Co-located with ACL 2026 in San Diego, California, United States & Online | July 2–7, 2026
- Website: https://alvr-workshop.github.io/
- Submission: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/Workshop/ALVR
- Contact email: alvr_workshop_acl_2026 [at] googlegroups.com
About the Workshop
Language & Vision research has rapidly evolved in recent years, driven by the emergence of large vision-language models (LVLMs). The 4th Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR) will bring together researchers to explore the frontier of multimodal learning, foster collaboration, and identify pressing open challenges.
We will feature keynote talks, spotlight paper presentations, poster sessions, and a panel discussion. Following the success of previous ALVR editions in 2020, 2021, and 2024, this fourth edition will be held as a hybrid full-day workshop at ACL 2026 in San Diego.
Important Dates (tentative)
- Direct Submission deadline: March 24, 2026
- Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026
- Camera-ready paper due: May 12, 2026
- Workshop date: July 2nd or 3rd, 2026
All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h (anywhere on earth).
Submission Information
- Long papers: up to 8 pages (+ references and appendix)
- Short papers: up to 4 pages (+ references and appendix)
Final versions will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Authors may also provide a link to the relevant arXiv paper.
We include a non-archival track to allow dual submission of work to ALVR 2026 and other conferences/journals. Space permitting, these submissions may still be presented at the workshop and hosted on the website, but will not be included in the official proceedings.
Please apply the ACL format and submit through OpenReview, indicating cross-submission (non-archival) at the bottom of the submission form.
Review Process
Papers must be submitted anonymously. All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review by at least three reviewers, with final decisions made by the workshop organizers.
Call for Reviewers
If you have published in the field and are interested in serving on the program committee, please email alvr_workshop_acl_2026 [at] googlegroups.com.
Topics of Interest
- Self-supervised vision and language pre-training
- New tasks and datasets for real-world language and vision applications
- Text-to-image/video generation and editing
- 3D/spatial reasoning with language and vision
- Multimodal agents and embodied agents
- Visually-grounded language understanding and generation
- Culturally-aware and multilingual LVLMs
- External knowledge integration
- Limitations of LVLMs and solutions
- Training efficiency and optimization
- Post-training frameworks, alignment, and reasoning
- Ethics and bias in LVLMs
- Multidisciplinary studies (linguistics, cognitive science, robotics, etc.)
- Practical applications of LVLMs
- Explainability and interpretability
Organizers
- Qianqi (Jackie) Yan (UC Santa Barbara)
- Syrielle Montariol (EPFL, UC Berkeley)
- Yue Fan (UC Santa Cruz)
- Jing Gu (xAI)
- Jiayi Pan (xAI)
- Manling Li (Northwestern University)
- Parisa Kordjamshidi (Michigan State University)
- Alane Suhr (UC Berkeley)
- Xin Eric Wang (UC Santa Barbara)