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  1. PLRS-IC: A Dual-Calibration Framework for Chest X-Ray Vision-Language Alignment

    Sep 30, 2026Qixing Zhao, Jinpeng LiVision-Language AlignmentChest X-Ray

    South China University of Technology

  2. Alignment-Guided Flow Transformer for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Policy Learning

    Sep 28, 2026Shengchao Hu, Peng Wang, Qiyang Zhou +5Flow-Matching Vision-Language-ActionGeneralizable Vision-Language-Action Policies

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University · Nanyang Technological University

  3. Clinical Trajectory Alignment for Medical Vision-Language Pre-training

    Sep 28, 2026Huimin Yan, Xian Yang, Zhi Wang +1Medical Vision-Language ModelsLongitudinal Imaging

    Institute of Intelligent Information Processing, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China · Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

  4. From Alignment to Fusion in 3D Vision-Language

    Sep 23, 2026Xueqi Qiu, Xingyu Miao, Jingjing Deng +3Vision-Language AlignmentCross-View Fusion

    School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK · Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · UCAS-Terminus AI Lab, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

  5. FFM-CP: Cross-Backbone Fusion of Vision-Language Foundation Models for Few-Shot Computational Pathology

    Sep 23, 2026Anh-Tien Nguyen, Trung DQ. Dang, Nghiem Tuong Diep +9Pathology Foundation ModelsComputational Pathology

    Institute for Predictive Deep Learning for Medicine and Healthcare, Giessen University, Germany · Department of Medical Informatics, University Medicine Gottingen, Germany · Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark +8

  6. 0.5%>100%: Bidirectional Reciprocal Learning for Referring Image Segmentation

    Sep 21, 2026Xiaoqiang Lu, Licheng Jiao, Lingling Li +5Vision-Language AlignmentMultiple Vision Tasks

    Key Laboratory of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding of Ministry of Education, International Research Center for Intelligent Perception and Computation, School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, 710071, China

  7. ViCo-SAM3: Vision-Conditioned Alignment for Open-Vocabulary Camouflaged Object Segmentation

    Sep 14, 2026Qiangqiang Zhou, Wenjun Tang, Yong Chen +2Open-Vocabulary SegmentationVision-Language Alignment

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Jiangxi Normal University · Institute of AI Education, East China Normal University

  8. Bridging the Semantic-Utility Gap in Multimodal RAG via Generator-in-the-Loop Alignment

    Sep 8, 2026Zhan-Lun Chang, Dong-Jun Han, Seyyedali Hosseinalipour +2Multimodal Retrieval Augmented GenerationVision-Language Alignment

    Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea · Department of Electrical Engineering, University at Buffalo–SUNY, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA

  9. Seeing Before Synthesizing: VLM-Guided Transition Event Discovery for Weakly-Supervised Dense Video Captioning

    Sep 3, 2026Ye-Chan Kim, Seunghee Choi, SeungJu Cha +4Video CaptioningVision-Language Alignment

    Hanyang University, South Korea

  10. DICS: Exploring Data Intrinsic Consistency for Visual Instruction Selection

    Aug 31, 2026Yuyang Hong, Jinhui Guo, Jiaqi Gu +6Vision-Language AlignmentInstruction

    School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · 2MAIS, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · 3Alibaba Token Hub, Alibaba Group

  11. Towards Continual Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models in Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

    Aug 30, 2026Chandler Timm C. Doloriel, Yunbei Zhang, Sarthak Kumar Maharana +5Vision-Language Model AdaptationOpen-Vocabulary Segmentation

    Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK), Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) · Tulane University · University of Texas at Dallas

  12. LongEarth-R1: Benchmarking and Aligning Vision-Language Models for Long-Horizon Earth Observation Reasoning

    Aug 13, 2026Yupan Ding, Jing Xiao, Zhenyuan Zhang +4Earth ObservationRecent Vision-Language Models

