Vision-Language Pretraining papers, 2023–2026

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.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• 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

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1. ICML 2023Contrast with Reconstruct: Contrastive 3D Representation Learning Guided by Generative Pretraining
2. ICML 2023Contrastive Learning Meets Homophily: Two Birds with One Stone
3. ICML 2023End-to-end Training of Deep Boltzmann Machines by Unbiased Contrastive Divergence with Local Mode Initialization
4. ICML 2023Lifelong Language Pretraining with Distribution-Specialized Experts
5. ICML 2023Pix2Struct: Screenshot Parsing as Pretraining for Visual Language Understanding
6. ICML 2023Pretraining Language Models with Human Preferences
7. ICML 2023Why Is Public Pretraining Necessary for Private Model Training?
8. ICML 2023XTab: Cross-table Pretraining for Tabular Transformers

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.