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 221 of 225
- NeurIPS 2023Latent Diffusion for Language Generation
- NeurIPS 2023Latent Space Translation via Semantic Alignment
- NeurIPS 2023Laughing Hyena Distillery: Extracting Compact Recurrences From Convolutions
- NeurIPS 2023LayoutGPT: Compositional Visual Planning and Generation with Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023LayoutPrompter: Awaken the Design Ability of Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023LeanDojo: Theorem Proving with Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023Learning a Neuron by a Shallow ReLU Network: Dynamics and Implicit Bias for Correlated Inputs
- NeurIPS 2023Learning better with Dale’s Law: A Spectral Perspective
- NeurIPS 2023Learning Curves for Noisy Heterogeneous Feature-Subsampled Ridge Ensembles
- NeurIPS 2023Learning from Both Structural and Textual Knowledge for Inductive Knowledge Graph Completion
- NeurIPS 2023Learning Unseen Modality Interaction
- NeurIPS 2023Learning-to-Rank Meets Language: Boosting Language-Driven Ordering Alignment for Ordinal Classification
- NeurIPS 2023LegalBench: A Collaboratively Built Benchmark for Measuring Legal Reasoning in Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023Leveraging Vision-Centric Multi-Modal Expertise for 3D Object Detection
- NeurIPS 2023Lexinvariant Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023LICO: Explainable Models with Language-Image COnsistency
- NeurIPS 2023Likelihood-Based Diffusion Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment
- NeurIPS 2023Limits, approximation and size transferability for GNNs on sparse graphs via graphops
- NeurIPS 2023LLaVA-Med: Training a Large Language-and-Vision Assistant for Biomedicine in One Day
- NeurIPS 2023LLM-Pruner: On the Structural Pruning of Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023LLMScore: Unveiling the Power of Large Language Models in Text-to-Image Synthesis Evaluation
- NeurIPS 2023Localized Symbolic Knowledge Distillation for Visual Commonsense Models
- NeurIPS 2023LoCoOp: Few-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection via Prompt Learning
- NeurIPS 2023LoRA: A Logical Reasoning Augmented Dataset for Visual Question Answering
- NeurIPS 2023Lossy Image Compression with Conditional Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023LOVM: Language-Only Vision Model Selection
- NeurIPS 2023LuminAIRe: Illumination-Aware Conditional Image Repainting for Lighting-Realistic Generation
- NeurIPS 2023LVM-Med: Learning Large-Scale Self-Supervised Vision Models for Medical Imaging via Second-order Graph Matching
- NeurIPS 2023M3Exam: A Multilingual, Multimodal, Multilevel Benchmark for Examining Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023MADLAD-400: A Multilingual And Document-Level Large Audited Dataset
- NeurIPS 2023MarioGPT: Open-Ended Text2Level Generation through Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023Mask Propagation for Efficient Video Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023Masked Image Residual Learning for Scaling Deeper Vision Transformers
- NeurIPS 2023Mass-Producing Failures of Multimodal Systems with Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023Mathematical Capabilities of ChatGPT
- NeurIPS 2023MCUFormer: Deploying Vision Tranformers on Microcontrollers with Limited Memory
- NeurIPS 2023Med-UniC: Unifying Cross-Lingual Medical Vision-Language Pre-Training by Diminishing Bias
- NeurIPS 2023Memory-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Compressed Large Language Models via sub-4-bit Integer Quantization
- NeurIPS 2023Meta-Adapter: An Online Few-shot Learner for Vision-Language Model
- NeurIPS 2023MG-ViT: A Multi-Granularity Method for Compact and Efficient Vision Transformers
- NeurIPS 2023Mitigating Test-Time Bias for Fair Image Retrieval
- NeurIPS 2023MoCa: Measuring Human-Language Model Alignment on Causal and Moral Judgment Tasks
- NeurIPS 2023Module-wise Adaptive Distillation for Multimodality Foundation Models
- NeurIPS 2023MosaicBERT: A Bidirectional Encoder Optimized for Fast Pretraining
- NeurIPS 2023Mr. HiSum: A Large-scale Dataset for Video Highlight Detection and Summarization
- NeurIPS 2023MultiFusion: Fusing Pre-Trained Models for Multi-Lingual, Multi-Modal Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2023Multimodal C4: An Open, Billion-scale Corpus of Images Interleaved with Text
- NeurIPS 2023Multimodal Clinical Benchmark for Emergency Care (MC-BEC): A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Foundation Models in Emergency Medicine
- NeurIPS 2023Multimodal Deep Learning Model Unveils Behavioral Dynamics of V1 Activity in Freely Moving Mice
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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.