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

1,716 papers, page 9 of 35

401. CVPR 2024Open-Vocabulary Object 6D Pose Estimation
402. CVPR 2024Osprey: Pixel Understanding with Visual Instruction Tuning
403. CVPR 2024OST: Refining Text Knowledge with Optimal Spatio-Temporal Descriptor for General Video Recognition
404. CVPR 2024OVER-NAV: Elevating Iterative Vision-and-Language Navigation with Open-Vocabulary Detection and StructurEd Representation
405. CVPR 2024Overcoming Generic Knowledge Loss with Selective Parameter Update
406. CVPR 2024OVFoodSeg: Elevating Open-Vocabulary Food Image Segmentation via Image-Informed Textual Representation
407. CVPR 2024OVMR: Open-Vocabulary Recognition with Multi-Modal References
408. CVPR 2024PairAug: What Can Augmented Image-Text Pairs Do for Radiology?
409. CVPR 2024Panacea: Panoramic and Controllable Video Generation for Autonomous Driving
410. CVPR 2024Panda-70M: Captioning 70M Videos with Multiple Cross-Modality Teachers
411. CVPR 2024PartDistill: 3D Shape Part Segmentation by Vision-Language Model Distillation
412. CVPR 2024PatchFusion: An End-to-End Tile-Based Framework for High-Resolution Monocular Metric Depth Estimation
413. CVPR 2024PELA: Learning Parameter-Efficient Models with Low-Rank Approximation
414. CVPR 2024PEM: Prototype-based Efficient MaskFormer for Image Segmentation
415. CVPR 2024PeVL: Pose-Enhanced Vision-Language Model for Fine-Grained Human Action Recognition
416. CVPR 2024PIGEON: Predicting Image Geolocations
417. CVPR 2024PIN: Positional Insert Unlocks Object Localisation Abilities in VLMs
418. CVPR 2024Pink: Unveiling the Power of Referential Comprehension for Multi-modal LLMs
419. CVPR 2024Pixel-Aligned Language Model
420. CVPR 2024PixelLM: Pixel Reasoning with Large Multimodal Model
421. CVPR 2024PLACE: Adaptive Layout-Semantic Fusion for Semantic Image Synthesis
422. CVPR 2024PNeRV: Enhancing Spatial Consistency via Pyramidal Neural Representation for Videos
423. CVPR 2024Point Segment and Count: A Generalized Framework for Object Counting
424. CVPR 2024PointBeV: A Sparse Approach for BeV Predictions
425. CVPR 2024PolarMatte: Fully Computational Ground-Truth-Quality Alpha Matte Extraction for Images and Video using Polarized Screen Matting
426. CVPR 2024Polos: Multimodal Metric Learning from Human Feedback for Image Captioning
427. CVPR 2024PracticalDG: Perturbation Distillation on Vision-Language Models for Hybrid Domain Generalization
428. CVPR 2024Pre-trained Model Guided Fine-Tuning for Zero-Shot Adversarial Robustness
429. CVPR 2024Pre-training Vision Models with Mandelbulb Variations
430. CVPR 2024Previously on ... From Recaps to Story Summarization
431. CVPR 2024Progressive Semantic-Guided Vision Transformer for Zero-Shot Learning
432. CVPR 2024Projecting Trackable Thermal Patterns for Dynamic Computer Vision
433. CVPR 2024Prompt Highlighter: Interactive Control for Multi-Modal LLMs
434. CVPR 2024Prompt Learning via Meta-Regularization
435. CVPR 2024Prompt-Driven Referring Image Segmentation with Instance Contrasting
436. CVPR 2024Prompt-Enhanced Multiple Instance Learning for Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection
437. CVPR 2024PromptAD: Learning Prompts with only Normal Samples for Few-Shot Anomaly Detection
438. CVPR 2024Prompting Vision Foundation Models for Pathology Image Analysis
439. CVPR 2024PromptKD: Unsupervised Prompt Distillation for Vision-Language Models
440. CVPR 2024PrPSeg: Universal Proposition Learning for Panoramic Renal Pathology Segmentation
441. CVPR 2024Psychometry: An Omnifit Model for Image Reconstruction from Human Brain Activity
442. CVPR 2024PTQ4SAM: Post-Training Quantization for Segment Anything
443. CVPR 2024Q-Instruct: Improving Low-level Visual Abilities for Multi-modality Foundation Models
444. CVPR 2024QN-Mixer: A Quasi-Newton MLP-Mixer Model for Sparse-View CT Reconstruction
445. CVPR 2024Querying as Prompt: Parameter-Efficient Learning for Multimodal Language Model
446. CVPR 2024Question Aware Vision Transformer for Multimodal Reasoning
447. CVPR 2024Random Entangled Tokens for Adversarially Robust Vision Transformer
448. CVPR 2024Ranking Distillation for Open-Ended Video Question Answering with Insufficient Labels
449. CVPR 2024REACTO: Reconstructing Articulated Objects from a Single Video
450. CVPR 2024Region-Based Representations Revisited

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.