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 25 of 225
- CVPR 2026TrajRAG Retrieving Geometric-Semantic Experience for Zero-Shot Object Navigation
- CVPR 2026Transform to Transfer Boosting Adversarial Attack Transferability on Vision-Language Pre-training
- CVPR 2026Translating Signals to Languages for sEMG-Based Activity Recognition
- CVPR 2026TRANSPORTER Transferring Visual Semantics from VLM Manifolds
- CVPR 2026TransPrune Token Transition Pruning for Efficient Large Vision-Language Model
- CVPR 2026TRCoRSurg Temporal-Relational Co-Reasoning for Surgical Video Triplet Recognition
- CVPR 2026TreeTeaming Autonomous Red-Teaming of Vision-Language Models via Hierarchical Strategy Exploration
- CVPR 2026Tri-Subspaces Disentanglement for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
- CVPR 2026TriDF Evaluating Perception Detection and Hallucination for Interpretable DeepFake Detection
- CVPR 2026TRivia Self-supervised Fine-tuning of Vision-Language Models for Table Recognition
- CVPR 2026TRM-VLA Temporal-Aware Chain-of-Thought Reasoning and Memorization for Vision-Language-Action Models
- CVPR 2026TTL Test-time Textual Learning for OOD Detection with Pretrained Vision-Language
- CVPR 2026TTP Test-Time Padding for Adversarial Detection and Robust Adaptation on
- CVPR 2026TTRV Test-Time Reinforcement Learning for Vision Language Models
- CVPR 2026TUNA Taming Unified Visual Representations for Native Unified Multimodal Models
- CVPR 2026Tunable Soft Equivariance with Guarantees
- CVPR 2026Turning Pre-Trained Vision Transformers into End-to-End Histopathology Whole Slide Image
- CVPR 2026TVHighlights LLM-Guided Human-Free Collaborative Training for Video Highlight Detection in
- CVPR 2026Twin-T TwintVQA A Reliable Structure-Detail Separating VLM and a
- CVPR 2026U-Mind A Unified Framework for Real-Time Multimodal Interaction with Audiovisual
- CVPR 2026UARE A Unified Vision-Language Model for Image Quality Assessment Restoration
- CVPR 2026UAST Unified Active Search and Tracking for Arbitrary Targets with
- CVPR 2026UCAN Unified Convolutional Attention Network for Expansive Receptive Fields in
- CVPR 2026UCMNet Uncertainty-Aware Context Memory Network for Under-Display Camera Image Restoration
- CVPR 2026UFVideo Towards Unified Fine-Grained Video Cooperative Understanding with Large Language
- CVPR 2026UI-Lens Assessing General MLLMs Potential to Automate UI Display Quality
- CVPR 2026UltraFlux Data-Model Co-Design for High-quality Native 4K Text-to-Image Generation across
- CVPR 2026Ultrasound-CLIP Semantic-Aware Contrastive Pre-training for Ultrasound Image-Text Understanding
- CVPR 2026Uncertainty-Aware Exploratory Direct Preference Optimization for Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2026Uncertainty-Aware Knowledge Distillation for Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2026Uncertainty-guided Compositional Alignment with Part-to-Whole Semantic Representativeness in Hyperbolic Vision-Language
- CVPR 2026Understanding and Mitigating Hallucinations in Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Models
- CVPR 2026Understanding Counting Mechanisms in Large Language and Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2026Understanding Task Transfer in Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2026Understanding Temporal Logic Consistency in Video-Language Models through Cross-Modal Attention
- CVPR 2026Uni-Hema Unified Model for Digital Hematopathology
- CVPR 2026UNI-OOD Unified Object- and Image-level Out-of-Distribution Detection via Cross-Context Attentive
- CVPR 2026UNICBench UNIfied Counting Benchmark for MLLM
- CVPR 2026UnicEdit-10M A Dataset and Benchmark Breaking the Scale-Quality Barrier via
- CVPR 2026UniChange Unifying Change Detection with Multimodal Large Language Model
- CVPR 2026UniCompress Token Compression for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generation
- CVPR 2026UniDAC Universal Metric Depth Estimation for Any Camera
- CVPR 2026UniDex A Robot Foundation Suite for Universal Dexterous Hand Control
- CVPR 2026UniEdit-I Training-free Image Editing for Unified VLM via Iterative Understanding
- CVPR 2026Unified Generation and Self-Verification for Vision-Language Models via Advantage Decoupled
- CVPR 2026Unified Primitive Proxies for Structured Shape Completion
- CVPR 2026Unified Spatiotemporal Token Compression for Video-LLMs at Ultra-Low Retention
- CVPR 2026UniFusion A Unified Image Fusion Framework with Robust Representation and
- CVPR 2026Unifying Language-Action Understanding and Generation for Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2026Unifying Perception and Action A Hybrid-Modality Pipeline with Implicit Visual
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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.