--- title: "Vision-language models research: latest papers and trends" description: "The keyword “vision-language models” appeared in 19 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31), ranking #27 of 13,763 keywords." url: https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/vision-language-models markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/vision-language-models.md license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) share_text: "The keyword “vision-language models” appeared in 19 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31), ranking #27 of 13,763 keywords." data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json updated: 2026-10-31T07:48:13+09:00 window: 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31 source: OpenAlex (CC0) --- # Papers on “vision-language models” - 4 papers in the last 7 days Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/keywords.md ## Key findings - The keyword “vision-language models” appeared in 19 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31), ranking #27 of 13,763 keywords. - Most of them appeared in Pattern Recognition (6), International Journal of Computer Vision (4) and Artificial Intelligence Review (2). - Leading institutions: Institute of Automation (2), Chinese Academy of Sciences (2) and Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (2). - Countries: China (13), Hong Kong (2) and United States (2). - Often studied together with “CLIP” (4), “autonomous driving” (2) and “knowledge distillation” (2). *Papers, newest first.* | Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations | |---|---|---|---|---| | 2026-10-26 | [A systematic survey of open-ended visual segmentation: taxonomies, challenges and future directions](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-026-11720-5) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | Anzhi Wang, Chunhong Ren, Xinwei Du et al. | Guizhou Normal University; Southwest University | | 2026-10-26 | [TokLIP: Marry Visual Tokens to CLIP for Multimodal Comprehension and Generation](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03081-x) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | Haokun Lin, Teng Wang, Yixiao Ge et al. | City University of Hong Kong; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Tencent (China); … | | 2026-10-25 | [$${\\text {VLScene}}^{++}$$: Enhancing 3D Semantic Scene Completion via VLM Discrepancy-Aware Semantic Distillation and Sparse–Dense Hybrid Awareness](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03050-4) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | Meng Wang, Yujie Xue, Jijiang Liu et al. | Hunan University | | 2026-10-25 | [Eyegent: Visual Attention Orchestration on Concepts](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03042-4) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | Alessandro D’Amelio, Sabrina Patania, Luca Annese et al. | University of Milan; University of Milano-Bicocca | | 2026-10-19 | [A low-rank consensus method for vision language model hallucination mitigation in autonomous driving](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106092) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | Keke Long, Jiacheng Guo, Tianyun Zhang et al. | University of Wisconsin–Madison; Cleveland State University; University of Tennessee at Knoxville | | 2026-10-18 | [GoClick: Lightweight Element Grounding Model for Autonomous GUI Interaction](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03031-7) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | Hongxin Li, Yuntao Chen, Zhaoxiang Zhang | Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Automation; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | | 2026-10-17 | [Seeing ahead through a state-of-the-art review of visual perception and predictive intelligence for collaborative robots](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-026-11708-1) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | Mahmoud Salem, Markus Reischl, Veit Hagenmeyer et al. | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; British University in Egypt; Gulf University for Science & Technology | | 2026-10-15 | [Transformer Architectures for Respiratory Sound Analysis and Multimodal Diagnosis](https://doi.org/10.1007/s43069-026-00698-z) | [Operations Research Forum](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-forum.md) | Theodore Aptekarev, Vladimir Sokolovsky, G. B. Furman et al. | National Research University Higher School of Economics; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Perm State Medical Academy | | 2026-10-14 | [VLKD-YOLO: A semantic-aware visual-language distillation framework for lightweight underwater object detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115082) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Chuanyi Zhang, Ruiyang Wang, Xinlei Zhang et al. | Hohai University | | 2026-10-13 | [A3AD: Enhancing CLIP with Triple-Aware Learning for Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115125) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Aimin Feng, Junjie Zheng, Keyang Yu et al. | Nanjing University; Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics | | 2026-10-10 | [StreamWatch: Decoupled streaming video understanding for interpretable surveillance anomaly detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2026.117173) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | Zilong Wang, Hao Wu, Junlong Tong et al. | Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo; Shanghai Jiao Tong University | | 2026-10-09 | [Conditional Multimodal Alignment for few-shot class-incremental 3D point cloud classification](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115083) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Lei Xia, Zecheng Sheng, Ling Fan et al. | Tongji University; The University of Sydney; Shanghai University | | 2026-10-09 | [Hybrid global–local embedding optimization for open-vocabulary segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115080) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Chaojun Zhang, Xiaoqing Zhao, Yuan Gao et al. | Hainan University; Zhengzhou University | | 2026-10-08 | [SegVLM: Deformable attentive visual enhancement for referring image segmentation using vision-language model](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2026.109721) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | Alaa Dalaq, Muzammil Behzad | King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals | | 2026-10-08 | [MoCoP: Modality-Collaborative Layer-Wise Pruning for Large Vision-Language Models](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115089) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Chao Jiang, Jinzhi Liao, Hongbin Huang et al. | National University of Defense Technology | | 2026-10-08 | [Beyond post-hoc alignment: Text-conditioned state refinement for weakly supervised referring image segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134673) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Congwei Zhang, Zhibin Quan, Xin Zhang et al. | Marine Design & Research Institute of China; Southeast University | | 2026-10-07 | [Decoupled semantic alignment and emotion-aware gated fusion for group emotion recognition](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134646) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Hongxi Yi, Yufei Xie, Dong Zhang et al. | Sun Yat-sen University; Wuhan University; Chinese University of Hong Kong; … | | 2026-10-06 | [CCRA: Optimizing vision-language consistency via cross-layer regional attention alignment](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2026.104833) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | Yifan Wang, H. Ai, Quangao Liu et al. | Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School; Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China; … | | 2026-10-03 | [StoryReasoning dataset: Using chain-of-thought for scene understanding and grounded story generation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115061) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Daniel A. P. Oliveira, David Martins de Matos | Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento; University of Lisbon; Instituto Superior Técnico | ## Cite this page Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “vision-language models”. Journal Research Rankings. 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