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

795 papers, page 10 of 16

451. CVPR 2025MM-OR: A Large Multimodal Operating Room Dataset for Semantic Understanding of High-Intensity Surgical Environments
452. CVPR 2025MMAudio: Taming Multimodal Joint Training for High-Quality Video-to-Audio Synthesis
453. CVPR 2025MMRL: Multi-Modal Representation Learning for Vision-Language Models
454. CVPR 2025MMTL-UniAD: A Unified Framework for Multimodal and Multi-Task Learning in Assistive Driving Perception
455. CVPR 2025MMVU: Measuring Expert-Level Multi-Discipline Video Understanding
456. CVPR 2025Modeling Thousands of Human Annotators for Generalizable Text-to-Image Person Re-identification
457. CVPR 2025ModeSeq: Taming Sparse Multimodal Motion Prediction with Sequential Mode Modeling
458. CVPR 2025MoEdit: On Learning Quantity Perception for Multi-object Image Editing
459. CVPR 2025Molmo and PixMo: Open Weights and Open Data for State-of-the-Art Vision-Language Models
460. CVPR 2025MoManipVLA: Transferring Vision-language-action Models for General Mobile Manipulation
461. CVPR 2025Mono-InternVL: Pushing the Boundaries of Monolithic Multimodal Large Language Models with Endogenous Visual Pre-training
462. CVPR 2025MonSter: Marry Monodepth to Stereo Unleashes Power
463. CVPR 2025Mosaic of Modalities: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal Graph Learning
464. CVPR 2025Mosaic3D: Foundation Dataset and Model for Open-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation
465. CVPR 2025Motion-Grounded Video Reasoning: Understanding and Perceiving Motion at Pixel Level
466. CVPR 2025MotionBench: Benchmarking and Improving Fine-grained Video Motion Understanding for Vision Language Models
467. CVPR 2025MotionPro: A Precise Motion Controller for Image-to-Video Generation
468. CVPR 2025MotionStone: Decoupled Motion Intensity Modulation with Diffusion Transformer for Image-to-Video Generation
469. CVPR 2025MoVE-KD: Knowledge Distillation for VLMs with Mixture of Visual Encoders
470. CVPR 2025Multi-Group Proportional Representations for Text-to-Image Models
471. CVPR 2025Multi-Layer Visual Feature Fusion in Multimodal LLMs: Methods, Analysis, and Best Practices
472. CVPR 2025Multi-modal Knowledge Distillation-based Human Trajectory Forecasting
473. CVPR 2025Multi-Modal Synergistic Implicit Image Enhancement for Efficient Optical Flow Estimation
474. CVPR 2025Multi-modal Vision Pre-training for Medical Image Analysis
475. CVPR 2025Multi-Resolution Pathology-Language Pre-training Model with Text-Guided Visual Representation
476. CVPR 2025Multimodal Autoregressive Pre-training of Large Vision Encoders
477. CVPR 2025MultiVENT 2.0: A Massive Multilingual Benchmark for Event-Centric Video Retrieval
478. CVPR 2025MuTri: Multi-view Tri-alignment for OCT to OCTA 3D Image Translation
479. CVPR 2025MV-MATH: Evaluating Multimodal Math Reasoning in Multi-Visual Contexts
480. CVPR 2025Narrating the Video: Boosting Text-Video Retrieval via Comprehensive Utilization of Frame-Level Captions
481. CVPR 2025Navigating the Unseen: Zero-shot Scene Graph Generation via Capsule-Based Equivariant Features
482. CVPR 2025Neural Hierarchical Decomposition for Single Image Plant Modeling
483. CVPR 2025NLPrompt: Noise-Label Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models
484. CVPR 2025nnWNet: Rethinking the Use of Transformers in Biomedical Image Segmentation and Calling for a Unified Evaluation Benchmark
485. CVPR 2025No Pains, More Gains: Recycling Sub-Salient Patches for Efficient High-Resolution Image Recognition
486. CVPR 2025Noise Calibration and Spatial-Frequency Interactive Network for STEM Image Enhancement
487. CVPR 2025Noise Diffusion for Enhancing Semantic Faithfulness in Text-to-Image Synthesis
488. CVPR 2025Noise Modeling in One Hour: Minimizing Preparation Efforts for Self-supervised Low-Light RAW Image Denoising
489. CVPR 2025Non-Natural Image Understanding with Advancing Frequency-based Vision Encoders
490. CVPR 2025Not Just Text: Uncovering Vision Modality Typographic Threats in Image Generation Models
491. CVPR 2025Not Only Text: Exploring Compositionality of Visual Representations in Vision-Language Models
492. CVPR 2025Notes-guided MLLM Reasoning: Enhancing MLLM with Knowledge and Visual Notes for Visual Question Answering
493. CVPR 2025NSD-Imagery: A Benchmark Dataset for Extending fMRI Vision Decoding Methods to Mental Imagery
494. CVPR 2025Nullu: Mitigating Object Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models via HalluSpace Projection
495. CVPR 2025Number it: Temporal Grounding Videos like Flipping Manga
496. CVPR 2025O-TPT: Orthogonality Constraints for Calibrating Test-time Prompt Tuning in Vision-Language Models
497. CVPR 2025Object-Centric Prompt-Driven Vision-Language-Action Model for Robotic Manipulation
498. CVPR 2025Object-Shot Enhanced Grounding Network for Egocentric Video
499. CVPR 2025Octopus: Alleviating Hallucination via Dynamic Contrastive Decoding
500. CVPR 2025ODE: Open-Set Evaluation of Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models

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.