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 13 of 22

601. NeurIPS 2025MuSLR: Multimodal Symbolic Logical Reasoning
602. NeurIPS 2025MUVR: A Multi-Modal Untrimmed Video Retrieval Benchmark with Multi-Level Visual Correspondence
603. NeurIPS 2025MVU-Eval: Towards Multi-Video Understanding Evaluation for Multimodal LLMs
604. NeurIPS 2025NaDRO: Leveraging Dual-Reward Strategies for LLMs Training on Noisy Data
605. NeurIPS 2025Native Segmentation Vision Transformers
606. NeurIPS 2025NAUTILUS: A Large Multimodal Model for Underwater Scene Understanding
607. NeurIPS 2025NavBench: Probing Multimodal Large Language Models for Embodied Navigation
608. NeurIPS 2025‌Navigating the MIL Trade-Off: Flexible Pooling for Whole Slide Image Classification
609. NeurIPS 2025NaViL: Rethinking Scaling Properties of Native Multimodal Large Language Models under Data Constraints
610. NeurIPS 2025Neither Valid nor Reliable? Investigating the Use of LLMs as Judges
611. NeurIPS 2025Neptune-X: Active X-to-Maritime Generation for Universal Maritime Object Detection
612. NeurIPS 2025NestedFP: High-Performance, Memory-Efficient Dual-Precision Floating Point Support for LLMs
613. NeurIPS 2025Neural Atlas Graphs for Dynamic Scene Decomposition and Editing
614. NeurIPS 2025Noise Matters: Optimizing Matching Noise for Diffusion Classifiers
615. NeurIPS 2025NoisyGRPO: Incentivizing Multimodal CoT Reasoning via Noise Injection and Bayesian Estimation
616. NeurIPS 2025NoisyRollout: Reinforcing Visual Reasoning with Data Augmentation
617. NeurIPS 2025Normalize Filters! Classical Wisdom for Deep Vision
618. NeurIPS 2025NormFit: A Lightweight Solution for Few-Shot Federated Learning with Non-IID Data
619. NeurIPS 2025NOVA: A Benchmark for Rare Anomaly Localization and Clinical Reasoning in Brain MRI
620. NeurIPS 2025Novel Class Discovery for Point Cloud Segmentation via Joint Learning of Causal Representation and Reasoning
621. NeurIPS 2025Object-centric binding in Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining
622. NeurIPS 2025OCRBench v2: An Improved Benchmark for Evaluating Large Multimodal Models on Visual Text Localization and Reasoning
623. NeurIPS 2025Omni-DNA: A Genomic Model Supporting Sequence Understanding, Long-context, and Textual Annotation
624. NeurIPS 2025Omni-Mol: Multitask Molecular Model for Any-to-any Modalities
625. NeurIPS 2025OmniBench: Towards The Future of Universal Omni-Language Models
626. NeurIPS 2025OmniSVG: A Unified Scalable Vector Graphics Generation Model
627. NeurIPS 2025OmniVCus: Feedforward Subject-driven Video Customization with Multimodal Control Conditions
628. NeurIPS 2025On Epistemic Uncertainty of Visual Tokens for Object Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models
629. NeurIPS 2025On Evaluating LLM Alignment by Evaluating LLMs as Judges
630. NeurIPS 2025On Fairness of Unified Multimodal Large Language Model for Image Generation
631. NeurIPS 2025On the Robustness of Verbal Confidence of LLMs in Adversarial Attacks
632. NeurIPS 2025On the Value of Cross-Modal Misalignment in Multimodal Representation Learning
633. NeurIPS 2025One Head to Rule Them All: Amplifying LVLM Safety through a Single Critical Attention Head
634. NeurIPS 2025One SPACE to Rule Them All: Jointly Mitigating Factuality and Faithfulness Hallucinations in LLMs
635. NeurIPS 2025One Token per Highly Selective Frame: Towards Extreme Compression for Long Video Understanding
636. NeurIPS 2025OneIG-Bench: Omni-dimensional Nuanced Evaluation for Image Generation
637. NeurIPS 2025OOD-Barrier: Build a Middle-Barrier for Open-Set Single-Image Test Time Adaptation via Vision Language Models
638. NeurIPS 2025Open CaptchaWorld: A Comprehensive Web-based Platform for Testing and Benchmarking Multimodal LLM Agents
639. NeurIPS 2025Open Vision Reasoner: Transferring Linguistic Cognitive Behavior for Visual Reasoning
640. NeurIPS 2025OpenCUA: Open Foundations for Computer-Use Agents
641. NeurIPS 2025OpenMMEgo: Enhancing Egocentric Understanding for LMMs with Open Weights and Data
642. NeurIPS 2025OpenOmni: Advancing Open-Source Omnimodal Large Language Models with Progressive Multimodal Alignment and Real-time Emotional Speech Synthesis
643. NeurIPS 2025OpenS2V-Nexus: A Detailed Benchmark and Million-Scale Dataset for Subject-to-Video Generation
644. NeurIPS 2025OpenVLThinker: Complex Vision-Language Reasoning via Iterative SFT-RL Cycles
645. NeurIPS 2025OpenWorldSAM: Extending SAM2 for Universal Image Segmentation with Language Prompts
646. NeurIPS 2025ORIGAMISPACE: Benchmarking Multimodal LLMs in Multi-Step Spatial Reasoning with Mathematical Constraints
647. NeurIPS 2025Orochi: Versatile Biomedical Image Processor
648. NeurIPS 2025OSKAR: Omnimodal Self-supervised Knowledge Abstraction and Representation
649. NeurIPS 2025OST-Bench: Evaluating the Capabilities of MLLMs in Online Spatio-temporal Scene Understanding
650. NeurIPS 2025OWMM-Agent: Open World Mobile Manipulation With Multi-modal Agentic Data Synthesis

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.