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  1. Groundability, Not Scale Alone: When Weak Reviewers Can Audit Strong Coding Agents

    Oct 1, 2026Junyu Guo, Shangding Gu, Ming Jin +1Code QualityReviewer

    University of California, Berkeley · Virginia Tech

  2. Grounding Time-Series Foundation Models in Digital Twin Topology for Predictive Maintenance

    Sep 30, 2026Sizhe Ma, Katherine A. Flanigan, Mario BergésTime Series Foundation ModelsPredictive Maintenance

    Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA USA 15213

  3. Coverage Before Control: Route-Instruction Grounding and Steering for Controllable Retrosynthesis

    Sep 30, 2026Xuemin Chen, Xiaozhuang Song, Xinjian Zhao +2InstructionInstruction-Tuned Models

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

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

    Sep 30, 2026Qize Yu, Lianrui Fan, Boyu Chen +23Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsGrounding

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

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

    Sep 30, 2026Qize Yu, Lianrui Fan, Bowen Ping +19Weak Visual GroundingGrounding

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

  6. Event-Driven Refresh and Recurrence Memory to Reduce Stale Grounding in Referring Video Object Segmentation

    Sep 30, 2026Abu Hanif Muhammad Syarubany, Jaehyun Jang, Siwoo Lim +2Video Object SegmentationObjects

    School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea

  7. Causal-EVC: Breaking Emotional Spurious Causality via Spatiotemporal Grounding and Counterfactual Intervention

    Sep 29, 2026Cheng Ye, Weidong Chen, Peipei Song +1Emotion RecognitionImage Difference Captioning

    University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei

  8. Summarize Before Grounding: Query-Guided Chunk Condensation for Long-Video Temporal Grounding

    Sep 28, 2026Nanxing Hu, Xiaoyue Duan, Qiwei Yan +3Video Temporal GroundingTemporal Grounding

    Beihang University · University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of automation, Chinese academy of science

  9. RoboIRGBench: Benchmarking Implicit Referential Grounding in Vision-Language-Action Models

    Sep 28, 2026Aernaer Akelijiang, Jiannan Li, Zhineng Chen +2Contextual GroundingGrounding

    Singapore Management University · Fudan University

  10. Mind What Matters for Reasoning: Aligning Cross-Modal Attention via Selective Probability Mass Concentration

    Sep 24, 2026Jiaqi Deng, Zonghan Wu, Zhan Heng +3Multimodal ReasoningMultimodal Large Language Models

    University of Technology Sydney · East China Normal University · The University of New South Wales +2

  11. CitySTAR: Structured and Topology-Aware Reasoning for Open-Vocabulary Urban 3D Grounding

    Sep 17, 2026Shuai Zhang, Hongye Hou, Qinghe Liu +53D Visual Grounding3D Scene Understanding

    HKUST(GZ) · HKUST

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

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

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

  13. Gaze as Evidence for Common Grounding: A Cross-Corpus Analysis of MapTask and MUNDEX

    Sep 16, 2026Nan Li, Albert Gatt, Massimo PoesioGaze BehaviorContextual Grounding

    Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands · Queen Mary University of London, London, The United Kingdom

  14. Learning from Reliable Negatives: Confidence-Anchored Test-Time Adaptation for GUI Grounding

    Sep 14, 2026Yizhou Liu, Fei Tang, Yuchen Yan +8Graphical User InterfaceVision-Language Model Grounding

    Zhejiang University · Ant Group

  15. ReGround: Grounding Reviewer Comments in Multimodal Evidence

    Sep 11, 2026Serwar Basch, Lizhen Qu, Iryna GurevychReviewerMultimodal Documents

    Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab), Department of Computer Science and Hessian Center for AI (hessian.AI), TU Darmstadt · Department of Data Science & AI, Monash University, Australia

  16. The Answer Path and the Grounding Instruction in LLM Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs

    Sep 9, 2026Arquimedes CanedoKnowledge GraphsSparql

    Siemens Digital Industries Software Princeton, NJ, USA

  17. NVV-Locator: From Transcript Tags to Acoustic Boundaries for Fine-Grained Nonverbal Vocalization Grounding

    Sep 9, 2026Yuang Cao, Bingshen Mu, Zhennan Lin +7TranscriptAcoustic

    School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University, China · State Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, China

  18. Concept of a Sensor Test Environment for Dusty Agricultural Conditions

    Sep 3, 2026Peter Buckel, Johannes Hermann, Jonas Wollmann +2Precision AgricultureAgricultural Robotics

    Technical University of Munich, Chair of Agrimechatronics and Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI), 85354 Freising, Bavaria, Germany. · Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) Ravensburg, 88045 Friedrichshafen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany.

