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
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- CVPR 2023Open-Vocabulary Point-Cloud Object Detection Without 3D Annotation
- CVPR 2023Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation With Mask-Adapted CLIP
- CVPR 2023OVTrack: Open-Vocabulary Multiple Object Tracking
- CVPR 2023PA&DA: Jointly Sampling Path and Data for Consistent NAS
- CVPR 2023PaCa-ViT: Learning Patch-to-Cluster Attention in Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2023Parameter Efficient Local Implicit Image Function Network for Face Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Patch-Craft Self-Supervised Training for Correlated Image Denoising
- CVPR 2023pCON: Polarimetric Coordinate Networks for Neural Scene Representations
- CVPR 2023PCT-Net: Full Resolution Image Harmonization Using Pixel-Wise Color Transformations
- CVPR 2023Perspective Fields for Single Image Camera Calibration
- CVPR 2023PHA: Patch-Wise High-Frequency Augmentation for Transformer-Based Person Re-Identification
- CVPR 2023Photo Pre-Training, but for Sketch
- CVPR 2023PIP-Net: Patch-Based Intuitive Prototypes for Interpretable Image Classification
- CVPR 2023PIVOT: Prompting for Video Continual Learning
- CVPR 2023PixHt-Lab: Pixel Height Based Light Effect Generation for Image Compositing
- CVPR 2023PLA: Language-Driven Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding
- CVPR 2023PMatch: Paired Masked Image Modeling for Dense Geometric Matching
- CVPR 2023PMR: Prototypical Modal Rebalance for Multimodal Learning
- CVPR 2023Polarized Color Image Denoising
- CVPR 2023Policy Adaptation From Foundation Model Feedback
- CVPR 2023Polynomial Implicit Neural Representations for Large Diverse Datasets
- CVPR 2023Position-Guided Text Prompt for Vision-Language Pre-Training
- CVPR 2023Positive-Augmented Contrastive Learning for Image and Video Captioning Evaluation
- CVPR 2023PRISE: Demystifying Deep Lucas-Kanade With Strongly Star-Convex Constraints for Multimodel Image Alignment
- CVPR 2023Probabilistic Prompt Learning for Dense Prediction
- CVPR 2023Probability-Based Global Cross-Modal Upsampling for Pansharpening
- CVPR 2023Procedure-Aware Pretraining for Instructional Video Understanding
- CVPR 2023Progressive Neighbor Consistency Mining for Correspondence Pruning
- CVPR 2023Progressively Optimized Local Radiance Fields for Robust View Synthesis
- CVPR 2023ProTeGe: Untrimmed Pretraining for Video Temporal Grounding by Video Temporal Grounding
- CVPR 2023Pseudo-Label Guided Contrastive Learning for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Q: How To Specialize Large Vision-Language Models to Data-Scarce VQA Tasks? A: Self-Train on Unlabeled Images!
- CVPR 2023Quality-Aware Pre-Trained Models for Blind Image Quality Assessment
- CVPR 2023Quantum-Inspired Spectral-Spatial Pyramid Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification
- CVPR 2023Query-Dependent Video Representation for Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection
- CVPR 2023R2Former: Unified Retrieval and Reranking Transformer for Place Recognition
- CVPR 2023RankMix: Data Augmentation for Weakly Supervised Learning of Classifying Whole Slide Images With Diverse Sizes and Imbalanced Categories
- CVPR 2023Re-IQA: Unsupervised Learning for Image Quality Assessment in the Wild
- CVPR 2023Re2TAL: Rewiring Pretrained Video Backbones for Reversible Temporal Action Localization
- CVPR 2023Real-Time Controllable Denoising for Image and Video
- CVPR 2023Real-Time Multi-Person Eyeblink Detection in the Wild for Untrimmed Video
- CVPR 2023Realistic Saliency Guided Image Enhancement
- CVPR 2023Rebalancing Batch Normalization for Exemplar-Based Class-Incremental Learning
- CVPR 2023REC-MV: REconstructing 3D Dynamic Cloth From Monocular Videos
- CVPR 2023Reconstructing Signing Avatars From Video Using Linguistic Priors
- CVPR 2023Recovering 3D Hand Mesh Sequence From a Single Blurry Image: A New Dataset and Temporal Unfolding
- CVPR 2023Recurrent Homography Estimation Using Homography-Guided Image Warping and Focus Transformer
- CVPR 2023Recurrent Vision Transformers for Object Detection With Event Cameras
- CVPR 2023Ref-NPR: Reference-Based Non-Photorealistic Radiance Fields for Controllable Scene Stylization
- CVPR 2023Regularization of Polynomial Networks for Image Recognition
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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.