Multimodal LLMs papers, 2023–2026

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.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• 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

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251. CVPR 2025Explainable Saliency: Articulating Reasoning with Contextual Prioritization
252. CVPR 2025Explaining Domain Shifts in Language: Concept Erasing for Interpretable Image Classification
253. CVPR 2025Explaining in Diffusion: Explaining a Classifier with Diffusion Semantics
254. CVPR 2025Exploring CLIP's Dense Knowledge for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
255. CVPR 2025Exploring Intrinsic Normal Prototypes within a Single Image for Universal Anomaly Detection
256. CVPR 2025Exploring Semantic Feature Discrimination for Perceptual Image Super-Resolution and Opinion-Unaware No-Reference Image Quality Assessment
257. CVPR 2025Exploring Temporally-Aware Features for Point Tracking
258. CVPR 2025Exploring the Deep Fusion of Large Language Models and Diffusion Transformers for Text-to-Image Synthesis
259. CVPR 2025Exploring Visual Vulnerabilities via Multi-Loss Adversarial Search for Jailbreaking Vision-Language Models
260. CVPR 2025F^3OCUS - Federated Finetuning of Vision-Language Foundation Models with Optimal Client Layer Updating Strategy via Multi-objective Meta-Heuristics
261. CVPR 2025FactCheXcker: Mitigating Measurement Hallucinations in Chest X-ray Report Generation Models
262. CVPR 2025FastVLM: Efficient Vision Encoding for Vision Language Models
263. CVPR 2025Few-Shot Recognition via Stage-Wise Retrieval-Augmented Finetuning
264. CVPR 2025FIFA: Fine-grained Inter-frame Attention for Driver's Video Gaze Estimation
265. CVPR 2025Filter Images First, Generate Instructions Later: Pre-Instruction Data Selection for Visual Instruction Tuning
266. CVPR 2025FIMA-Q: Post-Training Quantization for Vision Transformers by Fisher Information Matrix Approximation
267. CVPR 2025Fine-Grained Image-Text Correspondence with Cost Aggregation for Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation
268. CVPR 2025FINECAPTION: Compositional Image Captioning Focusing on Wherever You Want at Any Granularity
269. CVPR 2025FineLIP: Extending CLIP's Reach via Fine-Grained Alignment with Longer Text Inputs
270. CVPR 2025FireEdit: Fine-grained Instruction-based Image Editing via Region-aware Vision Language Model
271. CVPR 2025FirePlace: Geometric Refinements of LLM Common Sense Reasoning for 3D Object Placement
272. CVPR 2025FisherTune: Fisher-Guided Robust Tuning of Vision Foundation Models for Domain Generalized Segmentation
273. CVPR 2025FLAIR: VLM with Fine-grained Language-informed Image Representations
274. CVPR 2025FlashSloth : Lightning Multimodal Large Language Models via Embedded Visual Compression
275. CVPR 2025Flexible Frame Selection for Efficient Video Reasoning
276. CVPR 2025Florence-VL: Enhancing Vision-Language Models with Generative Vision Encoder and Depth-Breadth Fusion
277. CVPR 2025FOCUS: Knowledge-enhanced Adaptive Visual Compression for Few-shot Whole Slide Image Classification
278. CVPR 2025Font-Agent: Enhancing Font Understanding with Large Language Models
279. CVPR 2025Forensics-Bench: A Comprehensive Forgery Detection Benchmark Suite for Large Vision Language Models
280. CVPR 2025FRAME: Floor-aligned Representation for Avatar Motion from Egocentric Video
281. CVPR 2025Free on the Fly: Enhancing Flexibility in Test-Time Adaptation with Online EM
282. CVPR 2025FreeScene: Mixed Graph Diffusion for 3D Scene Synthesis from Free Prompts
283. CVPR 2025Frequency Dynamic Convolution for Dense Image Prediction
284. CVPR 2025Frequency-Biased Synergistic Design for Image Compression and Compensation
285. CVPR 2025From Alexnet to Transformers: Measuring the Non-linearity of Deep Neural Networks with Affine Optimal Transport
286. CVPR 2025From Head to Tail: Towards Balanced Representation in Large Vision-Language Models through Adaptive Data Calibration
287. CVPR 2025From Multimodal LLMs to Generalist Embodied Agents: Methods and Lessons
288. CVPR 2025FSFM: A Generalizable Face Security Foundation Model via Self-Supervised Facial Representation Learning
289. CVPR 2025Full-DoF Egomotion Estimation for Event Cameras Using Geometric Solvers
290. CVPR 2025Functionality Understanding and Segmentation in 3D Scenes
291. CVPR 2025Fuzzy Multimodal Learning for Trusted Cross-modal Retrieval
292. CVPR 2025g3D-LF: Generalizable 3D-Language Feature Fields for Embodied Tasks
293. CVPR 2025Galaxy Walker: Geometry-aware VLMs For Galaxy-scale Understanding
294. CVPR 2025GaussTR: Foundation Model-Aligned Gaussian Transformer for Self-Supervised 3D Spatial Understanding
295. CVPR 2025Generalized Few-shot 3D Point Cloud Segmentation with Vision-Language Model
296. CVPR 2025Generalizing Deepfake Video Detection with Plug-and-Play: Video-Level Blending and Spatiotemporal Adapter Tuning
297. CVPR 2025Generating Multimodal Driving Scenes via Next-Scene Prediction
298. CVPR 2025Generative Photography: Scene-Consistent Camera Control for Realistic Text-to-Image Synthesis
299. CVPR 2025Generative Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
300. CVPR 2025GENIUS: A Generative Framework for Universal Multimodal Search

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.