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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1601. CVPR 2025EffiDec3D: An Optimized Decoder for High-Performance and Efficient 3D Medical Image Segmentation
1602. CVPR 2025EgoLife: Towards Egocentric Life Assistant
1603. CVPR 2025EgoPressure: A Dataset for Hand Pressure and Pose Estimation in Egocentric Vision
1604. CVPR 2025EgoTextVQA: Towards Egocentric Scene-Text Aware Video Question Answering
1605. CVPR 2025Embodied Scene Understanding for Vision Language Models via MetaVQA
1606. CVPR 2025EMOE: Modality-Specific Enhanced Dynamic Emotion Experts
1607. CVPR 2025EMOVA: Empowering Language Models to See, Hear and Speak with Vivid Emotions
1608. CVPR 2025Empowering Large Language Models with 3D Situation Awareness
1609. CVPR 2025Empowering LLMs to Understand and Generate Complex Vector Graphics
1610. CVPR 2025Encapsulated Composition of Text-to-Image and Text-to-Video Models for High-Quality Video Synthesis
1611. CVPR 2025Enhanced OoD Detection through Cross-Modal Alignment of Multi-Modal Representations
1612. CVPR 2025Enhancing Diversity for Data-free Quantization
1613. CVPR 2025Enhancing Video-LLM Reasoning via Agent-of-Thoughts Distillation
1614. CVPR 2025Enhancing Vision-Language Compositional Understanding with Multimodal Synthetic Data
1615. CVPR 2025EntitySAM: Segment Everything in Video
1616. CVPR 2025EquiPose: Exploiting Permutation Equivariance for Relative Camera Pose Estimation
1617. CVPR 2025Evaluating Vision-Language Models as Evaluators in Path Planning
1618. CVPR 2025EvEnhancer: Empowering Effectiveness, Efficiency and Generalizability for Continuous Space-Time Video Super-Resolution with Events
1619. CVPR 2025EventGPT: Event Stream Understanding with Multimodal Large Language Models
1620. CVPR 2025Every SAM Drop Counts: Embracing Semantic Priors for Multi-Modality Image Fusion and Beyond
1621. CVPR 2025Exact: Exploring Space-Time Perceptive Clues for Weakly Supervised Satellite Image Time Series Semantic Segmentation
1622. CVPR 2025ExpertAF: Expert Actionable Feedback from Video
1623. CVPR 2025Explainable Saliency: Articulating Reasoning with Contextual Prioritization
1624. CVPR 2025Explaining Domain Shifts in Language: Concept Erasing for Interpretable Image Classification
1625. CVPR 2025Explaining in Diffusion: Explaining a Classifier with Diffusion Semantics
1626. CVPR 2025Exploring CLIP's Dense Knowledge for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
1627. CVPR 2025Exploring Intrinsic Normal Prototypes within a Single Image for Universal Anomaly Detection
1628. CVPR 2025Exploring Semantic Feature Discrimination for Perceptual Image Super-Resolution and Opinion-Unaware No-Reference Image Quality Assessment
1629. CVPR 2025Exploring Temporally-Aware Features for Point Tracking
1630. CVPR 2025Exploring the Deep Fusion of Large Language Models and Diffusion Transformers for Text-to-Image Synthesis
1631. CVPR 2025Exploring Visual Vulnerabilities via Multi-Loss Adversarial Search for Jailbreaking Vision-Language Models
1632. CVPR 2025F^3OCUS - Federated Finetuning of Vision-Language Foundation Models with Optimal Client Layer Updating Strategy via Multi-objective Meta-Heuristics
1633. CVPR 2025FactCheXcker: Mitigating Measurement Hallucinations in Chest X-ray Report Generation Models
1634. CVPR 2025FastVLM: Efficient Vision Encoding for Vision Language Models
1635. CVPR 2025Few-Shot Recognition via Stage-Wise Retrieval-Augmented Finetuning
1636. CVPR 2025FIFA: Fine-grained Inter-frame Attention for Driver's Video Gaze Estimation
1637. CVPR 2025Filter Images First, Generate Instructions Later: Pre-Instruction Data Selection for Visual Instruction Tuning
1638. CVPR 2025FIMA-Q: Post-Training Quantization for Vision Transformers by Fisher Information Matrix Approximation
1639. CVPR 2025Fine-Grained Image-Text Correspondence with Cost Aggregation for Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation
1640. CVPR 2025FINECAPTION: Compositional Image Captioning Focusing on Wherever You Want at Any Granularity
1641. CVPR 2025FineLIP: Extending CLIP's Reach via Fine-Grained Alignment with Longer Text Inputs
1642. CVPR 2025FireEdit: Fine-grained Instruction-based Image Editing via Region-aware Vision Language Model
1643. CVPR 2025FirePlace: Geometric Refinements of LLM Common Sense Reasoning for 3D Object Placement
1644. CVPR 2025FisherTune: Fisher-Guided Robust Tuning of Vision Foundation Models for Domain Generalized Segmentation
1645. CVPR 2025FLAIR: VLM with Fine-grained Language-informed Image Representations
1646. CVPR 2025FlashSloth : Lightning Multimodal Large Language Models via Embedded Visual Compression
1647. CVPR 2025Flexible Frame Selection for Efficient Video Reasoning
1648. CVPR 2025Florence-VL: Enhancing Vision-Language Models with Generative Vision Encoder and Depth-Breadth Fusion
1649. CVPR 2025FOCUS: Knowledge-enhanced Adaptive Visual Compression for Few-shot Whole Slide Image Classification
1650. CVPR 2025Font-Agent: Enhancing Font Understanding with Large Language Models

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.