  19. Teaching Vision-Language Models to Use the Scale They Are Given: Label-Free Equivariance Training for Metric Physical Reasoning

    Sep 1, 2026Kaizhen Tan, Yang Feng, Heqing Du +3Recent Vision-Language ModelsGrounding

    New York University · Columbia University · Carnegie Mellon University

  20. Perceive to Hypothesize, Verify to Ground: An Agentic Reasoning Framework for Open-World Geo-Localization

    Aug 30, 2026Yutian Jiang, Ruijie Li, Sisuo Lyu +4Cross-View Geo-LocalizationGrounding

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  21. From Visual Widgets to UI Code: Efficient Tool-Grounded Generation

    Aug 12, 2026Houston H. Zhang, Tao Zhang, Li Gu +5Image-To-Code GenerationGenerative User Interface

    McMaster University · University of Toronto · Concordia University

  22. From Synthesis to Removal: Physics-Grounded Reflection Simulation and Diffusion-Based Video Dereflection

    Aug 12, 2026Zepeng Wang, Jiagao Hu, Fuhao Li +3RemovalGrounding

    MiLM Plus, Xiaomi Inc.

  23. Zero-shot 2D Grounding with Novel Affordance Types

    Aug 9, 2026Haomeng Zhang, Raymond A. YehAffordancesSemantic-Affordance Inference

    Department of Computer Science, Purdue University

  24. Evidence-Grounded Forensic Reasoning for Detecting and Grounding Multi-Modal Media Manipulation

    Aug 8, 2026Yichun Yeh, Yiheng Li, Xiaobo Hu +2Fake News DetectionMultimodal Reasoning

    MAIS, CASIA; SAI, UCAS · SAI, UCAS; MAIS, CASIA

  25. SportsGrounder: Proposal-Aided Interleaved Grounding for Dense Sports Video Reasoning

    Aug 8, 2026Yizhi Li, Jiawei Jiang, Guanhong Wang +2Photometric SupervisionGrounding

    Zhejiang University Hangzhou, China · Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing, China

  26. LyEvO: Lyapunov-Guided Evolutionary Optimization for Safe and Robust Sim-to-Real Policy Learning

    Aug 6, 2026Riccardo Curcio, Hongpeng Cao, Marco CaccamoSim-To-Real Reinforcement LearningLyapunov Function

    Department of Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome, via Salaria 113, 00198 Rome, Italy · School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstraße 15, 85748 Garching b. München, Germany

  27. PaDoc: Layout-Grounded Parallel Decoding for Document Parsing

    Aug 6, 2026Hao Yu, Jiabo Zhan, Kang Liu +8Document ParsingDocument

    1Tsinghua University · 2Wechat Vision, Tencent

  28. Nonvisual Classification of Ground-Condition by Artificial Proprioception in an Amoeba-Inspired Autonomous Walking Robot

    Aug 6, 2026Hyoto Yamaguchi, Zenji Yatabe, Seiya KasaiProprioceptionRobot Systems

    RCIQE and Graduate School of IST

  29. Mimir: A Neuro-Symbolic Memory System with Dynamic Grounding for Embodied Agents in Interactive Environments

    Aug 5, 2026Haoming Xu, Zhenlin He, Hengyi Wang +2Embodied AgentsNeuro-Symbolic Framework

    PrimeBot Research Institute · Peking University

  30. EgoAfford: Task-Oriented Affordance Grounding via Egocentric Referring Segmentation

    Aug 5, 2026Xinyuan Guan, Feifan Chen, Xinyu Zhan +3Egocentric VisionGoal-Conditioned Dynamic Manipulation

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shanghai Innovation Institute · Noematrix Ltd

  31. GUARD: Grounding Uncertainty and Ablation-Based Risk Detection for Diffusion-Based VLAs

    Aug 5, 2026Suhas Hegde, Jitendra Yasaswi Bharadwaj KattaDiffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsGrounding

