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
1,226 papers, page 7 of 25
- CVPR 2023MIC: Masked Image Consistency for Context-Enhanced Domain Adaptation
- CVPR 2023MIST: Multi-Modal Iterative Spatial-Temporal Transformer for Long-Form Video Question Answering
- CVPR 2023MixMAE: Mixed and Masked Autoencoder for Efficient Pretraining of Hierarchical Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2023MixPHM: Redundancy-Aware Parameter-Efficient Tuning for Low-Resource Visual Question Answering
- CVPR 2023MMANet: Margin-Aware Distillation and Modality-Aware Regularization for Incomplete Multimodal Learning
- CVPR 2023MMG-Ego4D: Multimodal Generalization in Egocentric Action Recognition
- CVPR 2023Mobile User Interface Element Detection via Adaptively Prompt Tuning
- CVPR 2023Modality-Invariant Visual Odometry for Embodied Vision
- CVPR 2023Model-Agnostic Gender Debiased Image Captioning
- CVPR 2023Modeling Video As Stochastic Processes for Fine-Grained Video Representation Learning
- CVPR 2023Modular Memorability: Tiered Representations for Video Memorability Prediction
- CVPR 2023MOSO: Decomposing MOtion, Scene and Object for Video Prediction
- CVPR 2023Motion Information Propagation for Neural Video Compression
- CVPR 2023MP-Former: Mask-Piloted Transformer for Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Multi-Modal Representation Learning With Text-Driven Soft Masks
- CVPR 2023Multilateral Semantic Relations Modeling for Image Text Retrieval
- CVPR 2023Multimodal Prompting With Missing Modalities for Visual Recognition
- CVPR 2023Multimodality Helps Unimodality: Cross-Modal Few-Shot Learning With Multimodal Models
- CVPR 2023Multiplicative Fourier Level of Detail
- CVPR 2023Multivariate, Multi-Frequency and Multimodal: Rethinking Graph Neural Networks for Emotion Recognition in Conversation
- CVPR 2023Mutual Information-Based Temporal Difference Learning for Human Pose Estimation in Video
- CVPR 2023N-Gram in Swin Transformers for Efficient Lightweight Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2023Natural Language-Assisted Sign Language Recognition
- CVPR 2023NeFII: Inverse Rendering for Reflectance Decomposition With Near-Field Indirect Illumination
- CVPR 2023Neighborhood Attention Transformer
- CVPR 2023NeRDi: Single-View NeRF Synthesis With Language-Guided Diffusion As General Image Priors
- CVPR 2023Neumann Network With Recursive Kernels for Single Image Defocus Deblurring
- CVPR 2023Neural Dependencies Emerging From Learning Massive Categories
- CVPR 2023Neural Fourier Filter Bank
- CVPR 2023Neural Preset for Color Style Transfer
- CVPR 2023Neural Rate Estimator and Unsupervised Learning for Efficient Distributed Image Analytics in Split-DNN Models
- CVPR 2023Neural Residual Radiance Fields for Streamably Free-Viewpoint Videos
- CVPR 2023Neural Voting Field for Camera-Space 3D Hand Pose Estimation
- CVPR 2023Neuralangelo: High-Fidelity Neural Surface Reconstruction
- CVPR 2023NoisyQuant: Noisy Bias-Enhanced Post-Training Activation Quantization for Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2023Not All Image Regions Matter: Masked Vector Quantization for Autoregressive Image Generation
- CVPR 2023NUWA-LIP: Language-Guided Image Inpainting With Defect-Free VQGAN
- CVPR 2023NVTC: Nonlinear Vector Transform Coding
- CVPR 2023Omni Aggregation Networks for Lightweight Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2023Omni3D: A Large Benchmark and Model for 3D Object Detection in the Wild
- CVPR 2023OmniMAE: Single Model Masked Pretraining on Images and Videos
- CVPR 2023Omnimatte3D: Associating Objects and Their Effects in Unconstrained Monocular Video
- CVPR 2023On the Benefits of 3D Pose and Tracking for Human Action Recognition
- CVPR 2023On the Difficulty of Unpaired Infrared-to-Visible Video Translation: Fine-Grained Content-Rich Patches Transfer
- CVPR 2023On the Importance of Accurate Geometry Data for Dense 3D Vision Tasks
- CVPR 2023On the Pitfall of Mixup for Uncertainty Calibration
- CVPR 2023OPE-SR: Orthogonal Position Encoding for Designing a Parameter-Free Upsampling Module in Arbitrary-Scale Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2023Open-Category Human-Object Interaction Pre-Training via Language Modeling Framework
- CVPR 2023Open-Set Fine-Grained Retrieval via Prompting Vision-Language Evaluator
- CVPR 2023Open-Vocabulary Attribute Detection
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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.