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  1. GeoPID: Decomposing and Steering Visual Information in Vision-Language Models

    Oct 6, 2026Seulgi Kim, Zhixiong Zhang, Xinwei Zhang +2Vision-Language Grounding

    Georgia Institute of Technology · Work done as an intern at Amazon. · Amazon

  2. Decoupling What from Where: How Should a Small GUI Grounding Model Receive the Action Type?

    Oct 5, 2026Aadi Chauhan, Arthur IlyasovGUI GroundingMobile GUI Agents

    Stanford University

  3. Readout Blindness: VLM Scores Miss the Spatial Direction Their Frozen Encoders Retain

    Oct 5, 2026Guangyuan Li, Tianming Du, Yan Jiang +2VLM EvaluationVision-Language Grounding

    ELLIS Institute Finland · Aalto University · University of Oulu +1

  4. Encoded but Not in Control: Revealing the Grounding Gap in Vision-Language Robot Policies

    Oct 5, 2026Shaohan Jiang, Jiahang Cao, Qiduo He +9Vision-Language GroundingVision-Language-Action Models

    HKU · CUHK(SZ) · Shanghai AI Lab +3

  5. Visual Grounding Safety in Vision-Language Models

    Oct 5, 2026Erfan Shayegani, Kundan Krishna, Yue Dong +3VLM EvaluationVision-Language Grounding

    University of California, Riverside · Work done during internship at Apple. · Apple

  6. Answer with Evidence: Consistency-Aware Grounded Visual Question Answering for Roadside Traffic Scenes

    Oct 4, 2026Runwei Guan, Rongsheng Hu, Shangshu Chen +9Autonomous Driving BenchmarksVisual Question Answering

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China · Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China · Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China +6

  7. Recurrent Latent Visual Search for GUI Grounding

    Oct 4, 2026Kaiyu Wu, Beichen Zheng, Weiyao Huang +1GUI GroundingVision-Language Grounding

    Sun Yat-sen University

  8. Look Where You Say You're Looking: Self-Grounded Attention for Visual Reasoning

    Oct 4, 2026Uri Berger, Gal Chechik, Gal DalalVision-Language GroundingVLM Reasoning

    NVIDIA Research · The Hebrew University of Jerusalem · University of Melbourne +1

  9. VIEScore2: Unified Image Evaluation with Spatially Grounded Explanations

    Oct 1, 2026Xianda Du, Max Ku, Weiming Ren +5VLM EvaluationImage Editing Evaluation

    University of Waterloo · National Taiwan University · Nanyang Technological University +1

  10. R-GroundBench: A Diagnostic Benchmark for R-Group Groundingin Markush Molecular Editing

    Sep 30, 2026Xin Wang, Zichuan Ying, Xinna Lin +8Vision-Language GroundingDrug Discovery

    Westlake University · The University of Hong Kong · Shanghai Innovation Institute +5

  11. GroundingPI: A Grounding Foundation Model towards Physical Intelligence with Visual Primitives

    Sep 30, 2026Qize Yu, Lianrui Fan, Boyu Chen +23Vision-Language GroundingVLMs for Robotics

    XPeng Inc. · Peking University · The University of Hong Kong +4

  12. GroundAnything: Reconciling Parallel Decoding with Precise Visual Grounding at Flash Speed

    Sep 30, 2026Qize Yu, Lianrui Fan, Bowen Ping +19Efficient VLM InferenceVision-Language Grounding

    XPeng Inc. · Peking University · The University of Hong Kong +4

  13. Distill the Visual Evidence, Not Just the Answer: Cross-World On-Policy Distillation for Vision-Language Models

    Sep 30, 2026Yuanhao Sun, Huawei Ji, Jiaxin Ding +2Counterfactual Evaluation of VLMsVLM Distillation

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  14. SpatialCORE: Confidence-Aware Grounded Spatial Reasoning in Large Vision--Language Models

    Sep 30, 2026Rafi Ibn Sultan, Xiangyu Zhou, Md. Sajid Alam Chowdhury +4Visual Spatial ReasoningLarge Vision-Language Models

    Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University · Department of Radiation Oncology, Henry Ford Health · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University +1

  15. Composition, Not Conversation: VLMs Lose the Scene, Not the Thread

    Sep 29, 2026L. D. M. S. Sai Teja, Ufaq Khan, N. Siva Gopala Krishna +5VLM EvaluationVisual Question Answering

