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 56 of 67
- CVPR 2024V?: Guided Visual Search as a Core Mechanism in Multimodal LLMs
- CVPR 2024VA3: Virtually Assured Amplification Attack on Probabilistic Copyright Protection for Text-to-Image Generative Models
- CVPR 2024VBench: Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for Video Generative Models
- CVPR 2024VCoder: Versatile Vision Encoders for Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2024VicTR: Video-conditioned Text Representations for Activity Recognition
- CVPR 2024vid-TLDR: Training Free Token Merging for Light-weight Video Transformer
- CVPR 2024Video Harmonization with Triplet Spatio-Temporal Variation Patterns
- CVPR 2024Video Super-Resolution Transformer with Masked Inter&Intra-Frame Attention
- CVPR 2024VideoBooth: Diffusion-based Video Generation with Image Prompts
- CVPR 2024VideoLLM-online: Online Video Large Language Model for Streaming Video
- CVPR 2024VideoMAC: Video Masked Autoencoders Meet ConvNets
- CVPR 2024VidLA: Video-Language Alignment at Scale
- CVPR 2024ViLa-MIL: Dual-scale Vision-Language Multiple Instance Learning for Whole Slide Image Classification
- CVPR 2024VILA: On Pre-training for Visual Language Models
- CVPR 2024VINECS: Video-based Neural Character Skinning
- CVPR 2024ViP-LLaVA: Making Large Multimodal Models Understand Arbitrary Visual Prompts
- CVPR 2024Visual Objectification in Films: Towards a New AI Task for Video Interpretation
- CVPR 2024Visual Program Distillation: Distilling Tools and Programmatic Reasoning into Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024ViT-CoMer: Vision Transformer with Convolutional Multi-scale Feature Interaction for Dense Predictions
- CVPR 2024ViT-Lens: Towards Omni-modal Representations
- CVPR 2024ViTamin: Designing Scalable Vision Models in the Vision-Language Era
- CVPR 2024VLP: Vision Language Planning for Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2024VoCo: A Simple-yet-Effective Volume Contrastive Learning Framework for 3D Medical Image Analysis
- CVPR 2024Volumetric Environment Representation for Vision-Language Navigation
- CVPR 2024VTimeLLM: Empower LLM to Grasp Video Moments
- CVPR 2024VTQA: Visual Text Question Answering via Entity Alignment and Cross-Media Reasoning
- CVPR 2024Weakly Misalignment-free Adaptive Feature Alignment for UAVs-based Multimodal Object Detection
- CVPR 2024What Do You See in Vehicle? Comprehensive Vision Solution for In-Vehicle Gaze Estimation
- CVPR 2024What If the TV Was Off? Examining Counterfactual Reasoning Abilities of Multi-modal Language Models
- CVPR 2024What Sketch Explainability Really Means for Downstream Tasks?
- CVPR 2024What You See is What You GAN: Rendering Every Pixel for High-Fidelity Geometry in 3D GANs
- CVPR 2024WildlifeMapper: Aerial Image Analysis for Multi-Species Detection and Identification
- CVPR 2024WonderJourney: Going from Anywhere to Everywhere
- CVPR 2024WWW: A Unified Framework for Explaining What Where and Why of Neural Networks by Interpretation of Neuron Concepts
- CVPR 2024X-MIC: Cross-Modal Instance Conditioning for Egocentric Action Generalization
- CVPR 2024XFeat: Accelerated Features for Lightweight Image Matching
- CVPR 2024YOLO-World: Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
- CVPR 2024You'll Never Walk Alone: A Sketch and Text Duet for Fine-Grained Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2024Your Image is My Video: Reshaping the Receptive Field via Image-To-Video Differentiable AutoAugmentation and Fusion
- CVPR 2024Your Transferability Barrier is Fragile: Free-Lunch for Transferring the Non-Transferable Learning
- CVPR 2024Zero-Painter: Training-Free Layout Control for Text-to-Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2024Zero-shot Referring Expression Comprehension via Structural Similarity Between Images and Captions
- CVPR 2024ZONE: Zero-Shot Instruction-Guided Local Editing
- CVPR 20231000 FPS HDR Video With a Spike-RGB Hybrid Camera
- CVPR 20233D Concept Learning and Reasoning From Multi-View Images
- CVPR 20233D Spatial Multimodal Knowledge Accumulation for Scene Graph Prediction in Point Cloud
- CVPR 20233D Video Loops From Asynchronous Input
- CVPR 20233DAvatarGAN: Bridging Domains for Personalized Editable Avatars
- CVPR 2023A Dynamic Multi-Scale Voxel Flow Network for Video Prediction
- CVPR 2023A Generalized Framework for Video Instance Segmentation
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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.