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
626 papers, page 5 of 13
- CVPR 2024FreeDrag: Feature Dragging for Reliable Point-based Image Editing
- CVPR 2024Frequency-aware Event-based Video Deblurring for Real-World Motion Blur
- CVPR 2024From Activation to Initialization: Scaling Insights for Optimizing Neural Fields
- CVPR 2024From Feature to Gaze: A Generalizable Replacement of Linear Layer for Gaze Estimation
- CVPR 2024From Pixels to Graphs: Open-Vocabulary Scene Graph Generation with Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024Frozen Feature Augmentation for Few-Shot Image Classification
- CVPR 2024FSRT: Facial Scene Representation Transformer for Face Reenactment from Factorized Appearance Head-pose and Facial Expression Features
- CVPR 2024G^3-LQ: Marrying Hyperbolic Alignment with Explicit Semantic-Geometric Modeling for 3D Visual Grounding
- CVPR 2024Generalizable Whole Slide Image Classification with Fine-Grained Visual-Semantic Interaction
- CVPR 2024Generate Subgoal Images before Act: Unlocking the Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Diffusion Model for Robot Manipulation with Multimodal Prompts
- CVPR 2024Generative Latent Coding for Ultra-Low Bitrate Image Compression
- CVPR 2024Generative Multimodal Models are In-Context Learners
- CVPR 2024Genuine Knowledge from Practice: Diffusion Test-Time Adaptation for Video Adverse Weather Removal
- CVPR 2024GenZI: Zero-Shot 3D Human-Scene Interaction Generation
- CVPR 2024GeoChat: Grounded Large Vision-Language Model for Remote Sensing
- CVPR 2024Geometrically-driven Aggregation for Zero-shot 3D Point Cloud Understanding
- CVPR 2024GLaMM: Pixel Grounding Large Multimodal Model
- CVPR 2024GLID: Pre-training a Generalist Encoder-Decoder Vision Model
- CVPR 2024GlitchBench: Can Large Multimodal Models Detect Video Game Glitches?
- CVPR 2024Global and Local Prompts Cooperation via Optimal Transport for Federated Learning
- CVPR 2024GOV-NeSF: Generalizable Open-Vocabulary Neural Semantic Fields
- CVPR 2024GPT4Point: A Unified Framework for Point-Language Understanding and Generation
- CVPR 2024GRAM: Global Reasoning for Multi-Page VQA
- CVPR 2024GreedyViG: Dynamic Axial Graph Construction for Efficient Vision GNNs
- CVPR 2024Grounding and Enhancing Grid-based Models for Neural Fields
- CVPR 2024Grounding Everything: Emerging Localization Properties in Vision-Language Transformers
- CVPR 2024GSVA: Generalized Segmentation via Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2024Guided Slot Attention for Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation
- CVPR 2024H-ViT: A Hierarchical Vision Transformer for Deformable Image Registration
- CVPR 2024Hallucination Augmented Contrastive Learning for Multimodal Large Language Model
- CVPR 2024HallusionBench: An Advanced Diagnostic Suite for Entangled Language Hallucination and Visual Illusion in Large Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024Harnessing Large Language Models for Training-free Video Anomaly Detection
- CVPR 2024Harnessing Meta-Learning for Improving Full-Frame Video Stabilization
- CVPR 2024Harnessing the Power of MLLMs for Transferable Text-to-Image Person ReID
- CVPR 2024HEAL-SWIN: A Vision Transformer On The Sphere
- CVPR 2024Higher-order Relational Reasoning for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction
- CVPR 2024Holistic Features are almost Sufficient for Text-to-Video Retrieval
- CVPR 2024Holo-Relighting: Controllable Volumetric Portrait Relighting from a Single Image
- CVPR 2024HomoFormer: Homogenized Transformer for Image Shadow Removal
- CVPR 2024Honeybee: Locality-enhanced Projector for Multimodal LLM
- CVPR 2024How to Configure Good In-Context Sequence for Visual Question Answering
- CVPR 2024Hybrid Functional Maps for Crease-Aware Non-Isometric Shape Matching
- CVPR 2024Hyperbolic Learning with Synthetic Captions for Open-World Detection
- CVPR 2024Identifying Important Group of Pixels using Interactions
- CVPR 2024IIRP-Net: Iterative Inference Residual Pyramid Network for Enhanced Image Registration
- CVPR 2024Image Processing GNN: Breaking Rigidity in Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2024Image-Text Co-Decomposition for Text-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Image-to-Image Matching via Foundation Models: A New Perspective for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Improved Baselines with Visual Instruction Tuning
- CVPR 2024Improved Zero-Shot Classification by Adapting VLMs with Text Descriptions
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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.