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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701. CVPR 2025Thinking in Space: How Multimodal Large Language Models See, Remember, and Recall Spaces
702. CVPR 2025Through-The-Mask: Mask-based Motion Trajectories for Image-to-Video Generation
703. CVPR 2025TimeTracker: Event-based Continuous Point Tracking for Video Frame Interpolation with Non-linear Motion
704. CVPR 2025Token Cropr: Faster ViTs for Quite a Few Tasks
705. CVPR 2025TokenFlow: Unified Image Tokenizer for Multimodal Understanding and Generation
706. CVPR 2025Tokenize Image Patches: Global Context Fusion for Effective Haze Removal in Large Images
707. CVPR 2025TopV: Compatible Token Pruning with Inference Time Optimization for Fast and Low-Memory Multimodal Vision Language Model
708. CVPR 2025Towards a Universal Synthetic Video Detector: From Face or Background Manipulations to Fully AI-Generated Content
709. CVPR 2025Towards Continual Universal Segmentation
710. CVPR 2025Towards Long-Horizon Vision-Language Navigation: Platform, Benchmark and Method
711. CVPR 2025Towards More General Video-based Deepfake Detection through Facial Component Guided Adaptation for Foundation Model
712. CVPR 2025Towards Natural Language-Based Document Image Retrieval: New Dataset and Benchmark
713. CVPR 2025Towards Training-free Anomaly Detection with Vision and Language Foundation Models
714. CVPR 2025Towards Understanding and Quantifying Uncertainty for Text-to-Image Generation
715. CVPR 2025Towards Understanding How Knowledge Evolves in Large Vision-Language Models
716. CVPR 2025Towards Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection and Reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Models
717. CVPR 2025Training-free Dense-Aligned Diffusion Guidance for Modular Conditional Image Synthesis
718. CVPR 2025TSAM: Temporal SAM Augmented with Multimodal Prompts for Referring Audio-Visual Segmentation
719. CVPR 2025TSP-Mamba: The Travelling Salesman Problem Meets Mamba for Image Super-resolution and Beyond
720. CVPR 2025Two is Better than One: Efficient Ensemble Defense for Robust and Compact Models
721. CVPR 2025UCM-VeID V2: A Richer Dataset and A Pre-training Method for UAV Cross-Modality Vehicle Re-Identification
722. CVPR 2025UHD-processer: Unified UHD Image Restoration with Progressive Frequency Learning and Degradation-aware Prompts
723. CVPR 2025Uncertain Multimodal Intention and Emotion Understanding in the Wild
724. CVPR 2025Uncertainty Weighted Gradients for Model Calibration
725. CVPR 2025Understanding Fine-tuning CLIP for Open-vocabulary Semantic Segmentation in Hyperbolic Space
726. CVPR 2025UNEM: UNrolled Generalized EM for Transductive Few-Shot Learning
727. CVPR 2025Uni4D: Unifying Visual Foundation Models for 4D Modeling from a Single Video
728. CVPR 2025UNIALIGN: Scaling Multimodal Alignment within One Unified Model
729. CVPR 2025UniPose: A Unified Multimodal Framework for Human Pose Comprehension, Generation and Editing
730. CVPR 2025UniRestore: Unified Perceptual and Task-Oriented Image Restoration Model Using Diffusion Prior
731. CVPR 2025Unleashing the Potential of Multi-modal Foundation Models and Video Diffusion for 4D Dynamic Physical Scene Simulation
732. CVPR 2025Unsupervised Foundation Model-Agnostic Slide-Level Representation Learning
733. CVPR 2025Unveil Inversion and Invariance in Flow Transformer for Versatile Image Editing
734. CVPR 2025Unveiling the Ignorance of MLLMs: Seeing Clearly, Answering Incorrectly
735. CVPR 2025Unveiling the Mist over 3D Vision-Language Understanding: Object-centric Evaluation with Chain-of-Analysis
736. CVPR 2025UPME: An Unsupervised Peer Review Framework for Multimodal Large Language Model Evaluation
737. CVPR 2025URWKV: Unified RWKV Model with Multi-state Perspective for Low-light Image Restoration
738. CVPR 2025Using Diffusion Priors for Video Amodal Segmentation
739. CVPR 2025V-Stylist: Video Stylization via Collaboration and Reflection of MLLM Agents
740. CVPR 2025V^2Dial: Unification of Video and Visual Dialog via Multimodal Experts
741. CVPR 2025VASparse: Towards Efficient Visual Hallucination Mitigation via Visual-Aware Token Sparsification
742. CVPR 2025VDocRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation over Visually-Rich Documents
743. CVPR 2025VELOCITI: Benchmarking Video-Language Compositional Reasoning with Strict Entailment
744. CVPR 2025VERA: Explainable Video Anomaly Detection via Verbalized Learning of Vision-Language Models
745. CVPR 2025VEU-Bench: Towards Comprehensive Understanding of Video Editing
746. CVPR 2025ViCaS: A Dataset for Combining Holistic and Pixel-level Video Understanding using Captions with Grounded Segmentation
747. CVPR 2025VidComposition: Can MLLMs Analyze Compositions in Compiled Videos?
748. CVPR 2025Video Depth Anything: Consistent Depth Estimation for Super-Long Videos
749. CVPR 2025Video Depth without Video Models
750. CVPR 2025Video Summarization with Large Language Models

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.