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
1,716 papers, page 2 of 35
- CVPR 2024Binding Touch to Everything: Learning Unified Multimodal Tactile Representations
- CVPR 2024BioCLIP: A Vision Foundation Model for the Tree of Life
- CVPR 2024BiTT: Bi-directional Texture Reconstruction of Interacting Two Hands from a Single Image
- CVPR 2024Blur-aware Spatio-temporal Sparse Transformer for Video Deblurring
- CVPR 2024Blur2Blur: Blur Conversion for Unsupervised Image Deblurring on Unknown Domains
- CVPR 2024Boosting Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models via Mixture-of-Experts Adapters
- CVPR 2024Boosting Image Restoration via Priors from Pre-trained Models
- CVPR 2024Boosting Neural Representations for Videos with a Conditional Decoder
- CVPR 2024Boosting Spike Camera Image Reconstruction from a Perspective of Dealing with Spike Fluctuations
- CVPR 2024Bootstrapping SparseFormers from Vision Foundation Models
- CVPR 2024Brain Decodes Deep Nets
- CVPR 2024Bridging Remote Sensors with Multisensor Geospatial Foundation Models
- CVPR 2024Bridging the Gap: A Unified Video Comprehension Framework for Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection
- CVPR 2024Bridging the Synthetic-to-Authentic Gap: Distortion-Guided Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Blind Image Quality Assessment
- CVPR 2024Bring Event into RGB and LiDAR: Hierarchical Visual-Motion Fusion for Scene Flow
- CVPR 2024Brush2Prompt: Contextual Prompt Generator for Object Inpainting
- CVPR 2024BT-Adapter: Video Conversation is Feasible Without Video Instruction Tuning
- CVPR 2024Building a Strong Pre-Training Baseline for Universal 3D Large-Scale Perception
- CVPR 2024Building Vision-Language Models on Solid Foundations with Masked Distillation
- CVPR 2024C3: High-Performance and Low-Complexity Neural Compression from a Single Image or Video
- CVPR 2024Calibrating Multi-modal Representations: A Pursuit of Group Robustness without Annotations
- CVPR 2024CAMixerSR: Only Details Need More "Attention"
- CVPR 2024Can Biases in ImageNet Models Explain Generalization?
- CVPR 2024Can Language Beat Numerical Regression? Language-Based Multimodal Trajectory Prediction
- CVPR 2024CAPE: CAM as a Probabilistic Ensemble for Enhanced DNN Interpretation
- CVPR 2024CapsFusion: Rethinking Image-Text Data at Scale
- CVPR 2024CAT-Seg: Cost Aggregation for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024CFAT: Unleashing Triangular Windows for Image Super-resolution
- CVPR 2024CFPL-FAS: Class Free Prompt Learning for Generalizable Face Anti-spoofing
- CVPR 2024Chat-UniVi: Unified Visual Representation Empowers Large Language Models with Image and Video Understanding
- CVPR 2024ChatPose: Chatting about 3D Human Pose
- CVPR 2024Choose What You Need: Disentangled Representation Learning for Scene Text Recognition Removal and Editing
- CVPR 2024CLIB-FIQA: Face Image Quality Assessment with Confidence Calibration
- CVPR 2024CLIP as RNN: Segment Countless Visual Concepts without Training Endeavor
- CVPR 2024CLIPtone: Unsupervised Learning for Text-based Image Tone Adjustment
- CVPR 2024Cloud-Device Collaborative Learning for Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2024CLOVA: A Closed-LOop Visual Assistant with Tool Usage and Update
- CVPR 2024Clustering Propagation for Universal Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024CoDe: An Explicit Content Decoupling Framework for Image Restoration
- CVPR 2024Codebook Transfer with Part-of-Speech for Vector-Quantized Image Modeling
- CVPR 2024CodedEvents: Optimal Point-Spread-Function Engineering for 3D-Tracking with Event Cameras
- CVPR 2024CoDeF: Content Deformation Fields for Temporally Consistent Video Processing
- CVPR 2024CoDi-2: In-Context Interleaved and Interactive Any-to-Any Generation
- CVPR 2024CogAgent: A Visual Language Model for GUI Agents
- CVPR 2024Collaborative Learning of Anomalies with Privacy (CLAP) for Unsupervised Video Anomaly Detection: A New Baseline
- CVPR 2024Color Shift Estimation-and-Correction for Image Enhancement
- CVPR 2024Combining Frame and GOP Embeddings for Neural Video Representation
- CVPR 2024Complementing Event Streams and RGB Frames for Hand Mesh Reconstruction
- CVPR 2024Composing Object Relations and Attributes for Image-Text Matching
- CVPR 2024ConCon-Chi: Concept-Context Chimera Benchmark for Personalized Vision-Language Tasks
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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.