Vision-Language Pretraining papers, 2023–2026
Contrastive pretraining
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 263 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Vision-Language Pretraining went from 65 papers in 2023 to 87 in 2026, roughly 1.3x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Vision-Language Pretraining work: 93 papers from 2023 to 2026, 35% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Applications · computer vision: papers tagged with both rose from 0 in 2023 to 9 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Open-Vocabulary Vision, it ranks #4 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Visual Grounding, is up 4.3x versus 1.3x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 24 | 13 | 8 | 20 | 65 |
| 2024 | 16 | 12 | 9 | 18 | 55 |
| 2025 | 26 | 17 | 3 | 10 | 56 |
| 2026 | 27 | 14 | 19 | 27 | 87 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026Benchmarking Optimizers for Large Language Model Pretraining
- ICML 2026How Does the Pretraining Distribution Shape In-Context Learning? A Fundamental Trade-Off
- ICLR 2026PonderLM: Pretraining Language Models to Ponder in Continuous Space
- CVPR 2026Large-scale Codec Avatars The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Large-scale Avatar Pretraining
- NeurIPS 2025ADPretrain: Advancing Industrial Anomaly Detection via Anomaly Representation Pretraining
- ICML 2025Soup-of-Experts: Pretraining Specialist Models via Parameters Averaging
- ICLR 2025Attributing Culture-Conditioned Generations to Pretraining Corpora
- CVPR 2025MAP: Unleashing Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Vision Backbone's Potential with Masked Autoregressive Pretraining
- NeurIPS 2024Data curation via joint example selection further accelerates multimodal learning
- ICML 2024Position: Considerations for Differentially Private Learning with Large-Scale Public Pretraining
- ICLR 2024Demystifying CLIP Data
- CVPR 2024ParameterNet: Parameters Are All You Need for Large-scale Visual Pretraining of Mobile Networks
- NeurIPS 2023Bootstrapping Vision-Language Learning with Decoupled Language Pre-training
- ICML 2023Contrastive Learning Meets Homophily: Two Birds with One Stone
- ICLR 2023Energy-Inspired Self-Supervised Pretraining for Vision Models
- CVPR 2023Active Finetuning: Exploiting Annotation Budget in the Pretraining-Finetuning Paradigm
- NeurIPS 2026C3P: Contrastive promoter-protein pretraining yields representations capturing bacterial gene regulation
- ICML 2026Multipole Semantic Attention: A Fast Approximation of Softmax Attention for Pretraining
- ICLR 2026MICLIP: Learning to Interpret Representation in Vision Models
- CVPR 2026The Surprising Effectiveness of Noise Pretraining for Implicit Neural Representations
All Vision-Language Pretraining papers
17 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICLR 2025$\mathbb{X}$-Sample Contrastive Loss: Improving Contrastive Learning with Sample Similarity Graphs
- ICLR 2025Attributing Culture-Conditioned Generations to Pretraining Corpora
- ICLR 2025Autoregressive Pretraining with Mamba in Vision
- ICLR 2025Beyond Random Augmentations: Pretraining with Hard Views
- ICLR 2025Compositional Entailment Learning for Hyperbolic Vision-Language Models
- ICLR 2025Detecting Backdoor Samples in Contrastive Language Image Pretraining
- ICLR 2025Efficient stagewise pretraining via progressive subnetworks
- ICLR 2025Fine-tuning can Help Detect Pretraining Data from Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025Generalization v.s. Memorization: Tracing Language Models’ Capabilities Back to Pretraining Data
- ICLR 2025Harnessing Diversity for Important Data Selection in Pretraining Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025Holographic Node Representations: Pre-training Task-Agnostic Node Embeddings
- ICLR 2025Improving Pretraining Data Using Perplexity Correlations
- ICLR 2025Latent Action Pretraining from Videos
- ICLR 2025Probabilistic Language-Image Pre-Training
- ICLR 2025Self-Introspective Decoding: Alleviating Hallucinations for Large Vision-Language Models
- ICLR 2025TIPS: Text-Image Pretraining with Spatial awareness
- ICLR 2025VTDexManip: A Dataset and Benchmark for Visual-tactile Pretraining and Dexterous Manipulation with Reinforcement Learning
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FAQ
- How many Vision-Language Pretraining papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 263 in total: 65 in 2023, 55 in 2024, 56 in 2025, 87 in 2026.
- How many Vision-Language Pretraining papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 27 Vision-Language Pretraining papers, versus 26 the year before.
- How many Vision-Language Pretraining papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 14 Vision-Language Pretraining papers, versus 17 the year before.
- How many Vision-Language Pretraining papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 19 Vision-Language Pretraining papers, versus 3 the year before.
- How many Vision-Language Pretraining papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 27 Vision-Language Pretraining papers, versus 10 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Vision-Language Pretraining papers?
- NeurIPS, with 93 papers from 2023 to 2026.