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 2024A Pedestrian is Worth One Prompt: Towards Language Guidance Person Re-Identification
2. CVPR 2024A Vision Check-up for Language Models
3. CVPR 2024Action-slot: Visual Action-centric Representations for Multi-label Atomic Activity Recognition in Traffic Scenes
4. CVPR 2024Active Prompt Learning in Vision Language Models
5. CVPR 2024Adapting Short-Term Transformers for Action Detection in Untrimmed Videos
6. CVPR 2024AHIVE: Anatomy-aware Hierarchical Vision Encoding for Interactive Radiology Report Retrieval
7. CVPR 2024AM-RADIO: Agglomerative Vision Foundation Model Reduce All Domains Into One
8. CVPR 2024Anchor-based Robust Finetuning of Vision-Language Models
9. CVPR 2024ArGue: Attribute-Guided Prompt Tuning for Vision-Language Models
10. CVPR 2024AUEditNet: Dual-Branch Facial Action Unit Intensity Manipulation with Implicit Disentanglement
11. CVPR 2024Benchmarking the Robustness of Temporal Action Detection Models Against Temporal Corruptions
12. CVPR 2024BEVSpread: Spread Voxel Pooling for Bird's-Eye-View Representation in Vision-based Roadside 3D Object Detection
13. CVPR 2024BigGait: Learning Gait Representation You Want by Large Vision Models
14. CVPR 2024BlockGCN: Redefine Topology Awareness for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition
15. CVPR 2024Boosting Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models via Mixture-of-Experts Adapters
16. CVPR 2024Can't Make an Omelette Without Breaking Some Eggs: Plausible Action Anticipation Using Large Video-Language Models
17. CVPR 2024Coherent Temporal Synthesis for Incremental Action Segmentation
18. CVPR 2024ConCon-Chi: Concept-Context Chimera Benchmark for Personalized Vision-Language Tasks
19. CVPR 2024Consistency and Uncertainty: Identifying Unreliable Responses From Black-Box Vision-Language Models for Selective Visual Question Answering
20. CVPR 2024COTR: Compact Occupancy TRansformer for Vision-based 3D Occupancy Prediction
21. CVPR 2024CPR-Coach: Recognizing Composite Error Actions based on Single-class Training
22. CVPR 2024Decomposing Disease Descriptions for Enhanced Pathology Detection: A Multi-Aspect Vision-Language Pre-training Framework
23. CVPR 2024Dense Vision Transformer Compression with Few Samples
24. CVPR 2024Distilling Vision-Language Models on Millions of Videos
25. CVPR 2024Do Vision and Language Encoders Represent the World Similarly?
26. CVPR 2024DRESS: Instructing Large Vision-Language Models to Align and Interact with Humans via Natural Language Feedback
27. CVPR 2024Dual Memory Networks: A Versatile Adaptation Approach for Vision-Language Models
28. CVPR 2024DUSt3R: Geometric 3D Vision Made Easy
29. CVPR 2024Efficient Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models
30. CVPR 2024Efficient Vision-Language Pre-training by Cluster Masking
31. CVPR 2024EgoThink: Evaluating First-Person Perspective Thinking Capability of Vision-Language Models
32. CVPR 2024End-to-End Spatio-Temporal Action Localisation with Video Transformers
33. CVPR 2024End-to-End Temporal Action Detection with 1B Parameters Across 1000 Frames
34. CVPR 2024Enhancing Vision-Language Pre-training with Rich Supervisions
35. CVPR 2024ExACT: Language-guided Conceptual Reasoning and Uncertainty Estimation for Event-based Action Recognition and More
36. CVPR 2024Explaining CLIP's Performance Disparities on Data from Blind/Low Vision Users
37. CVPR 2024FACT: Frame-Action Cross-Attention Temporal Modeling for Efficient Action Segmentation
38. CVPR 2024FairCLIP: Harnessing Fairness in Vision-Language Learning
39. CVPR 2024FFF: Fixing Flawed Foundations in Contrastive Pre-Training Results in Very Strong Vision-Language Models
40. CVPR 2024Finding Lottery Tickets in Vision Models via Data-driven Spectral Foresight Pruning
41. CVPR 2024FineParser: A Fine-grained Spatio-temporal Action Parser for Human-centric Action Quality Assessment
42. CVPR 2024FineSports: A Multi-person Hierarchical Sports Video Dataset for Fine-grained Action Understanding
43. CVPR 2024Florence-2: Advancing a Unified Representation for a Variety of Vision Tasks
44. CVPR 2024Fooling Polarization-Based Vision using Locally Controllable Polarizing Projection
45. CVPR 2024From Isolated Islands to Pangea: Unifying Semantic Space for Human Action Understanding
46. CVPR 2024GeoChat: Grounded Large Vision-Language Model for Remote Sensing
47. CVPR 2024Grounding Everything: Emerging Localization Properties in Vision-Language Transformers
48. CVPR 2024HallusionBench: An Advanced Diagnostic Suite for Entangled Language Hallucination and Visual Illusion in Large Vision-Language Models
49. CVPR 2024HEAL-SWIN: A Vision Transformer On The Sphere
50. CVPR 2024Instance-Aware Group Quantization for Vision Transformers

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.