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
1,074 papers, page 22 of 22
- NeurIPS 2025VQToken: Neural Discrete Token Representation Learning for Extreme Token Reduction in Video Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025VRAG-RL: Empower Vision-Perception-Based RAG for Visually Rich Information Understanding via Iterative Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2025VT-FSL: Bridging Vision and Text with LLMs for Few-Shot Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Watch and Listen: Understanding Audio-Visual-Speech Moments with Multimodal LLM
- NeurIPS 2025Watermarking Autoregressive Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2025WearVQA: A Visual Question Answering Benchmark for Wearables in Egocentric Authentic Real-world scenarios
- NeurIPS 2025What’s in Common? Multimodal Models Hallucinate When Reasoning Across Scenes
- NeurIPS 2025When Kernels Multiply, Clusters Unify: Fusing Embeddings with the Kronecker Product
- NeurIPS 2025When Less Language is More: Language-Reasoning Disentanglement Makes LLMs Better Multilingual Reasoners
- NeurIPS 2025When Models Know More Than They Can Explain: Quantifying Knowledge Transfer in Human-AI Collaboration
- NeurIPS 2025When Semantics Mislead Vision: Mitigating Large Multimodal Models Hallucinations in Scene Text Spotting and Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025Where Does It Exist from the Low-Altitude: Spatial Aerial Video Grounding
- NeurIPS 2025Which Data Attributes Stimulate Math and Code Reasoning? An Investigation via Influence Functions
- NeurIPS 2025Who Reasons in the Large Language Models?
- NeurIPS 2025Why 1 + 1 < 1 in Visual Token Pruning: Beyond Naive Integration via Multi-Objective Balanced Covering
- NeurIPS 2025Why and How LLMs Hallucinate: Connecting the Dots with Subsequence Associations
- NeurIPS 2025Wider or Deeper? Scaling LLM Inference-Time Compute with Adaptive Branching Tree Search
- NeurIPS 2025Wisdom is Knowing What not to Say: Hallucination-Free LLMs Unlearning via Attention Shifting
- NeurIPS 2025With Limited Data for Multimodal Alignment, Let the STRUCTURE Guide You
- NeurIPS 2025WKV-sharing embraced random shuffle RWKV high-order modeling for pan-sharpening
- NeurIPS 2025World-aware Planning Narratives Enhance Large Vision-Language Model Planner
- NeurIPS 2025Yggdrasil: Bridging Dynamic Speculation and Static Runtime for Latency-Optimal Tree-Based LLM Decoding
- NeurIPS 2025Zero-Shot Blind-Spot Image Denoising via Cross-Scale Non-Local Pixel Refilling
- NeurIPS 2025Zooming from Context to Cue: Hierarchical Preference Optimization for Multi-Image MLLMs
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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.