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
626 papers, page 1 of 13
- CVPR 2024360Loc: A Dataset and Benchmark for Omnidirectional Visual Localization with Cross-device Queries
- CVPR 20243D Face Tracking from 2D Video through Iterative Dense UV to Image Flow
- CVPR 20243D Multi-frame Fusion for Video Stabilization
- CVPR 20243D-LFM: Lifting Foundation Model
- CVPR 2024A Closer Look at the Few-Shot Adaptation of Large Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024A General and Efficient Training for Transformer via Token Expansion
- CVPR 2024A Pedestrian is Worth One Prompt: Towards Language Guidance Person Re-Identification
- CVPR 2024A Picture is Worth More Than 77 Text Tokens: Evaluating CLIP-Style Models on Dense Captions
- CVPR 2024A Simple Recipe for Contrastively Pre-training Video-First Encoders Beyond 16 Frames
- CVPR 2024A Simple Recipe for Language-guided Domain Generalized Segmentation
- CVPR 2024A Theory of Joint Light and Heat Transport for Lambertian Scenes
- CVPR 2024A Unified Approach for Text- and Image-guided 4D Scene Generation
- CVPR 2024A Video is Worth 256 Bases: Spatial-Temporal Expectation-Maximization Inversion for Zero-Shot Video Editing
- CVPR 2024A Vision Check-up for Language Models
- CVPR 2024Accelerating Neural Field Training via Soft Mining
- CVPR 2024Accept the Modality Gap: An Exploration in the Hyperbolic Space
- CVPR 2024ActiveDC: Distribution Calibration for Active Finetuning
- CVPR 2024AdaBM: On-the-Fly Adaptive Bit Mapping for Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2024Adapt or Perish: Adaptive Sparse Transformer with Attentive Feature Refinement for Image Restoration
- CVPR 2024Adaptive Bidirectional Displacement for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024AHIVE: Anatomy-aware Hierarchical Vision Encoding for Interactive Radiology Report Retrieval
- CVPR 2024AIDE: An Automatic Data Engine for Object Detection in Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2024ALGM: Adaptive Local-then-Global Token Merging for Efficient Semantic Segmentation with Plain Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2024Align and Aggregate: Compositional Reasoning with Video Alignment and Answer Aggregation for Video Question-Answering
- CVPR 2024Align Before Adapt: Leveraging Entity-to-Region Alignments for Generalizable Video Action Recognition
- CVPR 2024Aligning and Prompting Everything All at Once for Universal Visual Perception
- CVPR 2024AlignMiF: Geometry-Aligned Multimodal Implicit Field for LiDAR-Camera Joint Synthesis
- CVPR 2024All in One Framework for Multimodal Re-identification in the Wild
- CVPR 2024AM-RADIO: Agglomerative Vision Foundation Model Reduce All Domains Into One
- CVPR 2024AMU-Tuning: Effective Logit Bias for CLIP-based Few-shot Learning
- CVPR 2024An N-Point Linear Solver for Line and Motion Estimation with Event Cameras
- CVPR 2024Anatomically Constrained Implicit Face Models
- CVPR 2024Anchor-based Robust Finetuning of Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024Any-Shift Prompting for Generalization over Distributions
- CVPR 2024ArGue: Attribute-Guided Prompt Tuning for Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024Asymmetric Masked Distillation for Pre-Training Small Foundation Models
- CVPR 2024Attention Calibration for Disentangled Text-to-Image Personalization
- CVPR 2024Attention-Propagation Network for Egocentric Heatmap to 3D Pose Lifting
- CVPR 2024Authentic Hand Avatar from a Phone Scan via Universal Hand Model
- CVPR 2024BA-SAM: Scalable Bias-Mode Attention Mask for Segment Anything Model
- CVPR 2024BadCLIP: Dual-Embedding Guided Backdoor Attack on Multimodal Contrastive Learning
- CVPR 2024BadCLIP: Trigger-Aware Prompt Learning for Backdoor Attacks on CLIP
- CVPR 2024BANF: Band-Limited Neural Fields for Levels of Detail Reconstruction
- CVPR 2024Bayesian Exploration of Pre-trained Models for Low-shot Image Classification
- CVPR 2024Beyond Image Super-Resolution for Image Recognition with Task-Driven Perceptual Loss
- CVPR 2024Bi-level Learning of Task-Specific Decoders for Joint Registration and One-Shot Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Bidirectional Multi-Scale Implicit Neural Representations for Image Deraining
- CVPR 2024BigGait: Learning Gait Representation You Want by Large Vision Models
- CVPR 2024Bilateral Event Mining and Complementary for Event Stream Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2024Bilateral Propagation Network for Depth Completion
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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.