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 5 of 62
- CVPR 2025DPSeg: Dual-Prompt Cost Volume Learning for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025DPU: Dynamic Prototype Updating for Multimodal Out-of-Distribution Detection
- CVPR 2025DreamTrack: Dreaming the Future for Multimodal Visual Object Tracking
- CVPR 2025DSV-LFS: Unifying LLM-Driven Semantic Cues with Visual Features for Robust Few-Shot Segmentation
- CVPR 2025DTOS: Dynamic Time Object Sensing with Large Multimodal Model
- CVPR 2025Dual Diffusion for Unified Image Generation and Understanding
- CVPR 2025Dual Exposure Stereo for Extended Dynamic Range 3D Imaging
- CVPR 2025Dual Semantic Guidance for Open Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Dual-Granularity Semantic Guided Sparse Routing Diffusion Model for General Pansharpening
- CVPR 2025DVHGNN: Multi-Scale Dilated Vision HGNN for Efficient Vision Recognition
- CVPR 2025DyCoke: Dynamic Compression of Tokens for Fast Video Large Language Models
- CVPR 2025DyCON: Dynamic Uncertainty-aware Consistency and Contrastive Learning for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Dynamic Content Prediction with Motion-aware Priors for Blind Face Video Restoration
- CVPR 2025Dynamic Neural Surfaces for Elastic 4D Shape Representation and Analysis
- CVPR 2025DynFocus: Dynamic Cooperative Network Empowers LLMs with Video Understanding
- CVPR 2025DynRefer: Delving into Region-level Multimodal Tasks via Dynamic Resolution
- CVPR 2025EarthDial: Turning Multi-sensory Earth Observations to Interactive Dialogues
- CVPR 2025EasyCraft: A Robust and Efficient Framework for Automatic Avatar Crafting
- CVPR 2025ECBench: Can Multi-modal Foundation Models Understand the Egocentric World? A Holistic Embodied Cognition Benchmark
- CVPR 2025EchoTraffic: Enhancing Traffic Anomaly Understanding with Audio-Visual Insights
- CVPR 2025ECVC: Exploiting Non-Local Correlations in Multiple Frames for Contextual Video Compression
- CVPR 2025EdgeTAM: On-Device Track Anything Model
- CVPR 2025EEE-Bench: A Comprehensive Multimodal Electrical And Electronics Engineering Benchmark
- CVPR 2025Effective SAM Combination for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Efficient Transfer Learning for Video-language Foundation Models
- CVPR 2025Efficient Video Super-Resolution for Real-time Rendering with Decoupled G-buffer Guidance
- CVPR 2025Efficient Visual State Space Model for Image Deblurring
- CVPR 2025EfficientLLaVA: Generalizable Auto-Pruning for Large Vision-language Models
- CVPR 2025EffiDec3D: An Optimized Decoder for High-Performance and Efficient 3D Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2025EgoLife: Towards Egocentric Life Assistant
- CVPR 2025EgoPressure: A Dataset for Hand Pressure and Pose Estimation in Egocentric Vision
- CVPR 2025EgoTextVQA: Towards Egocentric Scene-Text Aware Video Question Answering
- CVPR 2025Embodied Scene Understanding for Vision Language Models via MetaVQA
- CVPR 2025EMOE: Modality-Specific Enhanced Dynamic Emotion Experts
- CVPR 2025EMOVA: Empowering Language Models to See, Hear and Speak with Vivid Emotions
- CVPR 2025Empowering Large Language Models with 3D Situation Awareness
- CVPR 2025Empowering LLMs to Understand and Generate Complex Vector Graphics
- CVPR 2025Encapsulated Composition of Text-to-Image and Text-to-Video Models for High-Quality Video Synthesis
- CVPR 2025Enhanced OoD Detection through Cross-Modal Alignment of Multi-Modal Representations
- CVPR 2025Enhancing Diversity for Data-free Quantization
- CVPR 2025Enhancing Video-LLM Reasoning via Agent-of-Thoughts Distillation
- CVPR 2025Enhancing Vision-Language Compositional Understanding with Multimodal Synthetic Data
- CVPR 2025EntitySAM: Segment Everything in Video
- CVPR 2025EquiPose: Exploiting Permutation Equivariance for Relative Camera Pose Estimation
- CVPR 2025Evaluating Vision-Language Models as Evaluators in Path Planning
- CVPR 2025EvEnhancer: Empowering Effectiveness, Efficiency and Generalizability for Continuous Space-Time Video Super-Resolution with Events
- CVPR 2025EventGPT: Event Stream Understanding with Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2025Every SAM Drop Counts: Embracing Semantic Priors for Multi-Modality Image Fusion and Beyond
- CVPR 2025Exact: Exploring Space-Time Perceptive Clues for Weakly Supervised Satellite Image Time Series Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025ExpertAF: Expert Actionable Feedback from Video
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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.