Multimodal LLMs papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Multimodal LLMs went from 1,226 papers in 2023 to 5,192 in 2026, roughly 4.2x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Multimodal LLMs work: 3,319 papers from 2023 to 2026, 30% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Applications · computer vision: papers tagged with both rose from 35 in 2023 to 596 in 2026.
• Among the 4 topics under Trending Systems, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, AI Agents, is up 12x versus 4.2x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026$\text{A}^3$-VLA: Automatic Perception-Guided Attention Alignment for Robot Manipulation
• ICML 2026[CLS] is Not Enough: Multi-Label Recognition via Patch-Level Inference and Adaptive Aggregation
• ICLR 2026A Balanced Neuro-Symbolic Approach for Commonsense Abductive Logic
• CVPR 20263D Space as a Scratchpad for Editable Text-to-Image Generation
• NeurIPS 2025$\Delta \mathrm{Energy}$: Optimizing Energy Change During Vision-Language Alignment Improves both OOD Detection and OOD Generalization
• ICML 2025Adapting While Learning: Grounding LLMs for Scientific Problems with Tool Usage Adaptation
• ICLR 2025$\gamma-$MoD: Exploring Mixture-of-Depth Adaptation for Multimodal Large Language Models
• CVPR 20252DMamba: Efficient State Space Model for Image Representation with Applications on Giga-Pixel Whole Slide Image Classification
• NeurIPS 2024A Concept-Based Explainability Framework for Large Multimodal Models
• ICML 2024A Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent
• ICLR 2024Alt-Text with Context: Improving Accessibility for Images on Twitter
• CVPR 2024Data-Efficient Multimodal Fusion on a Single GPU
• NeurIPS 20234M: Massively Multimodal Masked Modeling
• ICML 2023$\pi$-Tuning: Transferring Multimodal Foundation Models with Optimal Multi-task Interpolation
• ICLR 2023A Primal-Dual Framework for Transformers and Neural Networks
• CVPR 20233D Concept Learning and Reasoning From Multi-View Images
• NeurIPS 2026$\texttt{bispectrum}$: Selective $G$-Bispectra Made Practical
• ICML 2026$G^2$-Reader: Dual Evolving Graphs for Multimodal Document QA
• ICLR 2026A Comprehensive Information-Decomposition Analysis of Large Vision-Language Models
• CVPR 20263D-IDE 3D Implicit Depth Emergent

