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
446 papers, page 8 of 9
- NeurIPS 2024StreamFlow: Streamlined Multi-Frame Optical Flow Estimation for Video Sequences
- NeurIPS 2024Streaming Detection of Queried Event Start
- NeurIPS 2024Streaming Long Video Understanding with Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024SUGARCREPE++ Dataset: Vision-Language Model Sensitivity to Semantic and Lexical Alterations
- NeurIPS 2024SuperVLAD: Compact and Robust Image Descriptors for Visual Place Recognition
- NeurIPS 2024SurgicAI: A Fine-grained Platform for Data Collection and Benchmarking in Surgical Policy Learning
- NeurIPS 2024T2Vs Meet VLMs: A Scalable Multimodal Dataset for Visual Harmfulness Recognition
- NeurIPS 2024TabPedia: Towards Comprehensive Visual Table Understanding with Concept Synergy
- NeurIPS 2024TACT: Advancing Complex Aggregative Reasoning with Information Extraction Tools
- NeurIPS 2024TAPVid-3D: A Benchmark for Tracking Any Point in 3D
- NeurIPS 2024Task Me Anything
- NeurIPS 2024Testing Semantic Importance via Betting
- NeurIPS 2024Text-Guided Attention is All You Need for Zero-Shot Robustness in Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024Textual Training for the Hassle-Free Removal of Unwanted Visual Data: Case Studies on OOD and Hateful Image Detection
- NeurIPS 2024The FineWeb Datasets: Decanting the Web for the Finest Text Data at Scale
- NeurIPS 2024The Multimodal Universe: Enabling Large-Scale Machine Learning with 100 TB of Astronomical Scientific Data
- NeurIPS 2024Time-FFM: Towards LM-Empowered Federated Foundation Model for Time Series Forecasting
- NeurIPS 2024Time-MMD: Multi-Domain Multimodal Dataset for Time Series Analysis
- NeurIPS 2024TOPA: Extending Large Language Models for Video Understanding via Text-Only Pre-Alignment
- NeurIPS 2024TorchSpatial: A Location Encoding Framework and Benchmark for Spatial Representation Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Toward a Stable, Fair, and Comprehensive Evaluation of Object Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024Toward Self-Improvement of LLMs via Imagination, Searching, and Criticizing
- NeurIPS 2024Towards Calibrated Robust Fine-Tuning of Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024Towards Flexible Visual Relationship Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024Towards Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation Without Semantic Labels
- NeurIPS 2024Towards Robust Multimodal Sentiment Analysis with Incomplete Data
- NeurIPS 2024Towards Unified Multimodal Editing with Enhanced Knowledge Collaboration
- NeurIPS 2024TPR: Topology-Preserving Reservoirs for Generalized Zero-Shot Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Training-Free Open-Ended Object Detection and Segmentation via Attention as Prompts
- NeurIPS 2024TransAgent: Transfer Vision-Language Foundation Models with Heterogeneous Agent Collaboration
- NeurIPS 2024TripletCLIP: Improving Compositional Reasoning of CLIP via Synthetic Vision-Language Negatives
- NeurIPS 2024UKnow: A Unified Knowledge Protocol with Multimodal Knowledge Graph Datasets for Reasoning and Vision-Language Pre-Training
- NeurIPS 2024UMFC: Unsupervised Multi-Domain Feature Calibration for Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024Understanding Information Storage and Transfer in Multi-Modal Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024UniBench: Visual Reasoning Requires Rethinking Vision-Language Beyond Scaling
- NeurIPS 2024Unified Generative and Discriminative Training for Multi-modal Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024UNIT: Unifying Image and Text Recognition in One Vision Encoder
- NeurIPS 2024Unity by Diversity: Improved Representation Learning for Multimodal VAEs
- NeurIPS 2024Unleashing Region Understanding in Intermediate Layers for MLLM-based Referring Expression Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Unraveling Molecular Structure: A Multimodal Spectroscopic Dataset for Chemistry
- NeurIPS 2024Unsupervised Homography Estimation on Multimodal Image Pair via Alternating Optimization
- NeurIPS 2024Unveiling Encoder-Free Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024Unveiling the Tapestry of Consistency in Large Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024UPS: Unified Projection Sharing for Lightweight Single-Image Super-resolution and Beyond
- NeurIPS 2024UrbanDataLayer: A Unified Data Pipeline for Urban Science
- NeurIPS 2024USCILab3D: A Large-scale, Long-term, Semantically Annotated Outdoor Dataset
- NeurIPS 2024Value Imprint: A Technique for Auditing the Human Values Embedded in RLHF Datasets
- NeurIPS 2024VastTrack: Vast Category Visual Object Tracking
- NeurIPS 2024VERIFIED: A Video Corpus Moment Retrieval Benchmark for Fine-Grained Video Understanding
- NeurIPS 2024VHELM: A Holistic Evaluation of Vision Language 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.