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 43 of 67

2101. CVPR 2025UniPose: A Unified Multimodal Framework for Human Pose Comprehension, Generation and Editing
2102. CVPR 2025UniRestore: Unified Perceptual and Task-Oriented Image Restoration Model Using Diffusion Prior
2103. CVPR 2025Unleashing the Potential of Multi-modal Foundation Models and Video Diffusion for 4D Dynamic Physical Scene Simulation
2104. CVPR 2025Unsupervised Foundation Model-Agnostic Slide-Level Representation Learning
2105. CVPR 2025Unveil Inversion and Invariance in Flow Transformer for Versatile Image Editing
2106. CVPR 2025Unveiling the Ignorance of MLLMs: Seeing Clearly, Answering Incorrectly
2107. CVPR 2025Unveiling the Mist over 3D Vision-Language Understanding: Object-centric Evaluation with Chain-of-Analysis
2108. CVPR 2025UPME: An Unsupervised Peer Review Framework for Multimodal Large Language Model Evaluation
2109. CVPR 2025URWKV: Unified RWKV Model with Multi-state Perspective for Low-light Image Restoration
2110. CVPR 2025Using Diffusion Priors for Video Amodal Segmentation
2111. CVPR 2025V-Stylist: Video Stylization via Collaboration and Reflection of MLLM Agents
2112. CVPR 2025V^2Dial: Unification of Video and Visual Dialog via Multimodal Experts
2113. CVPR 2025VASparse: Towards Efficient Visual Hallucination Mitigation via Visual-Aware Token Sparsification
2114. CVPR 2025VDocRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation over Visually-Rich Documents
2115. CVPR 2025VELOCITI: Benchmarking Video-Language Compositional Reasoning with Strict Entailment
2116. CVPR 2025VERA: Explainable Video Anomaly Detection via Verbalized Learning of Vision-Language Models
2117. CVPR 2025VEU-Bench: Towards Comprehensive Understanding of Video Editing
2118. CVPR 2025ViCaS: A Dataset for Combining Holistic and Pixel-level Video Understanding using Captions with Grounded Segmentation
2119. CVPR 2025VidComposition: Can MLLMs Analyze Compositions in Compiled Videos?
2120. CVPR 2025Video Depth Anything: Consistent Depth Estimation for Super-Long Videos
2121. CVPR 2025Video Depth without Video Models
2122. CVPR 2025Video Summarization with Large Language Models
2123. CVPR 2025Video-ColBERT: Contextualized Late Interaction for Text-to-Video Retrieval
2124. CVPR 2025Video-Guided Foley Sound Generation with Multimodal Controls
2125. CVPR 2025Video-MME: The First-Ever Comprehensive Evaluation Benchmark of Multi-modal LLMs in Video Analysis
2126. CVPR 2025Video-Panda: Parameter-efficient Alignment for Encoder-free Video-Language Models
2127. CVPR 2025Video-XL: Extra-Long Vision Language Model for Hour-Scale Video Understanding
2128. CVPR 2025VideoAutoArena: An Automated Arena for Evaluating Large Multimodal Models in Video Analysis through User Simulation
2129. CVPR 2025VideoComp: Advancing Fine-Grained Compositional and Temporal Alignment in Video-Text Models
2130. CVPR 2025VideoGEM: Training-free Action Grounding in Videos
2131. CVPR 2025VideoGigaGAN: Towards Detail-rich Video Super-Resolution
2132. CVPR 2025VideoGLaMM : A Large Multimodal Model for Pixel-Level Visual Grounding in Videos
2133. CVPR 2025VideoICL: Confidence-based Iterative In-context Learning for Out-of-Distribution Video Understanding
2134. CVPR 2025VideoSPatS: Video SPatiotemporal Splines for Disentangled Occlusion, Appearance and Motion Modeling and Editing
2135. CVPR 2025VidHalluc: Evaluating Temporal Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models for Video Understanding
2136. CVPR 2025VILA-M3: Enhancing Vision-Language Models with Medical Expert Knowledge
2137. CVPR 2025VISCO: Benchmarking Fine-Grained Critique and Correction Towards Self-Improvement in Visual Reasoning
2138. CVPR 2025Vision-Language Embodiment for Monocular Depth Estimation
2139. CVPR 2025Vision-Language Gradient Descent-driven All-in-One Deep Unfolding Networks
2140. CVPR 2025Vision-Language Model IP Protection via Prompt-based Learning
2141. CVPR 2025Vision-Language Models Do Not Understand Negation
2142. CVPR 2025VisionArena: 230k Real World User-VLM Conversations with Preference Labels
2143. CVPR 2025VisionZip: Longer is Better but Not Necessary in Vision Language Models
2144. CVPR 2025VISTA3D: A Unified Segmentation Foundation Model For 3D Medical Imaging
2145. CVPR 2025Visual Lexicon: Rich Image Features in Language Space
2146. CVPR 2025Visual Persona: Foundation Model for Full-Body Human Customization
2147. CVPR 2025Visual Representation Learning through Causal Intervention for Controllable Image Editing
2148. CVPR 2025Visual-Instructed Degradation Diffusion for All-in-One Image Restoration
2149. CVPR 2025VITED: Video Temporal Evidence Distillation
2150. CVPR 2025VL-RewardBench: A Challenging Benchmark for Vision-Language Generative Reward 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.