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

236 papers, page 1 of 5

1. ICLR 2026A Primer on SO(3) Action Representations in Deep Reinforcement Learning
2. ICLR 2026ACPBench Hard: Unrestrained Reasoning about Action, Change, and Planning
3. ICLR 2026Action Chunking and Data Augmentation Yield Exponential Improvements in Behavior Cloning for Continuous Spaces
4. ICLR 2026Action-aware Dynamic Pruning for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Manipulation
5. ICLR 2026Action-Free Offline-To-Online RL via Discretised State Policies
6. ICLR 2026Action-Guided Attention for Video Action Anticipation
7. ICLR 2026Align-Then-stEer: Adapting the Vision-Language Action Models through Unified Latent Guidance
8. ICLR 2026AutoBio: A Simulation and Benchmark for Robotic Automation in Digital Biology Laboratory
9. ICLR 2026AutoDrive-R²: Incentivizing Reasoning and Self-Reflection Capacity for VLA Model in Autonomous Driving
10. ICLR 2026AutoFly: Vision-Language-Action Model for UAV Autonomous Navigation in the Wild
11. ICLR 2026AutoQVLA: Not All Channels Are Equal in Vision-Language-Action Model's Quantization
12. ICLR 2026Beyond Markovian Drifts: Action-Biased Geometric Walks with Memory for Personalized Summarization
13. ICLR 2026Breaking the Total Variance Barrier: Sharp Sample Complexity for Linear Heteroscedastic Bandits with Fixed Action Set
14. ICLR 2026Can Vision-Language Models Answer Face to Face Questions in the Real-World?
15. ICLR 2026Contractive Diffusion Policies: Robust Action Diffusion via Contractive Score-Based Sampling with Differential Equations
16. ICLR 2026Curvature-Guided Task Synergy for Skeleton based Temporal Action Segmentation
17. ICLR 2026D2E: Scaling Vision-Action Pretraining on Desktop Data for Transfer to Embodied AI
18. ICLR 2026Decoupled Q-Chunking
19. ICLR 2026Delving into Spectral Clustering with Vision-Language Representations
20. ICLR 2026Demystifying Robot Diffusion Policies: Action Memorization and a Simple Lookup Table Alternative
21. ICLR 2026DepthLM: Metric Depth from Vision Language Models
22. ICLR 2026Detecting Misbehaviors of Large Vision-Language Models by Evidential Uncertainty Quantification
23. ICLR 2026Discrete Diffusion for Reflective Vision-Language-Action Models in Autonomous Driving
24. ICLR 2026Distributional Vision-Language Alignment by Cauchy-Schwarz Divergence
25. ICLR 2026Distributions as Actions: A Unified Framework for Diverse Action Spaces
26. ICLR 2026DriveVLA-W0: World Models Amplify Data Scaling Law in Autonomous Driving
27. ICLR 2026Dynamic Multimodal Activation Steering for Hallucination Mitigation in Large Vision-Language Models
28. ICLR 2026EAST: Early Action Prediction Sampling Strategy with Token Masking
29. ICLR 2026EgoBrain: Synergizing Minds and Eyes For Human Action Understanding
30. ICLR 2026Embodied Navigation Foundation Model
31. ICLR 2026End-to-end Listen, Look, Speak and Act
32. ICLR 2026FASTer: Toward Powerful and Efficient Autoregressive Vision–Language–Action Models with Learnable Action Tokenizer and Block-wise Decoding
33. ICLR 2026Fed-Duet: Dual Expert-Orchestrated Framework for Continual Federated Vision-Language Learning
34. ICLR 2026FETAL-GAUGE: A BENCHMARK FOR ASSESSING VISION-LANGUAGE MODELS IN FETAL ULTRASOUND
35. ICLR 2026FlowAD: Ego-Scene Interactive Modeling for Autonomous Driving
36. ICLR 2026From ``Sure" to ``Sorry": Detecting Jailbreak in Large Vision Language Model via JailNeurons
37. ICLR 2026From Pixels to Semantics: Unified Facial Action Representation Learning for Micro-Expression Analysis
38. ICLR 2026From Pixels to Words -- Towards Native Vision-Language Primitives at Scale
39. ICLR 2026From Spatial to Actions: Grounding Vision-Language-Action Model in Spatial Foundation Priors
40. ICLR 2026Ground Slow, Move Fast: A Dual-System Foundation Model for Generalizable Vision-Language Navigation
41. ICLR 2026Hallucination-aware Intermediate Representation Editing in Large Vision-Lanugage Models
42. ICLR 2026HAMLET: Switch Your Vision-Language-Action Model into a History-Aware Policy
43. ICLR 2026Hybrid Training for Vision-Language-Action Models
44. ICLR 2026iLLaVA: An Image is Worth Fewer Than 1/3 Input Tokens in Large Multimodal Models
45. ICLR 2026Imitating the Truth: Attention-aware Truth-Guided Enhancement for Hallucination Mitigation in Large Vision-Language Models
46. ICLR 2026Improving and Accelerating Offline RL in Large Discrete Action Spaces with Structured Policy Initialization
47. ICLR 2026InnovatorBench: Evaluating Agents’ Ability to Conduct Innovative AI Research
48. ICLR 2026Investigating Redundancy in Multimodal Large Language Models with Multiple Vision Encoders
49. ICLR 2026IVC-Prune: Revealing the Implicit Visual Coordinates in LVLMs for Vision Token Pruning
50. ICLR 2026Kaleidoscope: In-language Exams for Massively Multilingual Vision Evaluation

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.