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 222 of 225
- NeurIPS 2023MultiVENT: Multilingual Videos of Events and Aligned Natural Text
- NeurIPS 2023NIS3D: A Completely Annotated Benchmark for Dense 3D Nuclei Image Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023Not All Neuro-Symbolic Concepts Are Created Equal: Analysis and Mitigation of Reasoning Shortcuts
- NeurIPS 2023NurViD: A Large Expert-Level Video Database for Nursing Procedure Activity Understanding
- NeurIPS 2023OBELICS: An Open Web-Scale Filtered Dataset of Interleaved Image-Text Documents
- NeurIPS 2023Object-Centric Learning for Real-World Videos by Predicting Temporal Feature Similarities
- NeurIPS 2023On Evaluating Adversarial Robustness of Large Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023On the choice of Perception Loss Function for Learned Video Compression
- NeurIPS 2023On the Need for a Language Describing Distribution Shifts: Illustrations on Tabular Datasets
- NeurIPS 2023On the Planning Abilities of Large Language Models - A Critical Investigation
- NeurIPS 2023On the Powerfulness of Textual Outlier Exposure for Visual OoD Detection
- NeurIPS 2023On-the-Fly Adapting Code Summarization on Trainable Cost-Effective Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023OpenDataVal: a Unified Benchmark for Data Valuation
- NeurIPS 2023OpenShape: Scaling Up 3D Shape Representation Towards Open-World Understanding
- NeurIPS 2023Operation-Level Early Stopping for Robustifying Differentiable NAS
- NeurIPS 2023Optimal approximation using complex-valued neural networks
- NeurIPS 2023Optimal Learners for Realizable Regression: PAC Learning and Online Learning
- NeurIPS 2023Order Matters in the Presence of Dataset Imbalance for Multilingual Learning
- NeurIPS 2023PaintSeg: Painting Pixels for Training-free Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023PanoGen: Text-Conditioned Panoramic Environment Generation for Vision-and-Language Navigation
- NeurIPS 2023Parameter and Computation Efficient Transfer Learning for Vision-Language Pre-trained Models
- NeurIPS 2023Parameter-efficient Tuning of Large-scale Multimodal Foundation Model
- NeurIPS 2023Paraphrasing evades detectors of AI-generated text, but retrieval is an effective defense
- NeurIPS 2023Parsel🐍: Algorithmic Reasoning with Language Models by Composing Decompositions
- NeurIPS 2023Parts of Speech–Grounded Subspaces in Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023Patch n’ Pack: NaViT, a Vision Transformer for any Aspect Ratio and Resolution
- NeurIPS 2023Paxion: Patching Action Knowledge in Video-Language Foundation Models
- NeurIPS 2023Perception Test: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Multimodal Video Models
- NeurIPS 2023Personalized Dictionary Learning for Heterogeneous Datasets
- NeurIPS 2023PIXIU: A Comprehensive Benchmark, Instruction Dataset and Large Language Model for Finance
- NeurIPS 2023PlanBench: An Extensible Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models on Planning and Reasoning about Change
- NeurIPS 2023POP-3D: Open-Vocabulary 3D Occupancy Prediction from Images
- NeurIPS 2023Post Hoc Explanations of Language Models Can Improve Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023Precise asymptotic generalization for multiclass classification with overparameterized linear models
- NeurIPS 2023Preference-grounded Token-level Guidance for Language Model Fine-tuning
- NeurIPS 2023Principled Weight Initialisation for Input-Convex Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2023ProBio: A Protocol-guided Multimodal Dataset for Molecular Biology Lab
- NeurIPS 2023Prompt Pre-Training with Twenty-Thousand Classes for Open-Vocabulary Visual Recognition
- NeurIPS 2023PromptIR: Prompting for All-in-One Image Restoration
- NeurIPS 2023ProPILE: Probing Privacy Leakage in Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023Prototype-based Aleatoric Uncertainty Quantification for Cross-modal Retrieval
- NeurIPS 2023PTQD: Accurate Post-Training Quantization for Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023PUCA: Patch-Unshuffle and Channel Attention for Enhanced Self-Supervised Image Denoising
- NeurIPS 2023Punctuation-level Attack: Single-shot and Single Punctuation Can Fool Text Models
- NeurIPS 2023QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
- NeurIPS 2023Quantifying & Modeling Multimodal Interactions: An Information Decomposition Framework
- NeurIPS 2023Quilt-1M: One Million Image-Text Pairs for Histopathology
- NeurIPS 2023QuIP: 2-Bit Quantization of Large Language Models With Guarantees
- NeurIPS 2023RaLEs: a Benchmark for Radiology Language Evaluations
- NeurIPS 2023Random-Access Infinite Context Length for Transformers
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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.