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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601. CVPR 2025SAIST: Segment Any Infrared Small Target Model Guided by Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining
602. CVPR 2025Saliuitl: Ensemble Salience Guided Recovery of Adversarial Patches against CNNs
603. CVPR 2025SAM-I2V: Upgrading SAM to Support Promptable Video Segmentation with Less than 0.2% Training Cost
604. CVPR 2025SAM-REF: Introducing Image-Prompt Synergy during Interaction for Detail Enhancement in the Segment Anything Model
605. CVPR 2025SaMam: Style-aware State Space Model for Arbitrary Image Style Transfer
606. CVPR 2025SAMWISE: Infusing Wisdom in SAM2 for Text-Driven Video Segmentation
607. CVPR 2025SapiensID: Foundation for Human Recognition
608. CVPR 2025SATA: Spatial Autocorrelation Token Analysis for Enhancing the Robustness of Vision Transformers
609. CVPR 2025Scalable Video-to-Dataset Generation for Cross-Platform Mobile Agents
610. CVPR 2025SCAP: Transductive Test-Time Adaptation via Supportive Clique-based Attribute Prompting
611. CVPR 2025SceneTAP: Scene-Coherent Typographic Adversarial Planner against Vision-Language Models in Real-World Environments
612. CVPR 2025SCSA: A Plug-and-Play Semantic Continuous-Sparse Attention for Arbitrary Semantic Style Transfer
613. CVPR 2025SCSegamba: Lightweight Structure-Aware Vision Mamba for Crack Segmentation in Structures
614. CVPR 2025SDGOCC: Semantic and Depth-Guided Bird's-Eye View Transformation for 3D Multimodal Occupancy Prediction
615. CVPR 2025SEAL: Semantic Attention Learning for Long Video Representation
616. CVPR 2025SeeGround: See and Ground for Zero-Shot Open-Vocabulary 3D Visual Grounding
617. CVPR 2025Seeing Far and Clearly: Mitigating Hallucinations in MLLMs with Attention Causal Decoding
618. CVPR 2025Seeing More with Less: Human-like Representations in Vision Models
619. CVPR 2025Seeing the Abstract: Translating the Abstract Language for Vision Language Models
620. CVPR 2025Seek Common Ground While Reserving Differences: Semi-Supervised Image-Text Sentiment Recognition
621. CVPR 2025SEEN-DA: SEmantic ENtropy guided Domain-aware Attention for Domain Adaptive Object Detection
622. CVPR 2025Self-Evolving Visual Concept Library using Vision-Language Critics
623. CVPR 2025Semantic and Expressive Variations in Image Captions Across Languages
624. CVPR 2025Semantic and Sequential Alignment for Referring Video Object Segmentation
625. CVPR 2025Semi-Supervised State-Space Model with Dynamic Stacking Filter for Real-World Video Deraining
626. CVPR 2025SemiDAViL: Semi-supervised Domain Adaptation with Vision-Language Guidance for Semantic Segmentation
627. CVPR 2025Seq2Time: Sequential Knowledge Transfer for Video LLM Temporal Grounding
628. CVPR 2025SeqAfford: Sequential 3D Affordance Reasoning via Multimodal Large Language Model
629. CVPR 2025SF2T: Self-supervised Fragment Finetuning of Video-LLMs for Fine-Grained Understanding
630. CVPR 2025ShowUI: One Vision-Language-Action Model for GUI Visual Agent
631. CVPR 2025SIDA: Social Media Image Deepfake Detection, Localization and Explanation with Large Multimodal Model
632. CVPR 2025SILMM: Self-Improving Large Multimodal Models for Compositional Text-to-Image Generation
633. CVPR 2025Similarity-Guided Layer-Adaptive Vision Transformer for UAV Tracking
634. CVPR 2025SimLingo: Vision-Only Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving with Language-Action Alignment
635. CVPR 2025Simulator HC: Regression-based Online Simulation of Starting Problem-Solution Pairs for Homotopy Continuation in Geometric Vision
636. CVPR 2025Single Domain Generalization for Few-Shot Counting via Universal Representation Matching
637. CVPR 2025SKE-Layout: Spatial Knowledge Enhanced Layout Generation with LLMs
638. CVPR 2025Sketchtopia: A Dataset and Foundational Agents for Benchmarking Asynchronous Multimodal Communication with Iconic Feedback
639. CVPR 2025Skip Tuning: Pre-trained Vision-Language Models are Effective and Efficient Adapters Themselves
640. CVPR 2025SkySense-O: Towards Open-World Remote Sensing Interpretation with Vision-Centric Visual-Language Modeling
641. CVPR 2025SLADE: Shielding against Dual Exploits in Large Vision-Language Models
642. CVPR 2025SlideChat: A Large Vision-Language Assistant for Whole-Slide Pathology Image Understanding
643. CVPR 2025SmartCLIP: Modular Vision-language Alignment with Identification Guarantees
644. CVPR 2025SMILE: Infusing Spatial and Motion Semantics in Masked Video Learning
645. CVPR 2025SOAP: Vision-Centric 3D Semantic Scene Completion with Scene-Adaptive Decoder and Occluded Region-Aware View Projection
646. CVPR 2025SoftShadow: Leveraging Soft Masks for Penumbra-Aware Shadow Removal
647. CVPR 2025SOLAMI: Social Vision-Language-Action Modeling for Immersive Interaction with 3D Autonomous Characters
648. CVPR 2025SOLVE: Synergy of Language-Vision and End-to-End Networks for Autonomous Driving
649. CVPR 2025SPA-VL: A Comprehensive Safety Preference Alignment Dataset for Vision Language Models
650. CVPR 2025SPARC: Score Prompting and Adaptive Fusion for Zero-Shot Multi-Label Recognition in Vision-Language 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.