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
1,716 papers, page 3 of 35
- CVPR 2024Condition-Aware Neural Network for Controlled Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Consistency and Uncertainty: Identifying Unreliable Responses From Black-Box Vision-Language Models for Selective Visual Question Answering
- CVPR 2024Content-Adaptive Non-Local Convolution for Remote Sensing Pansharpening
- CVPR 2024Context-Aware Integration of Language and Visual References for Natural Language Tracking
- CVPR 2024Contextual Augmented Global Contrast for Multimodal Intent Recognition
- CVPR 2024Continual Forgetting for Pre-trained Vision Models
- CVPR 2024Continuous Optical Zooming: A Benchmark for Arbitrary-Scale Image Super-Resolution in Real World
- CVPR 2024Contrasting Intra-Modal and Ranking Cross-Modal Hard Negatives to Enhance Visio-Linguistic Compositional Understanding
- CVPR 2024Convolutional Prompting meets Language Models for Continual Learning
- CVPR 2024CoralSCOP: Segment any COral Image on this Planet
- CVPR 2024Correlation-aware Coarse-to-fine MLPs for Deformable Medical Image Registration
- CVPR 2024Correlation-Decoupled Knowledge Distillation for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis with Incomplete Modalities
- CVPR 2024COTR: Compact Occupancy TRansformer for Vision-based 3D Occupancy Prediction
- CVPR 2024CPGA: Coding Priors-Guided Aggregation Network for Compressed Video Quality Enhancement
- CVPR 2024CPLIP: Zero-Shot Learning for Histopathology with Comprehensive Vision-Language Alignment
- CVPR 2024CPR-Coach: Recognizing Composite Error Actions based on Single-class Training
- CVPR 2024CricaVPR: Cross-image Correlation-aware Representation Learning for Visual Place Recognition
- CVPR 2024Cross-view and Cross-pose Completion for 3D Human Understanding
- CVPR 2024CSTA: CNN-based Spatiotemporal Attention for Video Summarization
- CVPR 2024Curriculum Point Prompting for Weakly-Supervised Referring Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024D3still: Decoupled Differential Distillation for Asymmetric Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2024Dancing with Still Images: Video Distillation via Static-Dynamic Disentanglement
- CVPR 2024Data-Efficient Multimodal Fusion on a Single GPU
- CVPR 2024De-Diffusion Makes Text a Strong Cross-Modal Interface
- CVPR 2024Decomposing Disease Descriptions for Enhanced Pathology Detection: A Multi-Aspect Vision-Language Pre-training Framework
- CVPR 2024Decoupling Static and Hierarchical Motion Perception for Referring Video Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Deep Generative Model based Rate-Distortion for Image Downscaling Assessment
- CVPR 2024Deep Video Inverse Tone Mapping Based on Temporal Clues
- CVPR 2024DeiT-LT: Distillation Strikes Back for Vision Transformer Training on Long-Tailed Datasets
- CVPR 2024DeMatch: Deep Decomposition of Motion Field for Two-View Correspondence Learning
- CVPR 2024Depth Information Assisted Collaborative Mutual Promotion Network for Single Image Dehazing
- CVPR 2024Depth-aware Test-Time Training for Zero-shot Video Object Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Describing Differences in Image Sets with Natural Language
- CVPR 2024Descriptor and Word Soups: Overcoming the Parameter Efficiency Accuracy Tradeoff for Out-of-Distribution Few-shot Learning
- CVPR 2024Detours for Navigating Instructional Videos
- CVPR 2024DiaLoc: An Iterative Approach to Embodied Dialog Localization
- CVPR 2024DIBS: Enhancing Dense Video Captioning with Unlabeled Videos via Pseudo Boundary Enrichment and Online Refinement
- CVPR 2024DIEM: Decomposition-Integration Enhancing Multimodal Insights
- CVPR 2024Discover and Mitigate Multiple Biased Subgroups in Image Classifiers
- CVPR 2024Discovering and Mitigating Visual Biases through Keyword Explanation
- CVPR 2024Discovering Syntactic Interaction Clues for Human-Object Interaction Detection
- CVPR 2024Discriminative Probing and Tuning for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Distilling Vision-Language Models on Millions of Videos
- CVPR 2024Do Vision and Language Encoders Represent the World Similarly?
- CVPR 2024Domain Prompt Learning with Quaternion Networks
- CVPR 2024Domain-Agnostic Mutual Prompting for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
- CVPR 2024Don't Look into the Dark: Latent Codes for Pluralistic Image Inpainting
- CVPR 2024Doubly Abductive Counterfactual Inference for Text-based Image Editing
- CVPR 2024Draw Step by Step: Reconstructing CAD Construction Sequences from Point Clouds via Multimodal Diffusion.
- CVPR 2024DRESS: Instructing Large Vision-Language Models to Align and Interact with Humans via Natural Language Feedback
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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.