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
626 papers, page 12 of 13
- CVPR 2024Towards Co-Evaluation of Cameras HDR and Algorithms for Industrial-Grade 6DoF Pose Estimation
- CVPR 2024Towards HDR and HFR Video from Rolling-Mixed-Bit Spikings
- CVPR 2024Towards High-fidelity Artistic Image Vectorization via Texture-Encapsulated Shape Parameterization
- CVPR 2024Towards Language-Driven Video Inpainting via Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2024Towards Progressive Multi-Frequency Representation for Image Warping
- CVPR 2024Towards Surveillance Video-and-Language Understanding: New Dataset Baselines and Challenges
- CVPR 2024Training Vision Transformers for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Transcending the Limit of Local Window: Advanced Super-Resolution Transformer with Adaptive Token Dictionary
- CVPR 2024Transfer CLIP for Generalizable Image Denoising
- CVPR 2024Transferable and Principled Efficiency for Open-Vocabulary Segmentation
- CVPR 2024TransNeXt: Robust Foveal Visual Perception for Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2024TRINS: Towards Multimodal Language Models that Can Read
- CVPR 2024Troika: Multi-Path Cross-Modal Traction for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
- CVPR 2024TTA-EVF: Test-Time Adaptation for Event-based Video Frame Interpolation via Reliable Pixel and Sample Estimation
- CVPR 2024Tune-An-Ellipse: CLIP Has Potential to Find What You Want
- CVPR 2024Turb-Seg-Res: A Segment-then-Restore Pipeline for Dynamic Videos with Atmospheric Turbulence
- CVPR 2024Tyche: Stochastic In-Context Learning for Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024UFC-Net: Unrolling Fixed-point Continuous Network for Deep Compressive Sensing
- CVPR 2024ULIP-2: Towards Scalable Multimodal Pre-training for 3D Understanding
- CVPR 2024Unbiased Estimator for Distorted Conics in Camera Calibration
- CVPR 2024Uncertainty-Guided Never-Ending Learning to Drive
- CVPR 2024Uncovering What Why and How: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Causation Understanding of Video Anomaly
- CVPR 2024Unified-IO 2: Scaling Autoregressive Multimodal Models with Vision Language Audio and Action
- CVPR 2024UnionFormer: Unified-Learning Transformer with Multi-View Representation for Image Manipulation Detection and Localization
- CVPR 2024UniRepLKNet: A Universal Perception Large-Kernel ConvNet for Audio Video Point Cloud Time-Series and Image Recognition
- CVPR 2024Unknown Prompt the only Lacuna: Unveiling CLIP's Potential for Open Domain Generalization
- CVPR 2024Unleashing Network Potentials for Semantic Scene Completion
- CVPR 2024Unleashing Unlabeled Data: A Paradigm for Cross-View Geo-Localization
- CVPR 2024Unlocking the Potential of Pre-trained Vision Transformers for Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation through Relationship Descriptors
- CVPR 2024Unmixing Before Fusion: A Generalized Paradigm for Multi-Source-based Hyperspectral Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2024Unsegment Anything by Simulating Deformation
- CVPR 2024Unveiling Parts Beyond Objects: Towards Finer-Granularity Referring Expression Segmentation
- CVPR 2024USE: Universal Segment Embeddings for Open-Vocabulary Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024V?: Guided Visual Search as a Core Mechanism in Multimodal LLMs
- CVPR 2024VA3: Virtually Assured Amplification Attack on Probabilistic Copyright Protection for Text-to-Image Generative Models
- CVPR 2024VBench: Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for Video Generative Models
- CVPR 2024VCoder: Versatile Vision Encoders for Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2024VicTR: Video-conditioned Text Representations for Activity Recognition
- CVPR 2024vid-TLDR: Training Free Token Merging for Light-weight Video Transformer
- CVPR 2024Video Harmonization with Triplet Spatio-Temporal Variation Patterns
- CVPR 2024Video Super-Resolution Transformer with Masked Inter&Intra-Frame Attention
- CVPR 2024VideoBooth: Diffusion-based Video Generation with Image Prompts
- CVPR 2024VideoLLM-online: Online Video Large Language Model for Streaming Video
- CVPR 2024VideoMAC: Video Masked Autoencoders Meet ConvNets
- CVPR 2024VidLA: Video-Language Alignment at Scale
- CVPR 2024ViLa-MIL: Dual-scale Vision-Language Multiple Instance Learning for Whole Slide Image Classification
- CVPR 2024VILA: On Pre-training for Visual Language Models
- CVPR 2024VINECS: Video-based Neural Character Skinning
- CVPR 2024ViP-LLaVA: Making Large Multimodal Models Understand Arbitrary Visual Prompts
- CVPR 2024Visual Objectification in Films: Towards a New AI Task for Video Interpretation
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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.