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

1,639 papers, page 9 of 33

401. ICML 2026Conformal Risk-Averse Decision Making with Action Conditional Guarantee
402. ICML 2026Contrastive Representation Regularization for Vision-Language-Action Models
403. ICML 2026D$^2$O: A Dual Debiasing Operator for Training-Free Test-Time Adaptation of Vision–Language Models
404. ICML 2026DDGA: Dirichlet Distributional Gradient Aggregation for Transferable Vision-Language Adversarial Attacks
405. ICML 2026Deformba: Vision State Space Model with Adaptive State Fusion
406. ICML 2026DEGAP: Dynamic Entropy-Guided Attention Perturbation for Contrastive Decoding in Large Vision-Language Models
407. ICML 2026Designing Observation and Action Models for Efficient Reinforcement Learning with LLMs
408. ICML 2026DiLA: Disentangled Latent Action World Models
409. ICML 2026Discrete Diffusion VLA: Bringing Discrete Diffusion to Action Decoding in Vision-Language-Action Policies
410. ICML 2026Dismantling the Illusion of Vision-Language-Action Models Competence via Explicit Distributional Shifts
411. ICML 2026Dive into the Scene: Breaking the Perceptual Bottleneck in Vision-Language Decision Making via Focus Plan Generation
412. ICML 2026DriveWorld-VLA: Unified Latent-Space World Modeling with Vision–Language–Action for Autonomous Driving
413. ICML 2026Dyn-VPP: Video Prediction Policy Optimization for Improved Visual Dynamics
414. ICML 2026DynVLA: Learning World Dynamics for Action Reasoning in Autonomous Driving
415. ICML 2026EcoVLA: Environment-Aware Adaptive Pruning with Interleaved Inference Orchestration for Vision-Language-Action Models
416. ICML 2026Embodied Interpretability: Linking Causal Understanding to Generalization in Vision-Language-Action Models
417. ICML 2026EnsembleVLA: Ensemble Learning for Vision-Language Action Models
418. ICML 2026Escaping the Diversity Trap in Robotic Manipulation via Anchor-Centric Adaptation
419. ICML 2026Factored Latent Action World Models
420. ICML 2026FOCA: Future-Oriented Conditioning for Data-Efficient Vision-Language-Action Adaptation
421. ICML 2026Forensic Prompting with Dual-Action Policy Optimization for Vision-Language Forgery Detection and Localization
422. ICML 2026FRISM: Fine-Grained Reasoning Injection via Subspace-Level Model Merging for Vision–Language Models
423. ICML 2026From Abstraction to Instantiation: Learning Behavioral Representation for Vision-Language-Action Model
424. ICML 2026From Noise to Intent: Anchoring Generative VLA Policies with Residual Bridges
425. ICML 2026From Pixels to Tokens: A Systematic Study of Latent Action Supervision for Vision-Language-Action Models
426. ICML 2026General Covariant Action Modeling: Constructing Generalized Manifolds via Spatio-Temporal Decoupling
427. ICML 2026Geometric Collapse: When Vision Models Fail to Verify Physical Causality
428. ICML 2026HieRD: Hierarchical Relational Distillation for Vision-Language Embedding Models
429. ICML 2026HiMe: Hierarchical Embodied Memory for Long-Horizon Vision-Language-Action Control
430. ICML 2026ImmersePro: End-to-End Stereo Video Synthesis Via Implicit Disparity Learning
431. ICML 2026Implicit Action Chunking for Smooth Continuous Control
432. ICML 2026Instruction Decomposition and Action Alignment for Vision-Language Navigation
433. ICML 2026Interpreting and Enhancing Emotional Circuits in Large Vision-Language Models via Cross-Modal Information Flow
434. ICML 2026KODA: Contrastive Representation Comparison and Alignment for Vision-Language Foundation Models
435. ICML 2026LangForce: Bayesian Decomposition of Vision Language Action Models via Latent Action Queries
436. ICML 2026Language Bias in LVLMs: From In-Depth Analysis to Simple and Effective Mitigation
437. ICML 2026LARA: Latent Action Representation Alignment for Vision-Language-Action Models
438. ICML 2026LARFT: Closing the Cognition-Action Gap for Length Instruction Following in Large Language Models
439. ICML 2026Large Vision-Language Models Get Lost in Attention
440. ICML 2026LAST: Bridging Vision-Language and Action Manifolds via Gromov-Wasserstein Alignment
441. ICML 2026Learning High-Frequency Continuous Action Chunks in Latent Space
442. ICML 2026Learning Latent Action World Models in the Wild
443. ICML 2026Learning the Minimum Action Distance
444. ICML 2026Left–Right Symmetry Breaking in CLIP-Style Vision-Language Models Trained on Synthetic Spatial-Relation Data
445. ICML 2026Mirror Descent Actor Critic via Bounded Advantage Learning
446. ICML 2026Mitigating the Modality Gap in Vision–Language Models with Fractal Spectral Geometry
447. ICML 2026Mixture of Horizons in Action Chunking
448. ICML 2026MVP-LAM: Learning Action-Centric Latent Action via Cross-Viewpoint Reconstruction
449. ICML 2026Neural Implicit Action Fields: From Discrete Waypoints to Continuous Functions for Vision-Language-Action Models
450. ICML 2026NeurVLA: Unleashing Failure-Handling Capability of Vision-Language-Action Models via Neural-Symbolic Reasoning

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.