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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351. NeurIPS 2024HydraViT: Stacking Heads for a Scalable ViT
352. NeurIPS 2024Image2Struct: Benchmarking Structure Extraction for Vision-Language Models
353. NeurIPS 2024Initializing Variable-sized Vision Transformers from Learngene with Learnable Transformation
354. NeurIPS 2024InternLM-XComposer2-4KHD: A Pioneering Large Vision-Language Model Handling Resolutions from 336 Pixels to 4K HD
355. NeurIPS 2024IPO: Interpretable Prompt Optimization for Vision-Language Models
356. NeurIPS 2024JourneyBench: A Challenging One-Stop Vision-Language Understanding Benchmark of Generated Images
357. NeurIPS 2024Latent Intrinsics Emerge from Training to Relight
358. NeurIPS 2024Learning Action and Reasoning-Centric Image Editing from Videos and Simulation
359. NeurIPS 2024Learning Group Actions on Latent Representations
360. NeurIPS 2024Learning Optimal Lattice Vector Quantizers for End-to-end Neural Image Compression
361. NeurIPS 2024Learning to Merge Tokens via Decoupled Embedding for Efficient Vision Transformers
362. NeurIPS 2024Learning Where to Edit Vision Transformers
363. NeurIPS 2024Linearly Decomposing and Recomposing Vision Transformers for Diverse-Scale Models
364. NeurIPS 2024Localizing Memorization in SSL Vision Encoders
365. NeurIPS 2024LookHere: Vision Transformers with Directed Attention Generalize and Extrapolate
366. NeurIPS 2024LucidAction: A Hierarchical and Multi-model Dataset for Comprehensive Action Quality Assessment
367. NeurIPS 2024Matryoshka Query Transformer for Large Vision-Language Models
368. NeurIPS 2024MemVLT: Vision-Language Tracking with Adaptive Memory-based Prompts
369. NeurIPS 2024Micro-Bench: A Microscopy Benchmark for Vision-Language Understanding
370. NeurIPS 2024MSPE: Multi-Scale Patch Embedding Prompts Vision Transformers to Any Resolution
371. NeurIPS 2024Multi-Object Hallucination in Vision Language Models
372. NeurIPS 2024NaturalBench: Evaluating Vision-Language Models on Natural Adversarial Samples
373. NeurIPS 2024Not Just Object, But State: Compositional Incremental Learning without Forgetting
374. NeurIPS 2024Offline Reinforcement Learning with OOD State Correction and OOD Action Suppression
375. NeurIPS 2024OmniJARVIS: Unified Vision-Language-Action Tokenization Enables Open-World Instruction Following Agents
376. NeurIPS 2024On the Surprising Effectiveness of Attention Transfer for Vision Transformers
377. NeurIPS 2024On the Use of Anchoring for Training Vision Models
378. NeurIPS 2024Online Learning with Sublinear Best-Action Queries
379. NeurIPS 2024OnlineTAS: An Online Baseline for Temporal Action Segmentation
380. NeurIPS 2024OPEL: Optimal Transport Guided ProcedurE Learning
381. NeurIPS 2024Private Attribute Inference from Images with Vision-Language Models
382. NeurIPS 2024Q-VLM: Post-training Quantization for Large Vision-Language Models
383. NeurIPS 2024QGFN: Controllable Greediness with Action Values
384. NeurIPS 2024QT-ViT: Improving Linear Attention in ViT with Quadratic Taylor Expansion
385. NeurIPS 2024QuadMamba: Learning Quadtree-based Selective Scan for Visual State Space Model
386. NeurIPS 2024RaVL: Discovering and Mitigating Spurious Correlations in Fine-Tuned Vision-Language Models
387. NeurIPS 2024Recovering Complete Actions for Cross-dataset Skeleton Action Recognition
388. NeurIPS 2024Recurrent neural network dynamical systems for biological vision
389. NeurIPS 2024Reinforcing LLM Agents via Policy Optimization with Action Decomposition
390. NeurIPS 2024Revisiting the Integration of Convolution and Attention for Vision Backbone
391. NeurIPS 2024Right this way: Can VLMs Guide Us to See More to Answer Questions?
392. NeurIPS 2024RoboMamba: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model for Robotic Reasoning and Manipulation
393. NeurIPS 2024ScaleKD: Strong Vision Transformers Could Be Excellent Teachers
394. NeurIPS 2024Scaling White-Box Transformers for Vision
395. NeurIPS 2024Shadowcast: Stealthy Data Poisoning Attacks Against Vision-Language Models
396. NeurIPS 2024Slicing Vision Transformer for Flexible Inference
397. NeurIPS 2024SlimSAM: 0.1% Data Makes Segment Anything Slim
398. NeurIPS 2024SUGARCREPE++ Dataset: Vision-Language Model Sensitivity to Semantic and Lexical Alterations
399. NeurIPS 2024Taming "data-hungry" reinforcement learning? Stability in continuous state-action spaces
400. NeurIPS 2024Temporally Consistent Atmospheric Turbulence Mitigation with Neural Representations

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.