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. ICML 2026A Call to Lagrangian Action: Learning Population Mechanics from Temporal Snapshots
2. ICML 2026Action Manifold Smoothing: A Lipschitz Pathway Perspective on High-Dimensional Reinforcement Learning
3. ICML 2026Action-Sufficient Goal Representations
4. ICML 2026Adaptive Residual-Update Steering for Low-Overhead Hallucination Mitigation in Large Vision-Language Models
5. ICML 2026Adaptive Token Refinement in Long-Tailed Large Vision-Language Models Fine-Tuning
6. ICML 2026AIR-VLA: Vision-Language-Action Systems for Aerial Manipulation
7. ICML 2026AlignedNorm: Prompting Vision–Language Models via Coupled Prompt Field
8. ICML 2026Attacking Gray-Box Large Vision-Language Models with Adaptive SVD-Structured Adversarial Alignment
9. ICML 2026AURA: Visually Interpretable Affective Understanding via Robust Archetypes
10. ICML 2026AutoMoT: A Unified Vision-Language-Action Model with Asynchronous Mixture -of-Transformers for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
11. ICML 2026Benign Overfitting in Adversarial Training for Vision Transformers
12. ICML 2026Beyond Attention Imbalance: Mitigating Hallucinations via Spectral Surgery
13. ICML 2026Bring Future Vision: Dynamic Computation Allocation Guided by Lightweight Feature Forecaster
14. ICML 2026Bring My Cup! Personalizing Vision-Language-Action Models with Visual Attentive Prompting
15. ICML 2026BYORn: Bootstrap Your Own Responses to Defend Large Vision-Language Models Against Backdoor Attacks
16. ICML 2026CAPTCHA Solving for Native GUI Agents: Automated Reasoning-Action Data Generation and Self-Corrective Training
17. ICML 2026Characterizing Vision-Language-Action Models across XPUs: Constraints and Acceleration for On-Robot Deployment
18. ICML 2026Chunk-Guided Q-Learning
19. ICML 2026Circle-RoPE: Cone-like Decoupled Rotary Positional Embedding for Vision-Language Models
20. ICML 2026Co-Evolving Latent Action World Models
21. ICML 2026Compass-RoPE: Isotropic Rotary Position Embeddings for Vision Transformers
22. ICML 2026Compositional Generalization Requires Linear, Orthogonal Representations in Vision Embedding Models
23. ICML 2026Conformal Risk-Averse Decision Making with Action Conditional Guarantee
24. ICML 2026Contrastive Representation Regularization for Vision-Language-Action Models
25. ICML 2026D$^2$O: A Dual Debiasing Operator for Training-Free Test-Time Adaptation of Vision–Language Models
26. ICML 2026DDGA: Dirichlet Distributional Gradient Aggregation for Transferable Vision-Language Adversarial Attacks
27. ICML 2026Deformba: Vision State Space Model with Adaptive State Fusion
28. ICML 2026DEGAP: Dynamic Entropy-Guided Attention Perturbation for Contrastive Decoding in Large Vision-Language Models
29. ICML 2026Designing Observation and Action Models for Efficient Reinforcement Learning with LLMs
30. ICML 2026DiLA: Disentangled Latent Action World Models
31. ICML 2026Discrete Diffusion VLA: Bringing Discrete Diffusion to Action Decoding in Vision-Language-Action Policies
32. ICML 2026Dismantling the Illusion of Vision-Language-Action Models Competence via Explicit Distributional Shifts
33. ICML 2026Dive into the Scene: Breaking the Perceptual Bottleneck in Vision-Language Decision Making via Focus Plan Generation
34. ICML 2026DriveWorld-VLA: Unified Latent-Space World Modeling with Vision–Language–Action for Autonomous Driving
35. ICML 2026Dyn-VPP: Video Prediction Policy Optimization for Improved Visual Dynamics
36. ICML 2026DynVLA: Learning World Dynamics for Action Reasoning in Autonomous Driving
37. ICML 2026EcoVLA: Environment-Aware Adaptive Pruning with Interleaved Inference Orchestration for Vision-Language-Action Models
38. ICML 2026Embodied Interpretability: Linking Causal Understanding to Generalization in Vision-Language-Action Models
39. ICML 2026EnsembleVLA: Ensemble Learning for Vision-Language Action Models
40. ICML 2026Escaping the Diversity Trap in Robotic Manipulation via Anchor-Centric Adaptation
41. ICML 2026Factored Latent Action World Models
42. ICML 2026FOCA: Future-Oriented Conditioning for Data-Efficient Vision-Language-Action Adaptation
43. ICML 2026Forensic Prompting with Dual-Action Policy Optimization for Vision-Language Forgery Detection and Localization
44. ICML 2026FRISM: Fine-Grained Reasoning Injection via Subspace-Level Model Merging for Vision–Language Models
45. ICML 2026From Abstraction to Instantiation: Learning Behavioral Representation for Vision-Language-Action Model
46. ICML 2026From Noise to Intent: Anchoring Generative VLA Policies with Residual Bridges
47. ICML 2026From Pixels to Tokens: A Systematic Study of Latent Action Supervision for Vision-Language-Action Models
48. ICML 2026General Covariant Action Modeling: Constructing Generalized Manifolds via Spatio-Temporal Decoupling
49. ICML 2026Geometric Collapse: When Vision Models Fail to Verify Physical Causality
50. ICML 2026HieRD: Hierarchical Relational Distillation for Vision-Language Embedding 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.