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

108 papers, page 2 of 3

51. CVPR 2025Interpreting Object-level Foundation Models via Visual Precision Search
52. CVPR 2025MIMO: A Medical Vision Language Model with Visual Referring Multimodal Input and Pixel Grounding Multimodal Output
53. CVPR 2025Number it: Temporal Grounding Videos like Flipping Manga
54. CVPR 2025ProxyTransformation: Preshaping Point Cloud Manifold With Proxy Attention For 3D Visual Grounding
55. CVPR 2025Reasoning Mamba: Hypergraph-Guided Region Relation Calculating for Weakly Supervised Affordance Grounding
56. CVPR 2025SeeGround: See and Ground for Zero-Shot Open-Vocabulary 3D Visual Grounding
57. CVPR 2025Task-aware Cross-modal Feature Refinement Transformer with Large Language Models for Visual Grounding
58. CVPR 2025Text-guided Sparse Voxel Pruning for Efficient 3D Visual Grounding
59. CVPR 2025VideoGEM: Training-free Action Grounding in Videos
60. CVPR 2025VideoGLaMM : A Large Multimodal Model for Pixel-Level Visual Grounding in Videos
61. CVPR 2025Visual Agentic AI for Spatial Reasoning with a Dynamic API
62. CVPR 2025Your Large Vision-Language Model Only Needs A Few Attention Heads For Visual Grounding
63. CVPR 2025ZeroVO: Visual Odometry with Minimal Assumptions
64. CVPR 2024Context-Guided Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding
65. CVPR 2024EmoVIT: Revolutionizing Emotion Insights with Visual Instruction Tuning
66. CVPR 2024Eyes Wide Shut? Exploring the Visual Shortcomings of Multimodal LLMs
67. CVPR 2024G^3-LQ: Marrying Hyperbolic Alignment with Explicit Semantic-Geometric Modeling for 3D Visual Grounding
68. CVPR 2024GLaMM: Pixel Grounding Large Multimodal Model
69. CVPR 2024GROUNDHOG: Grounding Large Language Models to Holistic Segmentation
70. CVPR 2024HalluciDoctor: Mitigating Hallucinatory Toxicity in Visual Instruction Data
71. CVPR 2024HIPTrack: Visual Tracking with Historical Prompts
72. CVPR 2024HRVDA: High-Resolution Visual Document Assistant
73. CVPR 2024Improved Visual Grounding through Self-Consistent Explanations
74. CVPR 2024Investigating Compositional Challenges in Vision-Language Models for Visual Grounding
75. CVPR 2024Mask Grounding for Referring Image Segmentation
76. CVPR 2024MiKASA: Multi-Key-Anchor & Scene-Aware Transformer for 3D Visual Grounding
77. CVPR 2024Multi-Attribute Interactions Matter for 3D Visual Grounding
78. CVPR 2024Multi-Modal Hallucination Control by Visual Information Grounding
79. CVPR 2024Naturally Supervised 3D Visual Grounding with Language-Regularized Concept Learners
80. CVPR 2024Omni-Q: Omni-Directional Scene Understanding for Unsupervised Visual Grounding
81. CVPR 2024OpenStreetView-5M: The Many Roads to Global Visual Geolocation
82. CVPR 2024Pixel-Aligned Language Model
83. CVPR 2024Quilt-LLaVA: Visual Instruction Tuning by Extracting Localized Narratives from Open-Source Histopathology Videos
84. CVPR 2024Separating the "Chirp" from the "Chat": Self-supervised Visual Grounding of Sound and Language
85. CVPR 2024SUGAR: Pre-training 3D Visual Representations for Robotics
86. CVPR 2024Towards CLIP-driven Language-free 3D Visual Grounding via 2D-3D Relational Enhancement and Consistency
87. CVPR 2024V?: Guided Visual Search as a Core Mechanism in Multimodal LLMs
88. CVPR 2024Viewpoint-Aware Visual Grounding in 3D Scenes
89. CVPR 2024Visual Programming for Zero-shot Open-Vocabulary 3D Visual Grounding
90. CVPR 2024VRP-SAM: SAM with Visual Reference Prompt
91. CVPR 2024When Visual Grounding Meets Gigapixel-level Large-scale Scenes: Benchmark and Approach
92. CVPR 2023Advancing Visual Grounding With Scene Knowledge: Benchmark and Method
93. CVPR 2023Affection: Learning Affective Explanations for Real-World Visual Data
94. CVPR 2023Autoregressive Visual Tracking
95. CVPR 2023Dynamic Inference With Grounding Based Vision and Language Models
96. CVPR 2023EDA: Explicit Text-Decoupling and Dense Alignment for 3D Visual Grounding
97. CVPR 2023Hierarchical Discriminative Learning Improves Visual Representations of Biomedical Microscopy
98. CVPR 2023Improving Selective Visual Question Answering by Learning From Your Peers
99. CVPR 2023Improving Visual Grounding by Encouraging Consistent Gradient-Based Explanations
100. CVPR 2023Joint Visual Grounding and Tracking With Natural Language Specification

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.