    Bosch Research India

  32. Eliciting Intrinsic Hallucinations in LLMs via Semantically Equivalent Adversarial Attacks

    Aug 4, 2026Atri Vivek Sharma, Brian Formento, Alessio LomuscioLarge Language Model HallucinationAttacker Large Language Model

    Imperial College London · Safe Intelligence

  33. An Actionable Diagnosis of Multilingual, Multi-Agent Planning Failures

    Aug 4, 2026Vikas Pahuja, Jonathan Brokman, Omer Hofman +6Multilingual AgentsLarge Language Model Planning

    Fujitsu Research of Europe · Cohere · Fujitsu Research

  34. PLS-Calib: A Partial Least Squares Framework for Event Camera and Odometry Calibration under Ground Motion Constraints

    Aug 4, 2026Guangyu Li, Xiao Li, Yujie Wu +5Extrinsic CalibrationOdometry

    Guangdong Institute of Intelligence Science and Technology, Zhuhai, China

  35. Grounding Agentic VLMs with Dedicated Segmentation for Fine-Grained Vehicle Damage Assessment

    Aug 3, 2026Vishwajeet Shivaji Hogale, Anjali Pai, Nitya RaviComputer VisionGrounding

    Northeastern University

  36. Ground, Cover, and Refine: Evidence-Centric Frame Selection for Long-Video Question Answering

    Aug 3, 2026Fan Wei, Siru Zhong, Runmin Dong +3Long Video Question AnsweringQuestion

    Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University · 5The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · School of Artificial Intelligence, Sun Yat-Sen University +2

  37. GuideGround: VLM-guided Semantic Understanding and Viewpoint-aware Reasoning for 3D Visual Grounding

    Aug 1, 2026Yiwen Wang, Yuyang Deng, Yihao Long +13D Visual GroundingGrounding

    Xi’an Jiaotong University

  38. CrossProjection: Geometric Grounding Beyond Viewpoint Change in Architectural Drawings

    Aug 1, 2026Kaho Li, Pengyu Zeng, Yuqin Dai +3Cross-ViewSketches

    Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China · UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources, University College London, London, UK

  39. CeQe: Grounding Lexical Retrieval in Semantic Evidence

    Aug 1, 2026Adam Kahirov, Umesh Deshpande, Swaminathan SundararamanCross-EncoderGrounding

    IBM Research

  40. MolGVR: A Chemistry-Grounded Framework for Text-to-Molecule Generation

    Jul 31, 2026Qian Tan, Xuanyu Zhu, Lei Jiang +3Molecular GenerationMoleculenet

    University of Science and Technology of China · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

  41. Space2Ground 2.0: A Multi-Source Dataset and Framework for Agricultural Monitoring through Fusion of Street-Level and Satellite Imagery

    Jul 30, 2026Iason Tsardanidis, Alkiviadis Koukos, George Choumos +2Agricultural MonitoringSatellite Imagery

    Operational Unit BEYOND Centre, IAASARS, National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece · DHI Water & Environment, Hørsholm, Denmark · Artificial Intelligence Group, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands

  42. TimePLE: Rethinking Temporal Representation for Video Temporal Grounding

    Jul 27, 2026Yuhui Zeng, Xinyu Mao, Xiaokun Liu +4Video Temporal GroundingTemporal Grounding

    Media Analytics and Computing Lab, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China · Kling Team, Kuaishou Technology, China · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China +1

  43. SARATR-X-v2: Scale-Aware Structural Pre-Training for SAR Foundation Models

    Jul 25, 2026Weijie Li, Yafei Song, Yongxiang Liu +7Synthetic Aperture RadarMultimodal Pretraining

    College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China

  44. Decentralized UAV Swarms for Ground Target Protection in GPS- and Communication-Denied Environments

    Jul 22, 2026Dimitria Silveria, Paulo Ricardo Marques de Araujo, Tiago Nascimento +1Unmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsSwarms

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Ingenuity Labs Research Institute, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada · School of Computing and the Ingenuity Labs Research Institute, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada · Lab of Systems Engineering and Robotics (LASER), Department of Computer Systems, Universidade Federal da Para´ıba, and with the Department of Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague 16629, Czechia

  45. Attention Without Grounding: Causal Evaluation of Visual Explanations in Medical VLMs

    Jul 20, 2026Binesh Sadanandan, Vahid BehzadanMedical Vision-Language ModelsExplainable AI Methods

