: Metric Depth from Vision Language Models
287. ICLR 2026Detecting Misbehaviors of Large Vision-Language Models by Evidential Uncertainty Quantification
288. ICLR 2026Discrete Diffusion for Reflective Vision-Language-Action Models in Autonomous Driving
289. ICLR 2026Distributional Vision-Language Alignment by Cauchy-Schwarz Divergence
290. ICLR 2026Distributions as Actions: A Unified Framework for Diverse Action Spaces
291. ICLR 2026DriveVLA-W0: World Models Amplify Data Scaling Law in Autonomous Driving
292. ICLR 2026Dynamic Multimodal Activation Steering for Hallucination Mitigation in Large Vision-Language Models
293. ICLR 2026EAST: Early Action Prediction Sampling Strategy with Token Masking
294. ICLR 2026EgoBrain: Synergizing Minds and Eyes For Human Action Understanding
295. ICLR 2026Embodied Navigation Foundation Model
296. ICLR 2026End-to-end Listen, Look, Speak and Act
297. ICLR 2026FASTer: Toward Powerful and Efficient Autoregressive Vision–Language–Action Models with Learnable Action Tokenizer and Block-wise Decoding
298. ICLR 2026Fed-Duet: Dual Expert-Orchestrated Framework for Continual Federated Vision-Language Learning
299. ICLR 2026FETAL-GAUGE: A BENCHMARK FOR ASSESSING VISION-LANGUAGE MODELS IN FETAL ULTRASOUND
300. ICLR 2026FlowAD: Ego-Scene Interactive Modeling for Autonomous Driving

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.