All Multimodal LLMs papers

509 papers, page 10 of 11

451. CVPR 2023Task Residual for Tuning Vision-Language Models
452. CVPR 2023Task-Specific Fine-Tuning via Variational Information Bottleneck for Weakly-Supervised Pathology Whole Slide Image Classification
453. CVPR 2023Teaching Structured Vision & Language Concepts to Vision & Language Models
454. CVPR 2023Tell Me What Happened: Unifying Text-Guided Video Completion via Multimodal Masked Video Generation
455. CVPR 2023Temporal Interpolation Is All You Need for Dynamic Neural Radiance Fields
456. CVPR 2023Texts as Images in Prompt Tuning for Multi-Label Image Recognition
457. CVPR 2023The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend: Exploring Inverse Adversaries for Improving Adversarial Training
458. CVPR 2023TimeBalance: Temporally-Invariant and Temporally-Distinctive Video Representations for Semi-Supervised Action Recognition
459. CVPR 2023TinyMIM: An Empirical Study of Distilling MIM Pre-Trained Models
460. CVPR 2023Top-Down Visual Attention From Analysis by Synthesis
461. CVPR 2023TopNet: Transformer-Based Object Placement Network for Image Compositing
462. CVPR 2023Toward Accurate Post-Training Quantization for Image Super Resolution
463. CVPR 2023Toward Verifiable and Reproducible Human Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation
464. CVPR 2023Towards a Smaller Student: Capacity Dynamic Distillation for Efficient Image Retrieval
465. CVPR 2023Towards Artistic Image Aesthetics Assessment: A Large-Scale Dataset and a New Method
466. CVPR 2023Towards Fast Adaptation of Pretrained Contrastive Models for Multi-Channel Video-Language Retrieval
467. CVPR 2023Towards High-Quality and Efficient Video Super-Resolution via Spatial-Temporal Data Overfitting
468. CVPR 2023Towards Scalable Neural Representation for Diverse Videos
469. CVPR 2023Towards Universal Fake Image Detectors That Generalize Across Generative Models
470. CVPR 2023Train-Once-for-All Personalization
471. CVPR 2023Transfer4D: A Framework for Frugal Motion Capture and Deformation Transfer
472. CVPR 2023TransFlow: Transformer As Flow Learner
473. CVPR 2023Trap Attention: Monocular Depth Estimation With Manual Traps
474. CVPR 2023Tri-Perspective View for Vision-Based 3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction
475. CVPR 2023TruFor: Leveraging All-Round Clues for Trustworthy Image Forgery Detection and Localization
476. CVPR 2023Two-View Geometry Scoring Without Correspondences
477. CVPR 2023ULIP: Learning a Unified Representation of Language, Images, and Point Clouds for 3D Understanding
478. CVPR 2023Ultrahigh Resolution Image/Video Matting With Spatio-Temporal Sparsity
479. CVPR 2023Unbiased Multiple Instance Learning for Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection
480. CVPR 2023Uncertainty-Aware Vision-Based Metric Cross-View Geolocalization
481. CVPR 2023Uni-Perceiver v2: A Generalist Model for Large-Scale Vision and Vision-Language Tasks
482. CVPR 2023Unicode Analogies: An Anti-Objectivist Visual Reasoning Challenge
483. CVPR 2023Unified Mask Embedding and Correspondence Learning for Self-Supervised Video Segmentation
484. CVPR 2023Unifying Vision, Text, and Layout for Universal Document Processing
485. CVPR 2023Unsupervised Domain Adaption With Pixel-Level Discriminator for Image-Aware Layout Generation
486. CVPR 2023Vid2Seq: Large-Scale Pretraining of a Visual Language Model for Dense Video Captioning
487. CVPR 2023Video Event Restoration Based on Keyframes for Video Anomaly Detection
488. CVPR 2023Video Test-Time Adaptation for Action Recognition
489. CVPR 2023VILA: Learning Image Aesthetics From User Comments With Vision-Language Pretraining
490. CVPR 2023VindLU: A Recipe for Effective Video-and-Language Pretraining
491. CVPR 2023Virtual Sparse Convolution for Multimodal 3D Object Detection
492. CVPR 2023Vision Transformers Are Good Mask Auto-Labelers
493. CVPR 2023Visual Atoms: Pre-Training Vision Transformers With Sinusoidal Waves
494. CVPR 2023Visual Programming: Compositional Visual Reasoning Without Training
495. CVPR 2023Visual Query Tuning: Towards Effective Usage of Intermediate Representations for Parameter and Memory Efficient Transfer Learning
496. CVPR 2023Visual Recognition-Driven Image Restoration for Multiple Degradation With Intrinsic Semantics Recovery
497. CVPR 2023Vita-CLIP: Video and Text Adaptive CLIP via Multimodal Prompting
498. CVPR 2023ViTs for SITS: Vision Transformers for Satellite Image Time Series
499. CVPR 2023VLPD: Context-Aware Pedestrian Detection via Vision-Language Semantic Self-Supervision
500. CVPR 2023VoP: Text-Video Co-Operative Prompt Tuning for Cross-Modal Retrieval

FAQ

How many Multimodal LLMs papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

11,209 in total: 1,226 in 2023, 1,716 in 2024, 3,075 in 2025, 5,192 in 2026.

How many Multimodal LLMs papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 1,366 Multimodal LLMs papers, versus 1,074 the year before.

How many Multimodal LLMs papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 1,401 Multimodal LLMs papers, versus 816 the year before.

How many Multimodal LLMs papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 1,051 Multimodal LLMs papers, versus 390 the year before.

How many Multimodal LLMs papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 1,374 Multimodal LLMs papers, versus 795 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Multimodal LLMs papers?

NeurIPS, with 3,319 papers from 2023 to 2026.