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. ICLR 2023$\mathrm{SE}(3)$-Equivariant Attention Networks for Shape Reconstruction in Function Space
2. ICLR 2023A Theoretical Understanding of Shallow Vision Transformers: Learning, Generalization, and Sample Complexity
3. ICLR 2023AIM: Adapting Image Models for Efficient Video Action Recognition
4. ICLR 2023Budgeted Training for Vision Transformer
5. ICLR 2023CLIP-Dissect: Automatic Description of Neuron Representations in Deep Vision Networks
6. ICLR 2023Conditional Positional Encodings for Vision Transformers
7. ICLR 2023Contextual Convolutional Networks
8. ICLR 2023Diagnosing and Rectifying Vision Models using Language
9. ICLR 2023Distributionally Robust Recourse Action
10. ICLR 2023Efficient Planning in a Compact Latent Action Space
11. ICLR 2023GAIN: On the Generalization of Instructional Action Understanding
12. ICLR 2023GPViT: A High Resolution Non-Hierarchical Vision Transformer with Group Propagation
13. ICLR 2023Graph Contrastive Learning for Skeleton-based Action Recognition
14. ICLR 2023Human MotionFormer: Transferring Human Motions with Vision Transformers
15. ICLR 2023Hyperbolic Self-paced Learning for Self-supervised Skeleton-based Action Representations
16. ICLR 2023Learning to Estimate Shapley Values with Vision Transformers
17. ICLR 2023Learning to Jointly Share and Prune Weights for Grounding Based Vision and Language Models
18. ICLR 2023LipsFormer: Introducing Lipschitz Continuity to Vision Transformers
19. ICLR 2023Masked Vision and Language Modeling for Multi-modal Representation Learning
20. ICLR 2023Mid-Vision Feedback
21. ICLR 2023MixPro: Data Augmentation with MaskMix and Progressive Attention Labeling for Vision Transformer
22. ICLR 2023MOAT: Alternating Mobile Convolution and Attention Brings Strong Vision Models
23. ICLR 2023Moving Forward by Moving Backward: Embedding Action Impact over Action Semantics
24. ICLR 2023PLOT: Prompt Learning with Optimal Transport for Vision-Language Models
25. ICLR 2023Programmatically Grounded, Compositionally Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
26. ICLR 2023Quasi-optimal Reinforcement Learning with Continuous Actions
27. ICLR 2023Sparse Token Transformer with Attention Back Tracking
28. ICLR 2023Universal Vision-Language Dense Retrieval: Learning A Unified Representation Space for Multi-Modal Retrieval
29. ICLR 2023Vision Transformer Adapter for Dense Predictions
30. ICLR 2023Write and Paint: Generative Vision-Language Models are Unified Modal Learners

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.