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 44 of 67

2151. CVPR 2025VL2Lite: Task-Specific Knowledge Distillation from Large Vision-Language Models to Lightweight Networks
2152. CVPR 2025VladVA: Discriminative Fine-tuning of LVLMs
2153. CVPR 2025VLsI: Verbalized Layers-to-Interactions from Large to Small Vision Language Models
2154. CVPR 2025VoCo-LLaMA: Towards Vision Compression with Large Language Models
2155. CVPR 2025VolFormer: Explore More Comprehensive Cube Interaction for Hyperspectral Image Restoration and Beyond
2156. CVPR 2025Watermarking One for All: A Robust Watermarking Scheme Against Partial Image Theft
2157. CVPR 2025Weakly Supervised Temporal Action Localization via Dual-Prior Collaborative Learning Guided by Multimodal Large Language Models
2158. CVPR 2025WeGen: A Unified Model for Interactive Multimodal Generation as We Chat
2159. CVPR 2025What's in the Image? A Deep-Dive into the Vision of Vision Language Models
2160. CVPR 2025When the Future Becomes the Past: Taming Temporal Correspondence for Self-supervised Video Representation Learning
2161. CVPR 2025WISE: A Framework for Gigapixel Whole-Slide-Image Lossless Compression
2162. CVPR 2025Words or Vision: Do Vision-Language Models Have Blind Faith in Text?
2163. CVPR 2025XLRS-Bench: Could Your Multimodal LLMs Understand Extremely Large Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery?
2164. CVPR 2025Yo'Chameleon: Personalized Vision and Language Generation
2165. CVPR 2025Your Large Vision-Language Model Only Needs A Few Attention Heads For Visual Grounding
2166. CVPR 2025Zero-shot 3D Question Answering via Voxel-based Dynamic Token Compression
2167. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot 4D Lidar Panoptic Segmentation
2168. CVPR 2024360Loc: A Dataset and Benchmark for Omnidirectional Visual Localization with Cross-device Queries
2169. CVPR 20243D Face Tracking from 2D Video through Iterative Dense UV to Image Flow
2170. CVPR 20243D Multi-frame Fusion for Video Stabilization
2171. CVPR 20243D-LFM: Lifting Foundation Model
2172. CVPR 2024A Closer Look at the Few-Shot Adaptation of Large Vision-Language Models
2173. CVPR 2024A General and Efficient Training for Transformer via Token Expansion
2174. CVPR 2024A Pedestrian is Worth One Prompt: Towards Language Guidance Person Re-Identification
2175. CVPR 2024A Picture is Worth More Than 77 Text Tokens: Evaluating CLIP-Style Models on Dense Captions
2176. CVPR 2024A Simple Recipe for Contrastively Pre-training Video-First Encoders Beyond 16 Frames
2177. CVPR 2024A Simple Recipe for Language-guided Domain Generalized Segmentation
2178. CVPR 2024A Theory of Joint Light and Heat Transport for Lambertian Scenes
2179. CVPR 2024A Unified Approach for Text- and Image-guided 4D Scene Generation
2180. CVPR 2024A Video is Worth 256 Bases: Spatial-Temporal Expectation-Maximization Inversion for Zero-Shot Video Editing
2181. CVPR 2024A Vision Check-up for Language Models
2182. CVPR 2024Accelerating Neural Field Training via Soft Mining
2183. CVPR 2024Accept the Modality Gap: An Exploration in the Hyperbolic Space
2184. CVPR 2024ActiveDC: Distribution Calibration for Active Finetuning
2185. CVPR 2024AdaBM: On-the-Fly Adaptive Bit Mapping for Image Super-Resolution
2186. CVPR 2024Adapt or Perish: Adaptive Sparse Transformer with Attentive Feature Refinement for Image Restoration
2187. CVPR 2024Adaptive Bidirectional Displacement for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
2188. CVPR 2024AHIVE: Anatomy-aware Hierarchical Vision Encoding for Interactive Radiology Report Retrieval
2189. CVPR 2024AIDE: An Automatic Data Engine for Object Detection in Autonomous Driving
2190. CVPR 2024ALGM: Adaptive Local-then-Global Token Merging for Efficient Semantic Segmentation with Plain Vision Transformers
2191. CVPR 2024Align and Aggregate: Compositional Reasoning with Video Alignment and Answer Aggregation for Video Question-Answering
2192. CVPR 2024Align Before Adapt: Leveraging Entity-to-Region Alignments for Generalizable Video Action Recognition
2193. CVPR 2024Aligning and Prompting Everything All at Once for Universal Visual Perception
2194. CVPR 2024AlignMiF: Geometry-Aligned Multimodal Implicit Field for LiDAR-Camera Joint Synthesis
2195. CVPR 2024All in One Framework for Multimodal Re-identification in the Wild
2196. CVPR 2024AM-RADIO: Agglomerative Vision Foundation Model Reduce All Domains Into One
2197. CVPR 2024AMU-Tuning: Effective Logit Bias for CLIP-based Few-shot Learning
2198. CVPR 2024An N-Point Linear Solver for Line and Motion Estimation with Event Cameras
2199. CVPR 2024Anatomically Constrained Implicit Face Models
2200. CVPR 2024Anchor-based Robust Finetuning of 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.