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

345 papers, page 7 of 7

301. NeurIPS 2025MMCSBench: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Large Vision-Language Models in Camouflage Scenes
302. NeurIPS 2025More effort is needed to protect pedestrian privacy in the era of AI
303. NeurIPS 2025Normalize Filters! Classical Wisdom for Deep Vision
304. NeurIPS 2025On Epistemic Uncertainty of Visual Tokens for Object Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models
305. NeurIPS 2025Optimize the Unseen - Fast NeRF Cleanup with Free Space Prior
306. NeurIPS 2025Prioritizing Perception-Guided Self-Supervision: A New Paradigm for Causal Modeling in End-to-End Autonomous Driving
307. NeurIPS 2025Prompt-guided Disentangled Representation for Action Recognition
308. NeurIPS 2025QSVD: Efficient Low-rank Approximation for Unified Query-Key-Value Weight Compression in Low-Precision Vision-Language Models
309. NeurIPS 2025Quantifying Uncertainty in Error Consistency: Towards Reliable Behavioral Comparison of Classifiers
310. NeurIPS 2025Quantization-Free Autoregressive Action Transformer
311. NeurIPS 2025Reinforcement Learning with Action Chunking
312. NeurIPS 2025REOrdering Patches Improves Vision Models
313. NeurIPS 2025Safe + Safe = Unsafe? Exploring How Safe Images Can Be Exploited to Jailbreak Large Vision-Language Models
314. NeurIPS 2025SAFE: Multitask Failure Detection for Vision-Language-Action Models
315. NeurIPS 2025SAGE: A Unified Framework for Generalizable Object State Recognition with State-Action Graph Embedding
316. NeurIPS 2025Seeing the Wind from a Falling Leaf
317. NeurIPS 2025SharpZO: Hybrid Sharpness-Aware Vision Language Model Prompt Tuning via Forward-Only Passes
318. NeurIPS 2025Sherlock: Self-Correcting Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
319. NeurIPS 2025ShotBench: Expert-Level Cinematic Understanding in Vision-Language Models
320. NeurIPS 2025SSR: Enhancing Depth Perception in Vision-Language Models via Rationale-Guided Spatial Reasoning
321. NeurIPS 2025Structured Initialization for Vision Transformers
322. NeurIPS 2025Structured Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Decision-Making
323. NeurIPS 2025SutureBot: A Precision Framework & Benchmark For Autonomous End-to-End Suturing
324. NeurIPS 2025The Underappreciated Power of Vision Models for Graph Structural Understanding
325. NeurIPS 2025ThinkAct: Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Reinforced Visual Latent Planning
326. NeurIPS 2025Towards Building Model/Prompt-Transferable Attackers against Large Vision-Language Models
327. NeurIPS 2025Towards Self-Refinement of Vision-Language Models with Triangular Consistency
328. NeurIPS 2025UAV-Flow Colosseo: A Real-World Benchmark for Flying-on-a-Word UAV Imitation Learning
329. NeurIPS 2025UniViT: Unifying Image and Video Understanding in One Vision Encoder
330. NeurIPS 2025Variational Regularized Unbalanced Optimal Transport: Single Network, Least Action
331. NeurIPS 2025VCM: Vision Concept Modeling with Adaptive Vision Token Compression via Instruction Fine-Tuning
332. NeurIPS 2025Vision Function Layer in Multimodal LLMs
333. NeurIPS 2025Vision Transformers Don't Need Trained Registers
334. NeurIPS 2025Vision Transformers with Self-Distilled Registers
335. NeurIPS 2025Vision-and-Language Training Helps Deploy Taxonomic Knowledge but Does Not Fundamentally Alter It
336. NeurIPS 2025Vision‑Language‑Vision Auto‑Encoder: Scalable Knowledge Distillation from Diffusion Models
337. NeurIPS 2025Visual Anagrams Reveal Hidden Differences in Holistic Shape Processing Across Vision Models
338. NeurIPS 2025VITA-1.5: Towards GPT-4o Level Real-Time Vision and Speech Interaction
339. NeurIPS 2025VITRIX-UniViTAR: Unified Vision Transformer with Native Resolution
340. NeurIPS 2025VLA-Cache: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Manipulation via Adaptive Token Caching
341. NeurIPS 2025VLA-OS: Structuring and Dissecting Planning Representations and Paradigms in Vision-Language-Action Models
342. NeurIPS 2025VLM in a flash: I/O-Efficient Sparsification of Vision-Language Model via Neuron Chunking
343. NeurIPS 2025What Can RL Bring to VLA Generalization? An Empirical Study
344. NeurIPS 2025What Do Latent Action Models Actually Learn?
345. NeurIPS 2025With Limited Data for Multimodal Alignment, Let the STRUCTURE Guide You

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.