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
1,226 papers, page 2 of 25
- CVPR 2023Better "CMOS" Produces Clearer Images: Learning Space-Variant Blur Estimation for Blind Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2023BEV@DC: Bird's-Eye View Assisted Training for Depth Completion
- CVPR 2023BEVHeight: A Robust Framework for Vision-Based Roadside 3D Object Detection
- CVPR 2023Beyond Attentive Tokens: Incorporating Token Importance and Diversity for Efficient Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2023Bi-Directional Feature Fusion Generative Adversarial Network for Ultra-High Resolution Pathological Image Virtual Re-Staining
- CVPR 2023Bias in Pruned Vision Models: In-Depth Analysis and Countermeasures
- CVPR 2023BiCro: Noisy Correspondence Rectification for Multi-Modality Data via Bi-Directional Cross-Modal Similarity Consistency
- CVPR 2023Bidirectional Copy-Paste for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Bidirectional Cross-Modal Knowledge Exploration for Video Recognition With Pre-Trained Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2023BiFormer: Learning Bilateral Motion Estimation via Bilateral Transformer for 4K Video Frame Interpolation
- CVPR 2023BiFormer: Vision Transformer With Bi-Level Routing Attention
- CVPR 2023BioNet: A Biologically-Inspired Network for Face Recognition
- CVPR 2023Bit-Shrinking: Limiting Instantaneous Sharpness for Improving Post-Training Quantization
- CVPR 2023BITE: Beyond Priors for Improved Three-D Dog Pose Estimation
- CVPR 2023Bitstream-Corrupted JPEG Images Are Restorable: Two-Stage Compensation and Alignment Framework for Image Restoration
- CVPR 2023Blind Image Quality Assessment via Vision-Language Correspondence: A Multitask Learning Perspective
- CVPR 2023Blind Video Deflickering by Neural Filtering With a Flawed Atlas
- CVPR 2023Boosting Verified Training for Robust Image Classifications via Abstraction
- CVPR 2023Bringing Inputs to Shared Domains for 3D Interacting Hands Recovery in the Wild
- CVPR 2023Burstormer: Burst Image Restoration and Enhancement Transformer
- CVPR 2023CABM: Content-Aware Bit Mapping for Single Image Super-Resolution Network With Large Input
- CVPR 2023Cap4Video: What Can Auxiliary Captions Do for Text-Video Retrieval?
- CVPR 2023Cascaded Local Implicit Transformer for Arbitrary-Scale Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2023Castling-ViT: Compressing Self-Attention via Switching Towards Linear-Angular Attention at Vision Transformer Inference
- CVPR 2023Causally-Aware Intraoperative Imputation for Overall Survival Time Prediction
- CVPR 2023CDDFuse: Correlation-Driven Dual-Branch Feature Decomposition for Multi-Modality Image Fusion
- CVPR 2023Change-Aware Sampling and Contrastive Learning for Satellite Images
- CVPR 2023CiaoSR: Continuous Implicit Attention-in-Attention Network for Arbitrary-Scale Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2023CLAMP: Prompt-Based Contrastive Learning for Connecting Language and Animal Pose
- CVPR 2023Class Prototypes Based Contrastive Learning for Classifying Multi-Label and Fine-Grained Educational Videos
- CVPR 2023CLIP for All Things Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval, Fine-Grained or Not
- CVPR 2023CLIP the Gap: A Single Domain Generalization Approach for Object Detection
- CVPR 2023CLIP-S4: Language-Guided Self-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023CLIP2: Contrastive Language-Image-Point Pretraining From Real-World Point Cloud Data
- CVPR 2023CLIPPING: Distilling CLIP-Based Models With a Student Base for Video-Language Retrieval
- CVPR 2023CLIPPO: Image-and-Language Understanding From Pixels Only
- CVPR 2023CODA-Prompt: COntinual Decomposed Attention-Based Prompting for Rehearsal-Free Continual Learning
- CVPR 2023Collaborative Static and Dynamic Vision-Language Streams for Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding
- CVPR 2023Complementary Intrinsics From Neural Radiance Fields and CNNs for Outdoor Scene Relighting
- CVPR 2023CompletionFormer: Depth Completion With Convolutions and Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2023Complexity-Guided Slimmable Decoder for Efficient Deep Video Compression
- CVPR 2023Comprehensive and Delicate: An Efficient Transformer for Image Restoration
- CVPR 2023Connecting Vision and Language With Video Localized Narratives
- CVPR 2023ConStruct-VL: Data-Free Continual Structured VL Concepts Learning
- CVPR 2023Content-Aware Token Sharing for Efficient Semantic Segmentation With Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2023Context-Aware Alignment and Mutual Masking for 3D-Language Pre-Training
- CVPR 2023Context-Aware Pretraining for Efficient Blind Image Decomposition
- CVPR 2023Context-Based Trit-Plane Coding for Progressive Image Compression
- CVPR 2023Contrastive Grouping With Transformer for Referring Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Contrastive Semi-Supervised Learning for Underwater Image Restoration via Reliable Bank
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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.