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 14 of 225
- CVPR 2026LookasideVLN Direction-Aware Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation
- CVPR 2026LoPrune Efficient Data Pruning for LoRA-Based Fine-Tuning of Vision Transformer
- CVPR 2026LOREAL Mitigating Low-Resolution Challenges in Vision-Language Models with Attribute-driven Prompt
- CVPR 2026LoST Level of Semantics Tokenization for 3D Shapes
- CVPR 2026LottieGPT Tokenizing Vector Animation for Autoregressive Generation
- CVPR 2026Lumosaic Hyperspectral Video via Active Illumination and Coded-Exposure Pixels
- CVPR 2026LVLM-Aided Alignment of Task-Specific Vision Models
- CVPR 2026Lyapunov Probes for Hallucination Detection in Large Foundation Models
- CVPR 2026M3DocDep Multi-modal Multi-page Multi-document Dependency Chunking with Large Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2026M3Grounder Mask-Based Multi-Span and Multi-Granular Grounding for Document QA
- CVPR 2026M4-RAG A Massive-Scale Multilingual Multi-Cultural Multimodal RAG
- CVPR 2026M4Human A Large-Scale Multimodal mmWave Radar Benchmark for Human Mesh
- CVPR 2026M4V Multimodal Mamba for Efficient Text-to-Video Generation
- CVPR 2026Machine Mental Imagery Empower Multimodal Reasoning with Latent Visual Tokens
- CVPR 2026MacTok Robust Continuous Tokenization for Image Generation
- CVPR 2026MAD Modality-Adaptive Decoding for Mitigating Cross-Modal Hallucinations in Multimodal Large
- CVPR 2026Make it SING Analyzing Semantic Invariants in Classifiers
- CVPR 2026Mantis A Versatile Vision-Language-Action Model with Disentangled Visual Foresight
- CVPR 2026Mapping Networks
- CVPR 2026MAPS Preserving Vision-Language Representations via Module-Wise Proximity Scheduling for Better
- CVPR 2026Mario Multimodal Graph Reasoning with Large Language Models
- CVPR 2026MarkushGrapher-2 End-to-end Multimodal Recognition of Chemical Structures
- CVPR 2026Masked-Diffusion Autoencoders for 3D Medical Vision Representation Learning
- CVPR 2026Masking Matters Unlocking the Spatial Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs for
- CVPR 2026Masking Teacher and Reinforcing Student for Distilling Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2026MASQuant Modality-Aware Smoothing Quantization for Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2026Matching Every Pair to Track Every Point PairFormer for All-Pairs
- CVPR 2026MatPedia A Universal Generative Foundation for High-Fidelity Material Synthesis
- CVPR 2026MDS-VQA Model-Informed Data Selection for Video Quality Assessment
- CVPR 2026Mechanisms of Object Localization in Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2026MedCLIPSeg Probabilistic Vision-Language Adaptation for Data-Efficient and Generalizable Medical Image
- CVPR 2026MedFG-VQA Low-Frequency Memory and Graph Attention for Lightweight Medical VQA
- CVPR 2026MedGRPO Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning for Heterogeneous Medical Video Understanding
- CVPR 2026Medic-AD Towards Medical Vision-Language Models Clinical Intelligence
- CVPR 2026MedKCO Medical Vision-Language Pretraining via Knowledge-Driven Cognitive Orchestration
- CVPR 2026MedMO Grounding and Understanding Multimodal Large Language Model for Medical
- CVPR 2026MedTVT-R1 A Multimodal LLM Empowering Medical Reasoning and Diagnosis
- CVPR 2026Memory Matters Boosting Training-Free Zero-Shot Temporal Action Localization with a
- CVPR 2026Merge3D Efficient 3D Multimodal LLMs via Joint 2D-3D Token Merging
- CVPR 2026MergeVLA Cross-Skill Model Merging Toward a Generalist Vision-Language-Action Agent
- CVPR 2026MERLIN Building Low-SNR Robust Multimodal LLMs for Electromagnetic Signals
- CVPR 2026META Meta Evolution of Tool Trajectory Adaptation for Long-Video Understanding
- CVPR 2026Meta-FC Meta-Learning with Feature Consistency for Robust and Generalizable Watermarking
- CVPR 2026MetaSpectra A Compact Broadband Metasurface Camera for Snapshot Hyperspectral Imaging
- CVPR 2026MeteorPred A Meteorological Multimodal Large Model and Dataset for Severe
- CVPR 2026MeToM Metadata-Guided Token Merging for Efficient Video LLMs
- CVPR 2026MICON-Bench Benchmarking and Enhancing Multi-Image Context Image Generation in Unified
- CVPR 2026Mimic Human Cognition Master Multi-Image Reasoning A Meta-Action Framework for
- CVPR 2026MimicTalker A Multimodal Interactive and Memory-Enhanced Framework for Real-Time Dyadic
- CVPR 2026Mind the Discriminability Trap in Source-Free Cross-domain Few-shot Learning
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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.