Multimodal LLMs papers, 2023–2026
Vision-language models and multimodal foundation models for image and video
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 11,209 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 433 | 138 | 146 | 509 | 1,226 |
| 2024 | 446 | 321 | 323 | 626 | 1,716 |
| 2025 | 1,074 | 816 | 390 | 795 | 3,075 |
| 2026 | 1,366 | 1,401 | 1,051 | 1,374 | 5,192 |
Representative papers
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- 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
3,075 papers, page 11 of 62
- CVPR 2025Olympus: A Universal Task Router for Computer Vision Tasks
- CVPR 2025Omni-RGPT: Unifying Image and Video Region-level Understanding via Token Marks
- CVPR 2025Omnia de EgoTempo: Benchmarking Temporal Understanding of Multi-Modal LLMs in Egocentric Videos
- CVPR 2025OmniDocBench: Benchmarking Diverse PDF Document Parsing with Comprehensive Annotations
- CVPR 2025OmniDrive: A Holistic Vision-Language Dataset for Autonomous Driving with Counterfactual Reasoning
- CVPR 2025OmniManip: Towards General Robotic Manipulation via Object-Centric Interaction Primitives as Spatial Constraints
- CVPR 2025OmniStyle: Filtering High Quality Style Transfer Data at Scale
- CVPR 2025On the Consistency of Video Large Language Models in Temporal Comprehension
- CVPR 2025On the Out-Of-Distribution Generalization of Large Multimodal Models
- CVPR 2025On the Zero-shot Adversarial Robustness of Vision-Language Models: A Truly Zero-shot and Training-free Approach
- CVPR 2025Once-Tuning-Multiple-Variants: Tuning Once and Expanded as Multiple Vision-Language Model Variants
- CVPR 2025One Model for ALL: Low-Level Task Interaction Is a Key to Task-Agnostic Image Fusion
- CVPR 2025One-shot 3D Object Canonicalization based on Geometric and Semantic Consistency
- CVPR 2025One2Any: One-Reference 6D Pose Estimation for Any Object
- CVPR 2025Online Video Understanding: OVBench and VideoChat-Online
- CVPR 2025OpenING: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Judging Open-ended Interleaved Image-Text Generation
- CVPR 2025Optimus-2: Multimodal Minecraft Agent with Goal-Observation-Action Conditioned Policy
- CVPR 2025Order-One Rolling Shutter Cameras
- CVPR 2025Overcoming Shortcut Problem in VLM for Robust Out-of-Distribution Detection
- CVPR 2025OVO-Bench: How Far is Your Video-LLMs from Real-World Online Video Understanding?
- CVPR 2025PACT: Pruning and Clustering-Based Token Reduction for Faster Visual Language Models
- CVPR 2025Paint by Inpaint: Learning to Add Image Objects by Removing Them First
- CVPR 2025PARC: A Quantitative Framework Uncovering the Symmetries within Vision Language Models
- CVPR 2025Patch Matters: Training-free Fine-grained Image Caption Enhancement via Local Perception
- CVPR 2025PAVE: Patching and Adapting Video Large Language Models
- CVPR 2025Perception Tokens Enhance Visual Reasoning in Multimodal Language Models
- CVPR 2025Period-LLM: Extending the Periodic Capability of Multimodal Large Language Model
- CVPR 2025Personalized Preference Fine-tuning of Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025PhysVLM: Enabling Visual Language Models to Understand Robotic Physical Reachability
- CVPR 2025PICO: Reconstructing 3D People In Contact with Objects
- CVPR 2025PIDSR: Complementary Polarized Image Demosaicing and Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2025Playing the Fool: Jailbreaking LLMs and Multimodal LLMs with Out-of-Distribution Strategy
- CVPR 2025Plug-and-Play Versatile Compressed Video Enhancement
- CVPR 2025Polarized Color Screen Matting
- CVPR 2025POPEN: Preference-Based Optimization and Ensemble for LVLM-Based Reasoning Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Pose Priors from Language Models
- CVPR 2025Post-pre-training for Modality Alignment in Vision-Language Foundation Models
- CVPR 2025Preserve or Modify? Context-Aware Evaluation for Balancing Preservation and Modification in Text-Guided Image Editing
- CVPR 2025ProAPO: Progressively Automatic Prompt Optimization for Visual Classification
- CVPR 2025Probabilistic Prompt Distribution Learning for Animal Pose Estimation
- CVPR 2025ProbeSDF: Light Field Probes For Neural Surface Reconstruction
- CVPR 2025Progress-Aware Video Frame Captioning
- CVPR 2025Progressive Correspondence Regenerator for Robust 3D Registration
- CVPR 2025Progressive Focused Transformer for Single Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2025ProKeR: A Kernel Perspective on Few-Shot Adaptation of Large Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2025Prompt-CAM: Making Vision Transformers Interpretable for Fine-Grained Analysis
- CVPR 2025PromptHMR: Promptable Human Mesh Recovery
- CVPR 2025Protecting Your Video Content: Disrupting Automated Video-based LLM Annotations
- CVPR 2025Prototype-Based Image Prompting for Weakly Supervised Histopathological Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Provoking Multi-modal Few-Shot LVLM via Exploration-Exploitation In-Context Learning
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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.