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 11 of 104

501. CVPR 2026GuardTrace-VL Detecting Unsafe Multimodel Reasoning via Iterative Safety Supervision
502. CVPR 2026GUIDE A Benchmark for Understanding and Assisting Users in Open-Ended
503. CVPR 2026Gyro-based Deep Video Deblurring
504. CVPR 2026H2-Surv Hierarchical Hyperbolic Multimodal Representation Learning for Survival Prediction
505. CVPR 2026HalluGen Synthesizing Realistic and Controllable Hallucinations for Evaluating Image Restoration
506. CVPR 2026HAMMER Harnessing MLLMs via Cross-Modal Integration for Intention-Driven 3D Affordance
507. CVPR 2026HandVQA Diagnosing and Improving Fine-Grained Spatial Reasoning about Hands in
508. CVPR 2026HanDyVQA A Video QA Benchmark for Fine-Grained Hand-Object Interaction Dynamics
509. CVPR 2026Harnessing Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models for Face
510. CVPR 2026Harnessing the Power of Foundation Models for Accurate Material Classification
511. CVPR 2026HATS Hardness-Aware Trajectory Synthesis for GUI Agents
512. CVPR 2026HAVE-Bench Hierarchical Audio-Visual Evaluation from Perception to Interaction
513. CVPR 2026HAWK Head Importance-Aware Visual Token Pruning in Multimodal Models
514. CVPR 2026HBridge H-Shape Bridging of Heterogeneous Experts for Unified Multimodal Understanding
515. CVPR 2026HCL-FF Hierarchical and Contrastive Learning for Forward-Forward Algorithm
516. CVPR 2026HDR-VLM HDR-Domain Adaptation of VLMs and Preference-Aligned Quality Assessment for
517. CVPR 2026Head-wise Adaptive Rotary Positional Encoding for Fine-Grained Image Generation
518. CVPR 2026Hear you are Teaching LLMs Spatial Reasoning with Vision and
519. CVPR 2026HERBench A Benchmark for Multi-Evidence Integration in Video Question Answering
520. CVPR 2026HeSS Head Sensitivity Score for Sparsity Redistribution in VGGT
521. CVPR 2026Heuristic-inspired Reasoning Priors Facilitate Data-Efficient Referring Object Detection
522. CVPR 2026HFR and HDR Video from Multi-Attenuated Spikes Using a Rapidly
523. CVPR 2026Hg-I2P Bridging Modalities for Generalizable Image-to-Point-Cloud Registration via Heterogeneous Graphs
524. CVPR 2026Hi-Lo Prune Look at What Youll Lose before Pruning with
525. CVPR 2026Hierarchical Concept Embedding Pursuit for Interpretable Image Classification
526. CVPR 2026Hierarchical Long Video Understanding with Audiovisual Entity Cohesion and Agentic
527. CVPR 2026Hierarchically Robust Zero-shot Vision-language Models
528. CVPR 2026HierUQ Hierarchical Uncertainty Quantification with Adaptive Granularity Reconciliation for Degraded
529. CVPR 2026HiF-VLA Hindsight Insight and Foresight through Motion Representation for Vision-Language-Action
530. CVPR 2026HiFICL High-Fidelity In-Context Learning for Multimodal Tasks
531. CVPR 2026High-Fidelity Mobile Avatars with Pruned Local Blendshapes
532. CVPR 2026Hilbert Curve-Based Attention Enabling Topology-Preserving Image Tensor Representation for Semantic
533. CVPR 2026Hilbert-Geo Solving Solid Geometric Problems by Neural-Symbolic Reasoning
534. CVPR 2026Hint2Gen Bridging Understanding and Generation via Code-structured Hints
535. CVPR 2026HiSpatial Taming Hierarchical 3D Spatial Understanding in Vision-Language Models
536. CVPR 2026Hist2Style Histogram-Guided Stylization with Bilateral Grids
537. CVPR 2026HOG-Layout Hierarchical 3D Scene Generation Optimization and Editing via Vision-Language
538. CVPR 2026Hoi - A Multimodal Dataset for Force-Grounded Cross-View Articulated Manipulation
539. CVPR 2026Homaloidal parametrization for detecting critical two-view configurations
540. CVPR 2026HoneyBee Data Recipes for Vision-Language Reasoners
541. CVPR 2026HOPS Hierarchical Open-vocabulary Part Segmentation with Attention-Aware Filtering and Affinity-Guided
542. CVPR 2026How Much 3D Do Video Foundation Models Encode
543. CVPR 2026How to Take a Memorable Picture Empowering Users with Actionable
544. CVPR 2026HP-Edit A Human-Preference Post-Training Framework for Image Editing
545. CVPR 2026HTTM Head-wise Temporal Token Merging for Faster VGGT
546. CVPR 2026Hugging Visual Prompt and Segmentation Tokens Consistency Learning for Fine-Grained
547. CVPR 2026HulluEdit Single-Pass Evidence-Consistent Subspace Editing for Mitigating Hallucinations in Large
548. CVPR 2026Human-like Abstract Visual Reasoning via Understanding and Solving Reasoning Loop
549. CVPR 2026HumanVBench Probing Human-Centric Video Understanding in MLLMs with Automatically Synthesized
550. CVPR 2026HUMAPS-4D A Multimodal Dataset for HUman Motion Analysis with Physiological

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.