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China · School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China · Xi’an University of Electronic Science and Technology, Xi’an, China +1

  13. Scaling Representation Diversity: Modulated Attention and Reconstructive Regularization for Visual Grounding

    Aug 13, 2026Junyi Hu, Tian Bai, Fengyi Wu +7Vision-Language AlignmentContextual Grounding

    Department of Automation, Tsinghua University · School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Chinalco Digital Intelligence (Chengdu) Technology Co., Ltd. +2

  14. SLAP: Selective Local Vision-Language Alignment for Fish Re-Identification via Partial Optimal Transport

    Aug 9, 2026Cigdem Beyan, Tonje Knutsen Sordalen, Kim Tallaksen HalvorsenRe-IdentificationVision-Language Alignment

    Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, 37134 Verona, Italy · Institute of Marine Research, Nye Flødevigveien 20, 4817 His, Norway · University of Agder, Centre for Coastal Research, 4604 Grimstad, Norway

  15. DistMedVL: Distributional Vision-Language Alignment for Uncertainty-Aware Medical Image Segmentation

    Aug 6, 2026Jiaxuan Li, Qing Xu, Xiangjian He +4Vision-Language AlignmentSemi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation

    School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China · School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK

  16. EndoVLM: An Endoscopy Vision-Language Pre-training Model via Anatomy-Guided Sparsity and Progressive Alignment

    Aug 5, 2026Zhenyu Yi, Jianwei Xu, Yue Hu +6Vision-Language AlignmentColonoscopy

    1DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group · 3Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 4Hupan Lab +3

  17. Learning to See Locally and Align Clinically with Pathology Semantics for Radiology Report Generation

    Jul 31, 2026Xuan Cuong NgoRadiology Report GenerationMedical Vision-Language Models

  18. Semantically Calibrated Evidence Composition for CT Vision-Language Learning

    Jul 31, 2026Guoliang You, Haifan Gong, Xiaomeng ChuCone-Beam Computed TomographyVision-Language Alignment

    University of Pennsylvania · 2The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · 3Yale University

  19. One Anchor for All: Unified Multilingual and Multimodal Safety Alignment for LVLMs

    Jul 30, 2026Enyi Shi, Fei Shen, Chuancheng Shi +4Safety AlignmentVision-Language Alignment

    1Nanjing University of Science and Technology · 2National University of Singapore · 3The University of Sydney +2

  20. Anatomy Contextualized Adaption of CT Foundation Models

    Jul 29, 2026Roshan Kenia, Stephanie L McNamara, William LotterVision-Language AlignmentAnatomy

    Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA · Department of Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA · Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA +2

  21. SCALPEL: Semantic Cross-modal Alignment via LLM-Powered Encoder Learning for Medical Vision-Language Representation

    Jul 29, 2026Yunzhan Fu, Enyu Bao, Xiangyu Shen +4Medical Vision-Language ModelsVision-Language Alignment

    School of Computer Science, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China

  22. Fine-Grained Food Image Understanding via Target-Aware Data Alignment

    Jul 28, 2026Jui-Feng Chi, Wei-Lun Chu, Bruce Coburn +2Fine-Grained PerceptionVision-Language Alignment

    Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

  23. Joint Optimization for Greedy Longest-match Tokenization

    Jul 25, 2026Adhiraj Singh, Deepanshu Mody, Ghina Al Shdaifat +4Byte-Pair EncodingToken Compression

    Center for Data Science, New York University New York, NY, USA · Kensho Technologies Cambridge, MA, USA

  24. MOPDA: Mixed-Trajectory On-Policy Distillation for Language-Guided Industrial Anomaly Detection

    Jul 21, 2026Shuimu Chen, Jing Jin, Nan Su +5Multimodal Industrial Anomaly DetectionVision-Language Alignment

    Tsinghua University · Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (SZ) · Shenzhen University

  25. Region-Grounded Vision-Language Learning for Detection-Guided Mammographic Lesion Classification

    Jul 17, 2026Zhengbo Zhou, Jiren Li, Dooman Arefan +2LesionMedical Vision-Language Models

