Multimodal LLMs papers, 2023–2026

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.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• 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

1,226 papers, page 3 of 25

101. CVPR 2023Controllable Light Diffusion for Portraits
102. CVPR 2023CoralStyleCLIP: Co-Optimized Region and Layer Selection for Image Editing
103. CVPR 2023Correlational Image Modeling for Self-Supervised Visual Pre-Training
104. CVPR 2023CRAFT: Concept Recursive Activation FacTorization for Explainability
105. CVPR 2023CREPE: Can Vision-Language Foundation Models Reason Compositionally?
106. CVPR 2023Critical Learning Periods for Multisensory Integration in Deep Networks
107. CVPR 2023Cross-Image-Attention for Conditional Embeddings in Deep Metric Learning
108. CVPR 2023Cross-Modal Implicit Relation Reasoning and Aligning for Text-to-Image Person Retrieval
109. CVPR 2023Crossing the Gap: Domain Generalization for Image Captioning
110. CVPR 2023Crowd3D: Towards Hundreds of People Reconstruction From a Single Image
111. CVPR 2023CrowdCLIP: Unsupervised Crowd Counting via Vision-Language Model
112. CVPR 2023Curricular Contrastive Regularization for Physics-Aware Single Image Dehazing
113. CVPR 2023DeAR: Debiasing Vision-Language Models With Additive Residuals
114. CVPR 2023DeCo: Decomposition and Reconstruction for Compositional Temporal Grounding via Coarse-To-Fine Contrastive Ranking
115. CVPR 2023Decompose More and Aggregate Better: Two Closer Looks at Frequency Representation Learning for Human Motion Prediction
116. CVPR 2023Decomposed Cross-Modal Distillation for RGB-Based Temporal Action Detection
117. CVPR 2023Decoupled Multimodal Distilling for Emotion Recognition
118. CVPR 2023Decoupling-and-Aggregating for Image Exposure Correction
119. CVPR 2023Deep Arbitrary-Scale Image Super-Resolution via Scale-Equivariance Pursuit
120. CVPR 2023Deep Curvilinear Editing: Commutative and Nonlinear Image Manipulation for Pretrained Deep Generative Model
121. CVPR 2023Deep Depth Estimation From Thermal Image
122. CVPR 2023Deep Discriminative Spatial and Temporal Network for Efficient Video Deblurring
123. CVPR 2023Deep Factorized Metric Learning
124. CVPR 2023Deep Hashing With Minimal-Distance-Separated Hash Centers
125. CVPR 2023Deep Random Projector: Accelerated Deep Image Prior
126. CVPR 2023Deep Stereo Video Inpainting
127. CVPR 2023DeepVecFont-v2: Exploiting Transformers To Synthesize Vector Fonts With Higher Quality
128. CVPR 2023DegAE: A New Pretraining Paradigm for Low-Level Vision
129. CVPR 2023DeltaEdit: Exploring Text-Free Training for Text-Driven Image Manipulation
130. CVPR 2023Delving Into Shape-Aware Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation
131. CVPR 2023Delving StyleGAN Inversion for Image Editing: A Foundation Latent Space Viewpoint
132. CVPR 2023DetCLIPv2: Scalable Open-Vocabulary Object Detection Pre-Training via Word-Region Alignment
133. CVPR 2023Detecting Backdoors in Pre-Trained Encoders
134. CVPR 2023Devil Is in the Queries: Advancing Mask Transformers for Real-World Medical Image Segmentation and Out-of-Distribution Localization
135. CVPR 2023DINER: Disorder-Invariant Implicit Neural Representation
136. CVPR 2023DINN360: Deformable Invertible Neural Network for Latitude-Aware 360deg Image Rescaling
137. CVPR 2023Discovering the Real Association: Multimodal Causal Reasoning in Video Question Answering
138. CVPR 2023Distilling Vision-Language Pre-Training To Collaborate With Weakly-Supervised Temporal Action Localization
139. CVPR 2023Diverse Embedding Expansion Network and Low-Light Cross-Modality Benchmark for Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification
140. CVPR 2023DNF: Decouple and Feedback Network for Seeing in the Dark
141. CVPR 2023DPE: Disentanglement of Pose and Expression for General Video Portrait Editing
142. CVPR 2023DropKey for Vision Transformer
143. CVPR 2023DropMAE: Masked Autoencoders With Spatial-Attention Dropout for Tracking Tasks
144. CVPR 2023Dual-Path Adaptation From Image to Video Transformers
145. CVPR 2023DynaMask: Dynamic Mask Selection for Instance Segmentation
146. CVPR 2023Dynamic Graph Learning With Content-Guided Spatial-Frequency Relation Reasoning for Deepfake Detection
147. CVPR 2023DynIBaR: Neural Dynamic Image-Based Rendering
148. CVPR 2023EC2: Emergent Communication for Embodied Control
149. CVPR 2023Edge-Aware Regional Message Passing Controller for Image Forgery Localization
150. CVPR 2023Edges to Shapes to Concepts: Adversarial Augmentation for Robust Vision

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.