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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1. CVPR 2026240FPS Stereo Vision from Monocular Mixed Spikes
2. CVPR 20264DP-QA Scalable QA for 4D Perception in Vision Language Models
3. CVPR 2026Abstract 3D Perception for Spatial Intelligence in Vision-Language Models
4. CVPR 2026ACoT-VLA Action Chain-of-Thought for Vision-Language-Action Models
5. CVPR 2026ActAvatar Temporally-Aware Precise Action Control for Talking Avatars
6. CVPR 2026Action Motifs Self-Supervised Hierarchical Representation of Human Body Movements
7. CVPR 2026Action-Sketcher From Reasoning to Action via Visual Sketches for Robotic
8. CVPR 2026ActiveVLA Injecting Active Perception into Vision-Language-Action Models for Precise 3D
9. CVPR 2026AdapAction Adaptive Target Action Backdoor Attack against GUI Agents
10. CVPR 2026Adaptive Action Chunking at Inference-time for Vision-Language-Action Models
11. CVPR 2026AdaptVision Efficient Vision-Language Models via Adaptive Visual Acquisition
12. CVPR 2026AeroAgent A Vision-Physics-Decision Framework for Aerodynamic Vehicle Design
13. CVPR 2026Aligning What Vision-Language Models See and Perceive with Adaptive Information
14. CVPR 2026All Roads Lead to Rome Incentivizing Divergent Thinking in Vision-Language
15. CVPR 2026ARC Is a Vision Problem
16. CVPR 2026AT-VLA Adaptive Tactile Injection for Enhanced Feedback Reaction in Vision-Language-Action
17. CVPR 2026AtomicVLA Unlocking the Potential of Atomic Skill Learning in Robots
18. CVPR 2026AVA-VLA Improving Vision-Language-Action models with Active Visual Attention
19. CVPR 2026AVION Aerial Vision-Language Instruction from Offline Teacher to Prompt-Tuned Network
20. CVPR 2026AwareVLN Reasoning with Self-awareness for Vision-Language Navigation
21. CVPR 2026b-CLIP Text-Conditioned Contrastive Learning for Multi-Granular Vision-Language Alignment
22. CVPR 2026BabyVLM-V2 Toward Developmentally Grounded Pretraining and Benchmarking of Vision Foundation
23. CVPR 2026Beyond 3D VQAs Injecting 3D Spatial Priors into Vision-Language Models
24. CVPR 2026Beyond Binary Contrast Modeling Continuous Skeleton Action Spaces with Transitional
25. CVPR 2026Beyond Layer-Wise Merging Chain-of-Merging for Vision-Language Models
26. CVPR 2026Beyond Multiple Choice Verifiable OpenQA for Robust Vision-Language RFT
27. CVPR 2026Beyond Single Images A Comprehensive Benchmark for Album-Level Vision-Language Understanding
28. CVPR 2026Beyond Static Frames Temporal Aggregate-and-Restore Vision Transformer for Human Pose
29. CVPR 2026Beyond Success Refining Elegant Robot Manipulation from Mixed-Quality Data via
30. CVPR 2026Beyond the Golden Data Resolving the Motion-Vision Quality Dilemma via
31. CVPR 2026BinaryAttention One-Bit QK-Attention for Vision and Diffusion Transformers
32. CVPR 2026BiomedCCPL Causal Conditional Prompt Learning for Biomedical Vision-Language Models
33. CVPR 2026Boosting Vision-Language-Action Finetuning with Feasible Action Neighborhood Prior
34. CVPR 2026Bridging the 2D-3D Gap A Hierarchical Semantic-Geometric Map for Vision
35. CVPR 2026BriMA Bridged Modality Adaptation for Multi-Modal Continual Action Quality Assessment
36. CVPR 2026CapNav Benchmarking Vision Language Models on Capability-conditioned Indoor Navigation
37. CVPR 2026CAPT Confusion-Aware Prompt Tuning for Reducing Vision-Language Misalignment
38. CVPR 2026CausalVAD De-confounding End-to-End Autonomous Driving via Causal Intervention
39. CVPR 2026CF-IPT Cross-Modal Fusion Interactive Prompt Tuning of Vision-Language Pre-Trained Model
40. CVPR 2026CLAY Conditional Visual Similarity Modulation in Vision-Language Embedding Space
41. CVPR 2026Cluster-Aware Neural Collapse Prompt Tuning for Long-Tailed Generalization of Vision-Language
42. CVPR 2026Collaborative Multi-Mode Pruning for Vision-Language Models
43. CVPR 2026Condensed Test-Time Adaptation of VLMs for Action Recognition
44. CVPR 2026Counterfactual VLA Self-Reflective Vision-Language-Action Model with Adaptive Reasoning
45. CVPR 2026Cross-Hand Latent Representation for Vision-Language-Action Models
46. CVPR 2026CrossHOI-Bench A Unified Benchmark for HOI Evaluation across Vision-Language Models
47. CVPR 2026CrossVL Complexity-Aware Feature Routing and Paired Curriculum for Cross-View Vision-Language
48. CVPR 2026D3D-VLP Dynamic 3D Vision-Language-Planning Model for Embodied Grounding and Navigation
49. CVPR 2026DarkShake-DVS Event-based Human Action Recognition under Low-light and Shaking Camera
50. CVPR 2026DecoVLN Decoupling Observation Reasoning and Correction for Vision-and-Language Navigation

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.