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 206 of 225
- CVPR 2023Linking Garment With Person via Semantically Associated Landmarks for Virtual Try-On
- CVPR 2023Local Connectivity-Based Density Estimation for Face Clustering
- CVPR 2023Local Implicit Normalizing Flow for Arbitrary-Scale Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2023LOCATE: Localize and Transfer Object Parts for Weakly Supervised Affordance Grounding
- CVPR 2023Logical Consistency and Greater Descriptive Power for Facial Hair Attribute Learning
- CVPR 2023LOGO: A Long-Form Video Dataset for Group Action Quality Assessment
- CVPR 2023LSTFE-Net:Long Short-Term Feature Enhancement Network for Video Small Object Detection
- CVPR 2023LVQAC: Lattice Vector Quantization Coupled With Spatially Adaptive Companding for Efficient Learned Image Compression
- CVPR 2023MagicPony: Learning Articulated 3D Animals in the Wild
- CVPR 2023MAGVLT: Masked Generative Vision-and-Language Transformer
- CVPR 2023Making Vision Transformers Efficient From a Token Sparsification View
- CVPR 2023MammalNet: A Large-Scale Video Benchmark for Mammal Recognition and Behavior Understanding
- CVPR 2023MAP: Multimodal Uncertainty-Aware Vision-Language Pre-Training Model
- CVPR 2023MaPLe: Multi-Modal Prompt Learning
- CVPR 2023MARLIN: Masked Autoencoder for Facial Video Representation LearnINg
- CVPR 2023Mask-Free OVIS: Open-Vocabulary Instance Segmentation Without Manual Mask Annotations
- CVPR 2023Mask3D: Pre-Training 2D Vision Transformers by Learning Masked 3D Priors
- CVPR 2023MaskCLIP: Masked Self-Distillation Advances Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining
- CVPR 2023Masked and Adaptive Transformer for Exemplar Based Image Translation
- CVPR 2023Masked Autoencoding Does Not Help Natural Language Supervision at Scale
- CVPR 2023Masked Image Training for Generalizable Deep Image Denoising
- CVPR 2023Masked Jigsaw Puzzle: A Versatile Position Embedding for Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2023Masked Motion Encoding for Self-Supervised Video Representation Learning
- CVPR 2023Masked Video Distillation: Rethinking Masked Feature Modeling for Self-Supervised Video Representation Learning
- CVPR 2023Matching Is Not Enough: A Two-Stage Framework for Category-Agnostic Pose Estimation
- CVPR 2023MCF: Mutual Correction Framework for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2023MDL-NAS: A Joint Multi-Domain Learning Framework for Vision Transformer
- CVPR 2023MELTR: Meta Loss Transformer for Learning To Fine-Tune Video Foundation Models
- CVPR 2023MeMaHand: Exploiting Mesh-Mano Interaction for Single Image Two-Hand Reconstruction
- CVPR 2023Meta-Personalizing Vision-Language Models To Find Named Instances in Video
- CVPR 2023Metadata-Based RAW Reconstruction via Implicit Neural Functions
- CVPR 2023MIC: Masked Image Consistency for Context-Enhanced Domain Adaptation
- CVPR 2023MIST: Multi-Modal Iterative Spatial-Temporal Transformer for Long-Form Video Question Answering
- CVPR 2023MixMAE: Mixed and Masked Autoencoder for Efficient Pretraining of Hierarchical Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2023MixPHM: Redundancy-Aware Parameter-Efficient Tuning for Low-Resource Visual Question Answering
- CVPR 2023MMANet: Margin-Aware Distillation and Modality-Aware Regularization for Incomplete Multimodal Learning
- CVPR 2023MMG-Ego4D: Multimodal Generalization in Egocentric Action Recognition
- CVPR 2023Mobile User Interface Element Detection via Adaptively Prompt Tuning
- CVPR 2023Modality-Invariant Visual Odometry for Embodied Vision
- CVPR 2023Model-Agnostic Gender Debiased Image Captioning
- CVPR 2023Modeling Video As Stochastic Processes for Fine-Grained Video Representation Learning
- CVPR 2023Modular Memorability: Tiered Representations for Video Memorability Prediction
- CVPR 2023MOSO: Decomposing MOtion, Scene and Object for Video Prediction
- CVPR 2023Motion Information Propagation for Neural Video Compression
- CVPR 2023MP-Former: Mask-Piloted Transformer for Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Multi-Modal Representation Learning With Text-Driven Soft Masks
- CVPR 2023Multilateral Semantic Relations Modeling for Image Text Retrieval
- CVPR 2023Multimodal Prompting With Missing Modalities for Visual Recognition
- CVPR 2023Multimodality Helps Unimodality: Cross-Modal Few-Shot Learning With Multimodal Models
- CVPR 2023Multiplicative Fourier Level of Detail
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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.