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
11,207 papers, page 13 of 225
- CVPR 2026Keep it SymPL Symbolic Projective Layout for Allocentric Spatial Reasoning
- CVPR 2026Kontinuous Kontext Continuous Strength Control for Instruction-based Image Editing
- CVPR 2026Label-Free Cross-Task LoRA Merging with Null-Space Compression
- CVPR 2026LAM Language Articulated Object Modelers
- CVPR 2026Language Models Can Explain Visual Features via Steering
- CVPR 2026Language-driven Fine-grained Retrieval
- CVPR 2026Language-Grounded Decoupled Action Representation for Robotic Manipulation
- CVPR 2026Language-guided Frequency Modulation for Large Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2026Language-Guided One-Step Diffusion Model for Nighttime Flare Removal
- CVPR 2026Large-scale Codec Avatars The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Large-scale Avatar Pretraining
- CVPR 2026LATA Laplacian-Assisted Transductive Adaptation for Conformal Uncertainty in Medical VLMs
- CVPR 2026Latent Implicit Visual Reasoning
- CVPR 2026Layer-wise Instance Binding for Regional and Occlusion Control in Text-to-Image
- CVPR 2026LayoutAD Exploring Semantic-Geometric Misalignment Reasoning for Scene Layout Anomaly Detection
- CVPR 2026Learning Diffeomorphism for Medical Image Registration with Time-Embedded Architectures Using
- CVPR 2026Learning from Itself Mining Internal Knowledge from Vision Language Models
- CVPR 2026Learning from Noisy Supervision A Denoising-Debiasing Framework for Weakly Supervised
- CVPR 2026Learning Latent Concepts for Detecting Out-of-Distribution Objects
- CVPR 2026Learning Multi-View Spatial Reasoning from Cross-View Relations
- CVPR 2026Learning to Drive is a Free Gift Large-Scale Label-Free Autonomy
- CVPR 2026Learning to Reason in 4D Dynamic Spatial Understanding for Vision
- CVPR 2026Learning to See and Act Task-Aware Virtual View Exploration for
- CVPR 2026Learning to See through Illumination Extremes with Event Streaming in
- CVPR 2026Learning to Track Instance from Single Nature Language Description
- CVPR 2026Learning Transferable Temporal Primitives for Video Reasoning via Synthetic Videos
- CVPR 2026Learning What Matters Prioritized Concept Learning via Relative Error-driven Sample
- CVPR 2026Learning Where to Look and How to Judge Resolution-agnostic Image
- CVPR 2026LEMON A Large Endoscopic MONocular Dataset and Foundation Model for
- CVPR 2026Lenses Toward Polysemous Vision-Language Understanding
- CVPR 2026LensWalk Agentic Video Understanding by Planning How You See in
- CVPR 2026Leveraging Multispectral Sensors for Color Correction in Mobile Cameras
- CVPR 2026LifeEval A Multimodal Benchmark for Assistive AI in Egocentric Daily
- CVPR 2026Lifelong Imitation Learning with Multimodal Latent Replay and Incremental Adjustment
- CVPR 2026Lifting Unlabeled Internet-level Data for 3D Scene Understanding
- CVPR 2026LightRR A Lightweight Network for Single Image Reflection Removal
- CVPR 2026Linguistic Priors for Visual Decoupling Towards Symmetric Vision-Brain Alignment
- CVPR 2026LiteSense Lifting Lightweight ToF with RGB for High-Resolution Metric Depth
- CVPR 2026Live Interactive Training for Video Segmentation
- CVPR 2026LLaDA-MedV Exploring Large Language Diffusion Models for Biomedical Image Understanding
- CVPR 2026LLaMo Scaling Pretrained Language Models for Unified Motion Understanding and
- CVPR 2026LLaVAShield Safeguarding Multimodal Multi-Turn Dialogues in Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2026LLM-Guided Probabilistic Fusion for Label-Efficient Document Layout Analysis
- CVPR 2026LLMind Bio-inspired Training-free Adaptive Visual Representations for Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2026Local Precise Refinement A Dual-Gated Mixture-of-Experts for Enhancing Foundation Model
- CVPR 2026Localizing Structuring and Rendering Bridging 3D and 2D Vision-Language-Action Models
- CVPR 2026Locate-Then-Examine Grounded Region Reasoning Improves Detection of AI-Generated Images
- CVPR 2026Locate-then-Sparsify Attribution Guided Sparse Strategy for Visual Hallucination Mitigation
- CVPR 2026LocateAnything3D Vision-Language 3D Detection with Chain-of-Sight
- CVPR 2026Logit-Margin Repulsion for Backdoor Defense
- CVPR 2026Long-RVOS A Comprehensive Benchmark for Long-term Referring Video Object Segmentation
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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.