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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2001. CVPR 2025SF2T: Self-supervised Fragment Finetuning of Video-LLMs for Fine-Grained Understanding
2002. CVPR 2025ShowUI: One Vision-Language-Action Model for GUI Visual Agent
2003. CVPR 2025SIDA: Social Media Image Deepfake Detection, Localization and Explanation with Large Multimodal Model
2004. CVPR 2025SILMM: Self-Improving Large Multimodal Models for Compositional Text-to-Image Generation
2005. CVPR 2025Similarity-Guided Layer-Adaptive Vision Transformer for UAV Tracking
2006. CVPR 2025SimLingo: Vision-Only Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving with Language-Action Alignment
2007. CVPR 2025Simulator HC: Regression-based Online Simulation of Starting Problem-Solution Pairs for Homotopy Continuation in Geometric Vision
2008. CVPR 2025Single Domain Generalization for Few-Shot Counting via Universal Representation Matching
2009. CVPR 2025SKE-Layout: Spatial Knowledge Enhanced Layout Generation with LLMs
2010. CVPR 2025Sketchtopia: A Dataset and Foundational Agents for Benchmarking Asynchronous Multimodal Communication with Iconic Feedback
2011. CVPR 2025Skip Tuning: Pre-trained Vision-Language Models are Effective and Efficient Adapters Themselves
2012. CVPR 2025SkySense-O: Towards Open-World Remote Sensing Interpretation with Vision-Centric Visual-Language Modeling
2013. CVPR 2025SLADE: Shielding against Dual Exploits in Large Vision-Language Models
2014. CVPR 2025SlideChat: A Large Vision-Language Assistant for Whole-Slide Pathology Image Understanding
2015. CVPR 2025SmartCLIP: Modular Vision-language Alignment with Identification Guarantees
2016. CVPR 2025SMILE: Infusing Spatial and Motion Semantics in Masked Video Learning
2017. CVPR 2025SOAP: Vision-Centric 3D Semantic Scene Completion with Scene-Adaptive Decoder and Occluded Region-Aware View Projection
2018. CVPR 2025SoftShadow: Leveraging Soft Masks for Penumbra-Aware Shadow Removal
2019. CVPR 2025SOLAMI: Social Vision-Language-Action Modeling for Immersive Interaction with 3D Autonomous Characters
2020. CVPR 2025SOLVE: Synergy of Language-Vision and End-to-End Networks for Autonomous Driving
2021. CVPR 2025SPA-VL: A Comprehensive Safety Preference Alignment Dataset for Vision Language Models
2022. CVPR 2025SPARC: Score Prompting and Adaptive Fusion for Zero-Shot Multi-Label Recognition in Vision-Language Models
2023. CVPR 2025Spatial Transport Optimization by Repositioning Attention Map for Training-Free Text-to-Image Synthesis
2024. CVPR 2025Spatial457: A Diagnostic Benchmark for 6D Spatial Reasoning of Large Mutimodal Models
2025. CVPR 2025SpatialLLM: A Compound 3D-Informed Design towards Spatially-Intelligent Large Multimodal Models
2026. CVPR 2025Spatiotemporal Decoupling for Efficient Vision-Based Occupancy Forecasting
2027. CVPR 2025SphereUFormer: A U-Shaped Transformer for Spherical 360 Perception
2028. CVPR 2025Spk2SRImgNet: Super-Resolve Dynamic Scene from Spike Stream via Motion Aligned Collaborative Filtering
2029. CVPR 2025Split Adaptation for Pre-trained Vision Transformers
2030. CVPR 2025Stable-SCore: A Stable Registration-based Framework for 3D Shape Correspondence
2031. CVPR 2025Star with Bilinear Mapping
2032. CVPR 2025STCOcc: Sparse Spatial-Temporal Cascade Renovation for 3D Occupancy and Scene Flow Prediction
2033. CVPR 2025Steady Progress Beats Stagnation: Mutual Aid of Foundation and Conventional Models in Mixed Domain Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
2034. CVPR 2025Stealthy Backdoor Attack in Self-Supervised Learning Vision Encoders for Large Vision Language Models
2035. CVPR 2025Steering Away from Harm: An Adaptive Approach to Defending Vision Language Model Against Jailbreaks
2036. CVPR 2025STEP: Enhancing Video-LLMs' Compositional Reasoning by Spatio-Temporal Graph-guided Self-Training
2037. CVPR 2025STiL: Semi-supervised Tabular-Image Learning for Comprehensive Task-Relevant Information Exploration in Multimodal Classification
2038. CVPR 2025STING-BEE: Towards Vision-Language Model for Real-World X-ray Baggage Security Inspection
2039. CVPR 2025Stop Learning it all to Mitigate Visual Hallucination, Focus on the Hallucination Target.
2040. CVPR 2025Stop Walking in Circles! Bailing Out Early in Projected Gradient Descent
2041. CVPR 2025STOP: Integrated Spatial-Temporal Dynamic Prompting for Video Understanding
2042. CVPR 2025STPro: Spatial and Temporal Progressive Learning for Weakly Supervised Spatio-Temporal Grounding
2043. CVPR 2025Structure-Aware Correspondence Learning for Relative Pose Estimation
2044. CVPR 2025Style Evolving along Chain-of-Thought for Unknown-Domain Object Detection
2045. CVPR 2025Subspace Constraint and Contribution Estimation for Heterogeneous Federated Learning
2046. CVPR 2025Sufficient Invariant Learning for Distribution Shift
2047. CVPR 2025SuperLightNet: Lightweight Parameter Aggregation Network for Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation
2048. CVPR 2025SVFR: A Unified Framework for Generalized Video Face Restoration
2049. CVPR 2025SVLTA: Benchmarking Vision-Language Temporal Alignment via Synthetic Video Situation
2050. CVPR 2025Symbolic Representation for Any-to-Any Generative Tasks

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.