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

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501. CVPR 2024SNIFFER: Multimodal Large Language Model for Explainable Out-of-Context Misinformation Detection
502. CVPR 2024SocialCounterfactuals: Probing and Mitigating Intersectional Social Biases in Vision-Language Models with Counterfactual Examples
503. CVPR 2024SOK-Bench: A Situated Video Reasoning Benchmark with Aligned Open-World Knowledge
504. CVPR 2024Solving Masked Jigsaw Puzzles with Diffusion Vision Transformers
505. CVPR 2024SonicVisionLM: Playing Sound with Vision Language Models
506. CVPR 2024SoundingActions: Learning How Actions Sound from Narrated Egocentric Videos
507. CVPR 2024Source-Free Domain Adaptation with Frozen Multimodal Foundation Model
508. CVPR 2024Sparse Global Matching for Video Frame Interpolation with Large Motion
509. CVPR 2024SpatialVLM: Endowing Vision-Language Models with Spatial Reasoning Capabilities
510. CVPR 2024SPECAT: SPatial-spEctral Cumulative-Attention Transformer for High-Resolution Hyperspectral Image Reconstruction
511. CVPR 2024Spectral and Polarization Vision: Spectro-polarimetric Real-world Dataset
512. CVPR 2024SPIDeRS: Structured Polarization for Invisible Depth and Reflectance Sensing
513. CVPR 2024SpikingResformer: Bridging ResNet and Vision Transformer in Spiking Neural Networks
514. CVPR 2024Split to Merge: Unifying Separated Modalities for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
515. CVPR 2024SportsSloMo: A New Benchmark and Baselines for Human-centric Video Frame Interpolation
516. CVPR 2024State Space Models for Event Cameras
517. CVPR 2024Stationary Representations: Optimally Approximating Compatibility and Implications for Improved Model Replacements
518. CVPR 2024StegoGAN: Leveraging Steganography for Non-Bijective Image-to-Image Translation
519. CVPR 2024Step Differences in Instructional Video
520. CVPR 2024Stronger Fewer & Superior: Harnessing Vision Foundation Models for Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation
521. CVPR 2024Summarize the Past to Predict the Future: Natural Language Descriptions of Context Boost Multimodal Object Interaction Anticipation
522. CVPR 2024Super-Resolution Reconstruction from Bayer-Pattern Spike Streams
523. CVPR 2024SURE: SUrvey REcipes for building reliable and robust deep networks
524. CVPR 2024SVDTree: Semantic Voxel Diffusion for Single Image Tree Reconstruction
525. CVPR 2024SyncMask: Synchronized Attentional Masking for Fashion-centric Vision-Language Pretraining
526. CVPR 2024Synthesize Diagnose and Optimize: Towards Fine-Grained Vision-Language Understanding
527. CVPR 2024Synthesize Step-by-Step: Tools Templates and LLMs as Data Generators for Reasoning-Based Chart VQA
528. CVPR 2024Systematic Comparison of Semi-supervised and Self-supervised Learning for Medical Image Classification
529. CVPR 2024Task-Aware Encoder Control for Deep Video Compression
530. CVPR 2024Task-Customized Mixture of Adapters for General Image Fusion
531. CVPR 2024Test-Time Zero-Shot Temporal Action Localization
532. CVPR 2024Text Is MASS: Modeling as Stochastic Embedding for Text-Video Retrieval
533. CVPR 2024Text Prompt with Normality Guidance for Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection
534. CVPR 2024Text-conditional Attribute Alignment across Latent Spaces for 3D Controllable Face Image Synthesis
535. CVPR 2024Text-Guided Variational Image Generation for Industrial Anomaly Detection and Segmentation
536. CVPR 2024Text-IF: Leveraging Semantic Text Guidance for Degradation-Aware and Interactive Image Fusion
537. CVPR 2024TexTile: A Differentiable Metric for Texture Tileability
538. CVPR 2024The Devil is in the Details: StyleFeatureEditor for Detail-Rich StyleGAN Inversion and High Quality Image Editing
539. CVPR 2024The Devil is in the Fine-Grained Details: Evaluating Open-Vocabulary Object Detectors for Fine-Grained Understanding
540. CVPR 2024The Manga Whisperer: Automatically Generating Transcriptions for Comics
541. CVPR 2024The Neglected Tails in Vision-Language Models
542. CVPR 2024The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Pre-Trained Features for Camera Pose Refinement
543. CVPR 2024Think Twice Before Selection: Federated Evidential Active Learning for Medical Image Analysis with Domain Shifts
544. CVPR 2024Three Pillars Improving Vision Foundation Model Distillation for Lidar
545. CVPR 2024THRONE: An Object-based Hallucination Benchmark for the Free-form Generations of Large Vision-Language Models
546. CVPR 2024TimeChat: A Time-sensitive Multimodal Large Language Model for Long Video Understanding
547. CVPR 2024TiNO-Edit: Timestep and Noise Optimization for Robust Diffusion-Based Image Editing
548. CVPR 2024Token Transformation Matters: Towards Faithful Post-hoc Explanation for Vision Transformer
549. CVPR 2024Towards 3D Vision with Low-Cost Single-Photon Cameras
550. CVPR 2024Towards Better Vision-Inspired Vision-Language Models

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.