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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301. CVPR 2025DriveGPT4-V2: Harnessing Large Language Model Capabilities for Enhanced Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving
302. CVPR 2025Driving by the Rules: A Benchmark for Integrating Traffic Sign Regulations into Vectorized HD Map
303. CVPR 2025DSPNet: Dual-vision Scene Perception for Robust 3D Question Answering
304. CVPR 2025EfficientLLaVA: Generalizable Auto-Pruning for Large Vision-language Models
305. CVPR 2025Enhancing Vision-Language Compositional Understanding with Multimodal Synthetic Data
306. CVPR 2025Evaluating Vision-Language Models as Evaluators in Path Planning
307. CVPR 2025FastVLM: Efficient Vision Encoding for Vision Language Models
308. CVPR 2025From Head to Tail: Towards Balanced Representation in Large Vision-Language Models through Adaptive Data Calibration
309. CVPR 2025GEM: A Generalizable Ego-Vision Multimodal World Model for Fine-Grained Ego-Motion, Object Dynamics, and Scene Composition Control
310. CVPR 2025Generating 6DoF Object Manipulation Trajectories from Action Description in Egocentric Vision
311. CVPR 2025Graph Neural Network Combining Event Stream and Periodic Aggregation for Low-Latency Event-based Vision
312. CVPR 2025H-MoRe: Learning Human-centric Motion Representation for Action Analysis
313. CVPR 2025HalLoc: Token-level Localization of Hallucinations for Vision Language Models
314. CVPR 2025Heterogeneous Skeleton-Based Action Representation Learning
315. CVPR 2025HiRes-LLaVA: Restoring Fragmentation Input in High-Resolution Large Vision-Language Models
316. CVPR 2025HoVLE: Unleashing the Power of Monolithic Vision-Language Models with Holistic Vision-Language Embedding
317. CVPR 2025Hyperbolic Safety-Aware Vision-Language Models
318. CVPR 2025Identifying and Mitigating Position Bias of Multi-image Vision-Language Models
319. CVPR 2025Improving Visual and Downstream Performance of Low-Light Enhancer with Vision Foundation Models Collaboration
320. CVPR 2025It's a (Blind) Match! Towards Vision-Language Correspondence without Parallel Data
321. CVPR 2025LayoutVLM: Differentiable Optimization of 3D Layout via Vision-Language Models
322. CVPR 2025Libra-Merging: Importance-redundancy and Pruning-merging Trade-off for Acceleration Plug-in in Large Vision-Language Model
323. CVPR 2025LibraGrad: Balancing Gradient Flow for Universally Better Vision Transformer Attributions
324. CVPR 2025LLAVIDAL: A Large LAnguage VIsion Model for Daily Activities of Living
325. CVPR 2025Mamba-Reg: Vision Mamba Also Needs Registers
326. CVPR 2025MambaOut: Do We Really Need Mamba for Vision?
327. CVPR 2025MambaVision: A Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Vision Backbone
328. CVPR 2025MambaVLT: Time-Evolving Multimodal State Space Model for Vision-Language Tracking
329. CVPR 2025MANTA: Diffusion Mamba for Efficient and Effective Stochastic Long-Term Dense Action Anticipation
330. CVPR 2025MAP: Unleashing Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Vision Backbone's Potential with Masked Autoregressive Pretraining
331. CVPR 2025MBQ: Modality-Balanced Quantization for Large Vision-Language Models
332. CVPR 2025MDP: Multidimensional Vision Model Pruning with Latency Constraint
333. CVPR 2025MIMO: A Medical Vision Language Model with Visual Referring Multimodal Input and Pixel Grounding Multimodal Output
334. CVPR 2025Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models via DPO: On-Policy Data Hold the Key
335. CVPR 2025Mitigating Object Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models with Assembly of Global and Local Attention
336. CVPR 2025Modeling Multiple Normal Action Representations for Error Detection in Procedural Tasks
337. CVPR 2025Molmo and PixMo: Open Weights and Open Data for State-of-the-Art Vision-Language Models
338. CVPR 2025MoManipVLA: Transferring Vision-language-action Models for General Mobile Manipulation
339. CVPR 2025Multimodal Autoregressive Pre-training of Large Vision Encoders
340. CVPR 2025NLPrompt: Noise-Label Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models
341. CVPR 2025Not Only Text: Exploring Compositionality of Visual Representations in Vision-Language Models
342. CVPR 2025Nullu: Mitigating Object Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models via HalluSpace Projection
343. CVPR 2025O-TPT: Orthogonality Constraints for Calibrating Test-time Prompt Tuning in Vision-Language Models
344. CVPR 2025Object-Centric Prompt-Driven Vision-Language-Action Model for Robotic Manipulation
345. CVPR 2025Olympus: A Universal Task Router for Computer Vision Tasks
346. CVPR 2025Once-Tuning-Multiple-Variants: Tuning Once and Expanded as Multiple Vision-Language Model Variants
347. CVPR 2025Optimus-2: Multimodal Minecraft Agent with Goal-Observation-Action Conditioned Policy
348. CVPR 2025PARC: A Quantitative Framework Uncovering the Symmetries within Vision Language Models
349. CVPR 2025PatchGuard: Adversarially Robust Anomaly Detection and Localization through Vision Transformers and Pseudo Anomalies
350. CVPR 2025Phoenix: A Motion-based Self-Reflection Framework for Fine-grained Robotic Action Correction

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.