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 39 of 67

1901. CVPR 2025PhysVLM: Enabling Visual Language Models to Understand Robotic Physical Reachability
1902. CVPR 2025PICO: Reconstructing 3D People In Contact with Objects
1903. CVPR 2025PIDSR: Complementary Polarized Image Demosaicing and Super-Resolution
1904. CVPR 2025Playing the Fool: Jailbreaking LLMs and Multimodal LLMs with Out-of-Distribution Strategy
1905. CVPR 2025Plug-and-Play Versatile Compressed Video Enhancement
1906. CVPR 2025Polarized Color Screen Matting
1907. CVPR 2025POPEN: Preference-Based Optimization and Ensemble for LVLM-Based Reasoning Segmentation
1908. CVPR 2025Pose Priors from Language Models
1909. CVPR 2025Post-pre-training for Modality Alignment in Vision-Language Foundation Models
1910. CVPR 2025Preserve or Modify? Context-Aware Evaluation for Balancing Preservation and Modification in Text-Guided Image Editing
1911. CVPR 2025ProAPO: Progressively Automatic Prompt Optimization for Visual Classification
1912. CVPR 2025Probabilistic Prompt Distribution Learning for Animal Pose Estimation
1913. CVPR 2025ProbeSDF: Light Field Probes For Neural Surface Reconstruction
1914. CVPR 2025Progress-Aware Video Frame Captioning
1915. CVPR 2025Progressive Correspondence Regenerator for Robust 3D Registration
1916. CVPR 2025Progressive Focused Transformer for Single Image Super-Resolution
1917. CVPR 2025ProKeR: A Kernel Perspective on Few-Shot Adaptation of Large Vision-Language Models
1918. CVPR 2025Prompt-CAM: Making Vision Transformers Interpretable for Fine-Grained Analysis
1919. CVPR 2025PromptHMR: Promptable Human Mesh Recovery
1920. CVPR 2025Protecting Your Video Content: Disrupting Automated Video-based LLM Annotations
1921. CVPR 2025Prototype-Based Image Prompting for Weakly Supervised Histopathological Image Segmentation
1922. CVPR 2025Provoking Multi-modal Few-Shot LVLM via Exploration-Exploitation In-Context Learning
1923. CVPR 2025PVC: Progressive Visual Token Compression for Unified Image and Video Processing in Large Vision-Language Models
1924. CVPR 2025Q-Eval-100K: Evaluating Visual Quality and Alignment Level for Text-to-Vision Content
1925. CVPR 2025Quad-Pixel Image Defocus Deblurring: A New Benchmark and Model
1926. CVPR 2025Quantization without Tears
1927. CVPR 2025QuCOOP: A Versatile Framework for Solving Composite and Binary-Parametrised Problems on Quantum Annealers
1928. CVPR 2025R-TPT: Improving Adversarial Robustness of Vision-Language Models through Test-Time Prompt Tuning
1929. CVPR 2025RADIOv2.5: Improved Baselines for Agglomerative Vision Foundation Models
1930. CVPR 2025Rashomon Sets for Prototypical-Part Networks: Editing Interpretable Models in Real-Time
1931. CVPR 2025RASP: Revisiting 3D Anamorphic Art for Shadow-Guided Packing of Irregular Objects
1932. CVPR 2025Re-thinking Temporal Search for Long-Form Video Understanding
1933. CVPR 2025RealEdit: Reddit Edits As a Large-scale Empirical Dataset for Image Transformations
1934. CVPR 2025Realistic Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models
1935. CVPR 2025Reason-before-Retrieve: One-Stage Reflective Chain-of-Thoughts for Training-Free Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
1936. CVPR 2025ReasonGrounder: LVLM-Guided Hierarchical Feature Splatting for Open-Vocabulary 3D Visual Grounding and Reasoning
1937. CVPR 2025Reasoning Mamba: Hypergraph-Guided Region Relation Calculating for Weakly Supervised Affordance Grounding
1938. CVPR 2025Reasoning to Attend: Try to Understand How <SEG> Token Works
1939. CVPR 2025ReCon: Enhancing True Correspondence Discrimination through Relation Consistency for Robust Noisy Correspondence Learning
1940. CVPR 2025Reconstructing Humans with a Biomechanically Accurate Skeleton
1941. CVPR 2025Recover and Match: Open-Vocabulary Multi-Label Recognition through Knowledge-Constrained Optimal Transport
1942. CVPR 2025Recurrence-Enhanced Vision-and-Language Transformers for Robust Multimodal Document Retrieval
1943. CVPR 2025Reducing Class-wise Confusion for Incremental Learning with Disentangled Manifolds
1944. CVPR 2025RefPose: Leveraging Reference Geometric Correspondences for Accurate 6D Pose Estimation of Unseen Objects
1945. CVPR 2025RelationField: Relate Anything in Radiance Fields
1946. CVPR 2025Relative Pose Estimation through Affine Corrections of Monocular Depth Priors
1947. CVPR 2025Reloc3r: Large-Scale Training of Relative Camera Pose Regression for Generalizable, Fast, and Accurate Visual Localization
1948. CVPR 2025Reproducible Vision-Language Models Meet Concepts Out of Pre-Training
1949. CVPR 2025ReRAW: RGB-to-RAW Image Reconstruction via Stratified Sampling for Efficient Object Detection on the Edge
1950. CVPR 2025ResCLIP: Residual Attention for Training-free Dense Vision-language Inference

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.