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 60 of 67
- CVPR 2023Event-Based Frame Interpolation With Ad-Hoc Deblurring
- CVPR 2023EvShutter: Transforming Events for Unconstrained Rolling Shutter Correction
- CVPR 2023EXIF As Language: Learning Cross-Modal Associations Between Images and Camera Metadata
- CVPR 2023Exploiting Completeness and Uncertainty of Pseudo Labels for Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection
- CVPR 2023Exploiting Unlabelled Photos for Stronger Fine-Grained SBIR
- CVPR 2023Exploring Discontinuity for Video Frame Interpolation
- CVPR 2023Exploring Intra-Class Variation Factors With Learnable Cluster Prompts for Semi-Supervised Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2023Exploring Motion Ambiguity and Alignment for High-Quality Video Frame Interpolation
- CVPR 2023Exploring Structured Semantic Prior for Multi Label Recognition With Incomplete Labels
- CVPR 2023Exploring the Effect of Primitives for Compositional Generalization in Vision-and-Language
- CVPR 2023Extracting Motion and Appearance via Inter-Frame Attention for Efficient Video Frame Interpolation
- CVPR 2023FAME-ViL: Multi-Tasking Vision-Language Model for Heterogeneous Fashion Tasks
- CVPR 2023FashionSAP: Symbols and Attributes Prompt for Fine-Grained Fashion Vision-Language Pre-Training
- CVPR 2023Feature Aggregated Queries for Transformer-Based Video Object Detectors
- CVPR 2023Few-Shot Learning With Visual Distribution Calibration and Cross-Modal Distribution Alignment
- CVPR 2023FFF: Fragment-Guided Flexible Fitting for Building Complete Protein Structures
- CVPR 2023Filtering, Distillation, and Hard Negatives for Vision-Language Pre-Training
- CVPR 2023FlexiViT: One Model for All Patch Sizes
- CVPR 2023Focused and Collaborative Feedback Integration for Interactive Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Foundation Model Drives Weakly Incremental Learning for Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Fresnel Microfacet BRDF: Unification of Polari-Radiometric Surface-Body Reflection
- CVPR 2023GamutMLP: A Lightweight MLP for Color Loss Recovery
- CVPR 2023GD-MAE: Generative Decoder for MAE Pre-Training on LiDAR Point Clouds
- CVPR 2023Generalized Decoding for Pixel, Image, and Language
- CVPR 2023Generating Aligned Pseudo-Supervision From Non-Aligned Data for Image Restoration in Under-Display Camera
- CVPR 2023Generating Anomalies for Video Anomaly Detection With Prompt-Based Feature Mapping
- CVPR 2023GeoVLN: Learning Geometry-Enhanced Visual Representation With Slot Attention for Vision-and-Language Navigation
- CVPR 2023GFIE: A Dataset and Baseline for Gaze-Following From 2D to 3D in Indoor Environments
- CVPR 2023GIVL: Improving Geographical Inclusivity of Vision-Language Models With Pre-Training Methods
- CVPR 2023Global-to-Local Modeling for Video-Based 3D Human Pose and Shape Estimation
- CVPR 2023Gloss Attention for Gloss-Free Sign Language Translation
- CVPR 2023Ground-Truth Free Meta-Learning for Deep Compressive Sampling
- CVPR 2023Guided Depth Super-Resolution by Deep Anisotropic Diffusion
- CVPR 2023HAAV: Hierarchical Aggregation of Augmented Views for Image Captioning
- CVPR 2023Hand Avatar: Free-Pose Hand Animation and Rendering From Monocular Video
- CVPR 2023Hard Patches Mining for Masked Image Modeling
- CVPR 2023HARP: Personalized Hand Reconstruction From a Monocular RGB Video
- CVPR 2023Hierarchical Prompt Learning for Multi-Task Learning
- CVPR 2023Hierarchical Semantic Contrast for Scene-Aware Video Anomaly Detection
- CVPR 2023Hierarchical Semantic Correspondence Networks for Video Paragraph Grounding
- CVPR 2023High-Fidelity Clothed Avatar Reconstruction From a Single Image
- CVPR 2023HNeRV: A Hybrid Neural Representation for Videos
- CVPR 2023HOICLIP: Efficient Knowledge Transfer for HOI Detection With Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2023How You Feelin'? Learning Emotions and Mental States in Movie Scenes
- CVPR 2023Human Guided Ground-Truth Generation for Realistic Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2023HuManiFlow: Ancestor-Conditioned Normalising Flows on SO(3) Manifolds for Human Pose and Shape Distribution Estimation
- CVPR 2023Hybrid Active Learning via Deep Clustering for Video Action Detection
- CVPR 2023HyperCUT: Video Sequence From a Single Blurry Image Using Unsupervised Ordering
- CVPR 2023iCLIP: Bridging Image Classification and Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training for Visual Recognition
- CVPR 2023iDisc: Internal Discretization for Monocular Depth Estimation
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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.