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
1,074 papers, page 15 of 22
- NeurIPS 2025Probabilistic Token Alignment for Large Language Model Fusion
- NeurIPS 2025PROFIT: A Specialized Optimizer for Deep Fine Tuning
- NeurIPS 2025Projection-Manifold Regularized Latent Diffusion for Robust General Image Fusion
- NeurIPS 2025Projective Equivariant Networks via Second-order Fundamental Differential Invariants
- NeurIPS 2025Prompt-guided Disentangled Representation for Action Recognition
- NeurIPS 2025Prot2Text-V2: Protein Function Prediction with Multimodal Contrastive Alignment
- NeurIPS 2025Provable Ordering and Continuity in Vision-Language Pretraining for Generalizable Embodied Agents
- NeurIPS 2025Proxy-SPEX: Sample-Efficient Interpretability via Sparse Feature Interactions in LLMs
- NeurIPS 2025PseuZO: Pseudo-Zeroth-Order Algorithm for Training Deep Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2025PSMBench: A Benchmark and Dataset for Evaluating LLMs Extraction of Protocol State Machines from RFC Specifications
- NeurIPS 2025PUO-Bench: A Panel Understanding and Operation Benchmark with A Privacy-Preserving Framework
- NeurIPS 2025QBasicVSR: Temporal Awareness Adaptation Quantization for Video Super-Resolution
- NeurIPS 2025QoQ-Med: Building Multimodal Clinical Foundation Models with Domain-Aware GRPO Training
- NeurIPS 2025QSCA: Quantization with Self-Compensating Auxiliary for Monocular Depth Estimation
- NeurIPS 2025QSVD: Efficient Low-rank Approximation for Unified Query-Key-Value Weight Compression in Low-Precision Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Quadratic Coreset Selection: Certifying and Reconciling Sequence and Token Mining for Efficient Instruction Tuning
- NeurIPS 2025Quality-Driven Curation of Remote Sensing Vision-Language Data via Learned Scoring Models
- NeurIPS 2025Quantifying Cross-Modality Memorization in Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Quantization Error Propagation: Revisiting Layer-Wise Post-Training Quantization
- NeurIPS 2025QuARI: Query Adaptive Retrieval Improvement
- NeurIPS 2025QuestBench: Can LLMs ask the right question to acquire information in reasoning tasks?
- NeurIPS 2025R1-ShareVL: Incentivizing Reasoning Capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models via Share-GRPO
- NeurIPS 2025RAD: Towards Trustworthy Retrieval-Augmented Multi-modal Clinical Diagnosis
- NeurIPS 2025RADAR: Benchmarking Language Models on Imperfect Tabular Data
- NeurIPS 2025RadarQA: Multi-modal Quality Analysis of Weather Radar Forecasts
- NeurIPS 2025RadZero: Similarity-Based Cross-Attention for Explainable Vision-Language Alignment in Chest X-ray with Zero-Shot Multi-Task Capability
- NeurIPS 2025RAST: Reasoning Activation in LLMs via Small-model Transfer
- NeurIPS 2025RaySt3R: Predicting Novel Depth Maps for Zero-Shot Object Completion
- NeurIPS 2025RBench-V: A Primary Assessment for Visual Reasoning Models with Multimodal Outputs
- NeurIPS 2025RDD: Retrieval-Based Demonstration Decomposer for Planner Alignment in Long-Horizon Tasks
- NeurIPS 2025Reading Recognition in the Wild
- NeurIPS 2025ReAgent-V: A Reward-Driven Multi-Agent Framework for Video Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025Real-Time Execution of Action Chunking Flow Policies
- NeurIPS 2025Reason-RFT: Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Visual Reasoning of Vision Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025REASONING COMPILER: LLM-Guided Optimizations for Efficient Model Serving
- NeurIPS 2025Reasoning is Periodicity? Improving Large Language Models Through Effective Periodicity Modeling
- NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Planning for Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Recognition through Reasoning: Reinforcing Image Geo-localization with Large Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Recurrent Attention-based Token Selection for Efficient Streaming Video-LLMs
- NeurIPS 2025Recursive Inference Scaling: A Winning Path to Scalable Inference in Language and Multimodal Systems
- NeurIPS 2025REGen: Multimodal Retrieval-Embedded Generation for Long-to-Short Video Editing
- NeurIPS 2025Reinforcement Learning for Out-of-Distribution Reasoning in LLMs: An Empirical Study on Diagnosis-Related Group Coding
- NeurIPS 2025Reinforcing Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models with Interwoven Thinking and Visual Drawing
- NeurIPS 2025Reliable Lifelong Multimodal Editing: Conflict-Aware Retrieval Meets Multi-Level Guidance
- NeurIPS 2025Remarkable Robustness of LLMs: Stages of Inference?
- NeurIPS 2025Rendering-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Vector Graphics Generation
- NeurIPS 2025REOBench: Benchmarking Robustness of Earth Observation Foundation Models
- NeurIPS 2025REOrdering Patches Improves Vision Models
- NeurIPS 2025ReplaceMe: Network Simplification via Depth Pruning and Transformer Block Linearization
- NeurIPS 2025Representation Consistency for Accurate and Coherent LLM Answer Aggregation
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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.