Visual Grounding papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Visual Grounding went from 23 papers in 2023 to 100 in 2026, roughly 4.3x in three years.
• CVPR publishes the most Visual Grounding work: 108 papers from 2023 to 2026, 52% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Multimodal LLMs: papers tagged with both rose from 2 in 2023 to 56 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Open-Vocabulary Vision, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Open-Vocabulary Detection, is up 1.5x versus 4.3x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026From Squeezing to Grounding: Visual Guided DPO for Multimodal Hallucination Mitigation
• ICML 2026PGT: Procedurally Generated Tasks for improving visual grounding in MLLMs
• ICLR 2026How Do Medical MLLMs Fail? A Study on Visual Grounding in Medical Images
• CVPR 2026EG-3DVG Expression and Geometry Aware Grounding Decoder for 3D Visual
• NeurIPS 2025From Objects to Anywhere: A Holistic Benchmark for Multi-level Visual Grounding in 3D Scenes
• ICML 2025Fundamental Limits of Visual Autoregressive Transformers: Universal Approximation Abilities
• ICLR 2025DenseGrounding: Improving Dense Language-Vision Semantics for Ego-centric 3D Visual Grounding
• CVPR 2025Discovering Hidden Visual Concepts Beyond Linguistic Input in Infant Learning
• NeurIPS 2024IKEA Manuals at Work: 4D Grounding of Assembly Instructions on Internet Videos
• ICLR 2024CoT3DRef: Chain-of-Thoughts Data-Efficient 3D Visual Grounding
• CVPR 2024EmoVIT: Revolutionizing Emotion Insights with Visual Instruction Tuning
• NeurIPS 2023Grounding Neural Inference with Satisfiability Modulo Theories
• ICML 2023Rethinking Visual Reconstruction: Experience-Based Content Completion Guided by Visual Cues
• ICLR 2023Learning to reason over visual objects
• CVPR 2023Advancing Visual Grounding With Scene Knowledge: Benchmark and Method
• NeurIPS 2026Not All Instances Should Contribute Equally: Sparse Support Grounding via Unbalanced Transport for Heterogeneous MIL
• ICML 2026Grounding Functional Similarity by Invariance-Aware Model Stitching
• ICLR 2026CloDS: Visual-Only Unsupervised Cloth Dynamics Learning in Unknown Conditions
• CVPR 2026Enhancing Part-Level Point Grounding for Any Open-Source MLLMs
• NeurIPS 2025On the rankability of visual embeddings

