Visual Grounding papers, 2023–2026
Phrase grounding
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 209 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 23 |
| 2024 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 28 | 42 |
| 2025 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 19 | 44 |
| 2026 | 33 | 9 | 14 | 44 | 100 |
Representative papers
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- 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
23 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICLR 2026CloDS: Visual-Only Unsupervised Cloth Dynamics Learning in Unknown Conditions
- ICLR 2026Compositional Neuro-Symbolic Concepts in Neural Activities
- ICLR 2026Grounding or Guessing? Visual Signals for Detecting Hallucinations in Sign Language Translation
- ICLR 2026GuirlVG: Incentivize GUI Visual Grounding via Empirical Exploration on Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2026How Do Medical MLLMs Fail? A Study on Visual Grounding in Medical Images
- ICLR 2026P$^2$-DPO:Grounding Hallucination in Perceptual Processing via Calibration Direct Preference Optimization
- ICLR 2026PostAlign: Multimodal Grounding as a Corrective Lens for MLLMs
- ICLR 2026RAR: Reversing Visual Attention Re-Sinking for Unlocking Potential in Multimodal Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026Reasoning in Space via Grounding in the World
- ICLR 2025Brain Mapping with Dense Features: Grounding Cortical Semantic Selectivity in Natural Images With Vision Transformers
- ICLR 2025CityAnchor: City-scale 3D Visual Grounding with Multi-modality LLMs
- ICLR 2025DenseGrounding: Improving Dense Language-Vision Semantics for Ego-centric 3D Visual Grounding
- ICLR 2025Grounding Continuous Representations in Geometry: Equivariant Neural Fields
- ICLR 2025Grounding Video Models to Actions through Goal Conditioned Exploration
- ICLR 2025Navigating the Digital World as Humans Do: Universal Visual Grounding for GUI Agents
- ICLR 2025ObscuraCoder: Powering Efficient Code LM Pre-Training Via Obfuscation Grounding
- ICLR 2025Visual Description Grounding Reduces Hallucinations and Boosts Reasoning in LVLMs
- ICLR 2025Visually Consistent Hierarchical Image Classification
- ICLR 2024CoT3DRef: Chain-of-Thoughts Data-Efficient 3D Visual Grounding
- ICLR 2024Grounding Multimodal Large Language Models to the World
- ICLR 2024Neurosymbolic Grounding for Compositional World Models
- ICLR 2024Rephrase, Augment, Reason: Visual Grounding of Questions for Vision-Language Models
- ICLR 2023Learning to reason over visual objects
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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.