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. NeurIPS 20243DET-Mamba: Causal Sequence Modelling for End-to-End 3D Object Detection
2. NeurIPS 2024A Unified Debiasing Approach for Vision-Language Models across Modalities and Tasks
3. NeurIPS 2024Accelerating Transformers with Spectrum-Preserving Token Merging
4. NeurIPS 2024ActFusion: a Unified Diffusion Model for Action Segmentation and Anticipation
5. NeurIPS 2024Action Gaps and Advantages in Continuous-Time Distributional Reinforcement Learning
6. NeurIPS 2024ActionAtlas: A VideoQA Benchmark for Domain-specialized Action Recognition
7. NeurIPS 2024AdanCA: Neural Cellular Automata As Adaptors For More Robust Vision Transformer
8. NeurIPS 2024Alleviating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models through Hallucination-Induced Optimization
9. NeurIPS 2024Are We on the Right Way for Evaluating Large Vision-Language Models?
10. NeurIPS 2024Avoiding Undesired Future with Minimal Cost in Non-Stationary Environments
11. NeurIPS 2024BenchX: A Unified Benchmark Framework for Medical Vision-Language Pretraining on Chest X-Rays
12. NeurIPS 2024BendVLM: Test-Time Debiasing of Vision-Language Embeddings
13. NeurIPS 2024Biologically Inspired Learning Model for Instructed Vision
14. NeurIPS 2024CausalChaos! Dataset for Comprehensive Causal Action Question Answering Over Longer Causal Chains Grounded in Dynamic Visual Scenes
15. NeurIPS 2024CHASE: Learning Convex Hull Adaptive Shift for Skeleton-based Multi-Entity Action Recognition
16. NeurIPS 2024ClevrSkills: Compositional Language And Visual Reasoning in Robotics
17. NeurIPS 2024Cluster-Learngene: Inheriting Adaptive Clusters for Vision Transformers
18. NeurIPS 2024CoFie: Learning Compact Neural Surface Representations with Coordinate Fields
19. NeurIPS 2024Constrained Latent Action Policies for Model-Based Offline Reinforcement Learning
20. NeurIPS 2024Continuously Learning, Adapting, and Improving: A Dual-Process Approach to Autonomous Driving
21. NeurIPS 2024ConvBench: A Multi-Turn Conversation Evaluation Benchmark with Hierarchical Ablation Capability for Large Vision-Language Models
22. NeurIPS 2024Demystify Mamba in Vision: A Linear Attention Perspective
23. NeurIPS 2024DenseFusion-1M: Merging Vision Experts for Comprehensive Multimodal Perception
24. NeurIPS 2024Depth Anything V2
25. NeurIPS 2024Dissecting Query-Key Interaction in Vision Transformers
26. NeurIPS 2024Dual Prototype Evolving for Test-Time Generalization of Vision-Language Models
27. NeurIPS 2024Efficient Temporal Action Segmentation via Boundary-aware Query Voting
28. NeurIPS 2024Enhancing Feature Diversity Boosts Channel-Adaptive Vision Transformers
29. NeurIPS 2024Excluding the Irrelevant: Focusing Reinforcement Learning through Continuous Action Masking
30. NeurIPS 2024Exploring Token Pruning in Vision State Space Models
31. NeurIPS 2024Federated Learning from Vision-Language Foundation Models: Theoretical Analysis and Method
32. NeurIPS 2024Flexible Context-Driven Sensory Processing in Dynamical Vision Models
33. NeurIPS 2024FlexPlanner: Flexible 3D Floorplanning via Deep Reinforcement Learning in Hybrid Action Space with Multi-Modality Representation
34. NeurIPS 2024Flow Snapshot Neurons in Action: Deep Neural Networks Generalize to Biological Motion Perception
35. NeurIPS 2024GAIA: Rethinking Action Quality Assessment for AI-Generated Videos
36. NeurIPS 2024Hidden in Plain Sight: Evaluating Abstract Shape Recognition in Vision-Language Models
37. NeurIPS 2024How many classifiers do we need?
38. NeurIPS 2024HumanVLA: Towards Vision-Language Directed Object Rearrangement by Physical Humanoid
39. NeurIPS 2024HydraViT: Stacking Heads for a Scalable ViT
40. NeurIPS 2024Image2Struct: Benchmarking Structure Extraction for Vision-Language Models
41. NeurIPS 2024Initializing Variable-sized Vision Transformers from Learngene with Learnable Transformation
42. NeurIPS 2024InternLM-XComposer2-4KHD: A Pioneering Large Vision-Language Model Handling Resolutions from 336 Pixels to 4K HD
43. NeurIPS 2024IPO: Interpretable Prompt Optimization for Vision-Language Models
44. NeurIPS 2024JourneyBench: A Challenging One-Stop Vision-Language Understanding Benchmark of Generated Images
45. NeurIPS 2024Latent Intrinsics Emerge from Training to Relight
46. NeurIPS 2024Learning Action and Reasoning-Centric Image Editing from Videos and Simulation
47. NeurIPS 2024Learning Group Actions on Latent Representations
48. NeurIPS 2024Learning Optimal Lattice Vector Quantizers for End-to-end Neural Image Compression
49. NeurIPS 2024Learning to Merge Tokens via Decoupled Embedding for Efficient Vision Transformers
50. NeurIPS 2024Learning Where to Edit Vision 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.