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

3,075 papers, page 2 of 62

51. CVPR 2025Anyattack: Towards Large-scale Self-supervised Adversarial Attacks on Vision-language Models
52. CVPR 2025AnyEdit: Mastering Unified High-Quality Image Editing for Any Idea
53. CVPR 2025AnySat: One Earth Observation Model for Many Resolutions, Scales, and Modalities
54. CVPR 2025APHQ-ViT: Post-Training Quantization with Average Perturbation Hessian Based Reconstruction for Vision Transformers
55. CVPR 2025Apollo: An Exploration of Video Understanding in Large Multimodal Models
56. CVPR 2025Argus: A Compact and Versatile Foundation Model for Vision
57. CVPR 2025Argus: Vision-Centric Reasoning with Grounded Chain-of-Thought
58. CVPR 2025ASIGN: An Anatomy-aware Spatial Imputation Graphic Network for 3D Spatial Transcriptomics
59. CVPR 2025Assessing and Learning Alignment of Unimodal Vision and Language Models
60. CVPR 2025Associative Transformer
61. CVPR 2025Asynchronous Collaborative Graph Representation for Frames and Events
62. CVPR 2025ATP-LLaVA: Adaptive Token Pruning for Large Vision Language Models
63. CVPR 2025Attention IoU: Examining Biases in CelebA using Attention Maps
64. CVPR 2025Augmented Deep Contexts for Spatially Embedded Video Coding
65. CVPR 2025Augmenting Multimodal LLMs with Self-Reflective Tokens for Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering
66. CVPR 2025Augmenting Perceptual Super-Resolution via Image Quality Predictors
67. CVPR 2025Auto-Encoded Supervision for Perceptual Image Super-Resolution
68. CVPR 2025Automated Generation of Challenging Multiple-Choice Questions for Vision Language Model Evaluation
69. CVPR 2025AutoSSVH: Exploring Automated Frame Sampling for Efficient Self-Supervised Video Hashing
70. CVPR 2025BACON: Improving Clarity of Image Captions via Bag-of-Concept Graphs
71. CVPR 2025BASKET: A Large-Scale Video Dataset for Fine-Grained Skill Estimation
72. CVPR 2025Bayesian Prompt Flow Learning for Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection
73. CVPR 2025Bayesian Test-Time Adaptation for Vision-Language Models
74. CVPR 2025Believing is Seeing: Unobserved Object Detection using Generative Models
75. CVPR 2025Benchmarking Large Vision-Language Models via Directed Scene Graph for Comprehensive Image Captioning
76. CVPR 2025beta-FFT: Nonlinear Interpolation and Differentiated Training Strategies for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
77. CVPR 2025Beyond Image Classification: A Video Benchmark and Dual-Branch Hybrid Discrimination Framework for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
78. CVPR 2025Beyond Sight: Towards Cognitive Alignment in LVLM via Enriched Visual Knowledge
79. CVPR 2025Beyond Words: Augmenting Discriminative Richness via Diffusions in Unsupervised Prompt Learning
80. CVPR 2025BF-STVSR: B-Splines and Fourier---Best Friends for High Fidelity Spatial-Temporal Video Super-Resolution
81. CVPR 2025Bias for Action: Video Implicit Neural Representations with Bias Modulation
82. CVPR 2025BiM-VFI: Bidirectional Motion Field-Guided Frame Interpolation for Video with Non-uniform Motions
83. CVPR 2025BIMBA: Selective-Scan Compression for Long-Range Video Question Answering
84. CVPR 2025Binarized Mamba-Transformer for Lightweight Quad Bayer HybridEVS Demosaicing
85. CVPR 2025Binarized Neural Network for Multi-spectral Image Fusion
86. CVPR 2025BiomedCoOp: Learning to Prompt for Biomedical Vision-Language Models
87. CVPR 2025BIOMEDICA: An Open Biomedical Image-Caption Archive, Dataset, and Vision-Language Models Derived from Scientific Literature
88. CVPR 2025BioX-CPath: Biologically-driven Explainable Diagnostics for Multistain IHC Computational Pathology
89. CVPR 2025Black Swan: Abductive and Defeasible Video Reasoning in Unpredictable Events
90. CVPR 2025BlenderGym: Benchmarking Foundational Model Systems for Graphics Editing
91. CVPR 2025BlueLM-V-3B: Algorithm and System Co-Design for Multimodal Large Language Models on Mobile Devices
92. CVPR 2025BOLT: Boost Large Vision-Language Model Without Training for Long-form Video Understanding
93. CVPR 2025Boltzmann Attention Sampling for Image Analysis with Small Objects
94. CVPR 2025Bootstrap Your Own Views: Masked Ego-Exo Modeling for Fine-grained View-invariant Video Representations
95. CVPR 2025Bridge Frame and Event: Common Spatiotemporal Fusion for High-Dynamic Scene Optical Flow
96. CVPR 2025Bridging Modalities: Improving Universal Multimodal Retrieval by Multimodal Large Language Models
97. CVPR 2025Bridging the Vision-Brain Gap with an Uncertainty-Aware Blur Prior
98. CVPR 2025Bridging Viewpoint Gaps: Geometric Reasoning Boosts Semantic Correspondence
99. CVPR 2025Bringing CLIP to the Clinic: Dynamic Soft Labels and Negation-Aware Learning for Medical Analysis
100. CVPR 2025Buffer Anytime: Zero-Shot Video Depth and Normal from Image Priors

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.