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
1,716 papers, page 15 of 35
- ICLR 2024Deep SE(3)-Equivariant Geometric Reasoning for Precise Placement Tasks
- ICLR 2024Democratizing Fine-grained Visual Recognition with Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024Demystifying CLIP Data
- ICLR 2024DePT: Decomposed Prompt Tuning for Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning
- ICLR 2024DFormer: Rethinking RGBD Representation Learning for Semantic Segmentation
- ICLR 2024Dictionary Contrastive Learning for Efficient Local Supervision without Auxiliary Networks
- ICLR 2024Does CLIP’s generalization performance mainly stem from high train-test similarity?
- ICLR 2024Don't Judge by the Look: Towards Motion Coherent Video Representation
- ICLR 2024Doubly Robust Proximal Causal Learning for Continuous Treatments
- ICLR 2024DreamLLM: Synergistic Multimodal Comprehension and Creation
- ICLR 2024Dual Associated Encoder for Face Restoration
- ICLR 2024Dynamic Sparse No Training: Training-Free Fine-tuning for Sparse LLMs
- ICLR 2024DyVal: Dynamic Evaluation of Large Language Models for Reasoning Tasks
- ICLR 2024ECoFLaP: Efficient Coarse-to-Fine Layer-Wise Pruning for Vision-Language Models
- ICLR 2024Efficient Modulation for Vision Networks
- ICLR 2024Elastic Feature Consolidation For Cold Start Exemplar-Free Incremental Learning
- ICLR 2024Emu: Generative Pretraining in Multimodality
- ICLR 2024Enhanced Face Recognition using Intra-class Incoherence Constraint
- ICLR 2024Enhancing Contrastive Learning for Ordinal Regression via Ordinal Content Preserved Data Augmentation
- ICLR 2024Enhancing One-Shot Federated Learning Through Data and Ensemble Co-Boosting
- ICLR 2024Ensemble Distillation for Unsupervised Constituency Parsing
- ICLR 2024EQA-MX: Embodied Question Answering using Multimodal Expression
- ICLR 2024EventRPG: Event Data Augmentation with Relevance Propagation Guidance
- ICLR 2024Evoke: Evoking Critical Thinking Abilities in LLMs via Reviewer-Author Prompt Editing
- ICLR 2024Exploring Target Representations for Masked Autoencoders
- ICLR 2024FairerCLIP: Debiasing CLIP's Zero-Shot Predictions using Functions in RKHSs
- ICLR 2024Faithful Vision-Language Interpretation via Concept Bottleneck Models
- ICLR 2024Fast-ELECTRA for Efficient Pre-training
- ICLR 2024FasterViT: Fast Vision Transformers with Hierarchical Attention
- ICLR 2024FeatUp: A Model-Agnostic Framework for Features at Any Resolution
- ICLR 2024Federated Text-driven Prompt Generation for Vision-Language Models
- ICLR 2024FedHyper: A Universal and Robust Learning Rate Scheduler for Federated Learning with Hypergradient Descent
- ICLR 2024Ferret: Refer and Ground Anything Anywhere at Any Granularity
- ICLR 2024Fine-tuning Multimodal LLMs to Follow Zero-shot Demonstrative Instructions
- ICLR 2024Finite Scalar Quantization: VQ-VAE Made Simple
- ICLR 2024FlashFFTConv: Efficient Convolutions for Long Sequences with Tensor Cores
- ICLR 2024Follow-Up Differential Descriptions: Language Models Resolve Ambiguities for Image Classification
- ICLR 2024Frequency-Aware Transformer for Learned Image Compression
- ICLR 2024FROSTER: Frozen CLIP is A Strong Teacher for Open-Vocabulary Action Recognition
- ICLR 2024Frozen Transformers in Language Models Are Effective Visual Encoder Layers
- ICLR 2024Fully Hyperbolic Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer Vision
- ICLR 2024Functional Interpolation for Relative Positions improves Long Context Transformers
- ICLR 2024GAIA: a benchmark for General AI Assistants
- ICLR 2024GENOME: Generative Neuro-Symbolic Visual Reasoning by Growing and Reusing Modules
- ICLR 2024Get more for less: Principled Data Selection for Warming Up Fine-Tuning in LLMs
- ICLR 2024Graph-based Virtual Sensing from Sparse and Partial Multivariate Observations
- ICLR 2024Grounding Multimodal Large Language Models to the World
- ICLR 2024Guiding Instruction-based Image Editing via Multimodal Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024Harnessing Joint Rain-/Detail-aware Representations to Eliminate Intricate Rains
- ICLR 2024Hierarchical Context Merging: Better Long Context Understanding for Pre-trained LLMs
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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.