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 21 of 225
- CVPR 2026SaPaVe Towards Active Perception and Manipulation in Vision-Language Action Models
- CVPR 2026SASNet Spatially-Adaptive Sinusoidal Networks for INRs
- CVPR 2026Scalable Object Relation Encoding for Better 3D Spatial Reasoning in
- CVPR 2026Scaling Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Tool-Integrated Reasoning in VLMs
- CVPR 2026Scaling Multi-Identity Consistency for Image Customization via Multi-to-Multi Matching Paradigm
- CVPR 2026Scaling Parallel Sequence Models to Vision Foundation Models
- CVPR 2026Scaling Self-Supervised and Cross-Modal Pretraining for Volumetric CT Transformers
- CVPR 2026Scaling Spatial Intelligence with Multimodal Foundation Models
- CVPR 2026Scaling Test-Time Robustness of Vision-Language Models via Self-Critical Inference Framework
- CVPR 2026Scaling the Long Video Understanding of Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2026Scan Clusters Not Pixels A Cluster-Centric Paradigm for Efficient Ultra-high-definition
- CVPR 2026SCE-Depth A Spherical Compound Eye Framework for Wide FOV Depth
- CVPR 2026Scenes as Tokens Multi-Scale Normal Distributions Transform Tokenizer for General
- CVPR 2026SceneTok A Compressed Diffusable Token Space for 3D Scenes
- CVPR 2026SCIEval Evaluating and Benchmarking the Faithfulness of Scientific Image Generation
- CVPR 2026SCoRe Salience-Coverage Reduction for Vision Token Pruning in Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2026SDTrack A Baseline for Event-based Tracking via Spiking Neural Networks
- CVPR 2026SEA Evaluating Sketch Abstraction Efficiency via Element-level Commonsense Visual Question
- CVPR 2026SEA-Vision A Multilingual Benchmark for Comprehensive Document and Scene Text
- CVPR 2026SEASON Mitigating Temporal Hallucination in Video Large Language Models via
- CVPR 2026SEATrack Simple Efficient and Adaptive Multimodal Tracker
- CVPR 2026SeD-UD An Influence-Driven and Hierarchically-Decoupled Information Bottleneck for Multimodal Intent
- CVPR 2026See Further Think Deeper Advancing VLMs Reasoning Ability with Low-level
- CVPR 2026See It Say It Sorted An Iterative Training-Free Framework for
- CVPR 2026See Less See Right Bi-directional Perceptual Shaping For Multimodal Reasoning
- CVPR 2026See What I Mean Aligning Vision and Language Representations for
- CVPR 2026See What We Cannot See A Geo-guided Reasoning Benchmark for
- CVPR 2026Seeing as Experts Do A Knowledge-Augmented Agent for Open-Set Fine-Grained
- CVPR 2026Seeing Beyond 8bits Subjective and Objective Quality Assessment of HDR-UGC
- CVPR 2026Seeing Clearly Reasoning Confidently Plug-and-Play Remedies for Vision Language Model
- CVPR 2026Seeing Conversations Communication Context Identification in Egocentric Video
- CVPR 2026Seeing Motion Through Polarity for Event-based Action Recognition
- CVPR 2026Seeing the Scene Matters Revealing Forgetting in Video Understanding Models
- CVPR 2026Seeing What Matters A Training-Free Self-Guided Framework for Multimodal Detail
- CVPR 2026SegGBC Justifiable Coarse-to-Fine Granular-Ball Computing for Enhancing Clustering Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2026SegMoTE Token-Level Mixture of Experts for Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2026Select Less Reason More Prioritizing Evidence Purity for Video Reasoning
- CVPR 2026Selective Amnesia using Contrastive Subnet Erasure for Class Level Unlearning
- CVPR 2026Selective Regularized and Calibrated Harnessing Vision Foundation Models for Cross-Domain
- CVPR 2026SelecTKD Selective Token-Weighted Knowledge Distillation for LLMs
- CVPR 2026Self-Consistency for LLM-Based Motion Trajectory Generation and Verification
- CVPR 2026Self-Critical Distillation Network for Video-based Commonsense Captioning
- CVPR 2026Self-supervised Dynamic Heterogeneous Degradation Modeling for Unified Zero-Shot Image Restoration
- CVPR 2026Semantic Scale Space A Framework for Controllable Image Abstraction
- CVPR 2026Semantic-Guided Global-Local Collaborative Prompt Learning for Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning
- CVPR 2026SemanticVLA Towards Semantic Reasoning over Action Memorization via Synergistic Explicit
- CVPR 2026SemVideo Reconstructs What You Watch from Brain Activity via Hierarchical
- CVPR 2026SenseSearch Empowering Vision-Language Models with High-Resolution Agentic Search-Reasoning via Reinforcement
- CVPR 2026SGDrive Scene-to-Goal Hierarchical World Cognition for Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2026SGSoft Learning Fused Semantic-Geometric Features for 3D Shape Correspondence via
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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.