CVPR 2026 accepted papers by research area
4,042 papers were accepted at CVPR 2026 (+1,171 vs 2025). Here is how they split across 20 research areas, and which topics gained the most ground.
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Research areas
| Area | Papers | Share | Change in share vs 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vision-language and multimodal | 869 | 21.5% | +5.9 pts |
| 3D vision | 772 | 19.1% | -1.9 pts |
| Image generation | 598 | 14.8% | -2.0 pts |
| Video | 587 | 14.5% | +0.9 pts |
| Label-efficient and robust learning | 283 | 7.0% | -0.7 pts |
| Detection and segmentation | 247 | 6.1% | -0.8 pts |
| Architectures and efficiency | 128 | 3.2% | -1.8 pts |
| Point clouds | 82 | 2.0% | -1.6 pts |
| Adversarial robustness and security | 76 | 1.9% | -0.3 pts |
| Probabilistic and scientific modeling | 60 | 1.5% | +0.8 pts |
| Multi-agent systems and games | 60 | 1.5% | +0.5 pts |
| Continual learning | 59 | 1.5% | -0.3 pts |
| Reinforcement learning | 57 | 1.4% | +1.1 pts |
| Large language models | 56 | 1.4% | steady |
| Federated learning and privacy | 50 | 1.2% | +0.3 pts |
| Graph learning | 29 | 0.7% | -0.2 pts |
| Learning theory and algorithms | 18 | 0.4% | steady |
| Optimization | 7 | 0.2% | steady |
| Time series | 3 | 0.1% | steady |
| Bandits and online learning | 1 | 0.0% | steady |
Fastest-growing topics at CVPR 2026
Change in share of CVPR papers from 2025 to 2026, topics with at least 10 papers.
- Multimodal LLMs (Vision-language and multimodal): 154 → 438 papers
- Robot action and navigation (Vision-language and multimodal): 22 → 100 papers
- Video generation (Video): 157 → 278 papers
- Cross-modal learning (Vision-language and multimodal): 61 → 138 papers
- Visual and representation RL (Reinforcement learning): 7 → 34 papers
- LLM agents (Multi-agent systems and games): 5 → 29 papers
- RL from feedback (Reinforcement learning): 1 → 22 papers
- Text-to-image diffusion (Image generation): 119 → 182 papers
- Reasoning and chain of thought (Large language models): 0 → 14 papers
- CNN features (Detection and segmentation): 44 → 74 papers
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