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
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- ICLR 2025Cafe-Talk: Generating 3D Talking Face Animation with Multimodal Coarse- and Fine-grained Control
- ICLR 2025Calibrating LLMs with Information-Theoretic Evidential Deep Learning
- ICLR 2025CAMEx: Curvature-aware Merging of Experts
- ICLR 2025Can In-context Learning Really Generalize to Out-of-distribution Tasks?
- ICLR 2025Can Knowledge Editing Really Correct Hallucinations?
- ICLR 2025Can Large Language Models Understand Symbolic Graphics Programs?
- ICLR 2025Can LLMs Generate Novel Research Ideas? A Large-Scale Human Study with 100+ NLP Researchers
- ICLR 2025Can LLMs Really Learn to Translate a Low-Resource Language from One Grammar Book?
- ICLR 2025Can LLMs Separate Instructions From Data? And What Do We Even Mean By That?
- ICLR 2025Can LLMs Solve Longer Math Word Problems Better?
- ICLR 2025Can LLMs Understand Time Series Anomalies?
- ICLR 2025Can One Modality Model Synergize Training of Other Modality Models?
- ICLR 2025Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025Can Watermarked LLMs be Identified by Users via Crafted Prompts?
- ICLR 2025Can Watermarks be Used to Detect LLM IP Infringement For Free?
- ICLR 2025Can We Talk Models Into Seeing the World Differently?
- ICLR 2025CapeX: Category-Agnostic Pose Estimation from Textual Point Explanation
- ICLR 2025Captured by Captions: On Memorization and its Mitigation in CLIP Models
- ICLR 2025CarbonSense: A Multimodal Dataset and Baseline for Carbon Flux Modelling
- ICLR 2025Catastrophic Failure of LLM Unlearning via Quantization
- ICLR 2025Causal Graphical Models for Vision-Language Compositional Understanding
- ICLR 2025Causal Identification for Complex Functional Longitudinal Studies
- ICLR 2025Causal Order: The Key to Leveraging Imperfect Experts in Causal Inference
- ICLR 2025Causal Representation Learning from Multimodal Biomedical Observations
- ICLR 2025Causally Motivated Sycophancy Mitigation for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025CBraMod: A Criss-Cross Brain Foundation Model for EEG Decoding
- ICLR 2025Century: A Framework and Dataset for Evaluating Historical Contextualisation of Sensitive Images
- ICLR 2025CertainlyUncertain: A Benchmark and Metric for Multimodal Epistemic and Aleatoric Awareness
- ICLR 2025Certifying Counterfactual Bias in LLMs
- ICLR 2025CG-Bench: Clue-grounded Question Answering Benchmark for Long Video Understanding
- ICLR 2025Chain-of-Action: Faithful and Multimodal Question Answering through Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025Chain-of-region: Visual Language Models Need Details for Diagram Analysis
- ICLR 2025ChartMoE: Mixture of Diversely Aligned Expert Connector for Chart Understanding
- ICLR 2025CHiP: Cross-modal Hierarchical Direct Preference Optimization for Multimodal LLMs
- ICLR 2025Circuit Representation Learning with Masked Gate Modeling and Verilog-AIG Alignment
- ICLR 2025CircuitFusion: Multimodal Circuit Representation Learning for Agile Chip Design
- ICLR 2025CL-MFAP: A Contrastive Learning-Based Multimodal Foundation Model for Molecular Property Prediction and Antibiotic Screening
- ICLR 2025Class Distribution-induced Attention Map for Open-vocabulary Semantic Segmentations
- ICLR 2025ClawMachine: Learning to Fetch Visual Tokens for Referential Comprehension
- ICLR 2025CLIBD: Bridging Vision and Genomics for Biodiversity Monitoring at Scale
- ICLR 2025ClimaQA: An Automated Evaluation Framework for Climate Question Answering Models
- ICLR 2025CLIPure: Purification in Latent Space via CLIP for Adversarially Robust Zero-Shot Classification
- ICLR 2025COAT: Compressing Optimizer states and Activations for Memory-Efficient FP8 Training
- ICLR 2025CodePlan: Unlocking Reasoning Potential in Large Language Models by Scaling Code-form Planning
- ICLR 2025CogCoM: A Visual Language Model with Chain-of-Manipulations Reasoning
- ICLR 2025ColPali: Efficient Document Retrieval with Vision Language Models
- ICLR 2025Combining Induction and Transduction for Abstract Reasoning
- ICLR 2025Composable Interventions for Language Models
- ICLR 2025Compositional 4D Dynamic Scenes Understanding with Physics Priors for Video Question Answering
- ICLR 2025Compositional Entailment Learning for Hyperbolic Vision-Language Models
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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.