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 224 of 225
- NeurIPS 2023Testing the General Deductive Reasoning Capacity of Large Language Models Using OOD Examples
- NeurIPS 2023Text Promptable Surgical Instrument Segmentation with Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023Text-to-Image Diffusion Models are Zero Shot Classifiers
- NeurIPS 2023Textually Pretrained Speech Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023The Goldilocks of Pragmatic Understanding: Fine-Tuning Strategy Matters for Implicature Resolution by LLMs
- NeurIPS 2023The Learnability of In-Context Learning
- NeurIPS 2023The Rise of AI Language Pathologists: Exploring Two-level Prompt Learning for Few-shot Weakly-supervised Whole Slide Image Classification
- NeurIPS 2023The ToMCAT Dataset
- NeurIPS 2023Three Towers: Flexible Contrastive Learning with Pretrained Image Models
- NeurIPS 2023Time Series as Images: Vision Transformer for Irregularly Sampled Time Series
- NeurIPS 2023Token-Scaled Logit Distillation for Ternary Weight Generative Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023Toolbox for Multimodal Learn (scikit-multimodallearn)
- NeurIPS 2023ToolkenGPT: Augmenting Frozen Language Models with Massive Tools via Tool Embeddings
- NeurIPS 2023ToolQA: A Dataset for LLM Question Answering with External Tools
- NeurIPS 2023Topology-Aware Uncertainty for Image Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023Towards Efficient Image Compression Without Autoregressive Models
- NeurIPS 2023Towards Federated Foundation Models: Scalable Dataset Pipelines for Group-Structured Learning
- NeurIPS 2023Towards Foundation Models for Scientific Machine Learning: Characterizing Scaling and Transfer Behavior
- NeurIPS 2023Towards Label-free Scene Understanding by Vision Foundation Models
- NeurIPS 2023Towards Optimal Caching and Model Selection for Large Model Inference
- NeurIPS 2023Training Transitive and Commutative Multimodal Transformers with LoReTTa
- NeurIPS 2023TransHP: Image Classification with Hierarchical Prompting
- NeurIPS 2023Transition-constant Normalization for Image Enhancement
- NeurIPS 2023Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023TrojLLM: A Black-box Trojan Prompt Attack on Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023Type-to-Track: Retrieve Any Object via Prompt-based Tracking
- NeurIPS 2023Uncertainty-Aware Alignment Network for Cross-Domain Video-Text Retrieval
- NeurIPS 2023Uncovering Prototypical Knowledge for Weakly Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023Uncovering the Hidden Dynamics of Video Self-supervised Learning under Distribution Shifts
- NeurIPS 2023Understanding Social Reasoning in Language Models with Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023Universality laws for Gaussian mixtures in generalized linear models
- NeurIPS 2023Unleashing the Full Potential of Product Quantization for Large-Scale Image Retrieval
- NeurIPS 2023UP-DP: Unsupervised Prompt Learning for Data Pre-Selection with Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023Using Imperfect Surrogates for Downstream Inference: Design-based Supervised Learning for Social Science Applications of Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023Validated Image Caption Rating Dataset
- NeurIPS 2023VAST: A Vision-Audio-Subtitle-Text Omni-Modality Foundation Model and Dataset
- NeurIPS 2023VidChapters-7M: Video Chapters at Scale
- NeurIPS 2023VisionLLM: Large Language Model is also an Open-Ended Decoder for Vision-Centric Tasks
- NeurIPS 2023VisIT-Bench: A Dynamic Benchmark for Evaluating Instruction-Following Vision-and-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023VisoGender: A dataset for benchmarking gender bias in image-text pronoun resolution
- NeurIPS 2023Visual Explanations of Image-Text Representations via Multi-Modal Information Bottleneck Attribution
- NeurIPS 2023Visual Instruction Tuning
- NeurIPS 2023VLATTACK: Multimodal Adversarial Attacks on Vision-Language Tasks via Pre-trained Models
- NeurIPS 2023Vocabulary-free Image Classification
- NeurIPS 2023VPGTrans: Transfer Visual Prompt Generator across LLMs
- NeurIPS 2023Vulnerabilities in Video Quality Assessment Models: The Challenge of Adversarial Attacks
- NeurIPS 2023WBCAtt: A White Blood Cell Dataset Annotated with Detailed Morphological Attributes
- NeurIPS 2023Weakly Supervised 3D Open-vocabulary Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023What can Large Language Models do in chemistry? A comprehensive benchmark on eight tasks
- NeurIPS 2023What Makes Good Examples for Visual In-Context Learning?
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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.