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
11,207 papers, page 172 of 225
- CVPR 2024Learning by Correction: Efficient Tuning Task for Zero-Shot Generative Vision-Language Reasoning
- CVPR 2024Learning Correlation Structures for Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2024Learning Coupled Dictionaries from Unpaired Data for Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2024Learning Degradation-Independent Representations for Camera ISP Pipelines
- CVPR 2024Learning from One Continuous Video Stream
- CVPR 2024Learning Inclusion Matching for Animation Paint Bucket Colorization
- CVPR 2024Learning Intra-view and Cross-view Geometric Knowledge for Stereo Matching
- CVPR 2024Learning Object State Changes in Videos: An Open-World Perspective
- CVPR 2024Learning the 3D Fauna of the Web
- CVPR 2024Learning to Localize Objects Improves Spatial Reasoning in Visual-LLMs
- CVPR 2024Learning to Rank Patches for Unbiased Image Redundancy Reduction
- CVPR 2024Learning to Remove Wrinkled Transparent Film with Polarized Prior
- CVPR 2024Learning to Segment Referred Objects from Narrated Egocentric Videos
- CVPR 2024Learning Vision from Models Rivals Learning Vision from Data
- CVPR 2024Leveraging Camera Triplets for Efficient and Accurate Structure-from-Motion
- CVPR 2024Leveraging Frame Affinity for sRGB-to-RAW Video De-rendering
- CVPR 2024Leveraging Vision-Language Models for Improving Domain Generalization in Image Classification
- CVPR 2024Lift3D: Zero-Shot Lifting of Any 2D Vision Model to 3D
- CVPR 2024LightOctree: Lightweight 3D Spatially-Coherent Indoor Lighting Estimation
- CVPR 2024Link-Context Learning for Multimodal LLMs
- CVPR 2024LION: Empowering Multimodal Large Language Model with Dual-Level Visual Knowledge
- CVPR 2024LISA: Reasoning Segmentation via Large Language Model
- CVPR 2024LL3DA: Visual Interactive Instruction Tuning for Omni-3D Understanding Reasoning and Planning
- CVPR 2024LLaMA-Excitor: General Instruction Tuning via Indirect Feature Interaction
- CVPR 2024LLMs are Good Action Recognizers
- CVPR 2024LLMs are Good Sign Language Translators
- CVPR 2024Logarithmic Lenses: Exploring Log RGB Data for Image Classification
- CVPR 2024Look-Up Table Compression for Efficient Image Restoration
- CVPR 2024Lookahead Exploration with Neural Radiance Representation for Continuous Vision-Language Navigation
- CVPR 2024Low-Rank Approximation for Sparse Attention in Multi-Modal LLMs
- CVPR 2024Low-Rank Knowledge Decomposition for Medical Foundation Models
- CVPR 2024Low-Resource Vision Challenges for Foundation Models
- CVPR 2024LowRankOcc: Tensor Decomposition and Low-Rank Recovery for Vision-based 3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction
- CVPR 2024LQMFormer: Language-aware Query Mask Transformer for Referring Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024LTGC: Long-tail Recognition via Leveraging LLMs-driven Generated Content
- CVPR 2024MA-LMM: Memory-Augmented Large Multimodal Model for Long-Term Video Understanding
- CVPR 2024MADTP: Multimodal Alignment-Guided Dynamic Token Pruning for Accelerating Vision-Language Transformer
- CVPR 2024MAFA: Managing False Negatives for Vision-Language Pre-training
- CVPR 2024Make Me a BNN: A Simple Strategy for Estimating Bayesian Uncertainty from Pre-trained Models
- CVPR 2024Making Vision Transformers Truly Shift-Equivariant
- CVPR 2024Making Visual Sense of Oracle Bones for You and Me
- CVPR 2024ManipLLM: Embodied Multimodal Large Language Model for Object-Centric Robotic Manipulation
- CVPR 2024MAP: MAsk-Pruning for Source-Free Model Intellectual Property Protection
- CVPR 2024MAPLM: A Real-World Large-Scale Vision-Language Benchmark for Map and Traffic Scene Understanding
- CVPR 2024MART: Masked Affective RepresenTation Learning via Masked Temporal Distribution Distillation
- CVPR 2024Mask Grounding for Referring Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Masked Autoencoders for Microscopy are Scalable Learners of Cellular Biology
- CVPR 2024MeaCap: Memory-Augmented Zero-shot Image Captioning
- CVPR 2024MemSAM: Taming Segment Anything Model for Echocardiography Video Segmentation
- CVPR 2024MESA: Matching Everything by Segmenting Anything
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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.