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
509 papers, page 5 of 11
- CVPR 2023How You Feelin'? Learning Emotions and Mental States in Movie Scenes
- CVPR 2023Human Guided Ground-Truth Generation for Realistic Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2023HuManiFlow: Ancestor-Conditioned Normalising Flows on SO(3) Manifolds for Human Pose and Shape Distribution Estimation
- CVPR 2023Hybrid Active Learning via Deep Clustering for Video Action Detection
- CVPR 2023HyperCUT: Video Sequence From a Single Blurry Image Using Unsupervised Ordering
- CVPR 2023iCLIP: Bridging Image Classification and Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training for Visual Recognition
- CVPR 2023iDisc: Internal Discretization for Monocular Depth Estimation
- CVPR 2023IFSeg: Image-Free Semantic Segmentation via Vision-Language Model
- CVPR 2023Image as a Foreign Language: BEiT Pretraining for Vision and Vision-Language Tasks
- CVPR 2023Image Super-Resolution Using T-Tetromino Pixels
- CVPR 2023ImageBind: One Embedding Space To Bind Them All
- CVPR 2023Improving Commonsense in Vision-Language Models via Knowledge Graph Riddles
- CVPR 2023Improving Robustness of Vision Transformers by Reducing Sensitivity To Patch Corruptions
- CVPR 2023Improving Vision-and-Language Navigation by Generating Future-View Image Semantics
- CVPR 2023Improving Visual Grounding by Encouraging Consistent Gradient-Based Explanations
- CVPR 2023Indiscernible Object Counting in Underwater Scenes
- CVPR 2023Inferring and Leveraging Parts From Object Shape for Improving Semantic Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2023Ingredient-Oriented Multi-Degradation Learning for Image Restoration
- CVPR 2023Initialization Noise in Image Gradients and Saliency Maps
- CVPR 2023Instant Volumetric Head Avatars
- CVPR 2023InstantAvatar: Learning Avatars From Monocular Video in 60 Seconds
- CVPR 2023InstMove: Instance Motion for Object-Centric Video Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Integrally Pre-Trained Transformer Pyramid Networks
- CVPR 2023InternImage: Exploring Large-Scale Vision Foundation Models With Deformable Convolutions
- CVPR 2023Is BERT Blind? Exploring the Effect of Vision-and-Language Pretraining on Visual Language Understanding
- CVPR 2023Iterative Geometry Encoding Volume for Stereo Matching
- CVPR 2023Iterative Proposal Refinement for Weakly-Supervised Video Grounding
- CVPR 2023KD-DLGAN: Data Limited Image Generation via Knowledge Distillation
- CVPR 2023KERM: Knowledge Enhanced Reasoning for Vision-and-Language Navigation
- CVPR 2023L-CoIns: Language-Based Colorization With Instance Awareness
- CVPR 2023Language in a Bottle: Language Model Guided Concept Bottlenecks for Interpretable Image Classification
- CVPR 2023Language-Guided Audio-Visual Source Separation via Trimodal Consistency
- CVPR 2023Language-Guided Music Recommendation for Video via Prompt Analogies
- CVPR 2023LANIT: Language-Driven Image-to-Image Translation for Unlabeled Data
- CVPR 2023Large-Capacity and Flexible Video Steganography via Invertible Neural Network
- CVPR 2023LASP: Text-to-Text Optimization for Language-Aware Soft Prompting of Vision & Language Models
- CVPR 2023LAVENDER: Unifying Video-Language Understanding As Masked Language Modeling
- CVPR 2023Learned Two-Plane Perspective Prior Based Image Resampling for Efficient Object Detection
- CVPR 2023Learning a Deep Color Difference Metric for Photographic Images
- CVPR 2023Learning a Sparse Transformer Network for Effective Image Deraining
- CVPR 2023Learning Anchor Transformations for 3D Garment Animation
- CVPR 2023Learning Attribute and Class-Specific Representation Duet for Fine-Grained Fashion Analysis
- CVPR 2023Learning Detailed Radiance Manifolds for High-Fidelity and 3D-Consistent Portrait Synthesis From Monocular Image
- CVPR 2023Learning Distortion Invariant Representation for Image Restoration From a Causality Perspective
- CVPR 2023Learning Event Guided High Dynamic Range Video Reconstruction
- CVPR 2023Learning Expressive Prompting With Residuals for Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2023Learning Generative Structure Prior for Blind Text Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2023Learning Instance-Level Representation for Large-Scale Multi-Modal Pretraining in E-Commerce
- CVPR 2023Learning Partial Correlation Based Deep Visual Representation for Image Classification
- CVPR 2023Learning Procedure-Aware Video Representation From Instructional Videos and Their Narrations
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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.