    Intelligent Systems Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · Department of Biomedical Informatics and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  26. Fine-Grained Vision-Language Pretraining with Organ-Conditioned Pattern Tokens for CT Understanding

    Jul 15, 2026Guoliang You, Xiaomeng ChuCone-Beam Computed TomographyVision-Language Alignment

    University of Pennsylvania · Yale University

  27. Generalizable VLA Finetuning via Representation Anchoring and Language-Action Alignment

    Jul 15, 2026Dwip Dalal, Shivansh Patel, Chahit Jain +8Vision-Language AlignmentBehavior Cloning

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Texas A&M University · University of California, Irvine

  28. Dive Into the Implicit Biases of Low-rank Vision-language Alignment

    Jul 9, 2026Mingjia Shi, Shuo Wang, Xiaobo Wang +7Vision-Language AlignmentFeature Alignment

    Mininglamp · Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology · National University of Singapore

  29. Text as Partial Constraint: Core-Residual Alignment for Robust Vision-Language Learning

    Jul 3, 2026Chengzhen Yu, Canran Xiao, Siyuan Ma +1Vision-Language AlignmentRecent Vision-Language Models

    1Nanyang Technological University (NTU) · 2Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University

  30. Rank-Aware Hyperbolic Alignment for Vision-Language Dataset Distillation

    Jun 28, 2026Jongoh Jeong, Sun-Kyung Lee, Kuk-Jin YoonVision-Language AlignmentCross-Modal

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Republic of Korea · Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Republic of Korea

  31. MIRROR: Aligning Semantic Relations from Language to Image via Gromov--Wasserstein

    Jun 28, 2026Hong-Han Wang, Yuntao Wang, Hu DingVision-Language AlignmentMultimodal Large Language Models

    University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

  32. Disease-Centric Vision-Language Pretraining with Hybrid Visual Encoding for 3D Computed Tomography

    Jun 24, 2026Bowen Shi, Weiwei Cao, Ruifeng Yuan +5Medical Vision-Language ModelsRadiology Report Generation

    DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group · Hupan Lab, 310023, Hangzhou, China · Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China +2

  33. Jolia: Concept-Level Vision-Language Alignment for 3D CT Contrastive Learning

    Jun 23, 2026Julien Khlaut, Charles Corbière, Baptiste Callard +9Vision-Language AlignmentMedical Images

    Raidium, Paris, 75014, France · Department of Vascular and Oncological Interventional Radiology,2026 Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, AP-HP, Paris, France · Faculté de Santé, Université Paris-Cité, Paris, France +3

  34. MAPS: Multi-Anchor Projection Similarity for Joint Vision-Language Geo-Localization

    Jun 21, 2026Yutong Hu, Siyuan Tan, Shaocheng Yan +3Cross-View Geo-LocalizationVision-Language Alignment

    School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China

  35. GTA-Net: Cooperative Game Theory for Vision-Language Alignment in Chest X-Ray Report Generation

    Jun 20, 2026Saif ur Rehman Khan, Imad Ahmed Waqar, Sebastian Vollmer +2Vision-Language Alignment

    Department of Computer Science, Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Kaiserslautern 67663, Germany · German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Kaiserslautern 67663, Germany · IntelligentX GmbH (intelligentx.com), Kaiserslautern, Germany +1

  36. REVEAL++: Differentiable Phenotypic Grouping for Vision-Language Retinal Modeling of Alzheimer's Disease Risk

    Jun 17, 2026Ethan Elio Meidinger, Seowung Leem, Zeyun Zhao +1AlzheimerVision-Language Alignment

    University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA · J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

  37. AMALIA-VL: A Native European Portuguese Open-Source Vision and Language Model

    Jun 17, 2026Diogo Glória-Silva, João Cardeira, Manuel Letras da Luz +8Vision-Language AlignmentLarge Multimodal Models