    NIT Silchar · MBZUAI · BML Munjal University +1

  16. Seeing Is Not Addressing: Auditing Linguistic Access to Frozen Visual Geometry

    Sep 29, 2026Woosang Jeon, Jiwon Yang, Soo Chung +1Vision-Language ModelsVision-Language Grounding

    Seoul National University

  17. How Medical VLMs Underutilize Their Vision Encoders: A Dermatology Perspective

    Sep 29, 2026Janet Wang, Yunbei Zhang, Xiao Wang +1Medical DiagnosisVLM Interpretability

    Tulane University · Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  18. AnswerMap: Faithful Spatial Interpretability of VLMs from Answer Posteriors

    Sep 28, 2026Mohamed Eltahir, Fardows Adam, Duaa M. Tahir +6Vision-Language ModelsVLM Interpretability

    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia · Department of Computer Science, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, England

  19. EyeVQA: Benchmarking Ophthalmic Vision-Language Models from Recognition to Spatial Grounding

    Sep 26, 2026Gujie Shao, Zixun Xie, Xuechun Xing +7VLM EvaluationMedical VQA

  20. GHOST-Q: Towards Studying Grounding Hallucinations Overlooked Under Same-score TradeOffs in Quantized VLMS

    Sep 24, 2026Saim Rehman, Muhammad ShafiqueVLM EvaluationVLM Quantization

    eBRAIN Lab, Division of Engineering, New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), Abu Dhabi, UAE

  21. Small yet Assistive: Spatially-Aware Post-Training for Low Vision

    Sep 23, 2026Rishabh Choudhary, Shreyansh Raj, Umesh Goyal +6Vision-Language ModelsVLM Adaptation

    Indian Institute of Technology Mandi · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

  22. A Unified Framework and Dataset for Oriented Object Visual Grounding in Remote Sensing

    Sep 23, 2026Zeyu Ding, Yong Zhou, Jiaqi Zhao +5Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingVision-Language Grounding

    School of Computer Science and Technology/School of Artificial Intelligence, the Mine Digitization Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education, and Jiangsu Provincial Industrial Technology Engineering Center for Intelligent Sensing and Emergency IoT in Underground Space, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China · School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada

  23. What Looks Like a Capability Limit in Vision-Language Models Is a Readout Limit

    Sep 23, 2026Alfredo F. Frontera Del ValleVLM EvaluationVision-Language Grounding

    Columbia University

  24. Pro-Bench: Prompt-Robust Open-Vocabulary Visual Grounding Across Real-World Heterogeneous Environments

    Sep 22, 2026Linus Nwankwo, Muslim Alaran, Christian Rauch +2Vision-Language GroundingVisual Grounding

    Chair of Cyber-Physical Systems, Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria. · Department of Design Engineering and Mathematics, Middlesex University, London, UK.

  25. DeCo: Efficient Decouple-to-Couple Learning for Multi-Task Visual Grounding

    Sep 21, 2026Xiaoqiang Lu, Licheng Jiao, Long Sun +5Multimodal Disentangled Representation LearningReferring Expression Segmentation

    Key Laboratory of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding of Ministry of Education School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University Xi’an, Shaanxi 710071, China

  26. Look Where It Counts: A Free, Label-Free Visual Evidence Signal for Fine-Grained Vision-Language Reasoning

    Sep 21, 2026Santi Ram Tiwari, Nihal Naik, Devbrat Pandey +1Vision-Language GroundingVLM Reasoning

    KGraph AI Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore, India – 560016

  27. BindCLIP: One Balanced Coupling For Compositional Vision Language Scoring

    Sep 20, 2026Liuyang Song, Yi Zhang, Zhongyi Deng +2Vision-Language ModelsVision-Language Grounding

    Peking University · Dongguan University of Technology · Sichuan Agricultural University

  28. Pay More Attention To Text In High-Resolution MLLMs

    Sep 20, 2026Zhongkuan Mao, Wenzhuo Zhao, Xianjie Liu +7Visual Question AnsweringVision-Language Grounding

    National Key Laboratory of Fundamental Science on Synthetic Vision, Sichuan University · College of Computer Science, Sichuan University · Peking University +2

  29. DocAttriBench: Benchmarking Answer Grounding in Document Visual Question Answering

    Sep 17, 2026Luca De Grandis, Silvia Cappelletti, William Raccagni +3Visual Question AnsweringVision-Language Grounding

    University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy · University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Modena, Italy · University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy +1

