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

11,207 papers, page 105 of 225

5201. CVPR 2025A Polarization-Aided Transformer for Image Deblurring via Motion Vector Decomposition
5202. CVPR 2025A Regularization-Guided Equivariant Approach for Image Restoration
5203. CVPR 2025A Semantic Knowledge Complementarity based Decoupling Framework for Semi-supervised Class-imbalanced Medical Image Segmentation
5204. CVPR 2025A Stitch in Time Saves Nine: Small VLM is a Precise Guidance for Accelerating Large VLMs
5205. CVPR 2025A Unified Image-Dense Annotation Generation Model for Underwater Scenes
5206. CVPR 2025A Unified Model for Compressed Sensing MRI Across Undersampling Patterns
5207. CVPR 2025A Universal Scale-Adaptive Deformable Transformer for Image Restoration across Diverse Artifacts
5208. CVPR 2025A3: Few-shot Prompt Learning of Unlearnable Examples with Cross-Modal Adversarial Feature Alignment
5209. CVPR 2025ABBSPO: Adaptive Bounding Box Scaling and Symmetric Prior based Orientation Prediction for Detecting Aerial Image Objects
5210. CVPR 2025Accelerating Multimodal Large Language Models by Searching Optimal Vision Token Reduction
5211. CVPR 2025ACL: Activating Capability of Linear Attention for Image Restoration
5212. CVPR 2025Acquire and then Adapt: Squeezing out Text-to-Image Model for Image Restoration
5213. CVPR 2025Activating Sparse Part Concepts for 3D Class Incremental Learning
5214. CVPR 2025Active Data Curation Effectively Distills Large-Scale Multimodal Models
5215. CVPR 2025Active Event-based Stereo Vision
5216. CVPR 2025AdaDARE-gamma: Balancing Stability and Plasticity in Multi-modal LLMs through Efficient Adaptation
5217. CVPR 2025AdaMMS: Model Merging for Heterogeneous Multimodal Large Language Models with Unsupervised Coefficient Optimization
5218. CVPR 2025Adapter Merging with Centroid Prototype Mapping for Scalable Class-Incremental Learning
5219. CVPR 2025Adapting Dense Matching for Homography Estimation with Grid-based Acceleration
5220. CVPR 2025Adapting Text-to-Image Generation with Feature Difference Instruction for Generic Image Restoration
5221. CVPR 2025Adaptive Dropout: Unleashing Dropout across Layers for Generalizable Image Super-Resolution
5222. CVPR 2025Adaptive Keyframe Sampling for Long Video Understanding
5223. CVPR 2025Adaptive Parameter Selection for Tuning Vision-Language Models
5224. CVPR 2025Adaptive Unimodal Regulation for Balanced Multimodal Information Acquisition
5225. CVPR 2025ADD: Attribution-Driven Data Augmentation Framework for Boosting Image Super-Resolution
5226. CVPR 2025Advancing Myopia To Holism: Fully Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training
5227. CVPR 2025Advancing Semantic Future Prediction through Multimodal Visual Sequence Transformers
5228. CVPR 2025Adventurer: Optimizing Vision Mamba Architecture Designs for Efficiency
5229. CVPR 2025Adversarial Diffusion Compression for Real-World Image Super-Resolution
5230. CVPR 2025AG-VPReID: A Challenging Large-Scale Benchmark for Aerial-Ground Video-based Person Re-Identification
5231. CVPR 2025AIpparel: A Multimodal Foundation Model for Digital Garments
5232. CVPR 2025Align-KD: Distilling Cross-Modal Alignment Knowledge for Mobile Vision-Language Large Model Enhancement
5233. CVPR 2025AlignMamba: Enhancing Multimodal Mamba with Local and Global Cross-modal Alignment
5234. CVPR 2025Alignment, Mining and Fusion: Representation Alignment with Hard Negative Mining and Selective Knowledge Fusion for Medical Visual Question Answering
5235. CVPR 2025All Languages Matter: Evaluating LMMs on Culturally Diverse 100 Languages
5236. CVPR 2025AlphaPre: Amplitude-Phase Disentanglement Model for Precipitation Nowcasting
5237. CVPR 2025Anchor-Aware Similarity Cohesion in Target Frames Enables Predicting Temporal Moment Boundaries in 2D
5238. CVPR 2025AnimateAnything: Consistent and Controllable Animation for Video Generation
5239. CVPR 2025ANNEXE: Unified Analyzing, Answering, and Pixel Grounding for Egocentric Interaction
5240. CVPR 2025Antidote: A Unified Framework for Mitigating LVLM Hallucinations in Counterfactual Presupposition and Object Perception
5241. CVPR 2025Anyattack: Towards Large-scale Self-supervised Adversarial Attacks on Vision-language Models
5242. CVPR 2025AnyEdit: Mastering Unified High-Quality Image Editing for Any Idea
5243. CVPR 2025AnySat: One Earth Observation Model for Many Resolutions, Scales, and Modalities
5244. CVPR 2025APHQ-ViT: Post-Training Quantization with Average Perturbation Hessian Based Reconstruction for Vision Transformers
5245. CVPR 2025Apollo: An Exploration of Video Understanding in Large Multimodal Models
5246. CVPR 2025Argus: A Compact and Versatile Foundation Model for Vision
5247. CVPR 2025Argus: Vision-Centric Reasoning with Grounded Chain-of-Thought
5248. CVPR 2025ASIGN: An Anatomy-aware Spatial Imputation Graphic Network for 3D Spatial Transcriptomics
5249. CVPR 2025Assessing and Learning Alignment of Unimodal Vision and Language Models
5250. CVPR 2025Associative Transformer

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.