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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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. CVPR 2025Accelerating Multimodal Large Language Models by Searching Optimal Vision Token Reduction
267. CVPR 2025Action Detail Matters: Refining Video Recognition with Local Action Queries
268. CVPR 2025Active Event-based Stereo Vision
269. CVPR 2025Adventurer: Optimizing Vision Mamba Architecture Designs for Efficiency
270. CVPR 2025APHQ-ViT: Post-Training Quantization with Average Perturbation Hessian Based Reconstruction for Vision Transformers
271. CVPR 2025Are Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolution Networks for Human Action Recognition Over-Parameterized?
272. CVPR 2025Argus: Vision-Centric Reasoning with Grounded Chain-of-Thought
273. CVPR 2025Assessing and Learning Alignment of Unimodal Vision and Language Models
274. CVPR 2025ATP-LLaVA: Adaptive Token Pruning for Large Vision Language Models
275. CVPR 2025Benchmarking Large Vision-Language Models via Directed Scene Graph for Comprehensive Image Captioning
276. CVPR 2025BHViT: Binarized Hybrid Vision Transformer
277. CVPR 2025Bias for Action: Video Implicit Neural Representations with Bias Modulation
278. CVPR 2025BiomedCoOp: Learning to Prompt for Biomedical Vision-Language Models
279. CVPR 2025Boosting Point-Supervised Temporal Action Localization through Integrating Query Reformation and Optimal Transport
280. CVPR 2025Bridge the Gap: From Weak to Full Supervision for Temporal Action Localization with PseudoFormer
281. CVPR 2025Bridging Past and Future: End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Historical Prediction and Planning
282. CVPR 2025Building Vision Models upon Heat Conduction
283. CVPR 2025CALICO: Part-Focused Semantic Co-Segmentation with Large Vision-Language Models
284. CVPR 2025Can Large Vision-Language Models Correct Semantic Grounding Errors By Themselves?
285. CVPR 2025Conical Visual Concentration for Efficient Large Vision-Language Models
286. CVPR 2025Context-Enhanced Memory-Refined Transformer for Online Action Detection
287. CVPR 2025COSMOS: Cross-Modality Self-Distillation for Vision Language Pre-training
288. CVPR 2025CoSpace: Benchmarking Continuous Space Perception Ability for Vision-Language Models
289. CVPR 2025CoT-VLA: Visual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Vision-Language-Action Models
290. CVPR 2025CountLLM: Towards Generalizable Repetitive Action Counting via Large Language Model
291. CVPR 2025Cropper: Vision-Language Model for Image Cropping through In-Context Learning
292. CVPR 2025DA-VPT: Semantic-Guided Visual Prompt Tuning for Vision Transformers
293. CVPR 2025DeepCompress-ViT: Rethinking Model Compression to Enhance Efficiency of Vision Transformers at the Edge
294. CVPR 2025DepthCues: Evaluating Monocular Depth Perception in Large Vision Models
295. CVPR 2025Devils in Middle Layers of Large Vision-Language Models: Interpreting, Detecting and Mitigating Object Hallucinations via Attention Lens
296. CVPR 2025DH-Set: Improving Vision-Language Alignment with Diverse and Hybrid Set-Embeddings Learning
297. CVPR 2025DiGIT: Multi-Dilated Gated Encoder and Central-Adjacent Region Integrated Decoder for Temporal Action Detection Transformer
298. CVPR 2025DINOv2 Meets Text: A Unified Framework for Image- and Pixel-Level Vision-Language Alignment
299. CVPR 2025Do Visual Imaginations Improve Vision-and-Language Navigation Agents?
300. CVPR 2025DPC: Dual-Prompt Collaboration for Tuning 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.