    SAIL Lab, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT, USA

  46. WeedExpert-R1: Incentivizing Botanical Reasoning in MLLMs with Reinforcement Learning for Precision Weed Grounding

    Jul 17, 2026Zonglin Yang, Wei-Zhen Liang, Nevin Lawrence +4Precision AgricultureMultimodal Large Language Models

    aDepartment of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA · bPanhandle Research and Extension Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Scottsbluff, NE, USA · cDepartment of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA +1

  47. UniPhysGen: Unified Physical Grounding for Simulation-Ready 3D Assets

    Jul 15, 2026Xian Li, Rong Wei, Lujie Yang +63D AssetsPhysics Simulation

    Zhejiang University · Manycore Tech Inc. · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

  48. Accuracy Without Grounding: Diagnosing Visual Dependency Dissociation in Video LLM Benchmarks

    Jul 14, 2026Jae Joong LeeDissociationGrounding

    Department of Computer Science Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

  49. ACZ-GSeg: Adaptive Concentric Zone-based Two-stage Ground Segmentation for LiDAR Point Clouds

    Jul 13, 2026Ge Zhang Chunyang Wang Bin LiuLight Detection And Ranging Point CloudsGrounding

    School of Optoelectronic Engineering, Xi'an University of Technology, Shaanxi, Xi'an, 710000

  50. Interaction Scaling: Grounding the Third Axis of Test-Time Compute

    Jul 13, 2026Bojie Li, Noah ShiTest-Time ScalingTest Time

    Pine AI · University of Washington

  51. Specification Grounding Drives Test Effectiveness for LLM Code

    Jul 7, 2026Amin Haeri, Mahdi GhelichiTest GenerationGrounding

    Model Development Innovation TD Bank, Toronto, Canada

  52. Ground3D-LMM: Fine-Grained 3D Point Grounding and Spatial Reasoning with LMM

    Jul 6, 2026Amol Harsh, Zongyan Han, Jean Lahoud +53D Visual Grounding3D Scene Understanding

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Linköping University

  53. BatteryLake: Agentic, Physics-Grounded Curation of Heterogeneous Battery Aging Data and Benchmarking

    Jul 6, 2026Tianwen Zhu, Hao Wang, Yonggang WenLithium-Ion BatteriesBenchmark Datasets

    College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  54. Self-Specializing Vision-Language Transmon Chip Calibration in a Physics-Grounded Environment

    Jul 3, 2026Animesh Tripathy, Aswanth KrishnanGroundingEnvironment

    QpiAI India Pvt. Ltd.

  55. Beyond Binary Instrument QA: Probing Instrument Grounding in Music Audio-Language Models

    Jun 30, 2026Yujun Lee, Joonhyeok Shin, Hyoeun Kim +1Music Structure AnalysisLarge Audio Language Models

    Sungkyunkwan University

  56. Ground Plane-Aided Extrinsic Calibration of Inertial and RGB-D Sensors for Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles

    Jun 30, 2026Ilyar Asl Sabbaghian Hokmabadi, Mahdis BishebanExtrinsic CalibrationInertial Measurement Units

    Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 40 Research Pl NW, Calgary · Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 40 Research Pl NW, Calgary, AIAA Member. This work was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Government of Alberta, Alberta Innovates, and the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary. Funding was awarded to Dr. Mahdis Bisheban, Director of the Intelligent Dynamics and Control Lab and Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary.

  57. GROW2^2: Grounding Which and Where for Robot Tool Use

    Jun 29, 2026Yuhong Deng, Yuyao Liu, David HsuAffordancesRobotic Systems

    1National University of Singapore · 2Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  58. PressMimic: Pressure-Guided Motion Capture and Control for Humanoid Robot Imitation

    Jun 25, 2026Yi Lu, Shenghao Ren, Tianyu Xiong +6Motion ImitationMotion Capture

    School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China. · BNRist, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. · Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems with Extreme Performances of MOE, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.

  59. UniDrive: A Unified Vision-Language and Grounding Framework for Interpretable Risk Understanding in Autonomous Driving

    Jun 23, 2026Xiaowei Gao, Pengxiang Li, Yitai Cheng +4Autonomous DrivingScene Reasoning

    Department of Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom · Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China · SpaceTimeLab, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom +3

  60. An LMM for Precisely Grounding Elements in Documents

    Jun 23, 2026Yijian Lu, Chuangxin Zhao, Kai Sun +3Large Multimodal ModelsGrounding

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences