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 102 of 104

5051. NeurIPS 2026Transfer Entropy as a Measure of Information Flow in VLMs and LLMs
5052. NeurIPS 2026Transferring Visual Explainability from Self-Explaining to Prediction-Only Vision Transformers via Task Arithmetic
5053. NeurIPS 2026TreemapMix: Dirichlet-Controlled Multi-Image Augmentation for Probability and Ordinal Supervision
5054. NeurIPS 2026TRIAD: Benchmarking Omni-Modal Ambiguity in Multimodal Large Language Models
5055. NeurIPS 2026Triggering Generalist Reasoning via Predictive Uncertainty for Dual-System VLA
5056. NeurIPS 2026TrioPose: Native Triple-Stream Diffusion Transformers for Pose-Guided Text-to-Image Generation
5057. NeurIPS 2026TriTD: Tri-Partite Trajectory–Distribution Distillation for Real-Time Autoregressive Video Generation
5058. NeurIPS 2026TrustMod-SM: A Multi-Axis Benchmark for Evaluating Trustworthiness of LLMs in Social Media Content Moderation
5059. NeurIPS 2026TS-ICL: A Flexible Time-Indexed Foundation Model for Time Series via In-Context Learning
5060. NeurIPS 2026TSFM Meets LLM: Context as Covariate
5061. NeurIPS 2026TTVidT: Decoupling the Temporal Axis for Efficient Motion-Centric Video Pretraining
5062. NeurIPS 2026Tuna-2: Pixel Embeddings Beat Vision Encoders for Multimodal Understanding and Generation
5063. NeurIPS 2026TwinPrune: Density-Aware Two-Phase Token Pruning for Vision-Language Models
5064. NeurIPS 2026Two Drifts, One Principle: Conflict-Aware Spectral Consolidation for Multimodal Continual Learning
5065. NeurIPS 2026UGGRH: Unsupervised Generative Completion and Graph-attention Refinement for Incomplete Cross-modal Hashing
5066. NeurIPS 2026Uncertainty Estimation for Pretrained Medical Image Registration Models via Transformation Equivariance
5067. NeurIPS 2026Uncertainty Quantification for Multimodal Large Language Models with Incoherence-adjusted Semantic Volume
5068. NeurIPS 2026Uncertainty Quantification of Least Squares Estimator for Generalized Orthogonal Procrustes Problems
5069. NeurIPS 2026Uncovering and Shaping the Latent Representation of 3D Scene Topology in Vision-Language Models
5070. NeurIPS 2026Understanding and Defending VLM Jailbreaks via Jailbreak-Related Representation Shift
5071. NeurIPS 2026Understanding the Challenges in Iterative Generative Optimization with LLMs
5072. NeurIPS 2026UnfoldArt: Zero-Shot Recovery of Full Articulated 3D Objects from Text or Image
5073. NeurIPS 2026Uni-Synergy: Bridging Understanding and Generation for Personalized Reasoning
5074. NeurIPS 2026UNICOM: Unified Multimodal Modeling via Compressed Continuous Semantic Representations
5075. NeurIPS 2026UniCustom: Unified Visual Conditioning for Multi-reference Image Generation
5076. NeurIPS 2026Unified Forensic Preference Learning for Generalizable Synthetic Image Detection
5077. NeurIPS 2026UniFunc3D: Unified Active Spatial-Temporal Grounding for 3D Affordance Segmentation
5078. NeurIPS 2026Unify-Agent: A Unified Multimodal Agent for World-Grounded Image Synthesis
5079. NeurIPS 2026Unifying Sparsity and Discreteness: One-Shot Pruning for Quantized LLMs via Discrete Optimization
5080. NeurIPS 2026UniPath: Adaptive Coordination of Understanding and Generation for Unified Multimodal Reasoning
5081. NeurIPS 2026UniRAP: Towards Unified Part-level Physical Affordance Reasoning and Actionable Perception
5082. NeurIPS 2026UniReFP: Robust Unified Fingerprinting for Vision Models against Cross-Task Repurposing Attacks
5083. NeurIPS 2026UniverSat: Resolution- and Modality-Agnostic Transformers for Earth Observation
5084. NeurIPS 2026UniVLR: Unifying Text and Vision in Visual Latent Reasoning for Multimodal LLMs
5085. NeurIPS 2026Unrolled gradients in disguise: bridging interpolation-based and Jacobian regularization for stable neural dynamics
5086. NeurIPS 2026V-LUMEN: Visual Lookup Memory for Embedding Scaling in Vision-Language Models
5087. NeurIPS 2026V1-Inspired Dynamic Vision System: A Bio-Plausible Video Embedding Framework with Decoupled Shape–Color Pathways and Long-Range Spatiotemporal Perception
5088. NeurIPS 2026V2VFusion: Text-Controlled Video-to-Video Diffusion for Degradation-Aware Video Fusion
5089. NeurIPS 2026VAANI: Capturing the language landscape for an inclusive digital India
5090. NeurIPS 2026Value Entanglement: Conflation Between Different Kinds of Good In (Some) Large Language Models
5091. NeurIPS 2026VAR-Q: Tuning-free KV Cache Quantization for Visual Autoregressive Image and Video Generation
5092. NeurIPS 2026Variational Wasserstein Model on Riemannian Manifolds for Image Segmentation
5093. NeurIPS 2026VC-OPD: Visual Counterfactual On-Policy Distillation for Grounded Vision-Language Reasoning
5094. NeurIPS 2026Verifiable LLM-Guided Focal SMT Solving for Quantified Arrays
5095. NeurIPS 2026Verifier-Backed Hard Problem Generation for Mathematical Reasoning
5096. NeurIPS 2026VeriScope: Measuring Verification-Ready Verilog Artifacts
5097. NeurIPS 2026VeriTrip: A Verifiable Benchmark for Travel Planning Agents over Unstructured Web Corpora
5098. NeurIPS 2026VeriWorld: A Verifiable Visual SWE-Bench for Spatial Reasoning in 3D Environments
5099. NeurIPS 2026VersaCamVLA: Camera-Configurable VLA Policies for Robotic Manipulation
5100. NeurIPS 2026VESTA: Visual Exploration with Statistical Tool Agents

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.