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

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551. CVPR 2026HUMORCHAIN Theory-Guided Multi-Stage Reasoning for Interpretable Multimodal Humor Generation
552. CVPR 2026Hunting Normality from Query Sample via Residual Learning for Generalist
553. CVPR 2026Hybrid Agents for Image Restoration
554. CVPR 2026Hybrid Token Compression for Vision-Language Models
555. CVPR 2026HybridDriveVLA Vision-Language-Action Model with Visual CoT reasoning and ToT Evaluation
556. CVPR 2026HyCal A Training-Free Prototype Calibration Method for Cross-Discipline Few-Shot Class-Incremental
557. CVPR 2026Hyperbolic Busemann Neural Networks
558. CVPR 2026Hyperbolic Gramian Volumes for Multimodal Alignment
559. CVPR 2026Hyperbolic Relational Prompts for Intersectional Fairness in Medical VLMs
560. CVPR 2026Hypergraph-State Collaborative Reasoning for Multi-Object Tracking
561. CVPR 2026I-Scene 3D Instance Models are Implicit Generalizable Spatial Learners
562. CVPR 2026I2I-Bench A Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for Image-to-Image Editing Models
563. CVPR 2026IAG Input-aware Backdoor Attack on VLM-based Visual Grounding
564. CVPR 2026ID-Crafter VLM-Grounded Online RL for Compositional Multi-Subject Video Generation
565. CVPR 2026IF-Bench Benchmarking and Enhancing MLLMs for Infrared Images with Generative
566. CVPR 2026IF-Prune Information-Flow Guided Token Pruning for Efficient Vision-Language Models
567. CVPR 2026IGen Scalable Data Generation for Robot Learning from Open-World Images
568. CVPR 2026Illuminating Visual Identity in Universal Multimodal Embeddings
569. CVPR 2026Illustrators Depth Monocular Layer Index Prediction for Image Decomposition
570. CVPR 2026Image Guides Images Consistent Video Amodal Completion with Rectified In-Context
571. CVPR 2026Image-to-Point Cloud Feature Back-Projection for Multimodal Training of 3D Semantic
572. CVPR 2026IMAIA Interactive Maps AI Assistant for Travel Planning and Geo-Spatial
573. CVPR 2026Improving Calibration in Test-Time Prompt Tuning for Vision-Language Models via
574. CVPR 2026Improving Vision-language Models with Perception-centric Process Reward Models
575. CVPR 2026IMU-HOI A Symbiotic Framework for Coherent Human-Object Interaction and Motion
576. CVPR 2026InfiniBench Infinite Benchmarking for Visual Spatial Reasoning with Customizable Scene
577. CVPR 2026Information-Theoretic Decomposition for Multimodal Interaction Learning
578. CVPR 2026InsCal Calibrated Multi-Source Fully Test-Time Prompt Tuning for Object Detection
579. CVPR 2026INSIGHT Bench Towards Grounded IN-SItu Guidance for Robotic ManipulaTion
580. CVPR 2026InstAP Instance-Aware Vision-Language Pre-Train for Spatial-Temporal Understanding
581. CVPR 2026Instruction-Guided Lesion Segmentation for Chest X-rays with Automatically Generated Large-Scale
582. CVPR 2026Interactive Episodic Memory with User Feedback
583. CVPR 2026Interpretable Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning with Rectified Target-Domain Local Alignment
584. CVPR 2026Interpretable Debiasing of Vision-Language Models for Social Fairness
585. CVPR 2026Interpretable Prompts made Edit-Friendly Token-to-Token Similarity Reduction in dLLMs for
586. CVPR 2026Intrinsic Image Fusion for Multi-View 3D Material Reconstruction
587. CVPR 2026IntroSVG Learning from Rendering Feedback for Text-to-SVG Generation via an
588. CVPR 2026IPR-1 Interactive Physical Reasoner
589. CVPR 2026Is your VLM Sky-Ready A Comprehensive Spatial Intelligence Benchmark for
590. CVPR 2026IsoCLIP Decomposing CLIP Projectors for Efficient Intra-modal Alignment
591. CVPR 2026It Takes Two A Duet of Periodicity and Directionality for
592. CVPR 2026IVAAN Instance-level Vision-Language Alignment via Attribute-Guided Text Prompts Generation for
593. CVPR 2026Jailbreaking Vision-Language Models via Dissonance-Guided Suffix Optimization and Image-Phrase Injection
594. CVPR 2026JANUS A Lightweight Framework for Jailbreaking Text-to-Image Models via Distribution
595. CVPR 2026Joint-Aligned Latent Action Towards Scalable VLA Pretraining in the Wild
596. CVPR 2026JoPPO Hierarchical Photography Assessment via Contrastive Joint Conditional Probabilistic Reinforcement
597. CVPR 2026Kaleidoscopic Scintillation Event Imaging
598. CVPR 2026KaLOS finds Consensus A Meta-Algorithm for Evaluating Inter-Annotator Agreement in
599. CVPR 2026KAMP Knowledge-Anchored Multimodal Pretraining Framework for Medical Image Representation
600. CVPR 2026Keep It Frozen Domain-Routed Conditional Residual Modulation for Multi-Domain Vision

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.