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
1,716 papers, page 6 of 35
- CVPR 2024In2SET: Intra-Inter Similarity Exploiting Transformer for Dual-Camera Compressive Hyperspectral Imaging
- CVPR 2024Infer from What You Have Seen Before: Temporally-dependent Classifier for Semi-supervised Video Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Ink Dot-Oriented Differentiable Optimization for Neural Image Halftoning
- CVPR 2024Insect-Foundation: A Foundation Model and Large-scale 1M Dataset for Visual Insect Understanding
- CVPR 2024Instance-Aware Group Quantization for Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2024Instruct-Imagen: Image Generation with Multi-modal Instruction
- CVPR 2024InstructDiffusion: A Generalist Modeling Interface for Vision Tasks
- CVPR 2024Intelligent Grimm - Open-ended Visual Storytelling via Latent Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Interactive Continual Learning: Fast and Slow Thinking
- CVPR 2024InternVL: Scaling up Vision Foundation Models and Aligning for Generic Visual-Linguistic Tasks
- CVPR 2024Investigating Compositional Challenges in Vision-Language Models for Visual Grounding
- CVPR 2024IQ-VFI: Implicit Quadratic Motion Estimation for Video Frame Interpolation
- CVPR 2024IS-Fusion: Instance-Scene Collaborative Fusion for Multimodal 3D Object Detection
- CVPR 2024Iterated Learning Improves Compositionality in Large Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024Jack of All Tasks Master of Many: Designing General-Purpose Coarse-to-Fine Vision-Language Model
- CVPR 2024JDEC: JPEG Decoding via Enhanced Continuous Cosine Coefficients
- CVPR 2024JoAPR: Cleaning the Lens of Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024Just Add ?! Pose Induced Video Transformers for Understanding Activities of Daily Living
- CVPR 2024KeyPoint Relative Position Encoding for Face Recognition
- CVPR 2024Know Your Neighbors: Improving Single-View Reconstruction via Spatial Vision-Language Reasoning
- CVPR 2024KVQ: Kwai Video Quality Assessment for Short-form Videos
- CVPR 2024L2B: Learning to Bootstrap Robust Models for Combating Label Noise
- CVPR 2024Label Propagation for Zero-shot Classification with Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024LaMPilot: An Open Benchmark Dataset for Autonomous Driving with Language Model Programs
- CVPR 2024LAN: Learning to Adapt Noise for Image Denoising
- CVPR 2024Language Model Guided Interpretable Video Action Reasoning
- CVPR 2024Language Models as Black-Box Optimizers for Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024Language-aware Visual Semantic Distillation for Video Question Answering
- CVPR 2024Language-driven All-in-one Adverse Weather Removal
- CVPR 2024Language-Driven Anchors for Zero-Shot Adversarial Robustness
- CVPR 2024Large Language Models are Good Prompt Learners for Low-Shot Image Classification
- CVPR 2024Latent Modulated Function for Computational Optimal Continuous Image Representation
- CVPR 2024LDP: Language-driven Dual-Pixel Image Defocus Deblurring Network
- CVPR 2024LEAD: Exploring Logit Space Evolution for Model Selection
- CVPR 2024Learning Background Prompts to Discover Implicit Knowledge for Open Vocabulary Object Detection
- CVPR 2024Learning by Correction: Efficient Tuning Task for Zero-Shot Generative Vision-Language Reasoning
- CVPR 2024Learning Correlation Structures for Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2024Learning Coupled Dictionaries from Unpaired Data for Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2024Learning Degradation-Independent Representations for Camera ISP Pipelines
- CVPR 2024Learning from One Continuous Video Stream
- CVPR 2024Learning Inclusion Matching for Animation Paint Bucket Colorization
- CVPR 2024Learning Intra-view and Cross-view Geometric Knowledge for Stereo Matching
- CVPR 2024Learning Object State Changes in Videos: An Open-World Perspective
- CVPR 2024Learning the 3D Fauna of the Web
- CVPR 2024Learning to Localize Objects Improves Spatial Reasoning in Visual-LLMs
- CVPR 2024Learning to Rank Patches for Unbiased Image Redundancy Reduction
- CVPR 2024Learning to Remove Wrinkled Transparent Film with Polarized Prior
- CVPR 2024Learning to Segment Referred Objects from Narrated Egocentric Videos
- CVPR 2024Learning Vision from Models Rivals Learning Vision from Data
- CVPR 2024Leveraging Camera Triplets for Efficient and Accurate Structure-from-Motion
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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.