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

1,074 papers, page 11 of 22

501. NeurIPS 2025Lookahead Routing for Large Language Models
502. NeurIPS 2025LoRO: Real-Time on-Device Secure Inference for LLMs via TEE-Based Low Rank Obfuscation
503. NeurIPS 2025Lost in Transmission: When and Why LLMs Fail to Reason Globally
504. NeurIPS 2025LoTA-QAF: Lossless Ternary Adaptation for Quantization-Aware Fine-Tuning
505. NeurIPS 2025LVLM-Driven Attribute-Aware Modeling for Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification
506. NeurIPS 2025Lyapunov-Stable Adaptive Control for Multimodal Concept Drift
507. NeurIPS 2025Machine Unlearning via Task Simplex Arithmetic
508. NeurIPS 2025MAESTRO : Adaptive Sparse Attention and Robust Learning for Multimodal Dynamic Time Series
509. NeurIPS 2025Mamba Goes HoME: Hierarchical Soft Mixture-of-Experts for 3D Medical Image Segmentation
510. NeurIPS 2025Mamba Only Glances Once (MOGO): A Lightweight Framework for Efficient Video Action Detection
511. NeurIPS 2025MANGO: Multimodal Attention-based Normalizing Flow Approach to Fusion Learning
512. NeurIPS 2025MAPLE: Multi-scale Attribute-enhanced Prompt Learning for Few-shot Whole Slide Image Classification
513. NeurIPS 2025Mars-Bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Foundation Models for Mars Science Tasks
514. NeurIPS 2025Martian World Model: Controllable Video Synthesis with Physically Accurate 3D Reconstructions
515. NeurIPS 2025Matching Markets Meet LLMs: Algorithmic Reasoning with Ranked Preferences
516. NeurIPS 2025MathArena: Evaluating LLMs on Uncontaminated Math Competitions
517. NeurIPS 2025Matryoshka Pilot: Learning to Drive Black-Box LLMs with LLMs
518. NeurIPS 2025Mechanism Design for LLM Fine-tuning with Multiple Reward Models
519. NeurIPS 2025MedicalNarratives: Connecting Medical Vision and Language with Localized Narratives
520. NeurIPS 2025MedMax: Mixed-Modal Instruction Tuning for Training Biomedical Assistants
521. NeurIPS 2025MedSG-Bench: A Benchmark for Medical Image Sequences Grounding
522. NeurIPS 2025MEgoHand: Multimodal Egocentric Hand-Object Interaction Motion Generation
523. NeurIPS 2025Mellow: a small audio language model for reasoning
524. NeurIPS 2025MemEIC: A Step Toward Continual and Compositional Knowledge Editing
525. NeurIPS 2025MEMOIR: Lifelong Model Editing with Minimal Overwrite and Informed Retention for LLMs
526. NeurIPS 2025MergeBench: A Benchmark for Merging Domain-Specialized LLMs
527. NeurIPS 2025Meta CLIP 2: A Worldwide Scaling Recipe
528. NeurIPS 2025MiCo: Multi-image Contrast for Reinforcement Visual Reasoning
529. NeurIPS 2025MIDAS: Misalignment-based Data Augmentation Strategy for Imbalanced Multimodal Learning
530. NeurIPS 2025MimeQA: Towards Socially-Intelligent Nonverbal Foundation Models
531. NeurIPS 2025Mind the Quote: Enabling Quotation-Aware Dialogue in LLMs via Plug-and-Play Modules
532. NeurIPS 2025MindForge: Empowering Embodied Agents with Theory of Mind for Lifelong Cultural Learning
533. NeurIPS 2025MindGYM: What Matters in Question Synthesis for Thinking-Centric Fine-Tuning?
534. NeurIPS 2025MindJourney: Test-Time Scaling with World Models for Spatial Reasoning
535. NeurIPS 2025MindOmni: Unleashing Reasoning Generation in Vision Language Models with RGPO
536. NeurIPS 2025MineAnyBuild: Benchmarking Spatial Planning for Open-world AI Agents
537. NeurIPS 2025Minimum Width for Deep, Narrow MLP: A Diffeomorphism Approach
538. NeurIPS 2025MINT-CoT: Enabling Interleaved Visual Tokens in Mathematical Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
539. NeurIPS 2025Mint: A Simple Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models against Common Corruptions
540. NeurIPS 2025MIP against Agent: Malicious Image Patches Hijacking Multimodal OS Agents
541. NeurIPS 2025MIRAGE: A Benchmark for Multimodal Information-Seeking and Reasoning in Agricultural Expert-Guided Conversations
542. NeurIPS 2025MIRAGE: Assessing Hallucination in Multimodal Reasoning Chains of MLLM
543. NeurIPS 2025Miss-ReID: Delivering Robust Multi-Modality Object Re-Identification Despite Missing Modalities
544. NeurIPS 2025Mitigating Hallucination in VideoLLMs via Temporal-Aware Activation Engineering
545. NeurIPS 2025Mitigating Hallucination Through Theory-Consistent Symmetric Multimodal Preference Optimization
546. NeurIPS 2025Mitigating Intra- and Inter-modal Forgetting in Continual Learning of Unified Multimodal Models
547. NeurIPS 2025Mitra: Mixed Synthetic Priors for Enhancing Tabular Foundation Models
548. NeurIPS 2025MixAT: Combining Continuous and Discrete Adversarial Training for LLMs
549. NeurIPS 2025MixPrompt: Efficient Mixed Prompting for Multimodal Semantic Segmentation
550. NeurIPS 2025Mixtures of Subspaces for Bandwidth Efficient Context Parallel Training

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.