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 103 of 104

5101. NeurIPS 2026VFIG: Vectorizing Complex Figures in SVG with Vision-Language Models
5102. NeurIPS 2026VI-Bench: Benchmarking Prompt Inversion from AIGC Videos
5103. NeurIPS 2026ViCO: A Training Strategy towards Semantic Aware Dynamic High-Resolution
5104. NeurIPS 2026Video Forensic Self-Descriptions: Leveraging Temporally Distributed Forensic Microstructures for Zero-Shot Detection of AI-Generated Videos
5105. NeurIPS 2026Video Generation Research Needs a Legally Sustainable Data Infrastructure
5106. NeurIPS 2026Video Models Can Reason with Verifiable Rewards
5107. NeurIPS 2026Video Stitching from Multiple Moving Cameras
5108. NeurIPS 2026Video-FLAIR: Not Whether to Reason, But How
5109. NeurIPS 2026VidHalluDoctor: Learning Video Differences to Mitigate Hallucinations in Vision-Language Models
5110. NeurIPS 2026ViDiC: Video Difference Captioning
5111. NeurIPS 2026VidVec: Unlocking Video MLLM Embeddings for Video-Text Retrieval
5112. NeurIPS 2026ViewRec3D: Learning to Recommend 3D Viewpoints for AI Photography
5113. NeurIPS 2026ViewSAM: Learning View-aware Semantics for Weakly Supervised Cross-view Referring Multi-Object Tracking
5114. NeurIPS 2026VIGOR: Benchmarking Visual Rationale Correctness in Multimodal Large Language Models
5115. NeurIPS 2026VIGOR: Visual Gain Ordering for Hallucination Mitigation in Multimodal Discrete Diffusion Language Models
5116. NeurIPS 2026ViLo: LiDAR Localization with Vision-Language Priors
5117. NeurIPS 2026ViMU: Benchmarking Video Metaphorical Understanding
5118. NeurIPS 2026VIPER: An Expert-Curated Benchmark for Vision-Language Models in Veterinary Pathology
5119. NeurIPS 2026Vision to Geometry: 3D Spatial Memory for Sequential Embodied MLLM Reasoning and Exploration
5120. NeurIPS 2026Vision Token Pruning via Query-Vision Interaction Decomposition
5121. NeurIPS 2026Vision Transformers Learn Gestalt-Like Figure-Ground Cues from Natural Images
5122. NeurIPS 2026Vision-Language Grounding as Bidirectional Concept Correspondence
5123. NeurIPS 2026Vision-OPD: Learning to See Fine Details for Multimodal LLMs via On-Policy Self-Distillation
5124. NeurIPS 2026VISTA: Support-Anchored Value Targeting for Fast Flow-Based Vision-Language-Action Policies
5125. NeurIPS 2026VistaQA: Benchmarking Joint Visual Question Answering and Pixel-Level Evidence
5126. NeurIPS 2026Visual Enhanced Depth Scaling for Multimodal Latent Reasoning
5127. NeurIPS 2026Visual Reinforcement Fine-Tuning via Bootstrapped Medical Reasoning
5128. NeurIPS 2026Visual Text Compression as Measure Transport
5129. NeurIPS 2026Visual-Redundancy-Controlled Parallel Decoding for Diffusion-Based Multimodal Large Language Models
5130. NeurIPS 2026ViT-AdaLA: Adapting Vision Transformers with Linear Attention
5131. NeurIPS 2026VL-DocIR: A Benchmark for Vision-Based Long Document Retrieval
5132. NeurIPS 2026VLA-REPLICA: A Low-Cost, Reproducible Benchmark for Real-World Evaluation of Vision-Language-Action Models
5133. NeurIPS 2026VLM$^3$: Vision Language Models Are Native 3D Learners
5134. NeurIPS 2026VLMs Trace Without Tracking: Diagnosing Failures in Visual Path Following
5135. NeurIPS 2026VLRS-Bench: A Vision-Language Reasoning Benchmark for Remote Sensing
5136. NeurIPS 2026VLSplat: Vision-Language Guided Object-Centric 3D Gaussian Splatting via Scene Graph
5137. NeurIPS 2026Voronoi-Markov chain and spatial entropy for point pattern analysis
5138. NeurIPS 2026Voxel as Token: A New Perspective for Zero-shot Cross-subject Vision Decoding
5139. NeurIPS 2026VSearcher: Long-Horizon Multimodal Search Agent via Reinforcement Learning
5140. NeurIPS 2026VSRo-200: A Romanian Visual Speech Recognition Dataset for Studying Supervision and Multimodal Robustness
5141. NeurIPS 2026VTBench: Disentangled and Human-Aligned Evaluation for Image-Based Virtual Try-on
5142. NeurIPS 2026VVTRec: Radio Interferometric Reconstruction through Visual and Textual Modality Enrichment
5143. NeurIPS 2026Wasserstein Gradient Flows and Forward-Only Diffusion Are Not Enough for Multimodal Sampling
5144. NeurIPS 2026Watching Itself Watch: Self-Auditing Visual Reliance for Video Reasoning
5145. NeurIPS 2026Weakly Supervised Concept Learning for Interpreting and Attributing LVLM Predictions
5146. NeurIPS 2026WebSpatial: A Benchmarking Framework of Spatial Intelligence via Web-based Runtime Environments
5147. NeurIPS 2026What DNA Foundation Models Learn Beyond Sequence Composition
5148. NeurIPS 2026What Drives Test-Time Adaptation for CLIP? A Controlled Empirical Study from an Update Perspective
5149. NeurIPS 2026What MLLMs Learn about When they Learn about Multimodal Reasoning
5150. NeurIPS 2026What Should a Streaming Video Model Remember?

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.