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. ICLR 2026Spatial Forcing: Implicit Spatial Representation Alignment for Vision-language-action Model
352. ICLR 2026SpatiaLab: Can Vision–Language Models Perform Spatial Reasoning in the Wild?
353. ICLR 2026Spatially Guided Training for Vision-Language-Action Model
354. ICLR 2026Subspace Kernel Learning on Tensor Sequences
355. ICLR 2026Time Optimal Execution of Action Chunk Policies Beyond Demonstration Speed
356. ICLR 2026To Sink or Not to Sink: Visual Information Pathways in Large Vision-Language Models
357. ICLR 2026Toward Universal and Transferable Jailbreak Attacks on Vision-Language Models
358. ICLR 2026TwinVLA: Data-Efficient Bimanual Manipulation with Twin Single-Arm Vision-Language-Action Models
359. ICLR 2026Unified Diffusion VLA: Vision-Language-Action Model via Joint Discrete Diffusion Diffusion Process
360. ICLR 2026Unified Vision-Language-Action Model
361. ICLR 2026Unifying Diffusion and Autoregression for Generalizable Vision-Language-Action Model
362. ICLR 2026VADv2: End-to-End Autonomous Driving via Probabilistic Planning
363. ICLR 2026VEAttack: Downstream-agnostic Vision Encoder Attack against Large Vision Language Models
364. ICLR 2026Verifier-free Test-Time Sampling for Vision Language Action Models
365. ICLR 2026Video-STAR: Reinforcing Open-Vocabulary Action Recognition with Tools
366. ICLR 2026villa-X: Enhancing Latent Action Modeling in Vision-Language-Action Models
367. ICLR 2026ViPRA: Video Prediction for Robot Actions
368. ICLR 2026Vision-Language-Action Instruction Tuning: From Understanding to Manipulation
369. ICLR 2026VITA: Vision-to-Action Flow Matching Policy
370. ICLR 2026ViTSP: A Vision Language Models Guided Framework for Large-Scale Traveling Salesman Problems
371. ICLR 2026VL-JEPA: Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture for Vision-language
372. ICLR 2026Vlaser: Vision-Language-Action Model with Synergistic Embodied Reasoning
373. ICLR 2026VLM4VLA: Revisiting Vision-Language-Models in Vision-Language-Action Models
374. ICLR 2026VLMgineer: Vision-Language Models as Robotic Toolsmiths
375. ICLR 2026Vulcan: Crafting Compact Class-Specific Vision Transformers For Edge Intelligence
376. ICLR 2026WRING Out The Bias: A Rotation-Based Alternative To Projection Debiasing
377. ICLR 2026WSVD: Weighted Low-Rank Approximation for Fast and Efficient Execution of Low-Precision Vision-Language Models
378. ICLR 2026X-VLA: Soft-Prompted Transformer as Scalable Cross-Embodiment Vision-Language-Action Model
379. ICML 2026A Call to Lagrangian Action: Learning Population Mechanics from Temporal Snapshots
380. ICML 2026Action Manifold Smoothing: A Lipschitz Pathway Perspective on High-Dimensional Reinforcement Learning
381. ICML 2026Action-Sufficient Goal Representations
382. ICML 2026Adaptive Residual-Update Steering for Low-Overhead Hallucination Mitigation in Large Vision-Language Models
383. ICML 2026Adaptive Token Refinement in Long-Tailed Large Vision-Language Models Fine-Tuning
384. ICML 2026AIR-VLA: Vision-Language-Action Systems for Aerial Manipulation
385. ICML 2026AlignedNorm: Prompting Vision–Language Models via Coupled Prompt Field
386. ICML 2026Attacking Gray-Box Large Vision-Language Models with Adaptive SVD-Structured Adversarial Alignment
387. ICML 2026AURA: Visually Interpretable Affective Understanding via Robust Archetypes
388. ICML 2026AutoMoT: A Unified Vision-Language-Action Model with Asynchronous Mixture -of-Transformers for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
389. ICML 2026Benign Overfitting in Adversarial Training for Vision Transformers
390. ICML 2026Beyond Attention Imbalance: Mitigating Hallucinations via Spectral Surgery
391. ICML 2026Bring Future Vision: Dynamic Computation Allocation Guided by Lightweight Feature Forecaster
392. ICML 2026Bring My Cup! Personalizing Vision-Language-Action Models with Visual Attentive Prompting
393. ICML 2026BYORn: Bootstrap Your Own Responses to Defend Large Vision-Language Models Against Backdoor Attacks
394. ICML 2026CAPTCHA Solving for Native GUI Agents: Automated Reasoning-Action Data Generation and Self-Corrective Training
395. ICML 2026Characterizing Vision-Language-Action Models across XPUs: Constraints and Acceleration for On-Robot Deployment
396. ICML 2026Chunk-Guided Q-Learning
397. ICML 2026Circle-RoPE: Cone-like Decoupled Rotary Positional Embedding for Vision-Language Models
398. ICML 2026Co-Evolving Latent Action World Models
399. ICML 2026Compass-RoPE: Isotropic Rotary Position Embeddings for Vision Transformers
400. ICML 2026Compositional Generalization Requires Linear, Orthogonal Representations in Vision Embedding Models

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.