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 66 of 67
- CVPR 2023TimeBalance: Temporally-Invariant and Temporally-Distinctive Video Representations for Semi-Supervised Action Recognition
- CVPR 2023TinyMIM: An Empirical Study of Distilling MIM Pre-Trained Models
- CVPR 2023Top-Down Visual Attention From Analysis by Synthesis
- CVPR 2023TopNet: Transformer-Based Object Placement Network for Image Compositing
- CVPR 2023Toward Accurate Post-Training Quantization for Image Super Resolution
- CVPR 2023Toward Verifiable and Reproducible Human Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2023Towards a Smaller Student: Capacity Dynamic Distillation for Efficient Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2023Towards Artistic Image Aesthetics Assessment: A Large-Scale Dataset and a New Method
- CVPR 2023Towards Fast Adaptation of Pretrained Contrastive Models for Multi-Channel Video-Language Retrieval
- CVPR 2023Towards High-Quality and Efficient Video Super-Resolution via Spatial-Temporal Data Overfitting
- CVPR 2023Towards Scalable Neural Representation for Diverse Videos
- CVPR 2023Towards Universal Fake Image Detectors That Generalize Across Generative Models
- CVPR 2023Train-Once-for-All Personalization
- CVPR 2023Transfer4D: A Framework for Frugal Motion Capture and Deformation Transfer
- CVPR 2023TransFlow: Transformer As Flow Learner
- CVPR 2023Trap Attention: Monocular Depth Estimation With Manual Traps
- CVPR 2023Tri-Perspective View for Vision-Based 3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction
- CVPR 2023TruFor: Leveraging All-Round Clues for Trustworthy Image Forgery Detection and Localization
- CVPR 2023Two-View Geometry Scoring Without Correspondences
- CVPR 2023ULIP: Learning a Unified Representation of Language, Images, and Point Clouds for 3D Understanding
- CVPR 2023Ultrahigh Resolution Image/Video Matting With Spatio-Temporal Sparsity
- CVPR 2023Unbiased Multiple Instance Learning for Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection
- CVPR 2023Uncertainty-Aware Vision-Based Metric Cross-View Geolocalization
- CVPR 2023Uni-Perceiver v2: A Generalist Model for Large-Scale Vision and Vision-Language Tasks
- CVPR 2023Unicode Analogies: An Anti-Objectivist Visual Reasoning Challenge
- CVPR 2023Unified Mask Embedding and Correspondence Learning for Self-Supervised Video Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Unifying Vision, Text, and Layout for Universal Document Processing
- CVPR 2023Unsupervised Domain Adaption With Pixel-Level Discriminator for Image-Aware Layout Generation
- CVPR 2023Vid2Seq: Large-Scale Pretraining of a Visual Language Model for Dense Video Captioning
- CVPR 2023Video Event Restoration Based on Keyframes for Video Anomaly Detection
- CVPR 2023Video Test-Time Adaptation for Action Recognition
- CVPR 2023VILA: Learning Image Aesthetics From User Comments With Vision-Language Pretraining
- CVPR 2023VindLU: A Recipe for Effective Video-and-Language Pretraining
- CVPR 2023Virtual Sparse Convolution for Multimodal 3D Object Detection
- CVPR 2023Vision Transformers Are Good Mask Auto-Labelers
- CVPR 2023Visual Atoms: Pre-Training Vision Transformers With Sinusoidal Waves
- CVPR 2023Visual Programming: Compositional Visual Reasoning Without Training
- CVPR 2023Visual Query Tuning: Towards Effective Usage of Intermediate Representations for Parameter and Memory Efficient Transfer Learning
- CVPR 2023Visual Recognition-Driven Image Restoration for Multiple Degradation With Intrinsic Semantics Recovery
- CVPR 2023Vita-CLIP: Video and Text Adaptive CLIP via Multimodal Prompting
- CVPR 2023ViTs for SITS: Vision Transformers for Satellite Image Time Series
- CVPR 2023VLPD: Context-Aware Pedestrian Detection via Vision-Language Semantic Self-Supervision
- CVPR 2023VoP: Text-Video Co-Operative Prompt Tuning for Cross-Modal Retrieval
- CVPR 2023Weakly Supervised Video Representation Learning With Unaligned Text for Sequential Videos
- CVPR 2023WeatherStream: Light Transport Automation of Single Image Deweathering
- CVPR 2023What Can Human Sketches Do for Object Detection?
- CVPR 2023Where We Are and What We're Looking At: Query Based Worldwide Image Geo-Localization Using Hierarchies and Scenes
- CVPR 2023WildLight: In-the-Wild Inverse Rendering With a Flashlight
- CVPR 2023WinCLIP: Zero-/Few-Shot Anomaly Classification and Segmentation
- CVPR 2023WINNER: Weakly-Supervised hIerarchical decompositioN and aligNment for Spatio-tEmporal Video gRounding
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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.