Natural Language Visual Grounding

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Syntology column: samples harvested from the paper's repositories and executed on synthesized fixtures; “ran” is not a correctness claim and does not order the table. A dash means no Syntology record for that paper, not a recorded non-run. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

7 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

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Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 30 papers with code (32 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• ALFRED: A Benchmark for Interpreting Grounded Instructions for Everyday Tasks
  3 Dec 2019 11 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 5 samples · 5 unverified
  We present ALFRED (Action Learning From Realistic Environments and Directives), a benchmark for learning a mapping from natural language instructions and egocentric vision to sequences of actions for household tasks.
• Qwen2-VL: Enhancing Vision-Language Model's Perception of the World at Any Resolution
  18 Sep 2024 8 repositories listed Syntology ran 8 of 12 samples · 4 unverified
  We present the Qwen2-VL Series, an advanced upgrade of the previous Qwen-VL models that redefines the conventional predetermined-resolution approach in visual processing.
• CogAgent: A Visual Language Model for GUI Agents
  14 Dec 2023 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 12 of 18 samples · 6 unverified
  People are spending an enormous amount of time on digital devices through graphical user interfaces (GUIs), e.
• Grounding of Textual Phrases in Images by Reconstruction
  12 Nov 2015 3 repositories listed
  We propose a novel approach which learns grounding by reconstructing a given phrase using an attention mechanism, which can be either latent or optimized directly.
• OS-ATLAS: A Foundation Action Model for Generalist GUI Agents
  30 Oct 2024 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified
  Existing efforts in building GUI agents heavily rely on the availability of robust commercial Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as GPT-4o and GeminiProVision.
• MiniGPT-v2: large language model as a unified interface for vision-language multi-task learning
  14 Oct 2023 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 3 samples · 0 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  Motivated by this, we target to build a unified interface for completing many vision-language tasks including image description, visual question answering, and visual grounding, among others.
• Qwen-VL: A Versatile Vision-Language Model for Understanding, Localization, Text Reading, and Beyond
  24 Aug 2023 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 2 samples · 2 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  In this work, we introduce the Qwen-VL series, a set of large-scale vision-language models (LVLMs) designed to perceive and understand both texts and images.
• Composing Pick-and-Place Tasks By Grounding Language
  16 Feb 2021 2 repositories listed
  Controlling robots to perform tasks via natural language is one of the most challenging topics in human-robot interaction.
• ALFWorld: Aligning Text and Embodied Environments for Interactive Learning
  8 Oct 2020 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 11 of 14 samples · 3 unverified
  ALFWorld enables the creation of a new BUTLER agent whose abstract knowledge, learned in TextWorld, corresponds directly to concrete, visually grounded actions.
• Self-Monitoring Navigation Agent via Auxiliary Progress Estimation
  10 Jan 2019 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 6 samples · 6 unverified
  The Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task entails an agent following navigational instruction in photo-realistic unknown environments.
• Aria-UI: Visual Grounding for GUI Instructions
  20 Dec 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 2 of 2 samples · 0 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  Digital agents for automating tasks across different platforms by directly manipulating the GUIs are increasingly important.
• Aguvis: Unified Pure Vision Agents for Autonomous GUI Interaction
  5 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  Automating GUI tasks remains challenging due to reliance on textual representations, platform-specific action spaces, and limited reasoning capabilities.
• ShowUI: One Vision-Language-Action Model for GUI Visual Agent
  26 Nov 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 16 samples · 15 unverified
  In this work, we develop a vision-language-action model in digital world, namely ShowUI, which features the following innovations: (i) UI-Guided Visual Token Selection to reduce computational costs by formulating…
• Improved GUI Grounding via Iterative Narrowing
  18 Nov 2024 1 repository listed
  Graphical User Interface (GUI) grounding plays a crucial role in enhancing the capabilities of Vision-Language Model (VLM) agents.
• Navigating the Digital World as Humans Do: Universal Visual Grounding for GUI Agents
  7 Oct 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 0 of 1 samples · 1 unverified
  The key is visual grounding models that can accurately map diverse referring expressions of GUI elements to their coordinates on the GUI across different platforms.
• OmniParser for Pure Vision Based GUI Agent
  1 Aug 2024 1 repository listed
  The recent success of large vision language models shows great potential in driving the agent system operating on user interfaces.
• GUICourse: From General Vision Language Models to Versatile GUI Agents
  17 Jun 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 15 of 16 samples · 1 unverified · 16 pointer-only (licence)
  Utilizing Graphic User Interface (GUI) for human-computer interaction is essential for accessing a wide range of digital tools.
• Groma: Localized Visual Tokenization for Grounding Multimodal Large Language Models
  19 Apr 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 5 of 9 samples · 4 unverified
  We introduce Groma, a Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) with grounded and fine-grained visual perception ability.
• SeeClick: Harnessing GUI Grounding for Advanced Visual GUI Agents
  17 Jan 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified
  In our preliminary study, we have discovered a key challenge in developing visual GUI agents: GUI grounding -- the capacity to accurately locate screen elements based on instructions.
• Localizing Moments in Long Video Via Multimodal Guidance
  26 Feb 2023 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we propose a method for improving the performance of natural language grounding in long videos by identifying and pruning out non-describable windows.
• Belief Revision based Caption Re-ranker with Visual Semantic Information
  16 Sep 2022 1 repository listed
  In this work, we focus on improving the captions generated by image-caption generation systems.
• TubeDETR: Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding with Transformers
  30 Mar 2022 1 repository listed Syntology ran 3 of 3 samples · 0 unverified
  We consider the problem of localizing a spatio-temporal tube in a video corresponding to a given text query.
• CALVIN: A Benchmark for Language-Conditioned Policy Learning for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation Tasks
  6 Dec 2021 1 repository listed Syntology ran 6 of 10 samples · 4 unverified
  We show that a baseline model based on multi-context imitation learning performs poorly on CALVIN, suggesting that there is significant room for developing innovative agents that learn to relate human language to their…
• Panoptic Narrative Grounding
  10 Sep 2021 1 repository listed
  This paper proposes Panoptic Narrative Grounding, a spatially fine and general formulation of the natural language visual grounding problem.
• Panoptic Narrative Grounding
  1 Jan 2021 1 repository listed
  This paper proposes Panoptic Narrative Grounding, a spatially fine and general formulation of the natural language visual grounding problem.
• A Linguistic Analysis of Visually Grounded Dialogues Based on Spatial Expressions
  7 Oct 2020 1 repository listed
  Recent models achieve promising results in visually grounded dialogues.
• Learning Cross-modal Context Graph for Visual Grounding
  13 Feb 2020 1 repository listed
  To address their limitations, this paper proposes a language-guided graph representation to capture the global context of grounding entities and their relations, and develop a cross-modal graph matching strategy for the…
• Searching for Ambiguous Objects in Videos using Relational Referring Expressions
  3 Aug 2019 1 repository listed
  Especially in ambiguous settings, humans prefer expressions (called relational referring expressions) that describe an object with respect to a distinguishing, unique object.
• Modularized Textual Grounding for Counterfactual Resilience
  7 Apr 2019 1 repository listed
  Computer Vision applications often require a textual grounding module with precision, interpretability, and resilience to counterfactual inputs/queries.
• Robust Change Captioning
  8 Jan 2019 1 repository listed
  We present a novel Dual Dynamic Attention Model (DUDA) to perform robust Change Captioning.

Syntology lines on 16 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.