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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551. CVPR 2025PVC: Progressive Visual Token Compression for Unified Image and Video Processing in Large Vision-Language Models
552. CVPR 2025Q-Eval-100K: Evaluating Visual Quality and Alignment Level for Text-to-Vision Content
553. CVPR 2025Quad-Pixel Image Defocus Deblurring: A New Benchmark and Model
554. CVPR 2025Quantization without Tears
555. CVPR 2025QuCOOP: A Versatile Framework for Solving Composite and Binary-Parametrised Problems on Quantum Annealers
556. CVPR 2025R-TPT: Improving Adversarial Robustness of Vision-Language Models through Test-Time Prompt Tuning
557. CVPR 2025RADIOv2.5: Improved Baselines for Agglomerative Vision Foundation Models
558. CVPR 2025Rashomon Sets for Prototypical-Part Networks: Editing Interpretable Models in Real-Time
559. CVPR 2025RASP: Revisiting 3D Anamorphic Art for Shadow-Guided Packing of Irregular Objects
560. CVPR 2025Re-thinking Temporal Search for Long-Form Video Understanding
561. CVPR 2025RealEdit: Reddit Edits As a Large-scale Empirical Dataset for Image Transformations
562. CVPR 2025Realistic Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models
563. CVPR 2025Reason-before-Retrieve: One-Stage Reflective Chain-of-Thoughts for Training-Free Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
564. CVPR 2025ReasonGrounder: LVLM-Guided Hierarchical Feature Splatting for Open-Vocabulary 3D Visual Grounding and Reasoning
565. CVPR 2025Reasoning Mamba: Hypergraph-Guided Region Relation Calculating for Weakly Supervised Affordance Grounding
566. CVPR 2025Reasoning to Attend: Try to Understand How <SEG> Token Works
567. CVPR 2025ReCon: Enhancing True Correspondence Discrimination through Relation Consistency for Robust Noisy Correspondence Learning
568. CVPR 2025Reconstructing Humans with a Biomechanically Accurate Skeleton
569. CVPR 2025Recover and Match: Open-Vocabulary Multi-Label Recognition through Knowledge-Constrained Optimal Transport
570. CVPR 2025Recurrence-Enhanced Vision-and-Language Transformers for Robust Multimodal Document Retrieval
571. CVPR 2025Reducing Class-wise Confusion for Incremental Learning with Disentangled Manifolds
572. CVPR 2025RefPose: Leveraging Reference Geometric Correspondences for Accurate 6D Pose Estimation of Unseen Objects
573. CVPR 2025RelationField: Relate Anything in Radiance Fields
574. CVPR 2025Relative Pose Estimation through Affine Corrections of Monocular Depth Priors
575. CVPR 2025Reloc3r: Large-Scale Training of Relative Camera Pose Regression for Generalizable, Fast, and Accurate Visual Localization
576. CVPR 2025Reproducible Vision-Language Models Meet Concepts Out of Pre-Training
577. CVPR 2025ReRAW: RGB-to-RAW Image Reconstruction via Stratified Sampling for Efficient Object Detection on the Edge
578. CVPR 2025ResCLIP: Residual Attention for Training-free Dense Vision-language Inference
579. CVPR 2025ReSpec: Relevance and Specificity Grounded Online Filtering for Learning on Video-Text Data Streams
580. CVPR 2025Rethinking Few-Shot Adaptation of Vision-Language Models in Two Stages
581. CVPR 2025Rethinking Query-based Transformer for Continual Image Segmentation
582. CVPR 2025Rethinking Vision-Language Model in Face Forensics: Multi-Modal Interpretable Forged Face Detector
583. CVPR 2025Reversible Decoupling Network for Single Image Reflection Removal
584. CVPR 2025Reversing Flow for Image Restoration
585. CVPR 2025ReVisionLLM: Recursive Vision-Language Model for Temporal Grounding in Hour-Long Videos
586. CVPR 2025Revisiting Backdoor Attacks against Large Vision-Language Models from Domain Shift
587. CVPR 2025Revisiting MAE Pre-training for 3D Medical Image Segmentation
588. CVPR 2025ReWind: Understanding Long Videos with Instructed Learnable Memory
589. CVPR 2025RivuletMLP: An MLP-based Architecture for Efficient Compressed Video Quality Enhancement
590. CVPR 2025RoboGround: Robotic Manipulation with Grounded Vision-Language Priors
591. CVPR 2025RoboPEPP: Vision-Based Robot Pose and Joint Angle Estimation through Embedding Predictive Pre-Training
592. CVPR 2025RoboSpatial: Teaching Spatial Understanding to 2D and 3D Vision-Language Models for Robotics
593. CVPR 2025Robotic Visual Instruction
594. CVPR 2025RobSense: A Robust Multi-modal Foundation Model for Remote Sensing with Static, Temporal, and Incomplete Data Adaptability
595. CVPR 2025Robust Message Embedding via Attention Flow-Based Steganography
596. CVPR 2025Robust Multimodal Survival Prediction with Conditional Latent Differentiation Variational AutoEncoder
597. CVPR 2025ROCKET-1: Mastering Open-World Interaction with Visual-Temporal Context Prompting
598. CVPR 2025RUBIK: A Structured Benchmark for Image Matching across Geometric Challenges
599. CVPR 2025S4-Driver: Scalable Self-Supervised Driving Multimodal Large Language Model with Spatio-Temporal Visual Representation
600. CVPR 2025SACB-Net: Spatial-awareness Convolutions for Medical Image Registration

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.