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

329 papers, page 7 of 7

301. NeurIPS 2024RoboMamba: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model for Robotic Reasoning and Manipulation
302. NeurIPS 2024ScaleKD: Strong Vision Transformers Could Be Excellent Teachers
303. NeurIPS 2024Scaling White-Box Transformers for Vision
304. NeurIPS 2024Shadowcast: Stealthy Data Poisoning Attacks Against Vision-Language Models
305. NeurIPS 2024Slicing Vision Transformer for Flexible Inference
306. NeurIPS 2024SlimSAM: 0.1% Data Makes Segment Anything Slim
307. NeurIPS 2024SUGARCREPE++ Dataset: Vision-Language Model Sensitivity to Semantic and Lexical Alterations
308. NeurIPS 2024Taming "data-hungry" reinforcement learning? Stability in continuous state-action spaces
309. NeurIPS 2024Temporally Consistent Atmospheric Turbulence Mitigation with Neural Representations
310. NeurIPS 2024Text-Infused Attention and Foreground-Aware Modeling for Zero-Shot Temporal Action Detection
311. NeurIPS 2024TrAct: Making First-layer Pre-Activations Trainable
312. NeurIPS 2024Transformer Doctor: Diagnosing and Treating Vision Transformers
313. NeurIPS 2024Unveil Benign Overfitting for Transformer in Vision: Training Dynamics, Convergence, and Generalization
314. NeurIPS 2024Unveiling Encoder-Free Vision-Language Models
315. NeurIPS 2024Unveiling the Hidden: Online Vectorized HD Map Construction with Clip-Level Token Interaction and Propagation
316. NeurIPS 2024Unveiling the Tapestry of Consistency in Large Vision-Language Models
317. NeurIPS 2024V-PETL Bench: A Unified Visual Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning Benchmark
318. NeurIPS 2024VHELM: A Holistic Evaluation of Vision Language Models
319. NeurIPS 2024Vision Foundation Model Enables Generalizable Object Pose Estimation
320. NeurIPS 2024Vision Mamba Mender
321. NeurIPS 2024Vision Transformer Neural Architecture Search for Out-of-Distribution Generalization: Benchmark and Insights
322. NeurIPS 2024VisionLLM v2: An End-to-End Generalist Multimodal Large Language Model for Hundreds of Vision-Language Tasks
323. NeurIPS 2024Vista: A Generalizable Driving World Model with High Fidelity and Versatile Controllability
324. NeurIPS 2024Vitron: A Unified Pixel-level Vision LLM for Understanding, Generating, Segmenting, Editing
325. NeurIPS 2024VLG-CBM: Training Concept Bottleneck Models with Vision-Language Guidance
326. NeurIPS 2024What matters when building vision-language models?
327. NeurIPS 2024WikiDO: A New Benchmark Evaluating Cross-Modal Retrieval for Vision-Language Models
328. NeurIPS 2024Wormhole Loss for Partial Shape Matching
329. NeurIPS 2024Yo'LLaVA: Your Personalized Language and Vision Assistant

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.