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

204 papers, page 1 of 5

1. NeurIPS 2026$\text{A}^3$-VLA: Automatic Perception-Guided Attention Alignment for Robot Manipulation
2. NeurIPS 20263A-VLA: Abstraction-Aligned Action Learning for Vision-Language Agents in 3D Game Worlds
3. NeurIPS 2026A Dual-Domain Vision Transformer with Spectral Positional Bias
4. NeurIPS 2026A Latent World-Action Model with Jointly Aligned Reasoning
5. NeurIPS 2026A Statistical Framework for Algorithmic Collective Action with Multiple Collectives
6. NeurIPS 2026A systematic evaluation of vision-language models for observational astronomical reasoning tasks
7. NeurIPS 2026ActionUNet: Improving Robustness of VLA Models with Efficient Multi-scale Fine-tuning
8. NeurIPS 2026ActO: Extracting Action Representations from MLLM Embeddings for Video World Models
9. NeurIPS 2026Actor-Accelerated Policy Dual Averaging for Reinforcement Learning in Continuous Action Spaces
10. NeurIPS 2026ActQuant: Sub-4-bit Action-Guided Quantization for Vision-Language-Action Models
11. NeurIPS 2026Adaptive Residual Quantization for Memory-Efficient Temporal Action Segmentation
12. NeurIPS 2026APIVOT: Adaptive Planning with Interleaved Vision-Language Thoughts
13. NeurIPS 2026Attention Alignment Between Humans and Vision-Language Models
14. NeurIPS 2026Attention Transfer Is Not Universally Effective for Vision Transformers
15. NeurIPS 2026Auditing Capsule Vision 2024: Within-Split Train-to-Validation Re-Exposure and a Kvasir-Channel Sensitivity Diagnostic
16. NeurIPS 2026Automotive-ENV: Benchmarking Multimodal Models in Automotive Cockpit Environments
17. NeurIPS 2026AVIS: Adaptive Test-Time Scaling for Vision–Language Models
18. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Appearance Shifts: Task-Semantic Action Calibration for VLA Models
19. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Bag-of-Words: Diagnosing Compositional Binding Failures in Vision-Language Models
20. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Data Scaling: Representation-Centric Pre-training for Vision-Language-Action Models
21. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Global Alignment: Structured Compositional Reasoning for Vision-Language Models
22. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Sparse Captions: Aligning Slide-Level Text and Patch-Level Vision in Pathology
23. NeurIPS 2026BLEND: Balancing Personalization vs. Generalization in Federated Vision–Language Models
24. NeurIPS 2026Breaking the Grid: Distance-Guided Reinforcement Learning in Large Discrete Action Spaces
25. NeurIPS 2026Bridging Scene Generation and Planning: Driving with World Model via Unifying Vision and Motion Representation
26. NeurIPS 2026CausalDriveBench: Evaluating Causal Reasoning in Vision-Language-Action Models for Autonomous Driving
27. NeurIPS 2026ChanSFormer: A Channel Agnostic Vision Transformer for Multi-Channel Cell Painting Images
28. NeurIPS 2026Characterizing Universal Object Representations Across Vision Models
29. NeurIPS 2026CIPHERGRID Benchmark: From Multimodal Rule Inference to Sequential Action
30. NeurIPS 2026Clarification as Supervision: Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language Interfaces
31. NeurIPS 2026CofactVLA: Deconfounding Vision-Language-Action Models via Counterfactual Intervention
32. NeurIPS 2026COHE: Auditing Non-Transitivity in Sample Difficulty Proxies for Vision Models
33. NeurIPS 2026Comp$^2$VLM: A Hybrid Framework Combining Quantization and Lossless Compression for Efficient Vision-Language Models
34. NeurIPS 2026Contextualized Evaluation of Vision Language Models through Dynamic Interviews
35. NeurIPS 2026Continually Evolving Skill Knowledge in Vision Language Action Model
36. NeurIPS 2026Counterfactual Instruction Grounding for Vision-Language-Action Models
37. NeurIPS 2026Cracks in the Foundation: A Civil Infrastructure Dataset to Challenge Vision Foundation Models
38. NeurIPS 2026CRAFT: Causal Responsibility and Failure Tracing in Medical Vision Language Models
39. NeurIPS 2026CURE: Visual Reprogramming of Vision-Language Models under Limited Supervision
40. NeurIPS 2026D-VLA: A High-Concurrency Distributed Asynchronous RL Framework for Vision-Language-Action Models
41. NeurIPS 2026DataComp-VLM: Improved open datasets for Vision-Language Models
42. NeurIPS 2026Decoupled Mode Connectivity for Base-to-Novel Generalization in Vision-Language Models
43. NeurIPS 2026Differentiable Learning of Lifted Action Schemas for Classical Planning
44. NeurIPS 2026Directional Confusions Reveal Divergent Inductive Biases Through Rate-Distortion Geometry in Human and Machine Vision
45. NeurIPS 2026Disentangling Channel Semantics in Vision Transformers via Token Decorrelation and Composition-Aware Modulation
46. NeurIPS 2026Disentangling Where and When: Factored Spatio-Temporal Explanations for Video Action Recognition
47. NeurIPS 2026Diving-R1: Empowering Multimodal LLMs with Traceable Progressive Reasoning for Interpretable Diving Action Quality Assessment
48. NeurIPS 2026Do Glimpse Policies See Like Humans? A Behavioral Audit Reveals Dissociated Viewing Priors in Classification-Trained Active Vision
49. NeurIPS 2026DriveWAM: Video Generative Priors Enable Scalable World-Action Modeling for Autonomous Driving
50. NeurIPS 2026DRScaffold: Boosting Dense-Scene Reasoning in Lightweight Vision Language 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.