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

5,190 papers, page 10 of 104

451. CVPR 2026From Indoor to Open World Revealing the Spatial Reasoning Gap
452. CVPR 2026From Infusion to Assimilation Distillation for Medical Image Segmentation
453. CVPR 2026From Manuals to Actions A Unified VLA Model for Chain-of-Thought
454. CVPR 2026From Observation to Action Latent Action-based Primitive Segmentation for VLA
455. CVPR 2026From Panel to Pixel Zoom-In Vision-Language Pretraining from Biomedical Scientific
456. CVPR 2026From Static to Dynamic Exploring Self-supervised Image-to-Video Representation Transfer Learning
457. CVPR 2026From Weights to Concepts Data-Free Interpretability of CLIP via Singular
458. CVPR 2026FunFact Building Probabilistic Functional 3D Scene Graphs via Factor-Graph Reasoning
459. CVPR 2026FUSAR-GPT A Spatiotemporal Feature-Embedded and Two-Stage Decoupled Visual Language Model
460. CVPR 2026Fusion in Your Way Aligning Image Fusion with Heterogeneous Demands
461. CVPR 2026Fusion of Depth and Semantics for Probabilistic Floorplan Localization
462. CVPR 2026G-MIXER Geodesic Mixup-based Implicit Semantic Expansion and Explicit Semantic Re-ranking
463. CVPR 2026G2VLM Geometry Grounded Vision Language Model with Unified 3D Reconstruction
464. CVPR 2026GA-VLN Geometry-Aware BEV Representation for Efficient Vision-Language Navigation
465. CVPR 2026Gastric-X A Multimodal Multi-Phase Benchmark Dataset for Advancing Vision-Language Models
466. CVPR 2026GaussianDWM 3D Gaussian Driving World Model for Unified Scene Understanding
467. CVPR 2026GaussianVision Vision-Language Alignment from Compressed Image Representations using 2D Gaussian
468. CVPR 2026GaussianZoom Progressive Zoom-in Generative 3D Gaussian Splatting with Geometric and
469. CVPR 2026GEM-TFL Bridging Weak and Full Supervision for Forgery Localization through
470. CVPR 2026GenColorBench A Color Evaluation Benchmark for Text-to-Image Generation
471. CVPR 2026Generalizable Knowledge Distillation from Vision Foundation Models for Semantic Segmentation
472. CVPR 2026Generalized and Personalized Federated Learning with Black-Box Foundation Models via
473. CVPR 2026GeniNav Generative Model Driven Image-Goal Navigation via Imagination-Guided Consistency Flow
474. CVPR 2026GeoDiT A Diffusion-based Vision-Language Model for Geospatial Understanding
475. CVPR 2026Geometrically-Constrained Agent for Spatial Reasoning
476. CVPR 2026Geometry-Guided 3D Visual Token Pruning for Video-Language Models
477. CVPR 2026GeoMMBench and GeoMMAgent Toward Expert-Level Multimodal Intelligence in Geoscience and
478. CVPR 2026GeoPredict Leveraging Predictive Kinematics and 3D Gaussian Geometry for Precise
479. CVPR 2026GeoSAM2 Unleashing the Power of SAM2 for 3D Part Segmentation
480. CVPR 2026GeoTikzBridge Advancing Multimodal Code Generation for Geometric Perception and Reasoning
481. CVPR 2026GeoViS Geospatially Rewarded Visual Search for Remote Sensing Visual Grounding
482. CVPR 2026GFRRN Explore the Gaps in Single Image Reflection Removal
483. CVPR 2026GGBench A Geometric Generative Reasoning Benchmark for Unified Multimodal Models
484. CVPR 2026GIFT Global Irreplaceability Frame Targeting for Efficient Video Understanding
485. CVPR 2026Global Prior Meets Local Consistency Dual-Memory Augmented Vision-Language-Action Model for
486. CVPR 2026Global-Graph Guided and Local-Graph Weighted Contrastive Learning for Unified Clustering
487. CVPR 2026Gradient Knows Best Mixed-Precision Quantization via Gradient-Guided Bit Allocation for
488. CVPR 2026Granulon Awakening Pixel-Level Visual Encoders with Adaptive Multi-Granularity Semantics for
489. CVPR 2026Graph2Eval Automatic Multimodal Task Generation for Agents via Knowledge Graphs
490. CVPR 2026GraPHFormer A Multimodal Graph Persistent Homology Transformer for the Analysis
491. CVPR 2026GraphVLM Benchmarking Vision Language Models for Multimodal Graph Learning
492. CVPR 2026GraspALL Adaptive Structural Compensation from Illumination Variation for Robotic Garment
493. CVPR 2026Gravitation-Driven Semantic Alignment for Text Video Retrieval
494. CVPR 2026Grounded 3D-Aware Spatial Vision-Language Modeling
495. CVPR 2026Grounding Everything in Tokens for Multimodal Large Language Models
496. CVPR 2026GroundVTS Visual Token Sampling in Multimodal Large Language Models for
497. CVPR 2026GT-SVJ Generative-Transformer-Based Self-Supervised Video Judge For Efficient Video Reward Modeling
498. CVPR 2026GThinker Towards General Multimodal Reasoning via Cue-Guided Rethinking
499. CVPR 2026GTR-Turbo Merged Checkpoint is Secretly a Free Teacher for Agentic
500. CVPR 2026Guardians of the Hair Rescuing Soft Boundaries in Depth Stereo

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.