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
3,302 papers, page 54 of 67
- CVPR 2024Separate and Conquer: Decoupling Co-occurrence via Decomposition and Representation for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Sequential Modeling Enables Scalable Learning for Large Vision Models
- CVPR 2024Shadow-Enlightened Image Outpainting
- CVPR 2024Shadows Don't Lie and Lines Can't Bend! Generative Models don't know Projective Geometry...for now
- CVPR 2024Sheared Backpropagation for Fine-tuning Foundation Models
- CVPR 2024Siamese Learning with Joint Alignment and Regression for Weakly-Supervised Video Paragraph Grounding
- CVPR 2024Sieve: Multimodal Dataset Pruning using Image Captioning Models
- CVPR 2024SimDA: Simple Diffusion Adapter for Efficient Video Generation
- CVPR 2024Single-Model and Any-Modality for Video Object Tracking
- CVPR 2024Situational Awareness Matters in 3D Vision Language Reasoning
- CVPR 2024SkySense: A Multi-Modal Remote Sensing Foundation Model Towards Universal Interpretation for Earth Observation Imagery
- CVPR 2024SLICE: Stabilized LIME for Consistent Explanations for Image Classification
- CVPR 2024SlowFormer: Adversarial Attack on Compute and Energy Consumption of Efficient Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2024SmartEdit: Exploring Complex Instruction-based Image Editing with Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2024SnAG: Scalable and Accurate Video Grounding
- CVPR 2024Snap Video: Scaled Spatiotemporal Transformers for Text-to-Video Synthesis
- CVPR 2024Snapshot Lidar: Fourier Embedding of Amplitude and Phase for Single-Image Depth Reconstruction
- CVPR 2024SNIFFER: Multimodal Large Language Model for Explainable Out-of-Context Misinformation Detection
- CVPR 2024SocialCounterfactuals: Probing and Mitigating Intersectional Social Biases in Vision-Language Models with Counterfactual Examples
- CVPR 2024SOK-Bench: A Situated Video Reasoning Benchmark with Aligned Open-World Knowledge
- CVPR 2024Solving Masked Jigsaw Puzzles with Diffusion Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2024SonicVisionLM: Playing Sound with Vision Language Models
- CVPR 2024SoundingActions: Learning How Actions Sound from Narrated Egocentric Videos
- CVPR 2024Source-Free Domain Adaptation with Frozen Multimodal Foundation Model
- CVPR 2024Sparse Global Matching for Video Frame Interpolation with Large Motion
- CVPR 2024SpatialVLM: Endowing Vision-Language Models with Spatial Reasoning Capabilities
- CVPR 2024SPECAT: SPatial-spEctral Cumulative-Attention Transformer for High-Resolution Hyperspectral Image Reconstruction
- CVPR 2024Spectral and Polarization Vision: Spectro-polarimetric Real-world Dataset
- CVPR 2024SPIDeRS: Structured Polarization for Invisible Depth and Reflectance Sensing
- CVPR 2024SpikingResformer: Bridging ResNet and Vision Transformer in Spiking Neural Networks
- CVPR 2024Split to Merge: Unifying Separated Modalities for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
- CVPR 2024SportsSloMo: A New Benchmark and Baselines for Human-centric Video Frame Interpolation
- CVPR 2024State Space Models for Event Cameras
- CVPR 2024Stationary Representations: Optimally Approximating Compatibility and Implications for Improved Model Replacements
- CVPR 2024StegoGAN: Leveraging Steganography for Non-Bijective Image-to-Image Translation
- CVPR 2024Step Differences in Instructional Video
- CVPR 2024Stronger Fewer & Superior: Harnessing Vision Foundation Models for Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Summarize the Past to Predict the Future: Natural Language Descriptions of Context Boost Multimodal Object Interaction Anticipation
- CVPR 2024Super-Resolution Reconstruction from Bayer-Pattern Spike Streams
- CVPR 2024SURE: SUrvey REcipes for building reliable and robust deep networks
- CVPR 2024SVDTree: Semantic Voxel Diffusion for Single Image Tree Reconstruction
- CVPR 2024SyncMask: Synchronized Attentional Masking for Fashion-centric Vision-Language Pretraining
- CVPR 2024Synthesize Diagnose and Optimize: Towards Fine-Grained Vision-Language Understanding
- CVPR 2024Synthesize Step-by-Step: Tools Templates and LLMs as Data Generators for Reasoning-Based Chart VQA
- CVPR 2024Systematic Comparison of Semi-supervised and Self-supervised Learning for Medical Image Classification
- CVPR 2024Task-Aware Encoder Control for Deep Video Compression
- CVPR 2024Task-Customized Mixture of Adapters for General Image Fusion
- CVPR 2024Test-Time Zero-Shot Temporal Action Localization
- CVPR 2024Text Is MASS: Modeling as Stochastic Embedding for Text-Video Retrieval
- CVPR 2024Text Prompt with Normality Guidance for Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection
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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.