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# 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](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) · 🗓 July 2026

[**23** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**9** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alvr/2026/#works) · [**7** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alvr/2026/#works)

## 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 Planning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/salgado-2026-pixels-bfs-high-maze-accuracy/)**Alberto Gonzalo Rodriguez Salgado*1 citation · our summary*
2. **[A Zipfian Analysis of Visual Token Distributions for AI-Generated Images](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shin-2026-zipfian-analysis-visual-token-distributions/)**Andrew Shin*our summary*
3. **[Beyond Visual Similarity: Rule-Guided Multimodal Clustering with explicit domain rules ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.alvr-main.16/)**Kishor Datta Gupta, Mohd Ariful Haque, Marufa Kamal et al.
4. **[CAFES: A Collaborative Multi-Agent Framework for Multi-Granular Multimodal Essay Scoring](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/su-2026-cafes-collaborative-multi-agent-framework/)**Jiamin Su, Yibo Yan, Zhuoran Gao et al.*our summary*
5. **[ChartDiff: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Comprehending Pairs of Charts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.alvr-main.19/)**Rongtian Ye
6. **[CoSMoEs: Compact Sparse Mixture of Experts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.alvr-main.4/)**Patrick Huber, Akshat Shrivastava, Ernie Chang et al.
7. **[Efficient Visual Grounding in VQA via Question-Guided Sparse Attention ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.alvr-main.24/)**Prasanth
8. **[FADE: Probing the Limits of VLMs on fine-grained OCR](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shah-2026-fade-probing-limits-vlms-fine/)**Deep Shah, Nehal Kathrotia, Sanket Badhe*our summary*
9. **[Formal Machine Interpretation for the Semasiographic Mixtec Codices of Precolonial and Early Colonial Mesoamerica ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.alvr-main.20/)**Christopher Driggers-Ellis, Gabriel Ayoubi, Girish Salunke et al.
10. **[GM-PRM: A Generative Multimodal Process Reward Model for Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-gm-prm-generative-multimodal-process/)**Jianghangfan Zhang, Yibo Yan, Kening Zheng et al.*our summary*
11. **[GraphicWeaver: Benchmarking Agentic Planning for Graphic Design Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.alvr-main.5/)**Dayeon Ki, Tianyi Zhou, Marine Carpuat et al.
12. **[HalluTrace: Causal Attribution and Source-Targeted Decoding for Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.alvr-main.29/)**Kaustubh S. Bukkapatnam
13. **[How Fragile Is Vision-Language Alignment? Mapping Concept Disruption Under Text-to-Image Personalization ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.alvr-main.27/)**Mujtaba Hasan
14. **[Look Where You're Told: Instruction-Consistent Attention for GUI Grounding ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.alvr-main.12/)**Seonhoon Kim, Zhiyu Chen, Xin Li et al.
15. **[PGGA: A Plan-Grounded GUI Agent for Automated Device Support ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.alvr-main.9/)**Lei Hsiung, Zhiyu Chen, Seonhoon Kim et al.
16. **[Scaling Vision–Language Models for Pharmaceutical Long-Form Video Reasoning on Industrial GenAI Platform](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mishra-2026-scaling-vision-language-models-pharmaceutical/)**Suyash Mishra, Qiang Li, Srikanth Patil et al.*our summary*
17. **[Semantically Aware Optimal Transport for Dense Label Transfer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/preeti-2026-semantically-aware-optimal-transport-dense/)**Preeti, Kiran Ravish, Ankita Kushwaha et al.*our summary*
18. **[Systematic Performance Degradation in Indic Vision-Language Models: Evidence from Hindi and Telugu ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.alvr-main.26/)**Rishikant Chigrupaatii, Ponnada Sai Tulasi Kanishka, Lalit Chandra Routhu et al.
19. **[Temporal-Linguistic Adaptive Streaming for Continuous Sign Language Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.alvr-main.21/)**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 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.alvr-main.28/)**Kaustubh S. Bukkapatnam
21. **[Thinking in Pictures: A Diagnostic Study of Visual vs. Textual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Vision-Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.alvr-main.1/)**Ben Jenkins
22. **[VLCE: A Knowledge-Enhanced Framework for Image Description in Disaster Assessment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rahman-2026-vlce-knowledge-enhanced-framework-image/)**Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, Marufa Kamal, Fahad Rahman et al.*our summary*
23. **[When Relations Break: Analyzing Relation Hallucination in Vision-Language Model Under Rotation and Noise](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shin-2026-when-relations-break-analyzing-relation/)**Philip 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 Scoring](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/su-2026-cafes-collaborative-multi-agent-framework/) [Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alvr/)**Jiamin Su, Yibo Yan, Zhuoran Gao, et al.*2026 · 4 citations*
2. **[GM-PRM: A Generative Multimodal Process Reward Model for Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-gm-prm-generative-multimodal-process/) [Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alvr/)**Jianghangfan Zhang, Yibo Yan, Kening Zheng, et al.*2026 · 2 citations*
3. **[From Pixels to BFS: High Maze Accuracy Does Not Imply Visual Planning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/salgado-2026-pixels-bfs-high-maze-accuracy/) [Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alvr/)**Rodriguez Salgado, Alberto Gonzalo*2026 · 1 citation*
4. **[Scaling Vision–Language Models for Pharmaceutical Long-Form Video Reasoning on Industrial GenAI Platform](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mishra-2026-scaling-vision-language-models-pharmaceutical/) [Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alvr/)**Suyash Mishra, Qiang Li, Srikanth Patil, et al.*2026*
5. **[Semantically Aware Optimal Transport for Dense Label Transfer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/preeti-2026-semantically-aware-optimal-transport-dense/) [Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alvr/)**Preeti, Kiran Ravish, Ankita Kushwaha, et al.*2026*
6. **[VLCE: A Knowledge-Enhanced Framework for Image Description in Disaster Assessment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rahman-2026-vlce-knowledge-enhanced-framework-image/) [Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alvr/)**Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, Marufa Kamal, Fahad Rahman, et al.*2026*
7. **[FADE: Probing the Limits of VLMs on fine-grained OCR](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shah-2026-fade-probing-limits-vlms-fine/) [Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alvr/)**Deep Shah, Nehal Kathrotia, Sanket Badhe*2026*
8. **[When Relations Break: Analyzing Relation Hallucination in Vision-Language Model Under Rotation and Noise](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shin-2026-when-relations-break-analyzing-relation/) [Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alvr/)**Philip Wootaek Shin, Ajay Narayanan Sridhar, Lakshmi Sivani Devarapalli, et al.*2026*
9. **[A Zipfian Analysis of Visual Token Distributions for AI-Generated Images](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shin-2026-zipfian-analysis-visual-token-distributions/) [Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alvr/)**Andrew Shin*2026*

