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

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1. ICML 2026AmbiRefer3D: 3D Visual Grounding with Referential Ambiguity
2. ICML 2026CACR: Reinforcing Temporal Answer Grounding in Instructional Video via Candidate-Aware Causal Reasoning
3. ICML 2026CLIP Tricks You: Training-free Token Pruning for Efficient Pixel Grounding in Large Vision-Language Models
4. ICML 2026Decomposed On-Policy Distillation for Vision-Language Reasoning: Steering Gradients for Visual Grounding
5. ICML 2026DSGCR: Decomposed Spectral Geometry-Aware Cross-Modal Semantic Representation for 3D Visual Grounding
6. ICML 2026Efficient Skill Grounding via Code Refactoring with Small Language Models
7. ICML 2026Grounding Functional Similarity by Invariance-Aware Model Stitching
8. ICML 2026GUI-Spotlight: Adaptive Iterative Focus Refinement for Enhanced GUI Visual Grounding
9. ICML 2026Learning Attribute–Affordance Hierarchies in Hyperbolic Space for Open-Vocabulary 3D Object Affordance Grounding
10. ICML 2026Learning Sparse Visual Representations via Spatial-Semantic Factorization
11. ICML 2026MedSIGHT: Towards Grounded Visual Comprehension in Medical Large Vision-Language Models
12. ICML 2026PGT: Procedurally Generated Tasks for improving visual grounding in MLLMs
13. ICML 2026Rethinking Visual Autoregressive Sampling with Information-Grounding Guidance
14. ICML 2026Unveiling the Visual Counting Bottleneck in Vision-Language Models

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.