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 101 of 104

5001. NeurIPS 2026The Fault in Our Metrics: Revisiting Generative Model Evaluation with Chamfer Distance
5002. NeurIPS 2026The Graph Concept Bottleneck: Decoding Combinatorial Reasoning in GNNs for Interpretability
5003. NeurIPS 2026The Marauder’s Map: Bézier Manifolds Reveal Hidden Surfaces for Model Merging and Ensembling
5004. NeurIPS 2026The Missing Corpus: Infinite Ground Truth for File-Grounded LLM Evaluation
5005. NeurIPS 2026The Optimal Control Foundation of Early Exits – Turnpikes and ResNets
5006. NeurIPS 2026The Power of Second Order Methods for Sequence Preconditioning
5007. NeurIPS 2026The Prestige: Benchmarking Cognitive Visual Reasoning using Magic Tricks
5008. NeurIPS 2026The road reaches every place, the short cut only one: Self-Adversarial Shortcut Mitigation for AI-Generated Image Detection
5009. NeurIPS 2026The Subjectivity of Monoculture
5010. NeurIPS 2026The Unembedding Bottleneck: A Mechanistic Analysis of Single Digit Counting in LLMs
5011. NeurIPS 2026The VLM as Sensor: Bayesian Active Search for Long Video Understanding
5012. NeurIPS 2026THEIA: A Multimodal Dataset and Benchmark for Vision-Language Analysis of Layout
5013. NeurIPS 2026They Can See It but not Say It: Iterative Self Knowledge Re-expression in Visual Reasoning Relative Pose Identification
5014. NeurIPS 2026Think Densely, Act Sparsely: Latent Expert Cognitive Chains for Vision-Language-Action Autonomous Driving
5015. NeurIPS 2026Thinking in Pictures: A Systematic Benchmark for Reasoning-driven Image Generation
5016. NeurIPS 2026Thinking with Imagination: Agentic Visual Spatial Reasoning with World Simulators
5017. NeurIPS 2026ThinkJEPA: Empowering Latent World Models with Large Vision-Language Reasoning Model
5018. NeurIPS 2026TIDE: Asymmetric Neural Circuits for Stabilized Temporal Inhibitory-Excitatory Dynamics
5019. NeurIPS 2026TIGER: Bridging the Multimodal Reasoning-Access Gap via Modality Counterfactuals
5020. NeurIPS 2026Tight Gap-Dependent Regret Bounds and Problem-Independent Bounds for Cost-aware Cascading Bandits
5021. NeurIPS 2026Tiny but Trusted: Efficient Vision-Language Reasoning for Time-Series Anomaly Detection
5022. NeurIPS 2026Tokenizer-Generator Coupling in Medical Image Generation
5023. NeurIPS 2026TokenSwap: Benchmarking and Reducing the Modality Gap in Multimodal LLMs
5024. NeurIPS 2026Too Aligned to be Real: Detecting AI-Generated Images via Cross-modal Alignment Shift
5025. NeurIPS 2026Tool-IQA: Augmenting Image Quality Assessment with Simple Tools
5026. NeurIPS 2026TopoCurve: Geometry-Aware Topology Reasoning via Bézier Curves in Autonomous Driving
5027. NeurIPS 2026TopoGraphRAG-Bench: Evaluating Multimodal GraphRAG on Layout-Grounded Evidence Reasoning
5028. NeurIPS 2026Topology-Aware Representation Alignment for Semi-Supervised Vision-Language Learning
5029. NeurIPS 2026Topology-Reinforced Swin Transformer for Medical Image Analysis
5030. NeurIPS 2026TorchUMM: A Unified Multimodal Model Codebase for Evaluation, Analysis, and Post-training
5031. NeurIPS 2026Toward Cognitive Supersensing in Multimodal Large Language Models
5032. NeurIPS 2026Toward in Silico Strain Evaluation: A Multimodal Surrogate for Fermentation Dynamics with Metabolic Graph Pretraining
5033. NeurIPS 2026Toward Multimodal Sheet Music Recognition and Understanding
5034. NeurIPS 2026Toward Semantically-Consistent Tuning-Free Customization for Rectified Flow Transformers
5035. NeurIPS 2026Towards Explainable Industrial Anomaly Detection via Knowledge-Guided Latent Reasoning
5036. NeurIPS 2026Towards Multi-Human-Value Alignment via Value Localization in LLMs
5037. NeurIPS 2026Towards Reconstructing Geographically Diverse Architecture with 3D Foundation Models
5038. NeurIPS 2026Towards Reliable VLM Judges: State-Conditional Invariance and Presentation-Aware Diagnostics
5039. NeurIPS 2026Towards Scalable Egocentric HOI for Humanoids: Benchmarking Whole-Body Dexterous Interaction with Tactile Prediction
5040. NeurIPS 2026TPRL: Adaptive Visual Token Pruning in LVLMs via Language-Guided Reinforcement Learning
5041. NeurIPS 2026TRACE: Data-Free Text Reconstruction Attacks against Approximate Unlearning in LLMs
5042. NeurIPS 2026TRACE: Trajectory-Aware Conceps for Explainable Video Understanding
5043. NeurIPS 2026Tracing Psychometric Inference in Large Language Models
5044. NeurIPS 2026Training Long-Context Vision-Language Models Effectively with Generalization Beyond 128K Context
5045. NeurIPS 2026Training Vision Transformers to Focus: Emergence of Attention Head Specialization
5046. NeurIPS 2026Training with Harnesses: On-Policy Harness Self-Distillation for Complex Reasoning
5047. NeurIPS 2026Training-Free Dynamic Upcycling of Expert Language Models
5048. NeurIPS 2026Training-Free Open World Object Detection
5049. NeurIPS 2026Trajectory-Consistent Dropout for Uncertainty Decomposition in Hamiltonian Neural Networks
5050. NeurIPS 2026TrajLoc: Trajectory-Attention Localization for Multi-Object Motion Control

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.