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

3,302 papers, page 35 of 67

1701. CVPR 2025Holmes-VAU: Towards Long-term Video Anomaly Understanding at Any Granularity
1702. CVPR 2025HOP: Heterogeneous Topology-based Multimodal Entanglement for Co-Speech Gesture Generation
1703. CVPR 2025HoVLE: Unleashing the Power of Monolithic Vision-Language Models with Holistic Vision-Language Embedding
1704. CVPR 2025How to Merge Your Multimodal Models Over Time?
1705. CVPR 2025Human-centered Interactive Learning via MLLMs for Text-to-Image Person Re-identification
1706. CVPR 2025HUNet: Homotopy Unfolding Network for Image Compressive Sensing
1707. CVPR 2025HunyuanPortrait: Implicit Condition Control for Enhanced Portrait Animation
1708. CVPR 2025HVI: A New Color Space for Low-light Image Enhancement
1709. CVPR 2025Hybrid-Level Instruction Injection for Video Token Compression in Multi-modal Large Language Models
1710. CVPR 2025HybridMQA: Exploring Geometry-Texture Interactions for Colored Mesh Quality Assessment
1711. CVPR 2025Hyperbolic Safety-Aware Vision-Language Models
1712. CVPR 2025Hyperdimensional Uncertainty Quantification for Multimodal Uncertainty Fusion in Autonomous Vehicles Perception
1713. CVPR 2025HyperFree: A Channel-adaptive and Tuning-free Foundation Model for Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Imagery
1714. CVPR 2025HyperGLM: HyperGraph for Video Scene Graph Generation and Anticipation
1715. CVPR 2025Hypergraph Vision Transformers: Images are More than Nodes, More than Edges
1716. CVPR 2025HyperNVD: Accelerating Neural Video Decomposition via Hypernetworks
1717. CVPR 2025HyperSeg: Hybrid Segmentation Assistant with Fine-grained Visual Perceiver
1718. CVPR 2025ICP: Immediate Compensation Pruning for Mid-to-high Sparsity
1719. CVPR 2025ICT: Image-Object Cross-Level Trusted Intervention for Mitigating Object Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models
1720. CVPR 2025ID-Patch: Robust ID Association for Group Photo Personalization
1721. CVPR 2025Identifying and Mitigating Position Bias of Multi-image Vision-Language Models
1722. CVPR 2025ILIAS: Instance-Level Image retrieval At Scale
1723. CVPR 2025Image Reconstruction from Readout-Multiplexed Single-Photon Detector Arrays
1724. CVPR 2025ImagineFSL: Self-Supervised Pretraining Matters on Imagined Base Set for VLM-based Few-shot Learning
1725. CVPR 2025Img-Diff: Contrastive Data Synthesis for Multimodal Large Language Models
1726. CVPR 2025Immune: Improving Safety Against Jailbreaks in Multi-modal LLMs via Inference-Time Alignment
1727. CVPR 2025Improving Adversarial Transferability on Vision Transformers via Forward Propagation Refinement
1728. CVPR 2025Improving Personalized Search with Regularized Low-Rank Parameter Updates
1729. CVPR 2025Improving Visual and Downstream Performance of Low-Light Enhancer with Vision Foundation Models Collaboration
1730. CVPR 2025ImViD: Immersive Volumetric Videos for Enhanced VR Engagement
1731. CVPR 2025Incorporating Dense Knowledge Alignment into Unified Multimodal Representation Models
1732. CVPR 2025Insight-V: Exploring Long-Chain Visual Reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Models
1733. CVPR 2025InsightEdit: Towards Better Instruction Following for Image Editing
1734. CVPR 2025Instruction-based Image Manipulation by Watching How Things Move
1735. CVPR 2025Interactive Medical Image Analysis with Concept-based Similarity Reasoning
1736. CVPR 2025InteractVLM: 3D Interaction Reasoning from 2D Foundational Models
1737. CVPR 2025Interleaved-Modal Chain-of-Thought
1738. CVPR 2025Interpretable Image Classification via Non-parametric Part Prototype Learning
1739. CVPR 2025Inversion Circle Interpolation: Diffusion-based Image Augmentation for Data-scarce Classification
1740. CVPR 2025Is `Right' Right? Enhancing Object Orientation Understanding in Multimodal Large Language Models through Egocentric Instruction Tuning
1741. CVPR 2025Is Your World Simulator a Good Story Presenter? A Consecutive Events-Based Benchmark for Future Long Video Generation
1742. CVPR 2025It's a (Blind) Match! Towards Vision-Language Correspondence without Parallel Data
1743. CVPR 2025Iterative Predictor-Critic Code Decoding for Real-World Image Dehazing
1744. CVPR 2025IterIS: Iterative Inference-Solving Alignment for LoRA Merging
1745. CVPR 2025Janus: Decoupling Visual Encoding for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
1746. CVPR 2025JanusFlow: Harmonizing Autoregression and Rectified Flow for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
1747. CVPR 2025JarvisIR: Elevating Autonomous Driving Perception with Intelligent Image Restoration
1748. CVPR 2025Joint Scheduling of Causal Prompts and Tasks for Multi-Task Learning
1749. CVPR 2025Joint Vision-Language Social Bias Removal for CLIP
1750. CVPR 2025Just Dance with pi! A Poly-modal Inductor for Weakly-supervised Video Anomaly Detection

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.