    1NOVA School of Science and Technology · 2NOVA LINCS

  38. Plug-and-Adapt: Multimodal Coreference Resolution at First Sight with a Pretrained Alignment Model

    Jun 16, 2026Jinghan Wu, Jing Li, Ivor W. Tsang +1Vision-Language AlignmentCoreference Resolution

    State Key Laboratory of Human-Machine Hybrid Augmented Intelligence, the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China · Centre for Frontier AI Research and the Institute of High-Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 138634

  39. Attention Alignment Between Humans and Vision-Language Models

    Jun 16, 2026Isaac R. Christian, Udith Haputhanthrige, Hanna Hornfeld +4Vision-Language AlignmentHuman Visual Cortex

    Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University · Department of Psychology, Princeton University · Department of Computer Science, Princeton University +2

  40. Decoupling Semantics from Distortions: Multi-Scale Two-Stream Vision-Language Alignment for AI-Generated Image Quality Assessment

    Jun 15, 2026Zijie MengVision-Language AlignmentContrastive Language-Image Pre-Training Model

    Peking University

  41. Analyzing and Improving Fine-grained Preference Optimization in Medical LVLMs

    Jun 10, 2026Shayan Mohammadizadehsamakosh, Pritam Sarkar, Leonid Sigal +2Medical Vision-Language ModelsVision-Language Alignment

    York University · Vector Institute · University of British Columbia +1

  42. TEVI: Text-Conditioned Editing of Visual Representations via Sparse Autoencoders for Improved Vision-Language Alignment

    Jun 5, 2026Sweta Mahajan, Sukrut Rao, Jiahao Xie +2Vision-Language AlignmentVisual Embeddings

    Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarbrücken, Germany · Department of Language Science and Technology, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

  43. Attention Consistent Longitudinal Medical Visual Question Answering Guided by Vision Foundation Models

    Jun 3, 2026Jialin Wu, Qianru Zhang, Georges El Fakhri +1Medical Visual Question AnsweringVision-Language Alignment

    Yale Biomedical Imaging Institute New Haven, CT 06510

  44. Beyond Symmetric Alignment: Spectral Diagnostics of Modality Imbalance in Vision-Language Models in the Medical Domain

    Jun 3, 2026Alessandro Gambetti, Qiwei Han, Cláudia Soares +1Medical Vision-Language ModelsVision-Language Alignment

    NOVA School of Science and Technology · Lisbon, Portugal · Nova School of Business and Economics +2

  45. GLINT: Sparsely Gated Vision-Language Alignment for Fine-Grained Radiology Representations

    Jun 2, 2026Jonggwon Park, Seongeun Lee, Junhyun Park +6Vision-Language AlignmentFew-Shot Segmentation

    DEEPNOID Inc., Seoul, South Korea · Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea

  46. Cross-modal linkage risk in clinical vision-language models

    Jun 1, 2026Soroosh Tayebi Arasteh, Mahshad Lotfinia, Sven Nebelung +1Medical Vision-Language ModelsVision-Language Alignment

    Lab for AI in Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany · Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

  47. Supervised Classification Heads as Semantic Prototypes: Unlocking Vision-Language Alignment via Weight Recycling

    May 21, 2026David Méndez, Roberto Confalonieri, Natalia Díaz RodríguezVision-Language AlignmentCross-Modal

    Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, DaSCI Institute, University of Granada, Granada, Spain · Department of Mathematics “Tullio Levi-Civita”, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.

  48. QwenSafe: Multimodal Content Rating Description Identification via Preference-Aligned VLMs

    May 20, 2026Dishanika Denipitiyage, Aruna Seneviratne, Suranga SeneviratneMultimodal EvaluationContent Moderation

    University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia · University of New South Wales, Australia

  49. Decomposed Vision-Language Alignment for Fine-Grained Open-Vocabulary Segmentation

    May 15, 2026Chenhao Wang, Yingrui Ji, Yu Meng +1Open-Vocabulary SegmentationVision-Language Alignment

    Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Zhejiang University

  50. Deep Pre-Alignment for VLMs

    May 14, 2026Tianyu Yu, Kechen Fang, Zihao Wan +5Vision-Language AlignmentVision Transformer

    1Tsinghua University · 2Taobao & Tmall Group of Alibaba · 3Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute.