## Top topics

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

[Vision & language (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Language models & pretraining (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Interpretability (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [Grammatical error correction & learner language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/grammatical-error-correction/)

## Fields

[Computer Science (9)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Engineering (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/) · [Mathematics (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Xuming Hu**2 works here · 6 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuming-hu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yibo Yan**2 works here · 6 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yibo-yan/) · [🧑‍🔬**Han Zhang**1 work here · 4 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/han-zhang/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jiamin Su**1 work here · 4 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiamin-su/) · [🧑‍🔬**Xiang Liu**1 work here · 4 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-liu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Xin Zou**1 work here · 2 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xin-zou/) · [🧑‍🔬**Qiang Li**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qiang-li/) · [🧑‍🔬**Rui Zhang**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rui-zhang/) · [🧑‍🔬**Srikanth Patil**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/srikanth-patil/) · [🧑‍🔬**Suyash Mishra**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/suyash-mishra/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**Hong Kong University of Science and Technology** Hong Kong · China 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)** Guangzhou · China 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology-guangzhou/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**Pennsylvania State University** State College · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/pennsylvania-state-university/) · [🎓**Keio University** Tokyo · Japan 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/keio-university/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Chicago** Chicago · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-chicago/) · [🎓**International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad** Hyderabad · India 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/international-institute-of-information-technology-hyderabad/)

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

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