  30. PANORAMA: Panoptic Grounded Captioning via Mask Proposal Selection

    Sep 16, 2026Sara Pieri, Evangelos Kazakos, Shizhe Chen +2Image CaptioningPanoptic Segmentation

    Inria, École normale supérieure, CNRS, PSL Research University · Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague

  31. RankGround: Efficient High-Resolution GUI Grounding via Lightweight Reranker-Guided Crop Selection

    Sep 16, 2026Liyang Fan, Xinping Bi, Yitai Li +3Efficient Multimodal InferenceMultimodal Reranking

    College of Computer Science and Software Engineering Shenzhen University Shenzhen, China · Shenzhen Key Laboratory for High Performance Data Mining Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shenzhen, China · Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology Shenzhen, China

  32. GroundingVLN: Reasoning and Acting with Grounding for Vision-Language Navigation

    Sep 16, 2026Kailing Li, Yu Han, Tianwen Qian +4Vision-Language NavigationVision-Language Grounding

    School of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University · NeoteAI · King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

  33. Semantic-Spatial Agreement Verification for Mitigating Object Hallucination in Multimodal Large Language Models

    Sep 15, 2026Ziheng Ren, Qian Gao, Jun Fan +3Hallucination Detection in VLMsObject Hallucination in VLMs

    Key Laboratory of Computing Power Network and Information Security, Ministry of Education, Shandong Computer Science Center (National Supercomputer Center in Jinan), Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250014, China · Shandong Engineering Research Center of Big Data Applied Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Technology, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250353, China · Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Industrial Network and Information System Security, Shandong Fundamental Research Center for Computer Science, Jinan 250014, China +2

  34. sensVLA: Spatially-Grounded Vision-Language-Action Model for Autonomous Wheel Loader

    Sep 15, 2026Gopi Krishna Erabati, Bjarne Johannsen, Angus Stewart +1Robotic ControlVision-Language Grounding

    sensmore GmbH Berlin, Germany

  35. ProtoLIP: From Sentence-Level to Object-Level Evidence Disentanglement

    Sep 14, 2026Yan Zhu, Yongbo Chen, Zhengming Ding +1Vision-Language ModelsPrototype Learning

    Department of Computer Science Tulane University New Orleans, LA, USA

  36. P-POSEMEM: Projective Semantic Memory for Consistent Language Grounding under Pose-Graph Rewrites

    Sep 14, 2026Ha Sier, Ali Salmasi, Mengya Xu +5Vision-Language GroundingGraph-Based Agent Memory

    Turku Intelligent Embedded and Robotic Systems (TIERS) Lab, University of Turku, Turku, Finland · School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

  37. AnchorVLN: Geometry-Anchored Vision-Language Grounding Reasoning for Open-Vocabulary Navigation

    Sep 14, 2026Long Giang Vu, Chengkai Yao, Yuxin Liu +2Vision-Language NavigationVision-Language Grounding

    *These authors contributed equally.

  38. ChitraMiti: Benchmarking Visual Grounding and Modality Reliance in Bengali Geometric Reasoning

    Sep 14, 2026Khan Raiyan Ibne Reza, Sanjana Aktar Maria, Sumaiya Tabassum Nimi +1Mathematical Reasoning BenchmarksMultilingual VLM Evaluation

    North South University

  39. HALDETECT at ImageEval 2026 Shared Tasks: Answer-First Contrastive Grounding with QLoRA

    Sep 12, 2026Syed Mohaiminul Hoque, Md Sakhawat HossainVLM EvaluationHallucination Detection in VLMs

    Independent Author

  40. Augustinian BabyLM: What Ostensive Definition Can and Cannot Teach a Small Language Model

    Sep 10, 2026Lisa BylininaWord EmbeddingsMultimodal Embedding

    Institute for Language Sciences Utrecht University

  41. Vague2Detect: Handling Ambiguous Prompts in Knowledge-Based Open-World Detection

    Sep 9, 2026Ibrohimjon Muminov, Jihie KimOpen-Vocabulary Object DetectionVision-Language Grounding

    Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea · Department of Computer Science and AI, Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea

  42. FRAME: Factored Retrieval via Attribute Readouts for Object-Centric Scene Memory

    Sep 8, 2026Woosang Jeon, Sanghyeok Choi, Minwoo Kim +2Vision-Language GroundingInformation Retrieval

    Seoul National University

  43. SeGDeP: Semantic- and Geometric-Aware Decoupled Prompts for Reasoning Segmentation

    Sep 8, 2026Linnan Zhao, Xu Liu, Lingling Li +3Text-Guided Image SegmentationPromptable Image Segmentation

