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
3,302 papers, page 34 of 67
- CVPR 2025Forensics-Bench: A Comprehensive Forgery Detection Benchmark Suite for Large Vision Language Models
- CVPR 2025FRAME: Floor-aligned Representation for Avatar Motion from Egocentric Video
- CVPR 2025Free on the Fly: Enhancing Flexibility in Test-Time Adaptation with Online EM
- CVPR 2025FreeScene: Mixed Graph Diffusion for 3D Scene Synthesis from Free Prompts
- CVPR 2025Frequency Dynamic Convolution for Dense Image Prediction
- CVPR 2025Frequency-Biased Synergistic Design for Image Compression and Compensation
- CVPR 2025From Alexnet to Transformers: Measuring the Non-linearity of Deep Neural Networks with Affine Optimal Transport
- CVPR 2025From Head to Tail: Towards Balanced Representation in Large Vision-Language Models through Adaptive Data Calibration
- CVPR 2025From Multimodal LLMs to Generalist Embodied Agents: Methods and Lessons
- CVPR 2025FSFM: A Generalizable Face Security Foundation Model via Self-Supervised Facial Representation Learning
- CVPR 2025Full-DoF Egomotion Estimation for Event Cameras Using Geometric Solvers
- CVPR 2025Functionality Understanding and Segmentation in 3D Scenes
- CVPR 2025Fuzzy Multimodal Learning for Trusted Cross-modal Retrieval
- CVPR 2025g3D-LF: Generalizable 3D-Language Feature Fields for Embodied Tasks
- CVPR 2025Galaxy Walker: Geometry-aware VLMs For Galaxy-scale Understanding
- CVPR 2025GaussTR: Foundation Model-Aligned Gaussian Transformer for Self-Supervised 3D Spatial Understanding
- CVPR 2025Generalized Few-shot 3D Point Cloud Segmentation with Vision-Language Model
- CVPR 2025Generalizing Deepfake Video Detection with Plug-and-Play: Video-Level Blending and Spatiotemporal Adapter Tuning
- CVPR 2025Generating Multimodal Driving Scenes via Next-Scene Prediction
- CVPR 2025Generative Photography: Scene-Consistent Camera Control for Realistic Text-to-Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2025Generative Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2025GENIUS: A Generative Framework for Universal Multimodal Search
- CVPR 2025GENMANIP: LLM-driven Simulation for Generalizable Instruction-Following Manipulation
- CVPR 2025GenVDM: Generating Vector Displacement Maps From a Single Image
- CVPR 2025Geometry in Style: 3D Stylization via Surface Normal Deformation
- CVPR 2025GET: Unlocking the Multi-modal Potential of CLIP for Generalized Category Discovery
- CVPR 2025GFlowVLM: Enhancing Multi-step Reasoning in Vision-Language Models with Generative Flow Networks
- CVPR 2025Global-Local Tree Search in VLMs for 3D Indoor Scene Generation
- CVPR 2025GLUS: Global-Local Reasoning Unified into A Single Large Language Model for Video Segmentation
- CVPR 2025GOAL: Global-local Object Alignment Learning
- CVPR 2025Goku: Flow Based Video Generative Foundation Models
- CVPR 2025Graph Neural Network Combining Event Stream and Periodic Aggregation for Low-Latency Event-based Vision
- CVPR 2025GRAPHGPT-O: Synergistic Multimodal Comprehension and Generation on Graphs
- CVPR 2025Grounding 3D Object Affordance with Language Instructions, Visual Observations and Interactions
- CVPR 2025GroundingFace: Fine-grained Face Understanding via Pixel Grounding Multimodal Large Language Model
- CVPR 2025GROVE: A Generalized Reward for Learning Open-Vocabulary Physical Skill
- CVPR 2025Gyro-based Neural Single Image Deblurring
- CVPR 2025Hallo3: Highly Dynamic and Realistic Portrait Image Animation with Video Diffusion Transformer
- CVPR 2025HalLoc: Token-level Localization of Hallucinations for Vision Language Models
- CVPR 2025Harnessing Frozen Unimodal Encoders for Flexible Multimodal Alignment
- CVPR 2025Hazy Low-Quality Satellite Video Restoration Via Learning Optimal Joint Degradation Patterns and Continuous-Scale Super-Resolution Reconstruction
- CVPR 2025HEIE: MLLM-Based Hierarchical Explainable AIGC Image Implausibility Evaluator
- CVPR 2025Hierarchical Adaptive Filtering Network for Text Image Specular Highlight Removal
- CVPR 2025Hierarchical Knowledge Prompt Tuning for Multi-task Test-Time Adaptation
- CVPR 2025HierarQ: Task-Aware Hierarchical Q-Former for Enhanced Video Understanding
- CVPR 2025High Temporal Consistency through Semantic Similarity Propagation in Semi-Supervised Video Semantic Segmentation for Autonomous Flight
- CVPR 2025Higher-Order Ratio Cycles for Fast and Globally Optimal Shape Matching
- CVPR 2025HIIF: Hierarchical Encoding based Implicit Image Function for Continuous Super-resolution
- CVPR 2025HiRes-LLaVA: Restoring Fragmentation Input in High-Resolution Large Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2025HOIGen-1M: A Large-scale Dataset for Human-Object Interaction Video Generation
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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.