All Visual Grounding papers

209 papers, page 1 of 5

1. CVPR 2026BAMI Training-Free Bias Mitigation in GUI Grounding
2. CVPR 2026Beyond the Global Scores Fine-Grained Token Grounding as a Robust
3. CVPR 2026DiG Differential Grounding for Enhancing Fine-Grained Perception in Multimodal Large
4. CVPR 2026Do Vision-Language Models Measure Up Benchmarking Visual Measurement Reading with
5. CVPR 2026DocSeeker Structured Visual Reasoning with Evidence Grounding for Long Document
6. CVPR 2026DRS-GUI Dynamic Region Search for Training-Free GUI Grounding
7. CVPR 2026EG-3DVG Expression and Geometry Aware Grounding Decoder for 3D Visual
8. CVPR 2026Ego-Grounding for Personalized Question-Answering in Egocentric Videos
9. CVPR 2026Enhancing Part-Level Point Grounding for Any Open-Source MLLMs
10. CVPR 2026Event-based Visual Deformation Measurement
11. CVPR 2026Fast Spatial Tracking with Visual Geometry Transformer
12. CVPR 2026First Logit Boosting Visual Grounding Method to Mitigate Object Hallucination
13. CVPR 2026FlashVGGT Efficient and Scalable Visual Geometry Transformers with Compressed Descriptor
14. CVPR 2026FocusUI Efficient UI Grounding via Position-Preserving Visual Token Selection
15. CVPR 2026GeoViS Geospatially Rewarded Visual Search for Remote Sensing Visual Grounding
16. CVPR 2026GroundingME Exposing the Visual Grounding Gap in MLLMs through Multi-Dimensional
17. CVPR 2026GroundVTS Visual Token Sampling in Multimodal Large Language Models for
18. CVPR 2026HERO Hierarchical Embedding-Refinement for Open-Vocabulary Temporal Sentence Grounding in Videos
19. CVPR 2026HieraMamba Video Temporal Grounding via Hierarchical Anchor-Mamba Pooling
20. CVPR 2026IAG Input-aware Backdoor Attack on VLM-based Visual Grounding
21. CVPR 2026MedLoc-R1 Performance-Aware Curriculum Reward Scheduling for GRPO-Based Medical Visual Grounding
22. CVPR 2026MonoVLM Monocular 3D Visual Grounding with Vision Language Models
23. CVPR 2026MVP Multiple View Prediction Improves GUI Grounding
24. CVPR 2026OddGridBench Exposing the Lack of Fine-Grained Visual Discrepancy Sensitivity in
25. CVPR 2026ORD Object-Relation Decoupling for Generalized 3D Visual Grounding
26. CVPR 2026PET-DINO Unifying Visual Cues into Grounding DINO with Prompt-Enriched Training
27. CVPR 2026Phrase-Grounding-Aware Supervised Fine-Tuning for Chart Recognition via Side-Masked Attention
28. CVPR 2026Pointing at Parts Training-Free Few-Shot Grounding in Multimodal LLMs
29. CVPR 2026Prompt Yourself Awakening Textual Semantics in 1D Visual Tokenizers
30. CVPR 2026PV-Ground Text-Guided Point-Voxel Interaction for 3D Visual Grounding
31. CVPR 2026RealVLG-R1 A Large-Scale Real-World Visual-Language Grounding Benchmark for Robotic Perception
32. CVPR 2026ReasonMap Towards Fine-Grained Visual Reasoning from Transit Maps
33. CVPR 2026Revisiting Visual Corruptions in LVLMs A Shape-Texture Perspective on Model
34. CVPR 2026S2-MLLM Boosting Spatial Reasoning Capability of MLLMs for 3D Visual
35. CVPR 2026Scene Grounding in the Wild
36. CVPR 2026Small Object Great Challenge A Benchmark for Small Object Visual
37. CVPR 2026Spatial-Aware VLA Pretraining through Visual-Physical Alignment from Human Videos
38. CVPR 2026StoryTailorA Zero-Shot Pipeline for Action-Rich Multi-Subject Visual Narratives
39. CVPR 2026The Coherence Trap When MLLM-Crafted Narratives Exploit Manipulated Visual Contexts
40. CVPR 2026UZ3DVG Unaided Zero-Shot 3D Visual Grounding with Generated Language Conditions
41. CVPR 2026VES-RFT Rewarding Visual Evidence Sensitivity to Mitigate Hallucinations in Large
42. CVPR 2026VGent Visual Grounding via Modular Design for Disentangling Reasoning and
43. CVPR 2026VideoITG Multimodal Video Understanding with Instructed Temporal Grounding
44. CVPR 2026Visual Grounding for Object Questions
45. ICLR 2026CloDS: Visual-Only Unsupervised Cloth Dynamics Learning in Unknown Conditions
46. ICLR 2026Compositional Neuro-Symbolic Concepts in Neural Activities
47. ICLR 2026Grounding or Guessing? Visual Signals for Detecting Hallucinations in Sign Language Translation
48. ICLR 2026GuirlVG: Incentivize GUI Visual Grounding via Empirical Exploration on Reinforcement Learning
49. ICLR 2026How Do Medical MLLMs Fail? A Study on Visual Grounding in Medical Images
50. ICLR 2026P$^2$-DPO:Grounding Hallucination in Perceptual Processing via Calibration Direct Preference Optimization

FAQ

How many Visual Grounding papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

209 in total: 23 in 2023, 42 in 2024, 44 in 2025, 100 in 2026.

How many Visual Grounding papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 33 Visual Grounding papers, versus 13 the year before.

How many Visual Grounding papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 9 Visual Grounding papers, versus 9 the year before.

How many Visual Grounding papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 14 Visual Grounding papers, versus 3 the year before.

How many Visual Grounding papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 44 Visual Grounding papers, versus 19 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Visual Grounding papers?

CVPR, with 108 papers from 2023 to 2026.