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
626 papers, page 8 of 13
- CVPR 2024Modality-Collaborative Test-Time Adaptation for Action Recognition
- CVPR 2024ModaVerse: Efficiently Transforming Modalities with LLMs
- CVPR 2024Modeling Collaborator: Enabling Subjective Vision Classification With Minimal Human Effort via LLM Tool-Use
- CVPR 2024Modeling Dense Multimodal Interactions Between Biological Pathways and Histology for Survival Prediction
- CVPR 2024Modeling Multimodal Social Interactions: New Challenges and Baselines with Densely Aligned Representations
- CVPR 2024Monkey: Image Resolution and Text Label Are Important Things for Large Multi-modal Models
- CVPR 2024Monocular Identity-Conditioned Facial Reflectance Reconstruction
- CVPR 2024MoPE-CLIP: Structured Pruning for Efficient Vision-Language Models with Module-wise Pruning Error Metric
- CVPR 2024MorpheuS: Neural Dynamic 360deg Surface Reconstruction from Monocular RGB-D Video
- CVPR 2024MovieChat: From Dense Token to Sparse Memory for Long Video Understanding
- CVPR 2024MR-VNet: Media Restoration using Volterra Networks
- CVPR 2024MSU-4S - The Michigan State University Four Seasons Dataset
- CVPR 2024Multi-criteria Token Fusion with One-step-ahead Attention for Efficient Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2024Multi-Modal Hallucination Control by Visual Information Grounding
- CVPR 2024Multi-modal Instruction Tuned LLMs with Fine-grained Visual Perception
- CVPR 2024Multi-view Aggregation Network for Dichotomous Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024MULTIFLOW: Shifting Towards Task-Agnostic Vision-Language Pruning
- CVPR 2024Multimodal Industrial Anomaly Detection by Crossmodal Feature Mapping
- CVPR 2024Multimodal Prompt Perceiver: Empower Adaptiveness Generalizability and Fidelity for All-in-One Image Restoration
- CVPR 2024Multimodal Representation Learning by Alternating Unimodal Adaptation
- CVPR 2024Multimodal Sense-Informed Forecasting of 3D Human Motions
- CVPR 2024Multiscale Vision Transformers Meet Bipartite Matching for Efficient Single-stage Action Localization
- CVPR 2024MV-Adapter: Multimodal Video Transfer Learning for Video Text Retrieval
- CVPR 2024Narrative Action Evaluation with Prompt-Guided Multimodal Interaction
- CVPR 2024Navigating Beyond Dropout: An Intriguing Solution towards Generalizable Image Super Resolution
- CVPR 2024NB-GTR: Narrow-Band Guided Turbulence Removal
- CVPR 2024NeISF: Neural Incident Stokes Field for Geometry and Material Estimation
- CVPR 2024Neural Markov Random Field for Stereo Matching
- CVPR 2024Neural Spline Fields for Burst Image Fusion and Layer Separation
- CVPR 2024NICE: Neurogenesis Inspired Contextual Encoding for Replay-free Class Incremental Learning
- CVPR 2024Noisy One-point Homographies are Surprisingly Good
- CVPR 2024Noisy-Correspondence Learning for Text-to-Image Person Re-identification
- CVPR 2024Non-autoregressive Sequence-to-Sequence Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024ODCR: Orthogonal Decoupling Contrastive Regularization for Unpaired Image Dehazing
- CVPR 2024ODM: A Text-Image Further Alignment Pre-training Approach for Scene Text Detection and Spotting
- CVPR 2024OMG-Seg: Is One Model Good Enough For All Segmentation?
- CVPR 2024Omni-SMoLA: Boosting Generalist Multimodal Models with Soft Mixture of Low-rank Experts
- CVPR 2024OmniGlue: Generalizable Feature Matching with Foundation Model Guidance
- CVPR 2024OmniLocalRF: Omnidirectional Local Radiance Fields from Dynamic Videos
- CVPR 2024OmniMedVQA: A New Large-Scale Comprehensive Evaluation Benchmark for Medical LVLM
- CVPR 2024OmniVec2 - A Novel Transformer based Network for Large Scale Multimodal and Multitask Learning
- CVPR 2024On Scaling Up a Multilingual Vision and Language Model
- CVPR 2024On the Faithfulness of Vision Transformer Explanations
- CVPR 2024On the Robustness of Language Guidance for Low-Level Vision Tasks: Findings from Depth Estimation
- CVPR 2024On the Robustness of Large Multimodal Models Against Image Adversarial Attacks
- CVPR 2024On the Test-Time Zero-Shot Generalization of Vision-Language Models: Do We Really Need Prompt Learning?
- CVPR 2024On Train-Test Class Overlap and Detection for Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2024Once for Both: Single Stage of Importance and Sparsity Search for Vision Transformer Compression
- CVPR 2024One Prompt Word is Enough to Boost Adversarial Robustness for Pre-trained Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024One-Shot Open Affordance Learning with Foundation Models
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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.