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

1,716 papers, page 13 of 35

601. CVPR 2024Visual Program Distillation: Distilling Tools and Programmatic Reasoning into Vision-Language Models
602. CVPR 2024ViT-CoMer: Vision Transformer with Convolutional Multi-scale Feature Interaction for Dense Predictions
603. CVPR 2024ViT-Lens: Towards Omni-modal Representations
604. CVPR 2024ViTamin: Designing Scalable Vision Models in the Vision-Language Era
605. CVPR 2024VLP: Vision Language Planning for Autonomous Driving
606. CVPR 2024VoCo: A Simple-yet-Effective Volume Contrastive Learning Framework for 3D Medical Image Analysis
607. CVPR 2024Volumetric Environment Representation for Vision-Language Navigation
608. CVPR 2024VTimeLLM: Empower LLM to Grasp Video Moments
609. CVPR 2024VTQA: Visual Text Question Answering via Entity Alignment and Cross-Media Reasoning
610. CVPR 2024Weakly Misalignment-free Adaptive Feature Alignment for UAVs-based Multimodal Object Detection
611. CVPR 2024What Do You See in Vehicle? Comprehensive Vision Solution for In-Vehicle Gaze Estimation
612. CVPR 2024What If the TV Was Off? Examining Counterfactual Reasoning Abilities of Multi-modal Language Models
613. CVPR 2024What Sketch Explainability Really Means for Downstream Tasks?
614. CVPR 2024What You See is What You GAN: Rendering Every Pixel for High-Fidelity Geometry in 3D GANs
615. CVPR 2024WildlifeMapper: Aerial Image Analysis for Multi-Species Detection and Identification
616. CVPR 2024WonderJourney: Going from Anywhere to Everywhere
617. CVPR 2024WWW: A Unified Framework for Explaining What Where and Why of Neural Networks by Interpretation of Neuron Concepts
618. CVPR 2024X-MIC: Cross-Modal Instance Conditioning for Egocentric Action Generalization
619. CVPR 2024XFeat: Accelerated Features for Lightweight Image Matching
620. CVPR 2024YOLO-World: Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
621. CVPR 2024You'll Never Walk Alone: A Sketch and Text Duet for Fine-Grained Image Retrieval
622. CVPR 2024Your Image is My Video: Reshaping the Receptive Field via Image-To-Video Differentiable AutoAugmentation and Fusion
623. CVPR 2024Your Transferability Barrier is Fragile: Free-Lunch for Transferring the Non-Transferable Learning
624. CVPR 2024Zero-Painter: Training-Free Layout Control for Text-to-Image Synthesis
625. CVPR 2024Zero-shot Referring Expression Comprehension via Structural Similarity Between Images and Captions
626. CVPR 2024ZONE: Zero-Shot Instruction-Guided Local Editing
627. ICLR 2024#InsTag: Instruction Tagging for Analyzing Supervised Fine-tuning of Large Language Models
628. ICLR 2024$\mathbb{D}^2$ Pruning: Message Passing for Balancing Diversity & Difficulty in Data Pruning
629. ICLR 20243D-Aware Hypothesis & Verification for Generalizable Relative Object Pose Estimation
630. ICLR 2024A Benchmark for Learning to Translate a New Language from One Grammar Book
631. ICLR 2024A Foundation Model for Error Correction Codes
632. ICLR 2024A Paradigm Shift in Machine Translation: Boosting Translation Performance of Large Language Models
633. ICLR 2024A Semantic Invariant Robust Watermark for Large Language Models
634. ICLR 2024A Simple and Effective Pruning Approach for Large Language Models
635. ICLR 2024A Simple Interpretable Transformer for Fine-Grained Image Classification and Analysis
636. ICLR 2024A unique M-pattern for micro-expression spotting in long videos
637. ICLR 2024Abstractors and relational cross-attention: An inductive bias for explicit relational reasoning in Transformers
638. ICLR 2024Accurate Retraining-free Pruning for Pretrained Encoder-based Language Models
639. ICLR 2024Adaptive Window Pruning for Efficient Local Motion Deblurring
640. ICLR 2024Adversarial AutoMixup
641. ICLR 2024AffineQuant: Affine Transformation Quantization for Large Language Models
642. ICLR 2024AlpaGasus: Training a Better Alpaca with Fewer Data
643. ICLR 2024Alt-Text with Context: Improving Accessibility for Images on Twitter
644. ICLR 2024An Extensible Framework for Open Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception
645. ICLR 2024An Image Is Worth 1000 Lies: Transferability of Adversarial Images across Prompts on Vision-Language Models
646. ICLR 2024An interpretable error correction method for enhancing code-to-code translation
647. ICLR 2024An Intuitive Multi-Frequency Feature Representation for SO(3)-Equivariant Networks
648. ICLR 2024An Unforgeable Publicly Verifiable Watermark for Large Language Models
649. ICLR 2024Analyzing and Mitigating Object Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models
650. ICLR 2024AnomalyCLIP: Object-agnostic Prompt Learning for Zero-shot Anomaly Detection

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.