    Xidian University Xi’an, China

  44. DSE-VTG: Dual-Side Enhancement for Training-Free Video Temporal Grounding

    Sep 8, 2026Zhuo Cao, Bingqing Zhang, Sen Wang +1Temporal Video GroundingTest-Time Adaptation of VLMs

    The University of Queensland, Australia

  45. CLAMP: Constrained Decoding for Vision-Language Embodied Planning

    Sep 8, 2026Tianyi Ma, Parisa KordjamshidiConstrained DecodingVision-Language Grounding

    Michigan State University

  46. AirAnchor: Bridging Local and Global Spatial Information for Zero-Shot Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Sep 8, 2026Shanwei Fan, Bin Zhang, Zhiwei Xu +4Zero-Shot LearningUAV Navigation

    National Key Laboratory of Cognition and Decision Intelligence for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

  47. From Coordinates to Candidate Regions: Temporal Change Localization via Region Selection in Remote Sensing Multimodal LLMs

    Sep 8, 2026Juwan Chung, Sungjune Park, Yeongyun Kim +1Multimodal Large Language ModelsRemote Sensing Change Detection

    Integrated Vision Language Lab, KAIST, South Korea

  48. Human-Centric Image Captioning with Subject-Centered Spatial Understanding

    Sep 8, 2026Bozhou Li, Jiahang Zhang, Yue Ding +11VLM EvaluationImage Captioning

    Peking University · Kling Team · Beijing, China +5

  49. DroneGround: Open-Vocabulary Drone Payload Characterization Using Synthetic Data and Grounded Vision-Language Models

    Sep 7, 2026Ami Pandat, Rajasekhar Punna, Gopika Vinod +1Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionVision-Language Grounding

    Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  50. LOCI: A Locator-Critic with Refinement Loop

    Aug 31, 2026Walid Bousselham, Mathilde Caron, Arsha Nagrani +1Visual Question AnsweringVision-Language Grounding

    Google DeepMind

  51. Cost-efficient Active Learning for Referring Image Segmentation and Grounding

    Aug 31, 2026Junbeom Hong, Seonghoon Yu, Hyung Rok Jung +2Active LearningReferring Image Segmentation

    1Meissa · 2KAIST · 3GIST +1

  52. Learning Compositional Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding with Synthetic Curriculum

    Aug 31, 2026Xingjian Wang, Shijian Wang, Yibo Wang +4Temporal Video GroundingSynthetic Data Generation

    1Monash University · 2Southeast University · 3Shanghai University of Electric Power

  53. VisER: Visual Evidence and Reliance for Object Hallucination Detection in LVLMs

    Aug 31, 2026Afsaneh Hasanebrahimi, Hanxun Huang, Christopher Leckie +1Hallucination Detection in VLMsVLM Hallucination

    School of Computing and Information Systems The University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia

  54. OPUS: A Simple yet Effective Unified Framework for Open-Vocabulary Detection

    Aug 31, 2026Xiaoyan Wei, Zhimin Yao, Ruilin Yang +4Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionVision-Language Grounding

    Megvii Technology Inc. · X-Humanoid

  55. Semantic-Spatial Discriminability Enhancement for Generalized Visual Grounding

    Aug 31, 2026Kaiyan Lei, Xu-Yao ZhangVision-Language GroundingVisual Grounding

    State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  56. ManGo: Manga Active Narrative Grounding Optimization

    Aug 30, 2026Hao Qiu, Junyan Wang, Zheyuan Liu +4Visual Question AnsweringRL for Language Model Reasoning

    1Communication University of China · 2Australian Institute for Machine Learning, Adelaide University · University of New South Wales +2

  57. When Seeing Is Not Enough: Benchmarking Interactive Visual Grounding in LVLMs

    Aug 25, 2026Zhengxiang Wang, Owen RambowVLM EvaluationLarge Vision-Language Models

    Department of Linguistics & IACS Stony Brook University

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

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

  59. Dual-Stream Cross-Anchor Correction Grounding Long-Form Captions and the Domain Limits of Object-Level Anchors

    Aug 13, 2026LingKai BuImage CaptioningObject Hallucination in VLMs

    Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan, China

  60. LookBack: Where and How to Score LVLM Responses via Visual Reference Usage

    Aug 12, 2026Beomsik Cho, Jinhyeong Kim, Dongseok Lee +1VLM EvaluationHallucination Detection in VLMs

    Yonsei University