📰 ALVR 2026 — accepted papers

ALVR 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR), held in San Diego, California, USA, July 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 23 papers of it; our library holds 9 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 San Diego, California, United States · 🗓 July 2026

All accepted papers (23)

The most cited first; 9 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. From Pixels to BFS: High Maze Accuracy Does Not Imply Visual PlanningAlberto Gonzalo Rodriguez Salgado1 citation · our summary
2. A Zipfian Analysis of Visual Token Distributions for AI-Generated ImagesAndrew Shinour summary
3. Beyond Visual Similarity: Rule-Guided Multimodal Clustering with explicit domain rules ↗Kishor Datta Gupta, Mohd Ariful Haque, Marufa Kamal et al.
4. CAFES: A Collaborative Multi-Agent Framework for Multi-Granular Multimodal Essay ScoringJiamin Su, Yibo Yan, Zhuoran Gao et al.our summary
5. ChartDiff: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Comprehending Pairs of Charts ↗Rongtian Ye
6. CoSMoEs: Compact Sparse Mixture of Experts ↗Patrick Huber, Akshat Shrivastava, Ernie Chang et al.
7. Efficient Visual Grounding in VQA via Question-Guided Sparse Attention ↗Prasanth
8. FADE: Probing the Limits of VLMs on fine-grained OCRDeep Shah, Nehal Kathrotia, Sanket Badheour summary
9. Formal Machine Interpretation for the Semasiographic Mixtec Codices of Precolonial and Early Colonial Mesoamerica ↗Christopher Driggers-Ellis, Gabriel Ayoubi, Girish Salunke et al.
10. GM-PRM: A Generative Multimodal Process Reward Model for Multimodal Mathematical ReasoningJianghangfan Zhang, Yibo Yan, Kening Zheng et al.our summary
11. GraphicWeaver: Benchmarking Agentic Planning for Graphic Design Generation ↗Dayeon Ki, Tianyi Zhou, Marine Carpuat et al.
12. HalluTrace: Causal Attribution and Source-Targeted Decoding for Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models ↗Kaustubh S. Bukkapatnam
13. How Fragile Is Vision-Language Alignment? Mapping Concept Disruption Under Text-to-Image Personalization ↗Mujtaba Hasan
14. Look Where You're Told: Instruction-Consistent Attention for GUI Grounding ↗Seonhoon Kim, Zhiyu Chen, Xin Li et al.
15. PGGA: A Plan-Grounded GUI Agent for Automated Device Support ↗Lei Hsiung, Zhiyu Chen, Seonhoon Kim et al.
16. Scaling Vision–Language Models for Pharmaceutical Long-Form Video Reasoning on Industrial GenAI PlatformSuyash Mishra, Qiang Li, Srikanth Patil et al.our summary
17. Semantically Aware Optimal Transport for Dense Label TransferPreeti, Kiran Ravish, Ankita Kushwaha et al.our summary
18. Systematic Performance Degradation in Indic Vision-Language Models: Evidence from Hindi and Telugu ↗Rishikant Chigrupaatii, Ponnada Sai Tulasi Kanishka, Lalit Chandra Routhu et al.
19. Temporal-Linguistic Adaptive Streaming for Continuous Sign Language Translation ↗Arshia Kermani, Habib Irani, Deautaun Ross et al.
20. The Compositional Grounding Gap: Why Vision-Language Models Fail at Relational Reasoning and How to Fix It ↗Kaustubh S. Bukkapatnam
21. Thinking in Pictures: A Diagnostic Study of Visual vs. Textual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Vision-Language Models ↗Ben Jenkins
22. VLCE: A Knowledge-Enhanced Framework for Image Description in Disaster AssessmentMd. Mahfuzur Rahman, Marufa Kamal, Fahad Rahman et al.our summary
23. When Relations Break: Analyzing Relation Hallucination in Vision-Language Model Under Rotation and NoisePhilip Wootaek Shin, Ajay Narayanan Sridhar, Lakshmi Sivani Devarapalli et al.our summary

📄 Papers with our summary in our library (9)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. CAFES: A Collaborative Multi-Agent Framework for Multi-Granular Multimodal Essay ScoringWorkshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR)Jiamin Su, Yibo Yan, Zhuoran Gao, et al.2026 · 4 citations
2. GM-PRM: A Generative Multimodal Process Reward Model for Multimodal Mathematical ReasoningWorkshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR)Jianghangfan Zhang, Yibo Yan, Kening Zheng, et al.2026 · 2 citations
3. From Pixels to BFS: High Maze Accuracy Does Not Imply Visual PlanningWorkshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR)Rodriguez Salgado, Alberto Gonzalo2026 · 1 citation
4. Scaling Vision–Language Models for Pharmaceutical Long-Form Video Reasoning on Industrial GenAI PlatformWorkshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR)Suyash Mishra, Qiang Li, Srikanth Patil, et al.2026
5. Semantically Aware Optimal Transport for Dense Label TransferWorkshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR)Preeti, Kiran Ravish, Ankita Kushwaha, et al.2026
6. VLCE: A Knowledge-Enhanced Framework for Image Description in Disaster AssessmentWorkshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR)Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, Marufa Kamal, Fahad Rahman, et al.2026
7. FADE: Probing the Limits of VLMs on fine-grained OCRWorkshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR)Deep Shah, Nehal Kathrotia, Sanket Badhe2026
8. When Relations Break: Analyzing Relation Hallucination in Vision-Language Model Under Rotation and NoiseWorkshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR)Philip Wootaek Shin, Ajay Narayanan Sridhar, Lakshmi Sivani Devarapalli, et al.2026
9. A Zipfian Analysis of Visual Token Distributions for AI-Generated ImagesWorkshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR)Andrew Shin2026

🧭 Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

🖼️Vision & language (4)🧠Language models & pretraining (2)🧮Reasoning (2)🔬Interpretability (1)🖍️Grammatical error correction & learner language (1)

📚 Fields

🖥️Computer Science (9)🎭Arts and Humanities (3)⚙️Engineering (1)➗Mathematics (1)

🧑‍🔬 Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

🏛️ Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

🎓Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyHong Kong · China2 works here🎓The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)Guangzhou · China2 works here🏢GoogleMountain View · United States1 work here🎓Pennsylvania State UniversityState College · United States1 work here🎓Keio UniversityTokyo · Japan1 work here🎓University of Illinois ChicagoChicago · United States1 work here🎓International Institute of Information Technology, HyderabadHyderabad · India1 work here

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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