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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751. CVPR 2025Video-ColBERT: Contextualized Late Interaction for Text-to-Video Retrieval
752. CVPR 2025Video-Guided Foley Sound Generation with Multimodal Controls
753. CVPR 2025Video-MME: The First-Ever Comprehensive Evaluation Benchmark of Multi-modal LLMs in Video Analysis
754. CVPR 2025Video-Panda: Parameter-efficient Alignment for Encoder-free Video-Language Models
755. CVPR 2025Video-XL: Extra-Long Vision Language Model for Hour-Scale Video Understanding
756. CVPR 2025VideoAutoArena: An Automated Arena for Evaluating Large Multimodal Models in Video Analysis through User Simulation
757. CVPR 2025VideoComp: Advancing Fine-Grained Compositional and Temporal Alignment in Video-Text Models
758. CVPR 2025VideoGEM: Training-free Action Grounding in Videos
759. CVPR 2025VideoGigaGAN: Towards Detail-rich Video Super-Resolution
760. CVPR 2025VideoGLaMM : A Large Multimodal Model for Pixel-Level Visual Grounding in Videos
761. CVPR 2025VideoICL: Confidence-based Iterative In-context Learning for Out-of-Distribution Video Understanding
762. CVPR 2025VideoSPatS: Video SPatiotemporal Splines for Disentangled Occlusion, Appearance and Motion Modeling and Editing
763. CVPR 2025VidHalluc: Evaluating Temporal Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models for Video Understanding
764. CVPR 2025VILA-M3: Enhancing Vision-Language Models with Medical Expert Knowledge
765. CVPR 2025VISCO: Benchmarking Fine-Grained Critique and Correction Towards Self-Improvement in Visual Reasoning
766. CVPR 2025Vision-Language Embodiment for Monocular Depth Estimation
767. CVPR 2025Vision-Language Gradient Descent-driven All-in-One Deep Unfolding Networks
768. CVPR 2025Vision-Language Model IP Protection via Prompt-based Learning
769. CVPR 2025Vision-Language Models Do Not Understand Negation
770. CVPR 2025VisionArena: 230k Real World User-VLM Conversations with Preference Labels
771. CVPR 2025VisionZip: Longer is Better but Not Necessary in Vision Language Models
772. CVPR 2025VISTA3D: A Unified Segmentation Foundation Model For 3D Medical Imaging
773. CVPR 2025Visual Lexicon: Rich Image Features in Language Space
774. CVPR 2025Visual Persona: Foundation Model for Full-Body Human Customization
775. CVPR 2025Visual Representation Learning through Causal Intervention for Controllable Image Editing
776. CVPR 2025Visual-Instructed Degradation Diffusion for All-in-One Image Restoration
777. CVPR 2025VITED: Video Temporal Evidence Distillation
778. CVPR 2025VL-RewardBench: A Challenging Benchmark for Vision-Language Generative Reward Models
779. CVPR 2025VL2Lite: Task-Specific Knowledge Distillation from Large Vision-Language Models to Lightweight Networks
780. CVPR 2025VladVA: Discriminative Fine-tuning of LVLMs
781. CVPR 2025VLsI: Verbalized Layers-to-Interactions from Large to Small Vision Language Models
782. CVPR 2025VoCo-LLaMA: Towards Vision Compression with Large Language Models
783. CVPR 2025VolFormer: Explore More Comprehensive Cube Interaction for Hyperspectral Image Restoration and Beyond
784. CVPR 2025Watermarking One for All: A Robust Watermarking Scheme Against Partial Image Theft
785. CVPR 2025Weakly Supervised Temporal Action Localization via Dual-Prior Collaborative Learning Guided by Multimodal Large Language Models
786. CVPR 2025WeGen: A Unified Model for Interactive Multimodal Generation as We Chat
787. CVPR 2025What's in the Image? A Deep-Dive into the Vision of Vision Language Models
788. CVPR 2025When the Future Becomes the Past: Taming Temporal Correspondence for Self-supervised Video Representation Learning
789. CVPR 2025WISE: A Framework for Gigapixel Whole-Slide-Image Lossless Compression
790. CVPR 2025Words or Vision: Do Vision-Language Models Have Blind Faith in Text?
791. CVPR 2025XLRS-Bench: Could Your Multimodal LLMs Understand Extremely Large Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery?
792. CVPR 2025Yo'Chameleon: Personalized Vision and Language Generation
793. CVPR 2025Your Large Vision-Language Model Only Needs A Few Attention Heads For Visual Grounding
794. CVPR 2025Zero-shot 3D Question Answering via Voxel-based Dynamic Token Compression
795. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot 4D Lidar Panoptic Segmentation

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.