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

1,074 papers, page 10 of 22

451. NeurIPS 2025JanusDNA: A Powerful Bi-directional Hybrid DNA Foundation Model
452. NeurIPS 2025JavisGPT: A Unified Multi-modal LLM for Sounding-Video Comprehension and Generation
453. NeurIPS 2025Joint Modeling of fMRI and EEG Imaging Using Ordinary Differential Equation-Based Hypergraph Neural Networks
454. NeurIPS 2025K-DeCore: Facilitating Knowledge Transfer in Continual Structured Knowledge Reasoning via Knowledge Decoupling
455. NeurIPS 2025Knowledge Insulating Vision-Language-Action Models: Train Fast, Run Fast, Generalize Better
456. NeurIPS 2025Knowledge-based Visual Question Answer with Multimodal Processing, Retrieval and Filtering
457. NeurIPS 2025KRIS-Bench: Benchmarking Next-Level Intelligent Image Editing Models
458. NeurIPS 2025L2DGCN: Learnable Enhancement and Label Selection Dynamic Graph Convolutional Networks for Mitigating Degree Bias
459. NeurIPS 2025LangHOPS: Language Grounded Hierarchical Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation
460. NeurIPS 2025Large Language Models for Lossless Image Compression: Next-Pixel Prediction in Language Space is All You Need
461. NeurIPS 2025Latent Chain-of-Thought for Visual Reasoning
462. NeurIPS 2025LaViDa: A Large Diffusion Model for Vision-Language Understanding
463. NeurIPS 2025LaX: Boosting Low-Rank Training of Foundation Models via Latent Crossing
464. NeurIPS 2025Layer as Puzzle Pieces: Compressing Large Language Models through Layer Concatenation
465. NeurIPS 2025Layer-Wise Modality Decomposition for Interpretable Multimodal Sensor Fusion
466. NeurIPS 2025LayerIF: Estimating Layer Quality for Large Language Models using Influence Functions
467. NeurIPS 2025LBMKGC: Large Model-Driven Balanced Multimodal Knowledge Graph Completion
468. NeurIPS 2025Learning a Cross-Modal Schrödinger Bridge for Visual Domain Generalization
469. NeurIPS 2025Learning from Videos for 3D World: Enhancing MLLMs with 3D Vision Geometry Priors
470. NeurIPS 2025Learning Intractable Multimodal Policies with Reparameterization and Diversity Regularization
471. NeurIPS 2025Learning Reconfigurable Representations for Multimodal Federated Learning with Missing Data
472. NeurIPS 2025Learning Robust Vision-Language Models from Natural Latent Spaces
473. NeurIPS 2025Learning Shared Representations from Unpaired Data
474. NeurIPS 2025Learning Skill-Attributes for Transferable Assessment in Video
475. NeurIPS 2025Learning Spatial-Aware Manipulation Ordering
476. NeurIPS 2025Learning to Instruct for Visual Instruction Tuning
477. NeurIPS 2025Learning to Route: Per-Sample Adaptive Routing for Multimodal Multitask Prediction
478. NeurIPS 2025Learning to Steer: Input-dependent Steering for Multimodal LLMs
479. NeurIPS 2025LeMiCa: Lexicographic Minimax Path Caching for Efficient Diffusion-Based Video Generation
480. NeurIPS 2025Less Is More, but Where? Dynamic Token Compression via LLM-Guided Keyframe Prior
481. NeurIPS 2025Less is More: Local Intrinsic Dimensions of Contextual Language Models
482. NeurIPS 2025Let's Revise Step-by-Step: A Unified Local Search Framework for Code Generation with LLMs
483. NeurIPS 2025Lie Detector: Unified Backdoor Detection via Cross-Examination Framework
484. NeurIPS 2025Linear Differential Vision Transformer: Learning Visual Contrasts via Pairwise Differentials
485. NeurIPS 2025Linguini: A benchmark for language-agnostic linguistic reasoning
486. NeurIPS 2025LISAt: Language-Instructed Segmentation Assistant for Satellite Imagery
487. NeurIPS 2025LiveCodeBench Pro: How Do Olympiad Medalists Judge LLMs in Competitive Programming?
488. NeurIPS 2025LiveStar: Live Streaming Assistant for Real-World Online Video Understanding
489. NeurIPS 2025LLM Query Scheduling with Prefix Reuse and Latency Constraints
490. NeurIPS 2025LLMs Encode Harmfulness and Refusal Separately
491. NeurIPS 2025LMFusion: Adapting Pretrained Language Models for Multimodal Generation
492. NeurIPS 2025Logic-in-Frames: Dynamic Keyframe Search via Visual Semantic-Logical Verification for Long Video Understanding
493. NeurIPS 2025Logic.py: Bridging the Gap between LLMs and Constraint Solvers
494. NeurIPS 2025LogicTree: Improving Complex Reasoning of LLMs via Instantiated Multi-step Synthetic Logical Data
495. NeurIPS 2025LOMIA: Label-Only Membership Inference Attacks against Pre-trained Large Vision-Language Models
496. NeurIPS 2025LoMix: Learnable Weighted Multi-Scale Logits Mixing for Medical Image Segmentation
497. NeurIPS 2025Longer Context, Deeper Thinking: Uncovering the Role of Long-Context Ability in Reasoning
498. NeurIPS 2025LongVPO: From Anchored Cues to Self-Reasoning for Long-Form Video Preference Optimization
499. NeurIPS 2025LooGLE v2: Are LLMs Ready for Real World Long Dependency Challenges?
500. NeurIPS 2025Look Before You Leap: A GUI-Critic-R1 Model for Pre-Operative Error Diagnosis in GUI Automation

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.