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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401. NeurIPS 2024Text-Infused Attention and Foreground-Aware Modeling for Zero-Shot Temporal Action Detection
402. NeurIPS 2024TrAct: Making First-layer Pre-Activations Trainable
403. NeurIPS 2024Transformer Doctor: Diagnosing and Treating Vision Transformers
404. NeurIPS 2024Unveil Benign Overfitting for Transformer in Vision: Training Dynamics, Convergence, and Generalization
405. NeurIPS 2024Unveiling Encoder-Free Vision-Language Models
406. NeurIPS 2024Unveiling the Hidden: Online Vectorized HD Map Construction with Clip-Level Token Interaction and Propagation
407. NeurIPS 2024Unveiling the Tapestry of Consistency in Large Vision-Language Models
408. NeurIPS 2024V-PETL Bench: A Unified Visual Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning Benchmark
409. NeurIPS 2024VHELM: A Holistic Evaluation of Vision Language Models
410. NeurIPS 2024Vision Foundation Model Enables Generalizable Object Pose Estimation
411. NeurIPS 2024Vision Mamba Mender
412. NeurIPS 2024Vision Transformer Neural Architecture Search for Out-of-Distribution Generalization: Benchmark and Insights
413. NeurIPS 2024VisionLLM v2: An End-to-End Generalist Multimodal Large Language Model for Hundreds of Vision-Language Tasks
414. NeurIPS 2024Vista: A Generalizable Driving World Model with High Fidelity and Versatile Controllability
415. NeurIPS 2024Vitron: A Unified Pixel-level Vision LLM for Understanding, Generating, Segmenting, Editing
416. NeurIPS 2024VLG-CBM: Training Concept Bottleneck Models with Vision-Language Guidance
417. NeurIPS 2024What matters when building vision-language models?
418. NeurIPS 2024WikiDO: A New Benchmark Evaluating Cross-Modal Retrieval for Vision-Language Models
419. NeurIPS 2024Wormhole Loss for Partial Shape Matching
420. NeurIPS 2024Yo'LLaVA: Your Personalized Language and Vision Assistant
421. NeurIPS 2023Active Vision Reinforcement Learning under Limited Visual Observability
422. NeurIPS 2023Activity Grammars for Temporal Action Segmentation
423. NeurIPS 2023Adaptive Contextual Perception: How To Generalize To New Backgrounds and Ambiguous Objects
424. NeurIPS 2023AiluRus: A Scalable ViT Framework for Dense Prediction
425. NeurIPS 2023Are Diffusion Models Vision-And-Language Reasoners?
426. NeurIPS 2023Auslan-Daily: Australian Sign Language Translation for Daily Communication and News
427. NeurIPS 2023AVIS: Autonomous Visual Information Seeking with Large Language Model Agent
428. NeurIPS 2023AVOIDDS: Aircraft Vision-based Intruder Detection Dataset and Simulator
429. NeurIPS 2023Benchmarking Robustness of Adaptation Methods on Pre-trained Vision-Language Models
430. NeurIPS 2023BERT Lost Patience Won't Be Robust to Adversarial Slowdown
431. NeurIPS 2023Brain encoding models based on multimodal transformers can transfer across language and vision
432. NeurIPS 2023Bullying10K: A Large-Scale Neuromorphic Dataset towards Privacy-Preserving Bullying Recognition
433. NeurIPS 2023Bypassing the Simulator: Near-Optimal Adversarial Linear Contextual Bandits
434. NeurIPS 2023Category-Extensible Out-of-Distribution Detection via Hierarchical Context Descriptions
435. NeurIPS 2023Cheap and Quick: Efficient Vision-Language Instruction Tuning for Large Language Models
436. NeurIPS 2023Clifford Group Equivariant Neural Networks
437. NeurIPS 2023Coherent Soft Imitation Learning
438. NeurIPS 2023Compressed Video Prompt Tuning
439. NeurIPS 2023ComSL: A Composite Speech-Language Model for End-to-End Speech-to-Text Translation
440. NeurIPS 2023Contrast, Attend and Diffuse to Decode High-Resolution Images from Brain Activities
441. NeurIPS 2023Convolutions Die Hard: Open-Vocabulary Segmentation with Single Frozen Convolutional CLIP
442. NeurIPS 2023DataComp: In search of the next generation of multimodal datasets
443. NeurIPS 2023DesCo: Learning Object Recognition with Rich Language Descriptions
444. NeurIPS 2023DiffVL: Scaling Up Soft Body Manipulation using Vision-Language Driven Differentiable Physics
445. NeurIPS 2023Distilling Out-of-Distribution Robustness from Vision-Language Foundation Models
446. NeurIPS 2023Diversify Your Vision Datasets with Automatic Diffusion-based Augmentation
447. NeurIPS 2023Efficient Batched Algorithm for Contextual Linear Bandits with Large Action Space via Soft Elimination
448. NeurIPS 2023EgoSchema: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Very Long-form Video Language Understanding
449. NeurIPS 2023EmbodiedGPT: Vision-Language Pre-Training via Embodied Chain of Thought
450. NeurIPS 2023Enhancing CLIP with CLIP: Exploring Pseudolabeling for Limited-Label Prompt Tuning

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.