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 2024A Simple Romance Between Multi-Exit Vision Transformer and Token Reduction
2. ICLR 2024Achieving Sample and Computational Efficient Reinforcement Learning by Action Space Reduction via Grouping
3. ICLR 2024AntGPT: Can Large Language Models Help Long-term Action Anticipation from Videos?
4. ICLR 2024Boundary Denoising for Video Activity Localization
5. ICLR 2024Cascading Reinforcement Learning
6. ICLR 2024Decoupling regularization from the action space
7. ICLR 2024Dynamic Neighborhood Construction for Structured Large Discrete Action Spaces
8. ICLR 2024ECoFLaP: Efficient Coarse-to-Fine Layer-Wise Pruning for Vision-Language Models
9. ICLR 2024EmerNeRF: Emergent Spatial-Temporal Scene Decomposition via Self-Supervision
10. ICLR 2024EventRPG: Event Data Augmentation with Relevance Propagation Guidance
11. ICLR 2024Faithful Vision-Language Interpretation via Concept Bottleneck Models
12. ICLR 2024FROSTER: Frozen CLIP is A Strong Teacher for Open-Vocabulary Action Recognition
13. ICLR 2024How to Fine-Tune Vision Models with SGD
14. ICLR 2024Image Clustering Conditioned on Text Criteria
15. ICLR 2024Inducing High Energy-Latency of Large Vision-Language Models with Verbose Images
16. ICLR 2024INViTE: INterpret and Control Vision-Language Models with Text Explanations
17. ICLR 2024Large Language Models as Automated Aligners for benchmarking Vision-Language Models
18. ICLR 2024Learning Grounded Action Abstractions from Language
19. ICLR 2024Learning Optimal Contracts: How to Exploit Small Action Spaces
20. ICLR 2024Leveraging Unpaired Data for Vision-Language Generative Models via Cycle Consistency
21. ICLR 2024Matrix Manifold Neural Networks++
22. ICLR 2024Measuring Vision-Language STEM Skills of Neural Models
23. ICLR 2024MMICL: Empowering Vision-language Model with Multi-Modal In-Context Learning
24. ICLR 2024Nemesis: Normalizing the Soft-prompt Vectors of Vision-Language Models
25. ICLR 2024Open-ended VQA benchmarking of Vision-Language models by exploiting Classification datasets and their semantic hierarchy
26. ICLR 2024Overcoming the Pitfalls of Vision-Language Model Finetuning for OOD Generalization
27. ICLR 2024Skip-Attention: Improving Vision Transformers by Paying Less Attention
28. ICLR 2024SpikePoint: An Efficient Point-based Spiking Neural Network for Event Cameras Action Recognition
29. ICLR 2024Vision Transformers Need Registers

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.