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
509 papers, page 1 of 11
- CVPR 20231000 FPS HDR Video With a Spike-RGB Hybrid Camera
- CVPR 20233D Concept Learning and Reasoning From Multi-View Images
- CVPR 20233D Spatial Multimodal Knowledge Accumulation for Scene Graph Prediction in Point Cloud
- CVPR 20233D Video Loops From Asynchronous Input
- CVPR 20233DAvatarGAN: Bridging Domains for Personalized Editable Avatars
- CVPR 2023A Dynamic Multi-Scale Voxel Flow Network for Video Prediction
- CVPR 2023A Generalized Framework for Video Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2023A Hierarchical Representation Network for Accurate and Detailed Face Reconstruction From In-the-Wild Images
- CVPR 2023A Loopback Network for Explainable Microvascular Invasion Classification
- CVPR 2023A New Comprehensive Benchmark for Semi-Supervised Video Anomaly Detection and Anticipation
- CVPR 2023A New Dataset Based on Images Taken by Blind People for Testing the Robustness of Image Classification Models Trained for ImageNet Categories
- CVPR 2023A New Path: Scaling Vision-and-Language Navigation With Synthetic Instructions and Imitation Learning
- CVPR 2023A Practical Stereo Depth System for Smart Glasses
- CVPR 2023A Probabilistic Attention Model With Occlusion-Aware Texture Regression for 3D Hand Reconstruction From a Single RGB Image
- CVPR 2023A Simple Baseline for Video Restoration With Grouped Spatial-Temporal Shift
- CVPR 2023A Unified Pyramid Recurrent Network for Video Frame Interpolation
- CVPR 2023A Unified Spatial-Angular Structured Light for Single-View Acquisition of Shape and Reflectance
- CVPR 2023A Whac-a-Mole Dilemma: Shortcuts Come in Multiples Where Mitigating One Amplifies Others
- CVPR 2023A-Cap: Anticipation Captioning With Commonsense Knowledge
- CVPR 2023A2J-Transformer: Anchor-to-Joint Transformer Network for 3D Interacting Hand Pose Estimation From a Single RGB Image
- CVPR 2023ABCD: Arbitrary Bitwise Coefficient for De-Quantization
- CVPR 2023Abstract Visual Reasoning: An Algebraic Approach for Solving Raven's Progressive Matrices
- CVPR 2023Accelerating Vision-Language Pretraining With Free Language Modeling
- CVPR 2023AccelIR: Task-Aware Image Compression for Accelerating Neural Restoration
- CVPR 2023Accidental Light Probes
- CVPR 2023Activating More Pixels in Image Super-Resolution Transformer
- CVPR 2023Active Exploration of Multimodal Complementarity for Few-Shot Action Recognition
- CVPR 2023Active Finetuning: Exploiting Annotation Budget in the Pretraining-Finetuning Paradigm
- CVPR 2023AdamsFormer for Spatial Action Localization in the Future
- CVPR 2023Adaptive Annealing for Robust Geometric Estimation
- CVPR 2023Adaptive Global Decay Process for Event Cameras
- CVPR 2023Adaptive Zone-Aware Hierarchical Planner for Vision-Language Navigation
- CVPR 2023Adversarial Normalization: I Can Visualize Everything (ICE)
- CVPR 2023Affordance Grounding From Demonstration Video To Target Image
- CVPR 2023Align and Attend: Multimodal Summarization With Dual Contrastive Losses
- CVPR 2023Aligning Bag of Regions for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
- CVPR 2023Aligning Step-by-Step Instructional Diagrams to Video Demonstrations
- CVPR 2023All in One: Exploring Unified Video-Language Pre-Training
- CVPR 2023All-in-One Image Restoration for Unknown Degradations Using Adaptive Discriminative Filters for Specific Degradations
- CVPR 2023AltFreezing for More General Video Face Forgery Detection
- CVPR 2023An Image Quality Assessment Dataset for Portraits
- CVPR 2023ANetQA: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Fine-Grained Compositional Reasoning Over Untrimmed Videos
- CVPR 2023Are Deep Neural Networks SMARTer Than Second Graders?
- CVPR 2023Are We Ready for Vision-Centric Driving Streaming Perception? The ASAP Benchmark
- CVPR 2023Asymmetric Feature Fusion for Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2023AutoLabel: CLIP-Based Framework for Open-Set Video Domain Adaptation
- CVPR 2023AVFormer: Injecting Vision Into Frozen Speech Models for Zero-Shot AV-ASR
- CVPR 2023B-Spline Texture Coefficients Estimator for Screen Content Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2023Behind the Scenes: Density Fields for Single View Reconstruction
- CVPR 2023Best of Both Worlds: Multimodal Contrastive Learning With Tabular and Imaging Data
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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.