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

11,207 papers, page 178 of 225

8851. CVPR 2024VBench: Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for Video Generative Models
8852. CVPR 2024VCoder: Versatile Vision Encoders for Multimodal Large Language Models
8853. CVPR 2024VicTR: Video-conditioned Text Representations for Activity Recognition
8854. CVPR 2024vid-TLDR: Training Free Token Merging for Light-weight Video Transformer
8855. CVPR 2024Video Harmonization with Triplet Spatio-Temporal Variation Patterns
8856. CVPR 2024Video Super-Resolution Transformer with Masked Inter&Intra-Frame Attention
8857. CVPR 2024VideoBooth: Diffusion-based Video Generation with Image Prompts
8858. CVPR 2024VideoLLM-online: Online Video Large Language Model for Streaming Video
8859. CVPR 2024VideoMAC: Video Masked Autoencoders Meet ConvNets
8860. CVPR 2024VidLA: Video-Language Alignment at Scale
8861. CVPR 2024ViLa-MIL: Dual-scale Vision-Language Multiple Instance Learning for Whole Slide Image Classification
8862. CVPR 2024VILA: On Pre-training for Visual Language Models
8863. CVPR 2024VINECS: Video-based Neural Character Skinning
8864. CVPR 2024ViP-LLaVA: Making Large Multimodal Models Understand Arbitrary Visual Prompts
8865. CVPR 2024Visual Objectification in Films: Towards a New AI Task for Video Interpretation
8866. CVPR 2024Visual Program Distillation: Distilling Tools and Programmatic Reasoning into Vision-Language Models
8867. CVPR 2024ViT-CoMer: Vision Transformer with Convolutional Multi-scale Feature Interaction for Dense Predictions
8868. CVPR 2024ViT-Lens: Towards Omni-modal Representations
8869. CVPR 2024ViTamin: Designing Scalable Vision Models in the Vision-Language Era
8870. CVPR 2024VLP: Vision Language Planning for Autonomous Driving
8871. CVPR 2024VoCo: A Simple-yet-Effective Volume Contrastive Learning Framework for 3D Medical Image Analysis
8872. CVPR 2024Volumetric Environment Representation for Vision-Language Navigation
8873. CVPR 2024VTimeLLM: Empower LLM to Grasp Video Moments
8874. CVPR 2024VTQA: Visual Text Question Answering via Entity Alignment and Cross-Media Reasoning
8875. CVPR 2024Weakly Misalignment-free Adaptive Feature Alignment for UAVs-based Multimodal Object Detection
8876. CVPR 2024What Do You See in Vehicle? Comprehensive Vision Solution for In-Vehicle Gaze Estimation
8877. CVPR 2024What If the TV Was Off? Examining Counterfactual Reasoning Abilities of Multi-modal Language Models
8878. CVPR 2024What Sketch Explainability Really Means for Downstream Tasks?
8879. CVPR 2024What You See is What You GAN: Rendering Every Pixel for High-Fidelity Geometry in 3D GANs
8880. CVPR 2024WildlifeMapper: Aerial Image Analysis for Multi-Species Detection and Identification
8881. CVPR 2024WonderJourney: Going from Anywhere to Everywhere
8882. CVPR 2024WWW: A Unified Framework for Explaining What Where and Why of Neural Networks by Interpretation of Neuron Concepts
8883. CVPR 2024X-MIC: Cross-Modal Instance Conditioning for Egocentric Action Generalization
8884. CVPR 2024XFeat: Accelerated Features for Lightweight Image Matching
8885. CVPR 2024YOLO-World: Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
8886. CVPR 2024You'll Never Walk Alone: A Sketch and Text Duet for Fine-Grained Image Retrieval
8887. CVPR 2024Your Image is My Video: Reshaping the Receptive Field via Image-To-Video Differentiable AutoAugmentation and Fusion
8888. CVPR 2024Your Transferability Barrier is Fragile: Free-Lunch for Transferring the Non-Transferable Learning
8889. CVPR 2024Zero-Painter: Training-Free Layout Control for Text-to-Image Synthesis
8890. CVPR 2024Zero-shot Referring Expression Comprehension via Structural Similarity Between Images and Captions
8891. CVPR 2024ZONE: Zero-Shot Instruction-Guided Local Editing
8892. ICLR 2024#InsTag: Instruction Tagging for Analyzing Supervised Fine-tuning of Large Language Models
8893. ICLR 2024$\mathbb{D}^2$ Pruning: Message Passing for Balancing Diversity & Difficulty in Data Pruning
8894. ICLR 20243D-Aware Hypothesis & Verification for Generalizable Relative Object Pose Estimation
8895. ICLR 2024A Benchmark for Learning to Translate a New Language from One Grammar Book
8896. ICLR 2024A Foundation Model for Error Correction Codes
8897. ICLR 2024A Paradigm Shift in Machine Translation: Boosting Translation Performance of Large Language Models
8898. ICLR 2024A Semantic Invariant Robust Watermark for Large Language Models
8899. ICLR 2024A Simple and Effective Pruning Approach for Large Language Models
8900. ICLR 2024A Simple Interpretable Transformer for Fine-Grained Image Classification and Analysis

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.