What Objects Enable, Not What They Are: Functional Latent Spaces for Affordance Reasoning
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)

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| Topic | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model Training & Optimization Algorithms | 0 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 15 | 5 | 0 |
| Efficient Inference & Architecture Design | 1 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 1 |
| Reasoning and Agents | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 0 |
| Geometric Deep Learning & Graphs | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Trustworthy AI | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| World Model & Physical AI | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 0 |
| AI in Medicine & Healthcare | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| DL Theory: Sparse NNs & Transformers | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Learning to Optimize & Inverse Problems | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Image Generation & Restoration | 0 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
Conference on Language Modeling (COLM)
Conference on Language Modeling (COLM)
Conference on Language Modeling (COLM)
Conference on Language Modeling (COLM)
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) [Oral]
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Position Track
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)
ACM Conference on AI and Agentic Systems (CAIS)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) [Highlight]
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) [Short Version: Best Paper Award, ACM MM 2025 MFMSI Workshop]
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (SPM)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) [Oral]
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) [Best Paper Finalist]
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) [Oral]
International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) [Short Version: Best Paper Award, CVPR 2025 AI4CC Workshop]
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems Track on Datasets and Benchmarks (NeurIPS D & B)
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
Conference on Language Modeling (COLM)
Conference on Language Modeling (COLM)
Conference on Language Modeling (COLM)
Conference on Language Modeling (COLM)
Conference on Language Modeling (COLM)
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Neuro-symbolic Systems (NeuS) [DAPRA Disruptive Idea Paper Award]
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Conference on Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys) [Outstanding Paper Honorable Mention]
Conference on Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys)
Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL)
Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) [Spotlight]
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nexus (PNAS Nexus)
Journal of Data-centric Machine Learning Research (DMLR)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) [Spotlight]
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems Track on Datasets and Benchmarks (NeurIPS D & B)
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) [Best Paper Finalist]
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) [Oral Pitch Finalist]
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) [Oral]
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) [Oral]
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) [Highlight]
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) [Highlight]
Conference on Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys)
Conference on Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) [Spotlight]
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) [Spotlight]
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
JAMA Cardiology
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
Medical Image Analysis
npj Digital Medicine
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)
Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)
Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
Lancet Digital Health
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) [Spotlight]
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) [Oral]
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) [Oral]
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) [Oral]
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI)
International Conference on Automated Machine Learning (AutoML-Conf)
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) [Oral]
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) [Highlight]
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) [Oral]
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) [Spotlight]
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) [Spotlight]
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) [Spotlight]
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) [Spotlight]
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (TCAS-II)
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)
European Heart Journal (EHJ) [Editor's Pick]
Elsevier Information Fusion
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)
Nature Communications
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
Learning on Graphs Conference (LoG) [Oral & Best Paper Award]
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems Track on Datasets and Benchmarks (NeurIPS D & B)
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) [Oral]
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Automated Machine Learning (AutoML-Conf)
ACM Conference on Fairness Accountability and Transparency (FAccT)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) [Oral]
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) [Spotlight]
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)
Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) [Featured Certification]
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI)
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) [Oral]
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) [Oral]
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) [Spotlight]
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) (IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award, 2024)
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks (TSIPN)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) [Spotlight]
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) [Spotlight]
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) [Oral]
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) [Spotlight]
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling (JCIM)
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI)
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) [Oral]
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) [Oral]
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
Oxford Bioinformatics
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) [Spotlight]
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
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