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

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4951. NeurIPS 2026Stitched Value Model for Diffusion Alignment
4952. NeurIPS 2026Stranger Things: When Objects Appear Without Their Typical Neighbours
4953. NeurIPS 2026StreamGaze: Gaze-Guided Temporal Reasoning and Proactive Understanding in Streaming Videos
4954. NeurIPS 2026Streaming Interventions: Can Video LLMs Correct Mistakes as They Occur?
4955. NeurIPS 2026StreamOV: Streaming Omni-Video Understanding via Evidence-Guided Memory and Response Triggering
4956. NeurIPS 2026StreamPI: Streaming Multimodal Temporal Modeling for Vision-Language-Action Models
4957. NeurIPS 2026Strong Helps Weak: Directional Cross-Modal Alignment Transfer in Multi-modal LLMs
4958. NeurIPS 2026StructLens: A Structural Lens for Language Models via Maximum Spanning Trees
4959. NeurIPS 2026Structural Self-Teaching for Compositional Generation in Unified Multimodal Models
4960. NeurIPS 2026Structure Over Scale: Learning Visual Reasoning from Pedagogical Video
4961. NeurIPS 2026Structure-Prompted Multimodal Protein Language Model for Preference-Aligned Fitness Prediction
4962. NeurIPS 2026Structure, Subspace and System: Push the Real Limit of Extremely Low-Bit Quantization for MoE-LLMs
4963. NeurIPS 2026Structured Sparse Memory for Recurrent Reasoning
4964. NeurIPS 2026Structured State-Space Regularization for Generation-Friendly Image Tokenization
4965. NeurIPS 2026Subcritical Signal Propagation at Initialization in Normalization-Free Transformers
4966. NeurIPS 2026Subject-Relative Micro-Motion and Sleep Dynamics for Near-Infrared Video Sleep Staging
4967. NeurIPS 2026Subset-Conditioned Boundary Compensation for Missing-Modality Multimodal Classification
4968. NeurIPS 2026SUPERVISE: A Unified Framework for Standardized and Reproducible Superpixel Evaluation
4969. NeurIPS 2026Surface Recovery Is Not State Recovery: Pressure–Recovery–Relapse in Multi-turn LLMs
4970. NeurIPS 2026Susceptibilities for Neural Networks Learning from Physical Data
4971. NeurIPS 2026SWE-Pro: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Performance-Oriented Repository-Level Optimization
4972. NeurIPS 2026SynDORBench: Evaluating LVLM Perceptual Robustness Under Physically Constrained Visibility Conditions
4973. NeurIPS 2026SynGeo: Synergizing Seeing and Proving through Revisable Geometric States
4974. NeurIPS 2026SynIB: Informational Bottleneck for Maximizing Synergy in Multimodal Learning
4975. NeurIPS 2026SynthForensics: Benchmarking and Evaluating People-Centric Synthetic Video Deepfakes
4976. NeurIPS 2026T-ReX: Learning Tile-Reuse Indexes for Structured Model Compression
4977. NeurIPS 2026T2V-AttnDisrupt: Inducing Hallucinations in LVLMs via Misrouting Visual Evidence Retrieval
4978. NeurIPS 2026TailAdapt: Heavy-Tailed Sparse Variational Adaptation for Long-Tailed Class Incremental Learning
4979. NeurIPS 2026Task-Induced Riemannian Metrics for Vision Transformer Feature Spaces
4980. NeurIPS 2026TaskGround: Structured Executable Task Inference for Full-Scene Household Reasoning
4981. NeurIPS 2026TasteBench: multimodal benchmark for sensory prediction, from molecules to sustainable foods
4982. NeurIPS 2026Teaching Large Language Models When Not to Know: Learning Temporal Critique for Ex-Ante Reasoning
4983. NeurIPS 2026Teaching VLMs What to Say, Not How to Reason: Rethinking Counterfactual Reasoning in Autonomous Driving
4984. NeurIPS 2026TED: Text-Axis Evidence Decomposition for Prompted Anomaly Localization
4985. NeurIPS 2026Tempered Guided Diffusion
4986. NeurIPS 2026TeMPO: Frame-Causal Token Compression for Efficient Video Large Language Model
4987. NeurIPS 2026Temporal Backtracking Search for Test-time Generative Video Reasoning
4988. NeurIPS 2026Temporal Slice Learning for AI-Generated Video Detection with 400× Fewer FLOPs
4989. NeurIPS 2026Test-Time Adaptation via Self-Reinforced Optimal Transport for Zero-Shot OOD Detection with Vision–Language Models
4990. NeurIPS 2026Test-Time Defense Against Adversarial Attacks via Stochastic Resonance of Latent Ensembles
4991. NeurIPS 2026Tethered Predictive-Inertial Proposals with Objective Verification for Diffusion-Prior Inverse Problems
4992. NeurIPS 2026Text as Partial Constraint: Core–Residual Alignment for Robust Vision–Language Learning
4993. NeurIPS 2026Text-Vision Co-Instructed Image Editing
4994. NeurIPS 2026TF-PRVR: Training-Free Partially Relevant Video Retrieval for Real-World Generalization
4995. NeurIPS 2026The Adversarial Gait: Detecting Visual Adversarial Attacks against Vision-Language Models via Self-Targeted Gradient Characterization
4996. NeurIPS 2026The Alignment Illusion in Multimodal Large Language Models
4997. NeurIPS 2026The BAMBI Dataset: Multimodal Nadir UAV-Recordings of Forest Wildlife
4998. NeurIPS 2026The Butterfly Effect in Reasoning: Branch-Structured Distributional Memory for Stochastic Agents
4999. NeurIPS 2026The Cost of Absolute Position: A Spread-Expressivity Tradeoff for Additive Positional Encodings
5000. NeurIPS 2026The FACTS Leaderboard: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Large Language Model Factuality

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.