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
3,075 papers, page 48 of 62
- NeurIPS 2025Generalization Bounds for Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) and Enhanced KANs with Lower Lipschitz Complexity
- NeurIPS 2025Generalization or Hallucination? Understanding Out-of-Context Reasoning in Transformers
- NeurIPS 2025Generalized Contrastive Learning for Universal Multimodal Retrieval
- NeurIPS 2025Generalized Linear Mode Connectivity for Transformers
- NeurIPS 2025Generalizing Single-Frame Supervision to Event-Level Understanding for Video Anomaly Detection
- NeurIPS 2025Generate, but Verify: Reducing Hallucination in Vision-Language Models with Retrospective Resampling
- NeurIPS 2025Genesis: Multimodal Driving Scene Generation with Spatio-Temporal and Cross-Modal Consistency
- NeurIPS 2025GenIR: Generative Visual Feedback for Mental Image Retrieval
- NeurIPS 2025GenSpace: Benchmarking Spatially-Aware Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2025GeoLink: Empowering Remote Sensing Foundation Model with OpenStreetMap Data
- NeurIPS 2025GeoLLaVA-8K: Scaling Remote-Sensing Multimodal Large Language Models to 8K Resolution
- NeurIPS 2025GeoRanker: Distance-Aware Ranking for Worldwide Image Geolocalization
- NeurIPS 2025Glance2Gaze: Efficient Vision-Language Models from Glance Fusion to Gaze Compression
- NeurIPS 2025Global Minimizers of Sigmoid Contrastive Loss
- NeurIPS 2025GLSim: Detecting Object Hallucinations in LVLMs via Global-Local Similarity
- NeurIPS 2025GoalLadder: Incremental Goal Discovery with Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Gompertz Linear Units: Leveraging Asymmetry for Enhanced Learning Dynamics
- NeurIPS 2025GPLQ: A General, Practical, and Lightning QAT Method for Vision Transformers
- NeurIPS 2025GPSToken: Gaussian Parameterized Spatially-adaptive Tokenization for Image Representation and Generation
- NeurIPS 2025GradMetaNet: An Equivariant Architecture for Learning on Gradients
- NeurIPS 2025Grammars of Formal Uncertainty: When to Trust LLMs in Automated Reasoning Tasks
- NeurIPS 2025GRAVER: Generative Graph Vocabularies for Robust Graph Foundation Models Fine-tuning
- NeurIPS 2025GRE Suite: Geo-localization Inference via Fine-Tuned Vision-Language Models and Enhanced Reasoning Chains
- NeurIPS 2025GRIFFIN: Effective Token Alignment for Faster Speculative Decoding
- NeurIPS 2025GRIT: Teaching MLLMs to Think with Images
- NeurIPS 2025Grounded Reinforcement Learning for Visual Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2025Grounding Language with Vision: A Conditional Mutual Information Calibrated Decoding Strategy for Reducing Hallucinations in LVLMs
- NeurIPS 2025GuardReasoner-VL: Safeguarding VLMs via Reinforced Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2025GUI-Actor: Coordinate-Free Visual Grounding for GUI Agents
- NeurIPS 2025GUI-Reflection: Empowering Multimodal GUI Models with Self-Reflection Behavior
- NeurIPS 2025GUI-Rise: Structured Reasoning and History Summarization for GUI Navigation
- NeurIPS 2025GUIDED: Granular Understanding via Identification, Detection, and Discrimination for Fine-Grained Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
- NeurIPS 2025Guiding Cross-Modal Representations with MLLM Priors via Preference Alignment
- NeurIPS 2025Hallucination at a Glance: Controlled Visual Edits and Fine-Grained Multimodal Learning
- NeurIPS 2025HALO: Hadamard-Assisted Lower-Precision Optimization for LLMs
- NeurIPS 2025Hawaii: Hierarchical Visual Knowledge Transfer for Efficient Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025HBLLM: Wavelet-Enhanced High-Fidelity 1-Bit Quantization for LLMs
- NeurIPS 2025Head Pursuit: Probing Attention Specialization in Multimodal Transformers
- NeurIPS 2025HermesFlow: Seamlessly Closing the Gap in Multimodal Understanding and Generation
- NeurIPS 2025Hierarchical Information Aggregation for Incomplete Multimodal Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis
- NeurIPS 2025Hierarchical Semantic-Augmented Navigation: Optimal Transport and Graph-Driven Reasoning for Vision-Language Navigation
- NeurIPS 2025Highlighting What Matters: Promptable Embeddings for Attribute-Focused Image Retrieval
- NeurIPS 2025HMVLM:Human Motion-Vision-Language Model via MoE LoRA
- NeurIPS 2025HoliTom: Holistic Token Merging for Fast Video Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025HoloLLM: Multisensory Foundation Model for Language-Grounded Human Sensing and Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2025Homogeneous Keys, Heterogeneous Values: Exploiting Local KV Cache Asymmetry for Long-Context LLMs
- NeurIPS 2025HopaDIFF: Holistic-Partial Aware Fourier Conditioned Diffusion for Referring Human Action Segmentation in Multi-Person Scenarios
- NeurIPS 2025HoPE: Hybrid of Position Embedding for Long Context Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025How do Transformers Learn Implicit Reasoning?
- NeurIPS 2025How to Auto-optimize Prompts for Domain Tasks? Adaptive Prompting and Reasoning through Evolutionary Domain Knowledge Adaptation
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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.