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 2023A Critical View of Vision-Based Long-Term Dynamics Prediction Under Environment Misalignment
2. ICML 2023A Kernel-Based View of Language Model Fine-Tuning
3. ICML 2023Algorithmic Collective Action in Machine Learning
4. ICML 2023An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Nonstationary Bandit Learning
5. ICML 2023Approximation and Estimation Ability of Transformers for Sequence-to-Sequence Functions with Infinite Dimensional Input
6. ICML 2023Boosting Offline Reinforcement Learning with Action Preference Query
7. ICML 2023Combinatorial Neural Bandits
8. ICML 2023COMCAT: Towards Efficient Compression and Customization of Attention-Based Vision Models
9. ICML 2023Delayed Bandits: When Do Intermediate Observations Help?
10. ICML 2023Distilling Internet-Scale Vision-Language Models into Embodied Agents
11. ICML 2023Dynamical Linear Bandits
12. ICML 2023Efficient Self-supervised Learning with Contextualized Target Representations for Vision, Speech and Language
13. ICML 2023End-to-end Differentiable Clustering with Associative Memories
14. ICML 2023End-to-end Training of Deep Boltzmann Machines by Unbiased Contrastive Divergence with Local Mode Initialization
15. ICML 2023For Pre-Trained Vision Models in Motor Control, Not All Policy Learning Methods are Created Equal
16. ICML 2023Global Context Vision Transformers
17. ICML 2023Hiera: A Hierarchical Vision Transformer without the Bells-and-Whistles
18. ICML 2023ILLUME: Rationalizing Vision-Language Models through Human Interactions
19. ICML 2023Improving Visual Prompt Tuning for Self-supervised Vision Transformers
20. ICML 2023Infinite Action Contextual Bandits with Reusable Data Exhaust
21. ICML 2023Learning Intuitive Policies Using Action Features
22. ICML 2023LIV: Language-Image Representations and Rewards for Robotic Control
23. ICML 2023MAGANet: Achieving Combinatorial Generalization by Modeling a Group Action
24. ICML 2023Multi-Environment Pretraining Enables Transfer to Action Limited Datasets
25. ICML 2023Oscillation-free Quantization for Low-bit Vision Transformers
26. ICML 2023PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model
27. ICML 2023Quantum Policy Gradient Algorithm with Optimized Action Decoding
28. ICML 2023Scaling Vision Transformers to 22 Billion Parameters
29. ICML 2023Short-lived High-volume Bandits
30. ICML 2023Ske2Grid: Skeleton-to-Grid Representation Learning for Action Recognition
31. ICML 2023Tuning Computer Vision Models With Task Rewards
32. ICML 2023Understanding and Defending Patched-based Adversarial Attacks for Vision Transformer
33. ICML 2023Unifying Molecular and Textual Representations via Multi-task Language Modelling
34. ICML 2023UPop: Unified and Progressive Pruning for Compressing Vision-Language Transformers

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.