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
1,716 papers, page 4 of 35
- CVPR 2024Driving-Video Dehazing with Non-Aligned Regularization for Safety Assistance
- CVPR 2024DS-NeRV: Implicit Neural Video Representation with Decomposed Static and Dynamic Codes
- CVPR 2024DSL-FIQA: Assessing Facial Image Quality via Dual-Set Degradation Learning and Landmark-Guided Transformer
- CVPR 2024Dual Memory Networks: A Versatile Adaptation Approach for Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024Dual Prior Unfolding for Snapshot Compressive Imaging
- CVPR 2024Dual Prototype Attention for Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Dual-Consistency Model Inversion for Non-Exemplar Class Incremental Learning
- CVPR 2024Dynamic Graph Representation with Knowledge-aware Attention for Histopathology Whole Slide Image Analysis
- CVPR 2024ECLIPSE: A Resource-Efficient Text-to-Image Prior for Image Generations
- CVPR 2024EditGuard: Versatile Image Watermarking for Tamper Localization and Copyright Protection
- CVPR 2024Efficient Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024Efficient Vision-Language Pre-training by Cluster Masking
- CVPR 2024EfficientSAM: Leveraged Masked Image Pretraining for Efficient Segment Anything
- CVPR 2024EgoThink: Evaluating First-Person Perspective Thinking Capability of Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024Embodied Multi-Modal Agent trained by an LLM from a Parallel TextWorld
- CVPR 2024Embracing Unimodal Aleatoric Uncertainty for Robust Multimodal Fusion
- CVPR 2024EMCAD: Efficient Multi-scale Convolutional Attention Decoding for Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Emergent Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation from Off-the-shelf Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024EMOPortraits: Emotion-enhanced Multimodal One-shot Head Avatars
- CVPR 2024Empowering Resampling Operation for Ultra-High-Definition Image Enhancement with Model-Aware Guidance
- CVPR 2024Endow SAM with Keen Eyes: Temporal-spatial Prompt Learning for Video Camouflaged Object Detection
- CVPR 2024Enhanced Motion-Text Alignment for Image-to-Video Transfer Learning
- CVPR 2024Enhancing Multimodal Cooperation via Sample-level Modality Valuation
- CVPR 2024Enhancing Vision-Language Pre-training with Rich Supervisions
- CVPR 2024Enhancing Visual Document Understanding with Contrastive Learning in Large Visual-Language Models
- CVPR 2024Equivariant Plug-and-Play Image Reconstruction
- CVPR 2024ESCAPE: Encoding Super-keypoints for Category-Agnostic Pose Estimation
- CVPR 2024Estimating Extreme 3D Image Rotations using Cascaded Attention
- CVPR 2024ExACT: Language-guided Conceptual Reasoning and Uncertainty Estimation for Event-based Action Recognition and More
- CVPR 2024Expandable Subspace Ensemble for Pre-Trained Model-Based Class-Incremental Learning
- CVPR 2024Explaining CLIP's Performance Disparities on Data from Blind/Low Vision Users
- CVPR 2024Explaining the Implicit Neural Canvas: Connecting Pixels to Neurons by Tracing their Contributions
- CVPR 2024Exploiting Style Latent Flows for Generalizing Deepfake Video Detection
- CVPR 2024Exploring Region-Word Alignment in Built-in Detector for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
- CVPR 2024Exploring the Potential of Large Foundation Models for Open-Vocabulary HOI Detection
- CVPR 2024Exploring the Transferability of Visual Prompting for Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2024Exploring Vision Transformers for 3D Human Motion-Language Models with Motion Patches
- CVPR 2024Eyes Wide Shut? Exploring the Visual Shortcomings of Multimodal LLMs
- CVPR 2024Fair-VPT: Fair Visual Prompt Tuning for Image Classification
- CVPR 2024FairCLIP: Harnessing Fairness in Vision-Language Learning
- CVPR 2024FairDeDup: Detecting and Mitigating Vision-Language Fairness Disparities in Semantic Dataset Deduplication
- CVPR 2024FedUV: Uniformity and Variance for Heterogeneous Federated Learning
- CVPR 2024FFF: Fixing Flawed Foundations in Contrastive Pre-Training Results in Very Strong Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024Finding Lottery Tickets in Vision Models via Data-driven Spectral Foresight Pruning
- CVPR 2024Flexible Biometrics Recognition: Bridging the Multimodality Gap through Attention Alignment and Prompt Tuning
- CVPR 2024Flexible Depth Completion for Sparse and Varying Point Densities
- CVPR 2024Florence-2: Advancing a Unified Representation for a Variety of Vision Tasks
- CVPR 2024FMA-Net: Flow-Guided Dynamic Filtering and Iterative Feature Refinement with Multi-Attention for Joint Video Super-Resolution and Deblurring
- CVPR 2024Forgery-aware Adaptive Transformer for Generalizable Synthetic Image Detection
- CVPR 2024FreeCustom: Tuning-Free Customized Image Generation for Multi-Concept Composition
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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.