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 119 of 225

5901. CVPR 2025Towards More General Video-based Deepfake Detection through Facial Component Guided Adaptation for Foundation Model
5902. CVPR 2025Towards Natural Language-Based Document Image Retrieval: New Dataset and Benchmark
5903. CVPR 2025Towards Training-free Anomaly Detection with Vision and Language Foundation Models
5904. CVPR 2025Towards Understanding and Quantifying Uncertainty for Text-to-Image Generation
5905. CVPR 2025Towards Understanding How Knowledge Evolves in Large Vision-Language Models
5906. CVPR 2025Towards Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection and Reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Models
5907. CVPR 2025Training-free Dense-Aligned Diffusion Guidance for Modular Conditional Image Synthesis
5908. CVPR 2025TSAM: Temporal SAM Augmented with Multimodal Prompts for Referring Audio-Visual Segmentation
5909. CVPR 2025TSP-Mamba: The Travelling Salesman Problem Meets Mamba for Image Super-resolution and Beyond
5910. CVPR 2025Two is Better than One: Efficient Ensemble Defense for Robust and Compact Models
5911. CVPR 2025UCM-VeID V2: A Richer Dataset and A Pre-training Method for UAV Cross-Modality Vehicle Re-Identification
5912. CVPR 2025UHD-processer: Unified UHD Image Restoration with Progressive Frequency Learning and Degradation-aware Prompts
5913. CVPR 2025Uncertain Multimodal Intention and Emotion Understanding in the Wild
5914. CVPR 2025Uncertainty Weighted Gradients for Model Calibration
5915. CVPR 2025Understanding Fine-tuning CLIP for Open-vocabulary Semantic Segmentation in Hyperbolic Space
5916. CVPR 2025UNEM: UNrolled Generalized EM for Transductive Few-Shot Learning
5917. CVPR 2025Uni4D: Unifying Visual Foundation Models for 4D Modeling from a Single Video
5918. CVPR 2025UNIALIGN: Scaling Multimodal Alignment within One Unified Model
5919. CVPR 2025UniPose: A Unified Multimodal Framework for Human Pose Comprehension, Generation and Editing
5920. CVPR 2025UniRestore: Unified Perceptual and Task-Oriented Image Restoration Model Using Diffusion Prior
5921. CVPR 2025Unleashing the Potential of Multi-modal Foundation Models and Video Diffusion for 4D Dynamic Physical Scene Simulation
5922. CVPR 2025Unsupervised Foundation Model-Agnostic Slide-Level Representation Learning
5923. CVPR 2025Unveil Inversion and Invariance in Flow Transformer for Versatile Image Editing
5924. CVPR 2025Unveiling the Ignorance of MLLMs: Seeing Clearly, Answering Incorrectly
5925. CVPR 2025Unveiling the Mist over 3D Vision-Language Understanding: Object-centric Evaluation with Chain-of-Analysis
5926. CVPR 2025UPME: An Unsupervised Peer Review Framework for Multimodal Large Language Model Evaluation
5927. CVPR 2025URWKV: Unified RWKV Model with Multi-state Perspective for Low-light Image Restoration
5928. CVPR 2025Using Diffusion Priors for Video Amodal Segmentation
5929. CVPR 2025V-Stylist: Video Stylization via Collaboration and Reflection of MLLM Agents
5930. CVPR 2025V^2Dial: Unification of Video and Visual Dialog via Multimodal Experts
5931. CVPR 2025VASparse: Towards Efficient Visual Hallucination Mitigation via Visual-Aware Token Sparsification
5932. CVPR 2025VDocRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation over Visually-Rich Documents
5933. CVPR 2025VELOCITI: Benchmarking Video-Language Compositional Reasoning with Strict Entailment
5934. CVPR 2025VERA: Explainable Video Anomaly Detection via Verbalized Learning of Vision-Language Models
5935. CVPR 2025VEU-Bench: Towards Comprehensive Understanding of Video Editing
5936. CVPR 2025ViCaS: A Dataset for Combining Holistic and Pixel-level Video Understanding using Captions with Grounded Segmentation
5937. CVPR 2025VidComposition: Can MLLMs Analyze Compositions in Compiled Videos?
5938. CVPR 2025Video Depth Anything: Consistent Depth Estimation for Super-Long Videos
5939. CVPR 2025Video Depth without Video Models
5940. CVPR 2025Video Summarization with Large Language Models
5941. CVPR 2025Video-ColBERT: Contextualized Late Interaction for Text-to-Video Retrieval
5942. CVPR 2025Video-Guided Foley Sound Generation with Multimodal Controls
5943. CVPR 2025Video-MME: The First-Ever Comprehensive Evaluation Benchmark of Multi-modal LLMs in Video Analysis
5944. CVPR 2025Video-Panda: Parameter-efficient Alignment for Encoder-free Video-Language Models
5945. CVPR 2025Video-XL: Extra-Long Vision Language Model for Hour-Scale Video Understanding
5946. CVPR 2025VideoAutoArena: An Automated Arena for Evaluating Large Multimodal Models in Video Analysis through User Simulation
5947. CVPR 2025VideoComp: Advancing Fine-Grained Compositional and Temporal Alignment in Video-Text Models
5948. CVPR 2025VideoGEM: Training-free Action Grounding in Videos
5949. CVPR 2025VideoGigaGAN: Towards Detail-rich Video Super-Resolution
5950. CVPR 2025VideoGLaMM : A Large Multimodal Model for Pixel-Level Visual Grounding in Videos

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.