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

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1501. CVPR 2025Complexity Experts are Task-Discriminative Learners for Any Image Restoration
1502. CVPR 2025Compositional Caching for Training-free Open-vocabulary Attribute Detection
1503. CVPR 2025Comprehensive Information Bottleneck for Unveiling Universal Attribution to Interpret Vision Transformers
1504. CVPR 2025Conformal Prediction for Zero-Shot Models
1505. CVPR 2025Conical Visual Concentration for Efficient Large Vision-Language Models
1506. CVPR 2025Consistency Posterior Sampling for Diverse Image Synthesis
1507. CVPR 2025Context-Aware Multimodal Pretraining
1508. CVPR 2025ConText-CIR: Learning from Concepts in Text for Composed Image Retrieval
1509. CVPR 2025Contextual AD Narration with Interleaved Multimodal Sequence
1510. CVPR 2025Continual SFT Matches Multimodal RLHF with Negative Supervision
1511. CVPR 2025ControlFace: Harnessing Facial Parametric Control for Face Rigging
1512. CVPR 2025Convex Combination Star Shape Prior for Data-driven Image Semantic Segmentation
1513. CVPR 2025Convex Relaxation for Robust Vanishing Point Estimation in Manhattan World
1514. CVPR 2025Correlative and Discriminative Label Grouping for Multi-Label Visual Prompt Tuning
1515. CVPR 2025CoSER: Towards Consistent Dense Multiview Text-to-Image Generator for 3D Creation
1516. CVPR 2025COSMIC: Clique-Oriented Semantic Multi-space Integration for Robust CLIP Test-Time Adaptation
1517. CVPR 2025COSMOS: Cross-Modality Self-Distillation for Vision Language Pre-training
1518. CVPR 2025CoSpace: Benchmarking Continuous Space Perception Ability for Vision-Language Models
1519. CVPR 2025CoT-VLA: Visual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Vision-Language-Action Models
1520. CVPR 2025CountLLM: Towards Generalizable Repetitive Action Counting via Large Language Model
1521. CVPR 2025COUNTS: Benchmarking Object Detectors and Multimodal Large Language Models under Distribution Shifts
1522. CVPR 2025CPath-Omni: A Unified Multimodal Foundation Model for Patch and Whole Slide Image Analysis in Computational Pathology
1523. CVPR 2025Critic-V: VLM Critics Help Catch VLM Errors in Multimodal Reasoning
1524. CVPR 2025Cropper: Vision-Language Model for Image Cropping through In-Context Learning
1525. CVPR 2025Cross-Modal and Uncertainty-Aware Agglomeration for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding
1526. CVPR 2025Cross-modal Causal Relation Alignment for Video Question Grounding
1527. CVPR 2025Cross-modal Information Flow in Multimodal Large Language Models
1528. CVPR 2025CSC-PA: Cross-image Semantic Correlation via Prototype Attentions for Single-network Semi-supervised Breast Tumor Segmentation
1529. CVPR 2025CustomKD: Customizing Large Vision Foundation for Edge Model Improvement via Knowledge Distillation
1530. CVPR 2025D2SP: Dynamic Dual-Stage Purification Framework for Dual Noise Mitigation in Vision-based Affective Recognition.
1531. CVPR 2025DA-VPT: Semantic-Guided Visual Prompt Tuning for Vision Transformers
1532. CVPR 2025DCEvo: Discriminative Cross-Dimensional Evolutionary Learning for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion
1533. CVPR 2025De^2Gaze: Deformable and Decoupled Representation Learning for 3D Gaze Estimation
1534. CVPR 2025Debiasing Multimodal Large Language Models via Noise-Aware Preference Optimization
1535. CVPR 2025DeCafNet: Delegate and Conquer for Efficient Temporal Grounding in Long Videos
1536. CVPR 2025DeCLIP: Decoupled Learning for Open-Vocabulary Dense Perception
1537. CVPR 2025Decoupling Fine Detail and Global Geometry for Compressed Depth Map Super-Resolution
1538. CVPR 2025DeDe: Detecting Backdoor Samples for SSL Encoders via Decoders
1539. CVPR 2025DEFOM-Stereo: Depth Foundation Model Based Stereo Matching
1540. CVPR 2025DeformCL: Learning Deformable Centerline Representation for Vessel Extraction in 3D Medical Image
1541. CVPR 2025Degradation-Aware Feature Perturbation for All-in-One Image Restoration
1542. CVPR 2025DEIM: DETR with Improved Matching for Fast Convergence
1543. CVPR 2025DejaVid: Encoder-Agnostic Learned Temporal Matching for Video Classification
1544. CVPR 2025DeNVeR: Deformable Neural Vessel Representations for Unsupervised Video Vessel Segmentation
1545. CVPR 2025DepthCues: Evaluating Monocular Depth Perception in Large Vision Models
1546. CVPR 2025Descriptor-In-Pixel : Point-Feature Tracking For Pixel Processor Arrays
1547. CVPR 2025Devils in Middle Layers of Large Vision-Language Models: Interpreting, Detecting and Mitigating Object Hallucinations via Attention Lens
1548. CVPR 2025DH-Set: Improving Vision-Language Alignment with Diverse and Hybrid Set-Embeddings Learning
1549. CVPR 2025DIFFER: Disentangling Identity Features via Semantic Cues for Clothes-Changing Person Re-ID
1550. CVPR 2025DiffSensei: Bridging Multi-Modal LLMs and Diffusion Models for Customized Manga Generation

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.