  51. CapCLIP: A Vision-Language Representation Alignment Approach for Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Analysis

    May 8, 2026Haroon Wahab, Irfan Mehmood, Hassan UgailColonoscopyVision-Language Alignment

    School of Computer Science, AI and Electronics Faculty of Engineering and Digital Technologies University of Bradford Bradford, UK · School of Management Faculty of Mgmt, Law & Social Sciences University of Bradford Bradford, UK · Centre for Visual Computing and Intelligent Systems University of Bradford Bradford, UK

  52. FairEnc: A Fair Vision-Language Model with Fair Vision and Text Encoders for Glaucoma Detection

    May 6, 2026Mohamed Elhabebe, Ayman El-Baz, Qing LiuGlaucoma DetectionVision-Language Alignment

    Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis, University of Oulu, Finland · Department of Bioengineering, University of Louisville, USA · The Department of Physics and Engineering, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

  53. Replacing Parameters with Preferences: Federated Alignment of Heterogeneous Vision-Language Models

    May 5, 2026Shule Lu, Yujing Wang, Hainan Zhang +5Vision-Language AlignmentRecent Vision-Language Models

    Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Blockchain and Privacy Computing · Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University, China · MAIS, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China +2

  54. Ultrasound Vision-Language Alignment via Contrastive Learning

    May 4, 2026Zhuoyang Lyu, Yiyang Zhang, Tongxin Wang +1UltrasoundVision-Language Alignment

    Department of Biostatistics Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health Boston, MA, USA

  55. Rethinking Model Selection in VLM Through the Lens of Gromov-Wasserstein Distance

    May 2, 2026Muyang Li, Yucheng Liu, Jianbo Ma +3Vision EncodersVision-Language Alignment

    1Sydney AI Centre, The University of Sydney · 2Dolby Laboratories · 3TMLR Group, Hong Kong Baptist University

  56. DINO Eats CLIP: Adapting Beyond Knowns for Open-set 3D Object Retrieval

    Apr 21, 2026Xinwei He, Yansong Zheng, Qianru Han +7Multi-ViewDinov3

    Huazhong Agricultural University · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Shenzhen University

  57. REVEAL: Multimodal Vision-Language Alignment of Retinal Morphometry and Clinical Risks for Incident AD and Dementia Prediction

    Apr 20, 2026Seowung Leem, Lin Gu, Chenyu You +2Glaucoma DetectionAlzheimer

    J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, United2026 States · Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Japan · Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Stony Brook University, United StatesApr +1

  58. T-REN: Learning Text-Aligned Region Tokens Improves Dense Vision-Language Alignment and Scalability

    Apr 20, 2026Savya Khosla, Sethuraman T, Aryan Chadha +2Vision-Language AlignmentScalability

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  59. Clinical Cognition Alignment for Gastrointestinal Diagnosis with Multimodal LLMs

    Mar 21, 2026Huan Zheng, Yucheng Zhou, Tianyi Yan +6ColonoscopyMultimodal Clinical Data

    SKL-IOTSC, CIS, University of Macau · 2Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 3COWARobot Co. Ltd. +1

  60. HiPath: Hierarchical Vision-Language Alignment for Structured Pathology Report Prediction

    Mar 20, 2026Ruicheng Yuan, Zhenxuan Zhang, Anbang Wang +5Pathology Foundation ModelsMedical Vision-Language Models

    College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China · Department of Bioengineering and Imperial-X, Imperial College London, London, UK · Department of Pathology, Xiangtan Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Xiangtan, Hunan, China +1