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 2025A Decade's Battle on Dataset Bias: Are We There Yet?
2. ICLR 2025Accessing Vision Foundation Models via ImageNet-1K
3. ICLR 2025Action abstractions for amortized sampling
4. ICLR 2025Action Sequence Augmentation for Action Anticipation
5. ICLR 2025ALBAR: Adversarial Learning approach to mitigate Biases in Action Recognition
6. ICLR 2025Are Large Vision Language Models Good Game Players?
7. ICLR 2025Asymmetric Factorized Bilinear Operation for Vision Transformer
8. ICLR 2025Attribute-based Visual Reprogramming for Vision-Language Models
9. ICLR 2025Bidirectional Decoding: Improving Action Chunking via Guided Test-Time Sampling
10. ICLR 2025BlueSuffix: Reinforced Blue Teaming for Vision-Language Models Against Jailbreak Attacks
11. ICLR 2025Brain-inspired $L_p$-Convolution benefits large kernels and aligns better with visual cortex
12. ICLR 2025C-CLIP: Multimodal Continual Learning for Vision-Language Model
13. ICLR 2025Can We Talk Models Into Seeing the World Differently?
14. ICLR 2025ColPali: Efficient Document Retrieval with Vision Language Models
15. ICLR 2025Compositional Entailment Learning for Hyperbolic Vision-Language Models
16. ICLR 2025Control-oriented Clustering of Visual Latent Representation
17. ICLR 2025DAMO: Decoding by Accumulating Activations Momentum for Mitigating Hallucinations in Vision-Language Models
18. ICLR 2025Do Vision-Language Models Represent Space and How? Evaluating Spatial Frame of Reference under Ambiguities
19. ICLR 2025Do You Keep an Eye on What I Ask? Mitigating Multimodal Hallucination via Attention-Guided Ensemble Decoding
20. ICLR 2025Dynamic Multimodal Evaluation with Flexible Complexity by Vision-Language Bootstrapping
21. ICLR 2025Dynamic-LLaVA: Efficient Multimodal Large Language Models via Dynamic Vision-language Context Sparsification
22. ICLR 2025Efficient Action-Constrained Reinforcement Learning via Acceptance-Rejection Method and Augmented MDPs
23. ICLR 2025Efficient Off-Policy Learning for High-Dimensional Action Spaces
24. ICLR 2025ELFS: Label-Free Coreset Selection with Proxy Training Dynamics
25. ICLR 2025Enhancing End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Latent World Model
26. ICLR 2025ETA: Evaluating Then Aligning Safety of Vision Language Models at Inference Time
27. ICLR 2025Geometry of Neural Reinforcement Learning in Continuous State and Action Spaces
28. ICLR 2025GravMAD: Grounded Spatial Value Maps Guided Action Diffusion for Generalized 3D Manipulation
29. ICLR 2025Improving Large Language Model Planning with Action Sequence Similarity
30. ICLR 2025Inference Optimal VLMs Need Fewer Visual Tokens and More Parameters
31. ICLR 2025Interpreting and Editing Vision-Language Representations to Mitigate Hallucinations
32. ICLR 2025Kronecker Mask and Interpretive Prompts are Language-Action Video Learners
33. ICLR 2025Latent Action Pretraining from Videos
34. ICLR 2025Locality Alignment Improves Vision-Language Models
35. ICLR 2025Masked Temporal Interpolation Diffusion for Procedure Planning in Instructional Videos
36. ICLR 2025MGMapNet: Multi-Granularity Representation Learning for End-to-End Vectorized HD Map Construction
37. ICLR 2025Mixture of Experts Made Personalized: Federated Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models
38. ICLR 2025MMFakeBench: A Mixed-Source Multimodal Misinformation Detection Benchmark for LVLMs
39. ICLR 2025Model merging with SVD to tie the Knots
40. ICLR 2025Neural Eulerian Scene Flow Fields
41. ICLR 2025OS-ATLAS: Foundation Action Model for Generalist GUI Agents
42. ICLR 2025PADRe: A Unifying Polynomial Attention Drop-in Replacement for Efficient Vision Transformer
43. ICLR 2025PETRA: Parallel End-to-end Training with Reversible Architectures
44. ICLR 2025POTEC: Off-Policy Contextual Bandits for Large Action Spaces via Policy Decomposition
45. ICLR 2025Reducing Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models via Latent Space Steering
46. ICLR 2025REMEDY: Recipe Merging Dynamics in Large Vision-Language Models
47. ICLR 2025Revealing and Reducing Gender Biases in Vision and Language Assistants (VLAs)
48. ICLR 2025Self-Correcting Decoding with Generative Feedback for Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models
49. ICLR 2025Self-Introspective Decoding: Alleviating Hallucinations for Large Vision-Language Models
50. ICLR 2025Solving Token Gradient Conflict in Mixture-of-Experts for Large Vision-Language Model

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.