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
1,910 papers, page 29 of 39
- ICML 2025Towards Rationale-Answer Alignment of LVLMs via Self-Rationale Calibration
- ICML 2025Towards scientific discovery with dictionary learning: Extracting biological concepts from microscopy foundation models
- ICML 2025Towards World Simulator: Crafting Physical Commonsense-Based Benchmark for Video Generation
- ICML 2025TRUST-VLM: Thorough Red-Teaming for Uncovering Safety Threats in Vision-Language Models
- ICML 2025TuCo: Measuring the Contribution of Fine-Tuning to Individual Responses of LLMs
- ICML 2025TUMTraf VideoQA: Dataset and Benchmark for Unified Spatio-Temporal Video Understanding in Traffic Scenes
- ICML 2025UGPhysics: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Undergraduate Physics Reasoning with Large Language Models
- ICML 2025UI-Vision: A Desktop-centric GUI Benchmark for Visual Perception and Interaction
- ICML 2025Understanding and Mitigating Miscalibration in Prompt Tuning for Vision-Language Models
- ICML 2025Understanding Model Reprogramming for CLIP via Decoupling Visual Prompts
- ICML 2025Understanding Multimodal LLMs Under Distribution Shifts: An Information-Theoretic Approach
- ICML 2025Understanding the Emergence of Multimodal Representation Alignment
- ICML 2025Unifying 2D and 3D Vision-Language Understanding
- ICML 2025Unifying Specialized Visual Encoders for Video Language Models
- ICML 2025Unlocking the Capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models for Generalizable and Explainable Deepfake Detection
- ICML 2025Unlocking the Power of SAM 2 for Few-Shot Segmentation
- ICML 2025Unnatural Languages Are Not Bugs but Features for LLMs
- ICML 2025UP-VLA: A Unified Understanding and Prediction Model for Embodied Agent
- ICML 2025VIP: Vision Instructed Pre-training for Robotic Manipulation
- ICML 2025Vision-Language Model Selection and Reuse for Downstream Adaptation
- ICML 2025Vision-Language Models Create Cross-Modal Task Representations
- ICML 2025Visual Abstraction: A Plug-and-Play Approach for Text-Visual Retrieval
- ICML 2025Visual and Domain Knowledge for Professional-level Graph-of-Thought Medical Reasoning
- ICML 2025Visual Attention Never Fades: Selective Progressive Attention ReCalibration for Detailed Image Captioning in Multimodal Large Language Models
- ICML 2025Visual Autoregressive Modeling for Image Super-Resolution
- ICML 2025Visual Graph Arena: Evaluating Visual Conceptualization of Vision and Multimodal Large Language Models
- ICML 2025Watch Out Your Album! On the Inadvertent Privacy Memorization in Multi-Modal Large Language Models
- ICML 2025What can large language models do for sustainable food?
- ICML 2025What If We Recaption Billions of Web Images with LLaMA-3?
- ICML 2025What Makes In-context Learning Effective for Mathematical Reasoning
- ICML 2025When and How Does CLIP Enable Domain and Compositional Generalization?
- ICML 2025When Do LLMs Help With Node Classification? A Comprehensive Analysis
- ICML 2025When Every Millisecond Counts: Real-Time Anomaly Detection via the Multimodal Asynchronous Hybrid Network
- ICML 2025Why Is Spatial Reasoning Hard for VLMs? An Attention Mechanism Perspective on Focus Areas
- ICML 2025WikiBigEdit: Understanding the Limits of Lifelong Knowledge Editing in LLMs
- ICML 2025WildChat-50M: A Deep Dive Into the Role of Synthetic Data in Post-Training
- ICML 2025Windows Agent Arena: Evaluating Multi-Modal OS Agents at Scale
- ICML 2025WMarkGPT: Watermarked Image Understanding via Multimodal Large Language Models
- ICML 2025X-Transfer Attacks: Towards Super Transferable Adversarial Attacks on CLIP
- ICML 2025xLSTM 7B: A Recurrent LLM for Fast and Efficient Inference
- ICML 2025ZebraLogic: On the Scaling Limits of LLMs for Logical Reasoning
- ICML 2024A Dynamic Algorithm for Weighted Submodular Cover Problem
- ICML 2024A Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent
- ICML 2024A Neural-Preconditioned Poisson Solver for Mixed Dirichlet and Neumann Boundary Conditions
- ICML 2024A New Robust Partial p-Wasserstein-Based Metric for Comparing Distributions
- ICML 2024A Resilient and Accessible Distribution-Preserving Watermark for Large Language Models
- ICML 2024A Sober Look at LLMs for Material Discovery: Are They Actually Good for Bayesian Optimization Over Molecules?
- ICML 2024A Touch, Vision, and Language Dataset for Multimodal Alignment
- ICML 2024A Unified Framework for Learning with Nonlinear Model Classes from Arbitrary Linear Samples
- ICML 2024Accurate LoRA-Finetuning Quantization of LLMs via Information Retention
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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.