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

1,366 papers, page 13 of 28

601. NeurIPS 2026I-Perceive: A Foundation Model for Vision-Language Active Perception
602. NeurIPS 2026IDEAFix: Evaluation Framework for Creative Defixation Prompting in LLMs
603. NeurIPS 2026IGGT4D: Streaming 4D Instance-Grounded Geometry Transformer
604. NeurIPS 2026Illusory Pattern Perception Drives Spurious Inference in Large Language Models
605. NeurIPS 2026ImmuVis: Hyperconvolutional Foundation Models for Imaging Mass Cytometry
606. NeurIPS 2026Improving Diffusion Posterior Samplers with Lagged Temporal Corrections for Image Restoration
607. NeurIPS 2026Improving Guidance-Free Visual Generation via Self-Contrastive Alignment for Likelihood Estimation
608. NeurIPS 2026Improving Self-Supervised Vision Transformers with Cross Distillation
609. NeurIPS 2026In STeP: Speculative Tensor Parallelism for Concurrent Heterogeneous Inference of LLMs
610. NeurIPS 2026In-Context Learning Can Help Vision Language Models Overcome Training Prior
611. NeurIPS 2026Incentivizing Medical Vision Capabilities from Large-Scale Multimodal Pre-training
612. NeurIPS 2026InduceKV: Fixed-Footprint Continual Adaptation of Multimodal LLMs via Inducing KV Memories
613. NeurIPS 2026InfiniteVL: A Systematic Approach to Highly-Efficient, Ultra-Long Multimodal Understanding
614. NeurIPS 2026InfoNav: A Unified Value Framework Integrating Semantic Relevance and Information Gain for Zero-Shot Object Goal Navigation
615. NeurIPS 2026INFUSER: Influence-Guided Self-Evolution Improves Reasoning
616. NeurIPS 2026Inline Critic Steers Image Editing
617. NeurIPS 2026Innocuous-Seeming Data, Latent Ideology: Ideological Generalisation in Finetuned LLMs
618. NeurIPS 2026Instruct-Particulate: Scaling Feed-Forward 3D Object Articulation with Kinematic Control
619. NeurIPS 2026InstructVVT: Instruction-Driven Video Virtual Try-On without Auxiliary Spatial Priors
620. NeurIPS 2026Integrating digital twins with randomized experiments
621. NeurIPS 2026Integrating Local and Global Entropy for Uncertainty Quantification in LLMs
622. NeurIPS 2026IntegrityBench: Can LLMs Be Trusted as Co-Scientists? A Research Integrity Benchmark
623. NeurIPS 2026Intend, Reflect, Refine: An Adaptive Multimodal Reflection Framework for Autonomous Driving
624. NeurIPS 2026IntentLens: Grounding Underspecified Multimodal Queries for Recommendation via Tool-Augmented Reasoning
625. NeurIPS 2026Interleaved Latent Thinking and Adaptive Termination for Efficient Reasoning LLMs
626. NeurIPS 2026Internalize External Competence for Visual Instruction Editing
627. NeurIPS 2026Intervention-Guided Image-Free Classifier Expansion for Fine-Grained Recognition
628. NeurIPS 2026Invertible Logits Transformation for Accuracy-Preserving Post-Hoc Uncertainty Calibration
629. NeurIPS 2026Iris: Empowering Video MLLMs with High-Frequency Pose Priors via Spatiotemporal Binding
630. NeurIPS 2026Is Text All You Need? Text as a Universal Information Bottleneck for Speech LLMs
631. NeurIPS 2026It Cancels: O(r²) Cholesky Updates for Whitened Operators
632. NeurIPS 2026It's All Training: A Fully Synthetic Single-Stage Recipe for LLMs
633. NeurIPS 2026Itô maps for any-step SDEs
634. NeurIPS 2026ITO: Multi-View Alignment and Training-Time Fusion for Image-Text Pretraining
635. NeurIPS 2026JailBound: A FOL-Guided Jailbreak Evaluation Framework for Revealing Safety Boundaries of LLMs
636. NeurIPS 2026JEDI: Real-Time Jailbreak Defense for LLMs via In-Generation Detection and Intervention
637. NeurIPS 2026JODA: Composable Joint Dynamics for Articulated Objects
638. NeurIPS 2026K12-KGraph: A Curriculum-Aligned Knowledge Graph for Benchmarking and Training Educational LLMs
639. NeurIPS 2026KINDER: Kernel-based Independence for Fair Representation Learning via Prototype-space Erasure
640. NeurIPS 2026Knowledge Localization in Mixture-of-Experts LLMs Using Cross-Lingual Inconsistency
641. NeurIPS 2026KV Packet: Recomputation-Free Context-Independent KV Caching for LLMs
642. NeurIPS 2026kVNN: Learnable Volterra Network Kernels
643. NeurIPS 2026LAION-BVD: A 10-Million-Hour Open Video Dataset for Multimodal Pre-training
644. NeurIPS 2026Lang-SVG: Hierarchical Image Vectorization with Language Priors
645. NeurIPS 2026LAPrune: Logits-Aligned Scoring Proxy for KV Pruning via Vector Quantization
646. NeurIPS 2026Large Discrete Policy: Advancing Explicit Behavior Modeling with Stochastic Iterative Scoring
647. NeurIPS 2026Large Language Model Selection with Limited Annotations
648. NeurIPS 2026Large Language Models Develop Belief State Geometry In-Context
649. NeurIPS 2026LaST-VLA: Thinking in Latent Spatio-Temporal Space for Vision-Language-Action in Autonomous Driving
650. NeurIPS 2026Latent Reasoning in Continuous Space for Unified Multimodal Models

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.