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 13 of 104

601. CVPR 2026Keep it SymPL Symbolic Projective Layout for Allocentric Spatial Reasoning
602. CVPR 2026Kontinuous Kontext Continuous Strength Control for Instruction-based Image Editing
603. CVPR 2026Label-Free Cross-Task LoRA Merging with Null-Space Compression
604. CVPR 2026LAM Language Articulated Object Modelers
605. CVPR 2026Language Models Can Explain Visual Features via Steering
606. CVPR 2026Language-driven Fine-grained Retrieval
607. CVPR 2026Language-Grounded Decoupled Action Representation for Robotic Manipulation
608. CVPR 2026Language-guided Frequency Modulation for Large Vision-Language Models
609. CVPR 2026Language-Guided One-Step Diffusion Model for Nighttime Flare Removal
610. CVPR 2026Large-scale Codec Avatars The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Large-scale Avatar Pretraining
611. CVPR 2026LATA Laplacian-Assisted Transductive Adaptation for Conformal Uncertainty in Medical VLMs
612. CVPR 2026Latent Implicit Visual Reasoning
613. CVPR 2026Layer-wise Instance Binding for Regional and Occlusion Control in Text-to-Image
614. CVPR 2026LayoutAD Exploring Semantic-Geometric Misalignment Reasoning for Scene Layout Anomaly Detection
615. CVPR 2026Learning Diffeomorphism for Medical Image Registration with Time-Embedded Architectures Using
616. CVPR 2026Learning from Itself Mining Internal Knowledge from Vision Language Models
617. CVPR 2026Learning from Noisy Supervision A Denoising-Debiasing Framework for Weakly Supervised
618. CVPR 2026Learning Latent Concepts for Detecting Out-of-Distribution Objects
619. CVPR 2026Learning Multi-View Spatial Reasoning from Cross-View Relations
620. CVPR 2026Learning to Drive is a Free Gift Large-Scale Label-Free Autonomy
621. CVPR 2026Learning to Reason in 4D Dynamic Spatial Understanding for Vision
622. CVPR 2026Learning to See and Act Task-Aware Virtual View Exploration for
623. CVPR 2026Learning to See through Illumination Extremes with Event Streaming in
624. CVPR 2026Learning to Track Instance from Single Nature Language Description
625. CVPR 2026Learning Transferable Temporal Primitives for Video Reasoning via Synthetic Videos
626. CVPR 2026Learning What Matters Prioritized Concept Learning via Relative Error-driven Sample
627. CVPR 2026Learning Where to Look and How to Judge Resolution-agnostic Image
628. CVPR 2026LEMON A Large Endoscopic MONocular Dataset and Foundation Model for
629. CVPR 2026Lenses Toward Polysemous Vision-Language Understanding
630. CVPR 2026LensWalk Agentic Video Understanding by Planning How You See in
631. CVPR 2026Leveraging Multispectral Sensors for Color Correction in Mobile Cameras
632. CVPR 2026LifeEval A Multimodal Benchmark for Assistive AI in Egocentric Daily
633. CVPR 2026Lifelong Imitation Learning with Multimodal Latent Replay and Incremental Adjustment
634. CVPR 2026Lifting Unlabeled Internet-level Data for 3D Scene Understanding
635. CVPR 2026LightRR A Lightweight Network for Single Image Reflection Removal
636. CVPR 2026Linguistic Priors for Visual Decoupling Towards Symmetric Vision-Brain Alignment
637. CVPR 2026LiteSense Lifting Lightweight ToF with RGB for High-Resolution Metric Depth
638. CVPR 2026Live Interactive Training for Video Segmentation
639. CVPR 2026LLaDA-MedV Exploring Large Language Diffusion Models for Biomedical Image Understanding
640. CVPR 2026LLaMo Scaling Pretrained Language Models for Unified Motion Understanding and
641. CVPR 2026LLaVAShield Safeguarding Multimodal Multi-Turn Dialogues in Vision-Language Models
642. CVPR 2026LLM-Guided Probabilistic Fusion for Label-Efficient Document Layout Analysis
643. CVPR 2026LLMind Bio-inspired Training-free Adaptive Visual Representations for Vision-Language Models
644. CVPR 2026Local Precise Refinement A Dual-Gated Mixture-of-Experts for Enhancing Foundation Model
645. CVPR 2026Localizing Structuring and Rendering Bridging 3D and 2D Vision-Language-Action Models
646. CVPR 2026Locate-Then-Examine Grounded Region Reasoning Improves Detection of AI-Generated Images
647. CVPR 2026Locate-then-Sparsify Attribution Guided Sparse Strategy for Visual Hallucination Mitigation
648. CVPR 2026LocateAnything3D Vision-Language 3D Detection with Chain-of-Sight
649. CVPR 2026Logit-Margin Repulsion for Backdoor Defense
650. CVPR 2026Long-RVOS A Comprehensive Benchmark for Long-term Referring Video Object Segmentation

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.