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
390 papers, page 3 of 8
- ICML 2025Enhancing Rating-Based Reinforcement Learning to Effectively Leverage Feedback from Large Vision-Language Models
- ICML 2025Enhancing Target-unspecific Tasks through a Features Matrix
- ICML 2025EquivaMap: Leveraging LLMs for Automatic Equivalence Checking of Optimization Formulations
- ICML 2025ERICT: Enhancing Robustness by Identifying Concept Tokens in Zero-Shot Vision Language Models
- ICML 2025Evaluating LLMs Across Multi-Cognitive Levels: From Medical Knowledge Mastery to Scenario-Based Problem Solving
- ICML 2025Everything Everywhere All at Once: LLMs can In-Context Learn Multiple Tasks in Superposition
- ICML 2025Ex-VAD: Explainable Fine-grained Video Anomaly Detection Based on Visual-Language Models
- ICML 2025Exact Upper and Lower Bounds for the Output Distribution of Neural Networks with Random Inputs
- ICML 2025Explainable Concept Generation through Vision-Language Preference Learning for Understanding Neural Networks' Internal Representations
- ICML 2025Explanatory Instructions: Towards Unified Vision Tasks Understanding and Zero-shot Generalization
- ICML 2025FairPFN: A Tabular Foundation Model for Causal Fairness
- ICML 2025Fast Exact Unlearning for In-Context Learning Data for LLMs
- ICML 2025FeatSharp: Your Vision Model Features, Sharper
- ICML 2025Feature out! Let Raw Image as Your Condition for Blind Face Restoration
- ICML 2025Federated Disentangled Tuning with Textual Prior Decoupling and Visual Dynamic Adaptation
- ICML 2025FedOne: Query-Efficient Federated Learning for Black-box Discrete Prompt Learning
- ICML 2025FedPHA: Federated Prompt Learning for Heterogeneous Client Adaptation
- ICML 2025FG-CLIP: Fine-Grained Visual and Textual Alignment
- ICML 2025Fine-Grained Captioning of Long Videos through Scene Graph Consolidation
- ICML 2025FLAM: Frame-Wise Language-Audio Modeling
- ICML 2025FlipAttack: Jailbreak LLMs via Flipping
- ICML 2025Flopping for FLOPs: Leveraging Equivariance for Computational Efficiency
- ICML 2025Flow of Reasoning: Training LLMs for Divergent Reasoning with Minimal Examples
- ICML 2025FOCoOp: Enhancing Out-of-Distribution Robustness in Federated Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models
- ICML 2025Focus On This, Not That! Steering LLMs with Adaptive Feature Specification
- ICML 2025Foundation Model Insights and a Multi-Model Approach for Superior Fine-Grained One-shot Subset Selection
- ICML 2025FourierMamba: Fourier Learning Integration with State Space Models for Image Deraining
- ICML 2025Freeze-Omni: A Smart and Low Latency Speech-to-speech Dialogue Model with Frozen LLM
- ICML 2025From Black Boxes to Transparent Minds: Evaluating and Enhancing the Theory of Mind in Multimodal Large Language Models
- ICML 2025From Local Details to Global Context: Advancing Vision-Language Models with Attention-Based Selection
- ICML 2025From Thousands to Billions: 3D Visual Language Grounding via Render-Supervised Distillation from 2D VLMs
- ICML 2025From Token to Rhythm: A Multi-Scale Approach for ECG-Language Pretraining
- ICML 2025Function-to-Style Guidance of LLMs for Code Translation
- ICML 2025Galileo: Learning Global & Local Features of Many Remote Sensing Modalities
- ICML 2025Gandalf the Red: Adaptive Security for LLMs
- ICML 2025GaussMark: A Practical Approach for Structural Watermarking of Language Models
- ICML 2025Generalists vs. Specialists: Evaluating LLMs on Highly-Constrained Biophysical Sequence Optimization Tasks
- ICML 2025Generative Data Mining with Longtail-Guided Diffusion
- ICML 2025GeoPixel: Pixel Grounding Large Multimodal Model in Remote Sensing
- ICML 2025GMAIL: Generative Modality Alignment for generated Image Learning
- ICML 2025GRADEO: Towards Human-Like Evaluation for Text-to-Video Generation via Multi-Step Reasoning
- ICML 2025Gradient Inversion of Multimodal Models
- ICML 2025Grammar-Forced Translation of Natural Language to Temporal Logic using LLMs
- ICML 2025Graph4MM: Weaving Multimodal Learning with Structural Information
- ICML 2025GraphCL: Graph-based Clustering for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
- ICML 2025GRU: Mitigating the Trade-off between Unlearning and Retention for LLMs
- ICML 2025GS-Bias: Global-Spatial Bias Learner for Single-Image Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models
- ICML 2025GSM-$\infty$: How Do your LLMs Behave over Infinitely Increasing Reasoning Complexity and Context Length?
- ICML 2025HALoS: Hierarchical Asynchronous Local SGD over Slow Networks for Geo-Distributed Large Language Model Training
- ICML 2025Handling Imbalanced Pseudolabels for Vision-Language Models with Concept Alignment and Confusion-Aware Calibrated Margin
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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.