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 4 of 5

151. CVPR 2024HalluciDoctor: Mitigating Hallucinatory Toxicity in Visual Instruction Data
152. CVPR 2024HIPTrack: Visual Tracking with Historical Prompts
153. CVPR 2024HRVDA: High-Resolution Visual Document Assistant
154. CVPR 2024Improved Visual Grounding through Self-Consistent Explanations
155. CVPR 2024Investigating Compositional Challenges in Vision-Language Models for Visual Grounding
156. CVPR 2024Mask Grounding for Referring Image Segmentation
157. CVPR 2024MiKASA: Multi-Key-Anchor & Scene-Aware Transformer for 3D Visual Grounding
158. CVPR 2024Multi-Attribute Interactions Matter for 3D Visual Grounding
159. CVPR 2024Multi-Modal Hallucination Control by Visual Information Grounding
160. CVPR 2024Naturally Supervised 3D Visual Grounding with Language-Regularized Concept Learners
161. CVPR 2024Omni-Q: Omni-Directional Scene Understanding for Unsupervised Visual Grounding
162. CVPR 2024OpenStreetView-5M: The Many Roads to Global Visual Geolocation
163. CVPR 2024Pixel-Aligned Language Model
164. CVPR 2024Quilt-LLaVA: Visual Instruction Tuning by Extracting Localized Narratives from Open-Source Histopathology Videos
165. CVPR 2024Separating the "Chirp" from the "Chat": Self-supervised Visual Grounding of Sound and Language
166. CVPR 2024SUGAR: Pre-training 3D Visual Representations for Robotics
167. CVPR 2024Towards CLIP-driven Language-free 3D Visual Grounding via 2D-3D Relational Enhancement and Consistency
168. CVPR 2024V?: Guided Visual Search as a Core Mechanism in Multimodal LLMs
169. CVPR 2024Viewpoint-Aware Visual Grounding in 3D Scenes
170. CVPR 2024Visual Programming for Zero-shot Open-Vocabulary 3D Visual Grounding
171. CVPR 2024VRP-SAM: SAM with Visual Reference Prompt
172. CVPR 2024When Visual Grounding Meets Gigapixel-level Large-scale Scenes: Benchmark and Approach
173. ICLR 2024CoT3DRef: Chain-of-Thoughts Data-Efficient 3D Visual Grounding
174. ICLR 2024Grounding Multimodal Large Language Models to the World
175. ICLR 2024Neurosymbolic Grounding for Compositional World Models
176. ICLR 2024Rephrase, Augment, Reason: Visual Grounding of Questions for Vision-Language Models
177. NeurIPS 2024GrounDiT: Grounding Diffusion Transformers via Noisy Patch Transplantation
178. NeurIPS 2024IKEA Manuals at Work: 4D Grounding of Assembly Instructions on Internet Videos
179. NeurIPS 2024Instruction-Guided Visual Masking
180. NeurIPS 2024NeuMA: Neural Material Adaptor for Visual Grounding of Intrinsic Dynamics
181. NeurIPS 2024OneRef: Unified One-tower Expression Grounding and Segmentation with Mask Referring Modeling
182. NeurIPS 2024Policy Improvement using Language Feedback Models
183. NeurIPS 2024Referencing Where to Focus: Improving Visual Grounding with Referential Query
184. NeurIPS 2024SimVG: A Simple Framework for Visual Grounding with Decoupled Multi-modal Fusion
185. NeurIPS 2024Visual CoT: Advancing Multi-Modal Language Models with a Comprehensive Dataset and Benchmark for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
186. NeurIPS 2024VRSBench: A Versatile Vision-Language Benchmark Dataset for Remote Sensing Image Understanding
187. CVPR 2023Advancing Visual Grounding With Scene Knowledge: Benchmark and Method
188. CVPR 2023Affection: Learning Affective Explanations for Real-World Visual Data
189. CVPR 2023Autoregressive Visual Tracking
190. CVPR 2023Dynamic Inference With Grounding Based Vision and Language Models
191. CVPR 2023EDA: Explicit Text-Decoupling and Dense Alignment for 3D Visual Grounding
192. CVPR 2023Hierarchical Discriminative Learning Improves Visual Representations of Biomedical Microscopy
193. CVPR 2023Improving Selective Visual Question Answering by Learning From Your Peers
194. CVPR 2023Improving Visual Grounding by Encouraging Consistent Gradient-Based Explanations
195. CVPR 2023Joint Visual Grounding and Tracking With Natural Language Specification
196. CVPR 2023MetaCLUE: Towards Comprehensive Visual Metaphors Research
197. CVPR 2023NS3D: Neuro-Symbolic Grounding of 3D Objects and Relations
198. CVPR 2023OrienterNet: Visual Localization in 2D Public Maps With Neural Matching
199. CVPR 2023PVO: Panoptic Visual Odometry
200. CVPR 2023Similarity Maps for Self-Training Weakly-Supervised Phrase Grounding

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.