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
11,207 papers, page 4 of 225
- CVPR 2026CARE A Molecular-Guided Foundation Model with Adaptive Region Modeling for
- CVPR 2026CARE What Fails Contrastive Anchored-REflection for Verifiable Multimodal Reasoning
- CVPR 2026CASPA Graph-Structured Concept Anchors for Modality-Agnostic Adaptation in Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2026CASR A Robust Cyclic Framework for Arbitrary Large-Scale Super-Resolution with
- CVPR 2026CAST Context-Aware Dynamic Latent Space Transformation for Interactive Text-to-Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2026CaST-Bench Benchmarking Causal Chain-Grounded Spatio-Temporal Reasoning for Video Question Answering
- CVPR 2026CaTok Taming Mean Flows for One-Dimensional Causal Image Tokenization
- CVPR 2026CausalLens Sensitivity-Guided Multi-Head Causal Intervention for Hallucination Mitigation in Large
- CVPR 2026CC-VQA Conflict- and Correlation-Aware Method for Mitigating Knowledge Conflict in
- CVPR 2026CCCaption Dual-Reward Reinforcement Learning for Complete and Correct Image Captioning
- CVPR 2026CF-IPT Cross-Modal Fusion Interactive Prompt Tuning of Vision-Language Pre-Trained Model
- CVPR 2026CG-Reasoner Centroid-Guided Positional Reasoning Segmentation for Medical Imaging with a
- CVPR 2026Chain of Event-Centric Causal Thought for Physically Plausible Video Generation
- CVPR 2026Chain of World World Model Thinking in Latent Motion
- CVPR 2026Chain-of-Frames Advancing Video Understanding in Multimodal LLMs via Frame-Aware Reasoning
- CVPR 2026Chain-of-Models Pre-Training Rethinking Training Acceleration of Vision Foundation Models
- CVPR 2026ChangeBridge Spatiotemporal Image Generation with Multimodal Controls for Remote Senisng
- CVPR 2026ChartNet A Million-Scale High-Quality Multimodal Dataset for Robust Chart Understanding
- CVPR 2026ChartR Evaluating Reasoning Accuracy and Robustness in Chart Question Answering
- CVPR 2026ChordEdit One-Step Low-Energy Transport for Image Editing
- CVPR 2026CI-VID A Coherent Interleaved Text-Video Dataset
- CVPR 2026CICA Coupling Confidence-Aware Pretraining with Confidence-Informed Attention for Robust Multimodal
- CVPR 2026CIGMA Causal Information-Gain Mechanistic Attribution of Attention Heads in Vision
- CVPR 2026CineBrain A Large-Scale Multi-Modal Audiovisual Brain Dataset for Brain-Conditioned Video
- CVPR 2026CineScene Implicit 3D as Effective Scene Representation for Cinematic Video
- CVPR 2026CineSRD Leveraging Visual Acoustic and Linguistic Cues for Open-World Visual
- CVPR 2026Clair Obscur an Illumination-Aware Method for Real-World Image Vectorization
- CVPR 2026CLAY Conditional Visual Similarity Modulation in Vision-Language Embedding Space
- CVPR 2026CLCR Cross-Level Semantic Collaborative Representation for Multimodal Learning
- CVPR 2026CLEP Contrastive Language-Pose Pretraining
- CVPR 2026Clinically-Grounded Counterfactual Reasoning for Medical Video Diagnosis
- CVPR 2026CLIP Is Shortsighted Paying Attention Beyond the First Sentence
- CVPR 2026CLIP-like Model as a Foundational Density Ratio Estimator
- CVPR 2026CLIPoint3D Language-Grounded Few-Shot Unsupervised 3D Point Cloud Domain Adaptation
- CVPR 2026CLiViS Unleashing Cognitive Map through Linguistic-Visual Synergy for Embodied Visual
- CVPR 2026Cluster-Aware Neural Collapse Prompt Tuning for Long-Tailed Generalization of Vision-Language
- CVPR 2026Cluster-Wise Spatio-Temporal Masking for Efficient Video-Language Pretraining
- CVPR 2026CMR-RD Long-Tailed Adaptive VLM for Explainable CMR Diagnosis
- CVPR 2026CoCoVideo The High-Quality Commercial-Model-Based Contrastive Benchmark for AI-Generated Video Detection
- CVPR 2026CoD A Diffusion Foundation Model for Image Compression
- CVPR 2026CodeDance A Dynamic Tool-integrated MLLM for Executable Visual Reasoning
- CVPR 2026CodeV Code with Images for Faithful Visual Reasoning via Tool-Aware
- CVPR 2026CoFiDA-M Concept-Aware Feature Modulation for Cross-Domain Adaptation with Image-Only Inference
- CVPR 2026CogDriver Integrating Cognitive Inertia for Temporally Coherent Planning in Autonomous
- CVPR 2026CoIn Coverage and Informativeness-Guided Token Reduction for Efficient Large Multimodal
- CVPR 2026ColaVLA Leveraging Cognitive Latent Reasoning for Hierarchical Parallel Trajectory Planning
- CVPR 2026Collaborative Multi-Mode Pruning for Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2026CoLoR The Devil is in Scene Coordinate Regression for Large-Scale
- CVPR 2026Common Inpainted Objects In-N-Out of Context
- CVPR 2026Complementary Prototype Mapping for Efficient Multimodal Anomaly Detection
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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.