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

508 papers, page 7 of 11

301. NeurIPS 2025Vision Transformers with Self-Distilled Registers
302. NeurIPS 2025Vision-and-Language Training Helps Deploy Taxonomic Knowledge but Does Not Fundamentally Alter It
303. NeurIPS 2025Vision‑Language‑Vision Auto‑Encoder: Scalable Knowledge Distillation from Diffusion Models
304. NeurIPS 2025Visual Anagrams Reveal Hidden Differences in Holistic Shape Processing Across Vision Models
305. NeurIPS 2025VITA-1.5: Towards GPT-4o Level Real-Time Vision and Speech Interaction
306. NeurIPS 2025VITRIX-UniViTAR: Unified Vision Transformer with Native Resolution
307. NeurIPS 2025VLA-Cache: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Manipulation via Adaptive Token Caching
308. NeurIPS 2025VLA-OS: Structuring and Dissecting Planning Representations and Paradigms in Vision-Language-Action Models
309. NeurIPS 2025VLM in a flash: I/O-Efficient Sparsification of Vision-Language Model via Neuron Chunking
310. NeurIPS 2025What Can RL Bring to VLA Generalization? An Empirical Study
311. NeurIPS 2025What Do Latent Action Models Actually Learn?
312. NeurIPS 2025With Limited Data for Multimodal Alignment, Let the STRUCTURE Guide You
313. NeurIPS 20243DET-Mamba: Causal Sequence Modelling for End-to-End 3D Object Detection
314. NeurIPS 2024A Unified Debiasing Approach for Vision-Language Models across Modalities and Tasks
315. NeurIPS 2024Accelerating Transformers with Spectrum-Preserving Token Merging
316. NeurIPS 2024ActFusion: a Unified Diffusion Model for Action Segmentation and Anticipation
317. NeurIPS 2024Action Gaps and Advantages in Continuous-Time Distributional Reinforcement Learning
318. NeurIPS 2024ActionAtlas: A VideoQA Benchmark for Domain-specialized Action Recognition
319. NeurIPS 2024AdanCA: Neural Cellular Automata As Adaptors For More Robust Vision Transformer
320. NeurIPS 2024Alleviating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models through Hallucination-Induced Optimization
321. NeurIPS 2024Are We on the Right Way for Evaluating Large Vision-Language Models?
322. NeurIPS 2024Avoiding Undesired Future with Minimal Cost in Non-Stationary Environments
323. NeurIPS 2024BenchX: A Unified Benchmark Framework for Medical Vision-Language Pretraining on Chest X-Rays
324. NeurIPS 2024BendVLM: Test-Time Debiasing of Vision-Language Embeddings
325. NeurIPS 2024Biologically Inspired Learning Model for Instructed Vision
326. NeurIPS 2024CausalChaos! Dataset for Comprehensive Causal Action Question Answering Over Longer Causal Chains Grounded in Dynamic Visual Scenes
327. NeurIPS 2024CHASE: Learning Convex Hull Adaptive Shift for Skeleton-based Multi-Entity Action Recognition
328. NeurIPS 2024ClevrSkills: Compositional Language And Visual Reasoning in Robotics
329. NeurIPS 2024Cluster-Learngene: Inheriting Adaptive Clusters for Vision Transformers
330. NeurIPS 2024CoFie: Learning Compact Neural Surface Representations with Coordinate Fields
331. NeurIPS 2024Constrained Latent Action Policies for Model-Based Offline Reinforcement Learning
332. NeurIPS 2024Continuously Learning, Adapting, and Improving: A Dual-Process Approach to Autonomous Driving
333. NeurIPS 2024ConvBench: A Multi-Turn Conversation Evaluation Benchmark with Hierarchical Ablation Capability for Large Vision-Language Models
334. NeurIPS 2024Demystify Mamba in Vision: A Linear Attention Perspective
335. NeurIPS 2024DenseFusion-1M: Merging Vision Experts for Comprehensive Multimodal Perception
336. NeurIPS 2024Depth Anything V2
337. NeurIPS 2024Dissecting Query-Key Interaction in Vision Transformers
338. NeurIPS 2024Dual Prototype Evolving for Test-Time Generalization of Vision-Language Models
339. NeurIPS 2024Efficient Temporal Action Segmentation via Boundary-aware Query Voting
340. NeurIPS 2024Enhancing Feature Diversity Boosts Channel-Adaptive Vision Transformers
341. NeurIPS 2024Excluding the Irrelevant: Focusing Reinforcement Learning through Continuous Action Masking
342. NeurIPS 2024Exploring Token Pruning in Vision State Space Models
343. NeurIPS 2024Federated Learning from Vision-Language Foundation Models: Theoretical Analysis and Method
344. NeurIPS 2024Flexible Context-Driven Sensory Processing in Dynamical Vision Models
345. NeurIPS 2024FlexPlanner: Flexible 3D Floorplanning via Deep Reinforcement Learning in Hybrid Action Space with Multi-Modality Representation
346. NeurIPS 2024Flow Snapshot Neurons in Action: Deep Neural Networks Generalize to Biological Motion Perception
347. NeurIPS 2024GAIA: Rethinking Action Quality Assessment for AI-Generated Videos
348. NeurIPS 2024Hidden in Plain Sight: Evaluating Abstract Shape Recognition in Vision-Language Models
349. NeurIPS 2024How many classifiers do we need?
350. NeurIPS 2024HumanVLA: Towards Vision-Language Directed Object Rearrangement by Physical Humanoid

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.