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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151. CVPR 2025Critic-V: VLM Critics Help Catch VLM Errors in Multimodal Reasoning
152. CVPR 2025Cropper: Vision-Language Model for Image Cropping through In-Context Learning
153. CVPR 2025Cross-Modal and Uncertainty-Aware Agglomeration for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding
154. CVPR 2025Cross-modal Causal Relation Alignment for Video Question Grounding
155. CVPR 2025Cross-modal Information Flow in Multimodal Large Language Models
156. CVPR 2025CSC-PA: Cross-image Semantic Correlation via Prototype Attentions for Single-network Semi-supervised Breast Tumor Segmentation
157. CVPR 2025CustomKD: Customizing Large Vision Foundation for Edge Model Improvement via Knowledge Distillation
158. CVPR 2025D2SP: Dynamic Dual-Stage Purification Framework for Dual Noise Mitigation in Vision-based Affective Recognition.
159. CVPR 2025DA-VPT: Semantic-Guided Visual Prompt Tuning for Vision Transformers
160. CVPR 2025DCEvo: Discriminative Cross-Dimensional Evolutionary Learning for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion
161. CVPR 2025De^2Gaze: Deformable and Decoupled Representation Learning for 3D Gaze Estimation
162. CVPR 2025Debiasing Multimodal Large Language Models via Noise-Aware Preference Optimization
163. CVPR 2025DeCafNet: Delegate and Conquer for Efficient Temporal Grounding in Long Videos
164. CVPR 2025DeCLIP: Decoupled Learning for Open-Vocabulary Dense Perception
165. CVPR 2025Decoupling Fine Detail and Global Geometry for Compressed Depth Map Super-Resolution
166. CVPR 2025DeDe: Detecting Backdoor Samples for SSL Encoders via Decoders
167. CVPR 2025DEFOM-Stereo: Depth Foundation Model Based Stereo Matching
168. CVPR 2025DeformCL: Learning Deformable Centerline Representation for Vessel Extraction in 3D Medical Image
169. CVPR 2025Degradation-Aware Feature Perturbation for All-in-One Image Restoration
170. CVPR 2025DEIM: DETR with Improved Matching for Fast Convergence
171. CVPR 2025DejaVid: Encoder-Agnostic Learned Temporal Matching for Video Classification
172. CVPR 2025DeNVeR: Deformable Neural Vessel Representations for Unsupervised Video Vessel Segmentation
173. CVPR 2025DepthCues: Evaluating Monocular Depth Perception in Large Vision Models
174. CVPR 2025Descriptor-In-Pixel : Point-Feature Tracking For Pixel Processor Arrays
175. CVPR 2025Devils in Middle Layers of Large Vision-Language Models: Interpreting, Detecting and Mitigating Object Hallucinations via Attention Lens
176. CVPR 2025DH-Set: Improving Vision-Language Alignment with Diverse and Hybrid Set-Embeddings Learning
177. CVPR 2025DIFFER: Disentangling Identity Features via Semantic Cues for Clothes-Changing Person Re-ID
178. CVPR 2025DiffSensei: Bridging Multi-Modal LLMs and Diffusion Models for Customized Manga Generation
179. CVPR 2025DINOv2 Meets Text: A Unified Framework for Image- and Pixel-Level Vision-Language Alignment
180. CVPR 2025DiscoVLA: Discrepancy Reduction in Vision, Language, and Alignment for Parameter-Efficient Video-Text Retrieval
181. CVPR 2025Disentangling Safe and Unsafe Image Corruptions via Anisotropy and Locality
182. CVPR 2025DiskVPS: Vanishing Point Detector via Hough Transform in a Disk Region
183. CVPR 2025Dispider: Enabling Video LLMs with Active Real-Time Interaction via Disentangled Perception, Decision, and Reaction
184. CVPR 2025Distilled Prompt Learning for Incomplete Multimodal Survival Prediction
185. CVPR 2025Distilling Monocular Foundation Model for Fine-grained Depth Completion
186. CVPR 2025Distilling Spatially-Heterogeneous Distortion Perception for Blind Image Quality Assessment
187. CVPR 2025Distilling Spectral Graph for Object-Context Aware Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
188. CVPR 2025DistinctAD: Distinctive Audio Description Generation in Contexts
189. CVPR 2025Distraction is All You Need for Multimodal Large Language Model Jailbreaking
190. CVPR 2025DIV-FF: Dynamic Image-Video Feature Fields For Environment Understanding in Egocentric Videos
191. CVPR 2025DivPrune: Diversity-based Visual Token Pruning for Large Multimodal Models
192. CVPR 2025DL2G: Degradation-guided Local-to-Global Restoration for Eyeglass Reflection Removal
193. CVPR 2025Do Computer Vision Foundation Models Learn the Low-level Characteristics of the Human Visual System?
194. CVPR 2025Docopilot: Improving Multimodal Models for Document-Level Understanding
195. CVPR 2025Document Haystacks: Vision-Language Reasoning Over Piles of 1000+ Documents
196. CVPR 2025DocVLM: Make Your VLM an Efficient Reader
197. CVPR 2025Domain Generalization in CLIP via Learning with Diverse Text Prompts
198. CVPR 2025DoraCycle: Domain-Oriented Adaptation of Unified Generative Model in Multimodal Cycles
199. CVPR 2025DORNet: A Degradation Oriented and Regularized Network for Blind Depth Super-Resolution
200. CVPR 2025DPC: Dual-Prompt Collaboration for Tuning Vision-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.