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

626 papers, page 7 of 13

301. CVPR 2024Leveraging Frame Affinity for sRGB-to-RAW Video De-rendering
302. CVPR 2024Leveraging Vision-Language Models for Improving Domain Generalization in Image Classification
303. CVPR 2024Lift3D: Zero-Shot Lifting of Any 2D Vision Model to 3D
304. CVPR 2024LightOctree: Lightweight 3D Spatially-Coherent Indoor Lighting Estimation
305. CVPR 2024Link-Context Learning for Multimodal LLMs
306. CVPR 2024LION: Empowering Multimodal Large Language Model with Dual-Level Visual Knowledge
307. CVPR 2024LISA: Reasoning Segmentation via Large Language Model
308. CVPR 2024LL3DA: Visual Interactive Instruction Tuning for Omni-3D Understanding Reasoning and Planning
309. CVPR 2024LLaMA-Excitor: General Instruction Tuning via Indirect Feature Interaction
310. CVPR 2024LLMs are Good Action Recognizers
311. CVPR 2024LLMs are Good Sign Language Translators
312. CVPR 2024Logarithmic Lenses: Exploring Log RGB Data for Image Classification
313. CVPR 2024Look-Up Table Compression for Efficient Image Restoration
314. CVPR 2024Lookahead Exploration with Neural Radiance Representation for Continuous Vision-Language Navigation
315. CVPR 2024Low-Rank Approximation for Sparse Attention in Multi-Modal LLMs
316. CVPR 2024Low-Rank Knowledge Decomposition for Medical Foundation Models
317. CVPR 2024Low-Resource Vision Challenges for Foundation Models
318. CVPR 2024LowRankOcc: Tensor Decomposition and Low-Rank Recovery for Vision-based 3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction
319. CVPR 2024LQMFormer: Language-aware Query Mask Transformer for Referring Image Segmentation
320. CVPR 2024LTGC: Long-tail Recognition via Leveraging LLMs-driven Generated Content
321. CVPR 2024MA-LMM: Memory-Augmented Large Multimodal Model for Long-Term Video Understanding
322. CVPR 2024MADTP: Multimodal Alignment-Guided Dynamic Token Pruning for Accelerating Vision-Language Transformer
323. CVPR 2024MAFA: Managing False Negatives for Vision-Language Pre-training
324. CVPR 2024Make Me a BNN: A Simple Strategy for Estimating Bayesian Uncertainty from Pre-trained Models
325. CVPR 2024Making Vision Transformers Truly Shift-Equivariant
326. CVPR 2024Making Visual Sense of Oracle Bones for You and Me
327. CVPR 2024ManipLLM: Embodied Multimodal Large Language Model for Object-Centric Robotic Manipulation
328. CVPR 2024MAP: MAsk-Pruning for Source-Free Model Intellectual Property Protection
329. CVPR 2024MAPLM: A Real-World Large-Scale Vision-Language Benchmark for Map and Traffic Scene Understanding
330. CVPR 2024MART: Masked Affective RepresenTation Learning via Masked Temporal Distribution Distillation
331. CVPR 2024Mask Grounding for Referring Image Segmentation
332. CVPR 2024Masked Autoencoders for Microscopy are Scalable Learners of Cellular Biology
333. CVPR 2024MeaCap: Memory-Augmented Zero-shot Image Captioning
334. CVPR 2024MemSAM: Taming Segment Anything Model for Echocardiography Video Segmentation
335. CVPR 2024MESA: Matching Everything by Segmenting Anything
336. CVPR 2024Meta-Point Learning and Refining for Category-Agnostic Pose Estimation
337. CVPR 2024MFP: Making Full Use of Probability Maps for Interactive Image Segmentation
338. CVPR 2024Minimal Perspective Autocalibration
339. CVPR 2024Mirasol3B: A Multimodal Autoregressive Model for Time-Aligned and Contextual Modalities
340. CVPR 2024Misalignment-Robust Frequency Distribution Loss for Image Transformation
341. CVPR 2024Mitigating Noisy Correspondence by Geometrical Structure Consistency Learning
342. CVPR 2024Mitigating Object Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models through Visual Contrastive Decoding
343. CVPR 2024MLP Can Be A Good Transformer Learner
344. CVPR 2024MM-Narrator: Narrating Long-form Videos with Multimodal In-Context Learning
345. CVPR 2024MMA: Multi-Modal Adapter for Vision-Language Models
346. CVPR 2024MMMU: A Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark for Expert AGI
347. CVPR 2024MMSum: A Dataset for Multimodal Summarization and Thumbnail Generation of Videos
348. CVPR 2024MMVP: A Multimodal MoCap Dataset with Vision and Pressure Sensors
349. CVPR 2024MoCha-Stereo: Motif Channel Attention Network for Stereo Matching
350. CVPR 2024Modality-Agnostic Structural Image Representation Learning for Deformable Multi-Modality Medical Image Registration

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.