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

1,366 papers, page 10 of 28

451. NeurIPS 2026FaithfulFaces: Pose-Faithful Facial Identity Preservation for Text-to-Video Generation
452. NeurIPS 2026FARE: Forensic Acceptance Region Estimation for Catching Bait-and-Switch Image Generators
453. NeurIPS 2026Fast and Accurate Probing of In-Training LLMs' Downstream Performances
454. NeurIPS 2026Fast KVzip: Efficient and Accurate LLM Inference with Gated KV Eviction
455. NeurIPS 2026Fast-WAM: Do World Action Models Need Test-time Future Imagination?
456. NeurIPS 2026FASTER: Rethinking Real-Time Flow VLAs
457. NeurIPS 2026FAUST: Federated Asynchronous Update with Staggered Timescales for Low-Communication Foundation Model Training
458. NeurIPS 2026FAVLA: A Force-Adaptive Multi-Rate VLA model for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
459. NeurIPS 2026FedIBS: Federated Vision-Language Adaptation via Intrinsic Bias Selection
460. NeurIPS 2026Few-Shot Truly Benign DPO Attack for Jailbreaking LLMs
461. NeurIPS 2026FiedlerPrune: Connectivity-Preserving Cross-Layer Pruning for Large Language Models
462. NeurIPS 2026Fill the GAP: A Granular Alignment Paradigm for Visual Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models
463. NeurIPS 2026FiLoRA: Focus-and-Ignore LoRA for Controllable Feature Reliance
464. NeurIPS 2026FinAl: Fine-grained Alignment for Detail-Preserving Medical Vision-Language Pretraining
465. NeurIPS 2026FineVLA: Fine-Grained Instruction Alignment for Steerable Vision-Language-Action Policies
466. NeurIPS 2026FiRe: Fine-grained Multimodal Reasoning for Enhanced Image Generation
467. NeurIPS 2026FlashRelight: Portrait Video Relighting with Dynamic Lighting
468. NeurIPS 2026FlatClip: Reusing Image Foundation Models for fMRI Representation Learning via Cortical Flatmaps
469. NeurIPS 2026FLIP: Fast and Accurate Global Lipschitz Estimation for Large Feedforward Networks
470. NeurIPS 2026FloatDoor: Platform triggered Backdoors in LLMs
471. NeurIPS 2026FlowHOI: Flow-based Semantics-Grounded Generation of Hand-Object Interactions for Dexterous Robot Manipulation
472. NeurIPS 2026FlowR2A: Learning Reward-to-Action Distribution for Multimodal Driving Planning
473. NeurIPS 2026Flux Attention: Context-Aware Hybrid Attention for Efficient LLMs Inference
474. NeurIPS 2026FluxFlow: Conservative Flow-Matching for Astronomical Image Super-Resolution
475. NeurIPS 2026FlyingDrones: A Dataset and Benchmark for Optical Flow Estimation from UAV motion
476. NeurIPS 2026FOAM: Factored One-sided Adam-Moment for Practical and Scalable SOAP
477. NeurIPS 2026Focus Matters: Attention-Value Dynamics for Hallucination Mitigation in Vision-Language Models
478. NeurIPS 2026Focus, Align, and Diffuse: Time-Series-Aware Keyframe Diffusion for Cardiac Dynamic Synthesis from Sparse Observations
479. NeurIPS 2026FOCUS: Benchmarking Retinal Model Generalization from Foundation Vision Encoders to Multimodal LLMs
480. NeurIPS 2026Focused Forcing: Content-Aware Per-Frame KV Selection for Efficient Autoregressive Video Diffusion
481. NeurIPS 2026FocusVLA: Hijacking Attention to Break Visual Token Pruning in Vision-Language-Action Models
482. NeurIPS 2026FoldAbS: Repurposing the Protein Folding Model as a Foundation Encoder for Antibody Screening
483. NeurIPS 2026Forced Deferral: Manipulating Routing Decisions in Multimodal LLM Cascades
484. NeurIPS 2026ForceFlow: Learning to Feel and Act via Contact-Driven Flow Matching
485. NeurIPS 2026ForesightFlow: Self-Guided Flow Matching for Improving Vision-Language-Action Models
486. NeurIPS 2026Forgery Evidence Peaks Mid-Stack: Forensic Evidence Relay for Multimodal Forgery Detection
487. NeurIPS 2026Found in Conversation: LLMs Teach Themselves to Close the Multi-Turn Gap
488. NeurIPS 2026FoundSurface: Feedforward Ray-Based 3D Scene Surface Reconstruction from Unposed Images
489. NeurIPS 2026Fourier Contour Learning for Efficient and Traceable Cardiac MRI Quantification
490. NeurIPS 2026Fractal-G: Topology-Aware Heterogeneous Graphs for Medical Image Segmentation
491. NeurIPS 2026FrameRouter: Frame Budget Routing for Long-Video Understanding on Video-MME-v2 and Beyond
492. NeurIPS 2026FrameSelect: A Unified Library for Video Frame Selection and Evaluation
493. NeurIPS 2026FreeAct: Demonstration-Free Robot Adaptation via Action-Grounded Generated Videos
494. NeurIPS 2026Freeing the Law with LOCUS: A Local Ordinance Corpus for the United States
495. NeurIPS 2026Frequency‑Aware Flow Matching for Continuous and Consistent Robotic Action Generation
496. NeurIPS 2026From Denoising to Refining: A Corrective Framework for Vision-Language Diffusion Model
497. NeurIPS 2026From Detection to Understanding — A Multi-Task Dataset for Traffic Anomaly Reasoning
498. NeurIPS 2026From Facts to Personas: Interpretable Role Unlearning in LLMs via Mixture-of-Experts
499. NeurIPS 2026From Failure Taxonomy to Intervention: A Diagnostic Methodology for Industry-Scale AVLM in Video and Live-Streaming Platform Moderation
500. NeurIPS 2026From Finding to Linking: Benchmarking and Advancing Cross-Long-Video Reasoning for Multimodal LLMs

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.