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 20233Mformer: Multi-Order Multi-Mode Transformer for Skeletal Action Recognition
2. CVPR 2023Actionlet-Dependent Contrastive Learning for Unsupervised Skeleton-Based Action Recognition
3. CVPR 2023AdamsFormer for Spatial Action Localization in the Future
4. CVPR 2023Adaptive Zone-Aware Hierarchical Planner for Vision-Language Navigation
5. CVPR 2023Are We Ready for Vision-Centric Driving Streaming Perception? The ASAP Benchmark
6. CVPR 2023ASPnet: Action Segmentation With Shared-Private Representation of Multiple Data Sources
7. CVPR 2023AUNet: Learning Relations Between Action Units for Face Forgery Detection
8. CVPR 2023BEVHeight: A Robust Framework for Vision-Based Roadside 3D Object Detection
9. CVPR 2023Bias in Pruned Vision Models: In-Depth Analysis and Countermeasures
10. CVPR 2023Biomechanics-Guided Facial Action Unit Detection Through Force Modeling
11. CVPR 2023Blind Image Quality Assessment via Vision-Language Correspondence: A Multitask Learning Perspective
12. CVPR 2023Boost Vision Transformer With GPU-Friendly Sparsity and Quantization
13. CVPR 2023Boosting Weakly-Supervised Temporal Action Localization With Text Information
14. CVPR 2023Cascade Evidential Learning for Open-World Weakly-Supervised Temporal Action Localization
15. CVPR 2023Castling-ViT: Compressing Self-Attention via Switching Towards Linear-Angular Attention at Vision Transformer Inference
16. CVPR 2023Collaborative Static and Dynamic Vision-Language Streams for Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding
17. CVPR 2023CompletionFormer: Depth Completion With Convolutions and Vision Transformers
18. CVPR 2023CREPE: Can Vision-Language Foundation Models Reason Compositionally?
19. CVPR 2023CrowdCLIP: Unsupervised Crowd Counting via Vision-Language Model
20. CVPR 2023DeAR: Debiasing Vision-Language Models With Additive Residuals
21. CVPR 2023Decomposed Cross-Modal Distillation for RGB-Based Temporal Action Detection
22. CVPR 2023DETRs With Hybrid Matching
23. CVPR 2023Distilling Vision-Language Pre-Training To Collaborate With Weakly-Supervised Temporal Action Localization
24. CVPR 2023DropKey for Vision Transformer
25. CVPR 2023Dynamic Inference With Grounding Based Vision and Language Models
26. CVPR 2023End-to-End Vectorized HD-Map Construction With Piecewise Bezier Curve
27. CVPR 2023Enlarging Instance-Specific and Class-Specific Information for Open-Set Action Recognition
28. CVPR 2023Exploring the Effect of Primitives for Compositional Generalization in Vision-and-Language
29. CVPR 2023FashionSAP: Symbols and Attributes Prompt for Fine-Grained Fashion Vision-Language Pre-Training
30. CVPR 2023Filtering, Distillation, and Hard Negatives for Vision-Language Pre-Training
31. CVPR 2023GIVL: Improving Geographical Inclusivity of Vision-Language Models With Pre-Training Methods
32. CVPR 2023Global Vision Transformer Pruning With Hessian-Aware Saliency
33. CVPR 2023Hierarchical Temporal Transformer for 3D Hand Pose Estimation and Action Recognition From Egocentric RGB Videos
34. CVPR 2023How Can Objects Help Action Recognition?
35. CVPR 2023Improving Commonsense in Vision-Language Models via Knowledge Graph Riddles
36. CVPR 2023Improving Vision-and-Language Navigation by Generating Future-View Image Semantics
37. CVPR 2023Improving Weakly Supervised Temporal Action Localization by Bridging Train-Test Gap in Pseudo Labels
38. CVPR 2023InternImage: Exploring Large-Scale Vision Foundation Models With Deformable Convolutions
39. CVPR 2023Iterative Vision-and-Language Navigation
40. CVPR 2023Joint Token Pruning and Squeezing Towards More Aggressive Compression of Vision Transformers
41. CVPR 2023LASP: Text-to-Text Optimization for Language-Aware Soft Prompting of Vision & Language Models
42. CVPR 2023Latency Matters: Real-Time Action Forecasting Transformer
43. CVPR 2023Learning Action Changes by Measuring Verb-Adverb Textual Relationships
44. CVPR 2023Learning Discriminative Representations for Skeleton Based Action Recognition
45. CVPR 2023Learning Expressive Prompting With Residuals for Vision Transformers
46. CVPR 2023Learning Imbalanced Data With Vision Transformers
47. CVPR 2023Learning To Exploit Temporal Structure for Biomedical Vision-Language Processing
48. CVPR 2023Learning To Name Classes for Vision and Language Models
49. CVPR 2023Leveraging per Image-Token Consistency for Vision-Language Pre-Training
50. CVPR 2023MAP: Multimodal Uncertainty-Aware Vision-Language Pre-Training Model

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.