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
3,075 papers, page 16 of 62
- CVPR 2025Video-ColBERT: Contextualized Late Interaction for Text-to-Video Retrieval
- CVPR 2025Video-Guided Foley Sound Generation with Multimodal Controls
- CVPR 2025Video-MME: The First-Ever Comprehensive Evaluation Benchmark of Multi-modal LLMs in Video Analysis
- CVPR 2025Video-Panda: Parameter-efficient Alignment for Encoder-free Video-Language Models
- CVPR 2025Video-XL: Extra-Long Vision Language Model for Hour-Scale Video Understanding
- CVPR 2025VideoAutoArena: An Automated Arena for Evaluating Large Multimodal Models in Video Analysis through User Simulation
- CVPR 2025VideoComp: Advancing Fine-Grained Compositional and Temporal Alignment in Video-Text Models
- CVPR 2025VideoGEM: Training-free Action Grounding in Videos
- CVPR 2025VideoGigaGAN: Towards Detail-rich Video Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2025VideoGLaMM : A Large Multimodal Model for Pixel-Level Visual Grounding in Videos
- CVPR 2025VideoICL: Confidence-based Iterative In-context Learning for Out-of-Distribution Video Understanding
- CVPR 2025VideoSPatS: Video SPatiotemporal Splines for Disentangled Occlusion, Appearance and Motion Modeling and Editing
- CVPR 2025VidHalluc: Evaluating Temporal Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models for Video Understanding
- CVPR 2025VILA-M3: Enhancing Vision-Language Models with Medical Expert Knowledge
- CVPR 2025VISCO: Benchmarking Fine-Grained Critique and Correction Towards Self-Improvement in Visual Reasoning
- CVPR 2025Vision-Language Embodiment for Monocular Depth Estimation
- CVPR 2025Vision-Language Gradient Descent-driven All-in-One Deep Unfolding Networks
- CVPR 2025Vision-Language Model IP Protection via Prompt-based Learning
- CVPR 2025Vision-Language Models Do Not Understand Negation
- CVPR 2025VisionArena: 230k Real World User-VLM Conversations with Preference Labels
- CVPR 2025VisionZip: Longer is Better but Not Necessary in Vision Language Models
- CVPR 2025VISTA3D: A Unified Segmentation Foundation Model For 3D Medical Imaging
- CVPR 2025Visual Lexicon: Rich Image Features in Language Space
- CVPR 2025Visual Persona: Foundation Model for Full-Body Human Customization
- CVPR 2025Visual Representation Learning through Causal Intervention for Controllable Image Editing
- CVPR 2025Visual-Instructed Degradation Diffusion for All-in-One Image Restoration
- CVPR 2025VITED: Video Temporal Evidence Distillation
- CVPR 2025VL-RewardBench: A Challenging Benchmark for Vision-Language Generative Reward Models
- CVPR 2025VL2Lite: Task-Specific Knowledge Distillation from Large Vision-Language Models to Lightweight Networks
- CVPR 2025VladVA: Discriminative Fine-tuning of LVLMs
- CVPR 2025VLsI: Verbalized Layers-to-Interactions from Large to Small Vision Language Models
- CVPR 2025VoCo-LLaMA: Towards Vision Compression with Large Language Models
- CVPR 2025VolFormer: Explore More Comprehensive Cube Interaction for Hyperspectral Image Restoration and Beyond
- CVPR 2025Watermarking One for All: A Robust Watermarking Scheme Against Partial Image Theft
- CVPR 2025Weakly Supervised Temporal Action Localization via Dual-Prior Collaborative Learning Guided by Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2025WeGen: A Unified Model for Interactive Multimodal Generation as We Chat
- CVPR 2025What's in the Image? A Deep-Dive into the Vision of Vision Language Models
- CVPR 2025When the Future Becomes the Past: Taming Temporal Correspondence for Self-supervised Video Representation Learning
- CVPR 2025WISE: A Framework for Gigapixel Whole-Slide-Image Lossless Compression
- CVPR 2025Words or Vision: Do Vision-Language Models Have Blind Faith in Text?
- CVPR 2025XLRS-Bench: Could Your Multimodal LLMs Understand Extremely Large Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery?
- CVPR 2025Yo'Chameleon: Personalized Vision and Language Generation
- CVPR 2025Your Large Vision-Language Model Only Needs A Few Attention Heads For Visual Grounding
- CVPR 2025Zero-shot 3D Question Answering via Voxel-based Dynamic Token Compression
- CVPR 2025Zero-Shot 4D Lidar Panoptic Segmentation
- ICLR 2025(Mis)Fitting Scaling Laws: A Survey of Scaling Law Fitting Techniques in Deep Learning
- ICLR 2025$\gamma-$MoD: Exploring Mixture-of-Depth Adaptation for Multimodal Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025$\mathbb{X}$-Sample Contrastive Loss: Improving Contrastive Learning with Sample Similarity Graphs
- ICLR 2025$\text{D}_{2}\text{O}$: Dynamic Discriminative Operations for Efficient Long-Context Inference of Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025$F^3Set$: Towards Analyzing Fast, Frequent, and Fine-grained Events from Videos
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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.