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

1,226 papers, page 9 of 25

401. CVPR 2023Reproducible Scaling Laws for Contrastive Language-Image Learning
402. CVPR 2023Residual Degradation Learning Unfolding Framework With Mixing Priors Across Spectral and Spatial for Compressive Spectral Imaging
403. CVPR 2023Rethinking Domain Generalization for Face Anti-Spoofing: Separability and Alignment
404. CVPR 2023Rethinking Video ViTs: Sparse Video Tubes for Joint Image and Video Learning
405. CVPR 2023Revisiting Multimodal Representation in Contrastive Learning: From Patch and Token Embeddings to Finite Discrete Tokens
406. CVPR 2023Revisiting Self-Similarity: Structural Embedding for Image Retrieval
407. CVPR 2023Revisiting Temporal Modeling for CLIP-Based Image-to-Video Knowledge Transferring
408. CVPR 2023Revisiting the P3P Problem
409. CVPR 2023RIFormer: Keep Your Vision Backbone Effective but Removing Token Mixer
410. CVPR 2023Robot Structure Prior Guided Temporal Attention for Camera-to-Robot Pose Estimation From Image Sequence
411. CVPR 2023Run, Don't Walk: Chasing Higher FLOPS for Faster Neural Networks
412. CVPR 2023RWSC-Fusion: Region-Wise Style-Controlled Fusion Network for the Prohibited X-Ray Security Image Synthesis
413. CVPR 2023SAP-DETR: Bridging the Gap Between Salient Points and Queries-Based Transformer Detector for Fast Model Convergency
414. CVPR 2023Scaling Language-Image Pre-Training via Masking
415. CVPR 2023SCConv: Spatial and Channel Reconstruction Convolution for Feature Redundancy
416. CVPR 2023SCOTCH and SODA: A Transformer Video Shadow Detection Framework
417. CVPR 2023Seeing What You Miss: Vision-Language Pre-Training With Semantic Completion Learning
418. CVPR 2023Seeing With Sound: Long-range Acoustic Beamforming for Multimodal Scene Understanding
419. CVPR 2023Self-Correctable and Adaptable Inference for Generalizable Human Pose Estimation
420. CVPR 2023Self-Supervised Learning for Multimodal Non-Rigid 3D Shape Matching
421. CVPR 2023Self-Supervised Non-Uniform Kernel Estimation With Flow-Based Motion Prior for Blind Image Deblurring
422. CVPR 2023Semantic Prompt for Few-Shot Image Recognition
423. CVPR 2023SemiCVT: Semi-Supervised Convolutional Vision Transformer for Semantic Segmentation
424. CVPR 2023Semidefinite Relaxations for Robust Multiview Triangulation
425. CVPR 2023ShapeTalk: A Language Dataset and Framework for 3D Shape Edits and Deformations
426. CVPR 2023Shortcomings of Top-Down Randomization-Based Sanity Checks for Evaluations of Deep Neural Network Explanations
427. CVPR 2023Siamese Image Modeling for Self-Supervised Vision Representation Learning
428. CVPR 2023Side Adapter Network for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
429. CVPR 2023Similarity Metric Learning for RGB-Infrared Group Re-Identification
430. CVPR 2023SimpleNet: A Simple Network for Image Anomaly Detection and Localization
431. CVPR 2023Simultaneously Short- and Long-Term Temporal Modeling for Semi-Supervised Video Semantic Segmentation
432. CVPR 2023Soft Augmentation for Image Classification
433. CVPR 2023Sparsifiner: Learning Sparse Instance-Dependent Attention for Efficient Vision Transformers
434. CVPR 2023Spatial-Frequency Mutual Learning for Face Super-Resolution
435. CVPR 2023Spatial-Then-Temporal Self-Supervised Learning for Video Correspondence
436. CVPR 2023Spatially Adaptive Self-Supervised Learning for Real-World Image Denoising
437. CVPR 2023Spatio-Focal Bidirectional Disparity Estimation From a Dual-Pixel Image
438. CVPR 2023Spatio-Temporal Pixel-Level Contrastive Learning-Based Source-Free Domain Adaptation for Video Semantic Segmentation
439. CVPR 2023Spectral Bayesian Uncertainty for Image Super-Resolution
440. CVPR 2023Spectral Enhanced Rectangle Transformer for Hyperspectral Image Denoising
441. CVPR 2023Spring: A High-Resolution High-Detail Dataset and Benchmark for Scene Flow, Optical Flow and Stereo
442. CVPR 2023Streaming Video Model
443. CVPR 2023Structure Aggregation for Cross-Spectral Stereo Image Guided Denoising
444. CVPR 2023Structured Kernel Estimation for Photon-Limited Deconvolution
445. CVPR 2023Structured Sparsity Learning for Efficient Video Super-Resolution
446. CVPR 2023StyleIPSB: Identity-Preserving Semantic Basis of StyleGAN for High Fidelity Face Swapping
447. CVPR 2023StyleRes: Transforming the Residuals for Real Image Editing With StyleGAN
448. CVPR 2023SVFormer: Semi-Supervised Video Transformer for Action Recognition
449. CVPR 2023SViTT: Temporal Learning of Sparse Video-Text Transformers
450. CVPR 2023TarViS: A Unified Approach for Target-Based Video Segmentation

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.