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 2025Accelerating Multimodal Large Language Models by Searching Optimal Vision Token Reduction
2. CVPR 2025Action Detail Matters: Refining Video Recognition with Local Action Queries
3. CVPR 2025Active Event-based Stereo Vision
4. CVPR 2025Adventurer: Optimizing Vision Mamba Architecture Designs for Efficiency
5. CVPR 2025APHQ-ViT: Post-Training Quantization with Average Perturbation Hessian Based Reconstruction for Vision Transformers
6. CVPR 2025Are Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolution Networks for Human Action Recognition Over-Parameterized?
7. CVPR 2025Argus: Vision-Centric Reasoning with Grounded Chain-of-Thought
8. CVPR 2025Assessing and Learning Alignment of Unimodal Vision and Language Models
9. CVPR 2025ATP-LLaVA: Adaptive Token Pruning for Large Vision Language Models
10. CVPR 2025Benchmarking Large Vision-Language Models via Directed Scene Graph for Comprehensive Image Captioning
11. CVPR 2025BHViT: Binarized Hybrid Vision Transformer
12. CVPR 2025Bias for Action: Video Implicit Neural Representations with Bias Modulation
13. CVPR 2025BiomedCoOp: Learning to Prompt for Biomedical Vision-Language Models
14. CVPR 2025Boosting Point-Supervised Temporal Action Localization through Integrating Query Reformation and Optimal Transport
15. CVPR 2025Bridge the Gap: From Weak to Full Supervision for Temporal Action Localization with PseudoFormer
16. CVPR 2025Bridging Past and Future: End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Historical Prediction and Planning
17. CVPR 2025Building Vision Models upon Heat Conduction
18. CVPR 2025CALICO: Part-Focused Semantic Co-Segmentation with Large Vision-Language Models
19. CVPR 2025Can Large Vision-Language Models Correct Semantic Grounding Errors By Themselves?
20. CVPR 2025Conical Visual Concentration for Efficient Large Vision-Language Models
21. CVPR 2025Context-Enhanced Memory-Refined Transformer for Online Action Detection
22. CVPR 2025COSMOS: Cross-Modality Self-Distillation for Vision Language Pre-training
23. CVPR 2025CoSpace: Benchmarking Continuous Space Perception Ability for Vision-Language Models
24. CVPR 2025CoT-VLA: Visual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Vision-Language-Action Models
25. CVPR 2025CountLLM: Towards Generalizable Repetitive Action Counting via Large Language Model
26. CVPR 2025Cropper: Vision-Language Model for Image Cropping through In-Context Learning
27. CVPR 2025DA-VPT: Semantic-Guided Visual Prompt Tuning for Vision Transformers
28. CVPR 2025DeepCompress-ViT: Rethinking Model Compression to Enhance Efficiency of Vision Transformers at the Edge
29. CVPR 2025DepthCues: Evaluating Monocular Depth Perception in Large Vision Models
30. CVPR 2025Devils in Middle Layers of Large Vision-Language Models: Interpreting, Detecting and Mitigating Object Hallucinations via Attention Lens
31. CVPR 2025DH-Set: Improving Vision-Language Alignment with Diverse and Hybrid Set-Embeddings Learning
32. CVPR 2025DiGIT: Multi-Dilated Gated Encoder and Central-Adjacent Region Integrated Decoder for Temporal Action Detection Transformer
33. CVPR 2025DINOv2 Meets Text: A Unified Framework for Image- and Pixel-Level Vision-Language Alignment
34. CVPR 2025Do Visual Imaginations Improve Vision-and-Language Navigation Agents?
35. CVPR 2025DPC: Dual-Prompt Collaboration for Tuning Vision-Language Models
36. CVPR 2025DriveGPT4-V2: Harnessing Large Language Model Capabilities for Enhanced Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving
37. CVPR 2025Driving by the Rules: A Benchmark for Integrating Traffic Sign Regulations into Vectorized HD Map
38. CVPR 2025DSPNet: Dual-vision Scene Perception for Robust 3D Question Answering
39. CVPR 2025EfficientLLaVA: Generalizable Auto-Pruning for Large Vision-language Models
40. CVPR 2025Enhancing Vision-Language Compositional Understanding with Multimodal Synthetic Data
41. CVPR 2025Evaluating Vision-Language Models as Evaluators in Path Planning
42. CVPR 2025FastVLM: Efficient Vision Encoding for Vision Language Models
43. CVPR 2025From Head to Tail: Towards Balanced Representation in Large Vision-Language Models through Adaptive Data Calibration
44. CVPR 2025GEM: A Generalizable Ego-Vision Multimodal World Model for Fine-Grained Ego-Motion, Object Dynamics, and Scene Composition Control
45. CVPR 2025Generating 6DoF Object Manipulation Trajectories from Action Description in Egocentric Vision
46. CVPR 2025Graph Neural Network Combining Event Stream and Periodic Aggregation for Low-Latency Event-based Vision
47. CVPR 2025H-MoRe: Learning Human-centric Motion Representation for Action Analysis
48. CVPR 2025HalLoc: Token-level Localization of Hallucinations for Vision Language Models
49. CVPR 2025Heterogeneous Skeleton-Based Action Representation Learning
50. CVPR 2025HiRes-LLaVA: Restoring Fragmentation Input in High-Resolution Large Vision-Language Models

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.