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

60 papers, page 1 of 2

1. NeurIPS 2026Attention Heads are Complementary Visual Units: Mitigating Hallucinations in LVLMs via Adaptive Visual Cues Focusing
2. NeurIPS 2026BoxTuning: Object-Aware Visual Prompting for Multimodal Model Fine-Tuning
3. NeurIPS 2026Causal-Geo: Neuro-Symbolic Spatial Grounding for Situated Agent Planning
4. NeurIPS 2026DRAGON : A Benchmark for Evidence-Grounded Visual Reasoning over Diagrams
5. NeurIPS 2026Echo-SAM: Zero-Shot Learning of Unseen Structures via Medical Knowledge Graph Grounding
6. NeurIPS 2026Edit the Bits, Diff the Codes: Bitwise Residual Editing for Visual Autoregressive Models
7. NeurIPS 2026From Squeezing to Grounding: Visual Guided DPO for Multimodal Hallucination Mitigation
8. NeurIPS 2026GEAR-Align: Grounding-Evidence-Aware Gradient Routing for Multimodal Alignment
9. NeurIPS 2026Grounding Multimodal Reasoning with Evidence-Ablated Negatives
10. NeurIPS 2026Hidden Forgetting in Continual Multimodal Learning: When Accuracy Survives but Grounding Fails
11. NeurIPS 2026IntentLens: Grounding Underspecified Multimodal Queries for Recommendation via Tool-Augmented Reasoning
12. NeurIPS 2026MammoGPS: A Benchmark for Visual Grounding, Perception, and Spatial Reasoning in Mammography
13. NeurIPS 2026MedVIGOR: Visual Evidence Internalization for Observation-Driven Reasoning in Medical VLMs
14. NeurIPS 2026MoT3DVG: A Benchmark for Outdoor 3D Visual Grounding with Motion-Aware Descriptions and Temporal Cues
15. NeurIPS 2026Not All Instances Should Contribute Equally: Sparse Support Grounding via Unbalanced Transport for Heterogeneous MIL
16. NeurIPS 2026PixFoundation 2.0: Do Video Multi-Modal LLMs Use Motion in Visual Grounding?
17. NeurIPS 2026RECIPE: Procedural Planning via Grounding in Instructional Video
18. NeurIPS 2026See to Believe: Segmentation by Reasoning with Visual Evidence
19. NeurIPS 2026Self-Rewarded Multimodal Coherent Reasoning Across Diverse Visual Domains
20. NeurIPS 2026SIEVES: Selective Prediction Generalizes through Visual Evidence Scoring
21. NeurIPS 2026SLVR: Structured Latent Visual Reasoning via Human-like Reasoning Flows
22. NeurIPS 2026SpaG-DiT: Enhancing Spatial Grounding for Diffusion Transformers
23. NeurIPS 2026Thinking with Visual Primitives
24. NeurIPS 2026TIGER-FG: Text-Guided Implicit Fine-Grained Grounding for E-commerce Retrieval
25. NeurIPS 2026UniFunc3D: Unified Active Spatial-Temporal Grounding for 3D Affordance Segmentation
26. NeurIPS 2026VC-OPD: Visual Counterfactual On-Policy Distillation for Grounded Vision-Language Reasoning
27. NeurIPS 2026VIGOR: Benchmarking Visual Rationale Correctness in Multimodal Large Language Models
28. NeurIPS 2026Vision-Language Grounding as Bidirectional Concept Correspondence
29. NeurIPS 2026Visual Enhanced Depth Scaling for Multimodal Latent Reasoning
30. NeurIPS 2026Visual Grounding First, Multimodal In-context Learning Follows
31. NeurIPS 2026Visual Harness: Grounding Multimodal Reasoning in Physics Engines
32. NeurIPS 2026Visual-Redundancy-Controlled Parallel Decoding for Diffusion-Based Multimodal Large Language Models
33. NeurIPS 2026What Sketches Tell Us about LVLMs: Conventions, Grounding, and Localisation
34. NeurIPS 2025Empower Words: DualGround for Structured Phrase and Sentence-Level Temporal Grounding
35. NeurIPS 2025From Objects to Anywhere: A Holistic Benchmark for Multi-level Visual Grounding in 3D Scenes
36. NeurIPS 2025Ground-Compose-Reinforce: Grounding Language in Agentic Behaviours using Limited Data
37. NeurIPS 2025GUI-Actor: Coordinate-Free Visual Grounding for GUI Agents
38. NeurIPS 2025Jury-and-Judge Chain-of-Thought for Uncovering Toxic Data in 3D Visual Grounding
39. NeurIPS 2025MedSG-Bench: A Benchmark for Medical Image Sequences Grounding
40. NeurIPS 2025On the rankability of visual embeddings
41. NeurIPS 2025PARTONOMY: Large Multimodal Models with Part-Level Visual Understanding
42. NeurIPS 2025Poison as Cure: Visual Noise for Mitigating Object Hallucinations in LVMs
43. NeurIPS 2025Quantum Visual Fields with Neural Amplitude Encoding
44. NeurIPS 2025SE-GUI: Enhancing Visual Grounding for GUI Agents via Self-Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning
45. NeurIPS 2025SPAZER: Spatial-Semantic Progressive Reasoning Agent for Zero-shot 3D Visual Grounding
46. NeurIPS 2025Where Does It Exist from the Low-Altitude: Spatial Aerial Video Grounding
47. NeurIPS 2024GrounDiT: Grounding Diffusion Transformers via Noisy Patch Transplantation
48. NeurIPS 2024IKEA Manuals at Work: 4D Grounding of Assembly Instructions on Internet Videos
49. NeurIPS 2024Instruction-Guided Visual Masking
50. NeurIPS 2024NeuMA: Neural Material Adaptor for Visual Grounding of Intrinsic Dynamics

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.