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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651. CVPR 2026LookasideVLN Direction-Aware Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation
652. CVPR 2026LoPrune Efficient Data Pruning for LoRA-Based Fine-Tuning of Vision Transformer
653. CVPR 2026LOREAL Mitigating Low-Resolution Challenges in Vision-Language Models with Attribute-driven Prompt
654. CVPR 2026LoST Level of Semantics Tokenization for 3D Shapes
655. CVPR 2026LottieGPT Tokenizing Vector Animation for Autoregressive Generation
656. CVPR 2026Lumosaic Hyperspectral Video via Active Illumination and Coded-Exposure Pixels
657. CVPR 2026LVLM-Aided Alignment of Task-Specific Vision Models
658. CVPR 2026Lyapunov Probes for Hallucination Detection in Large Foundation Models
659. CVPR 2026M3DocDep Multi-modal Multi-page Multi-document Dependency Chunking with Large Vision-Language Models
660. CVPR 2026M3Grounder Mask-Based Multi-Span and Multi-Granular Grounding for Document QA
661. CVPR 2026M4-RAG A Massive-Scale Multilingual Multi-Cultural Multimodal RAG
662. CVPR 2026M4Human A Large-Scale Multimodal mmWave Radar Benchmark for Human Mesh
663. CVPR 2026M4V Multimodal Mamba for Efficient Text-to-Video Generation
664. CVPR 2026Machine Mental Imagery Empower Multimodal Reasoning with Latent Visual Tokens
665. CVPR 2026MacTok Robust Continuous Tokenization for Image Generation
666. CVPR 2026MAD Modality-Adaptive Decoding for Mitigating Cross-Modal Hallucinations in Multimodal Large
667. CVPR 2026Make it SING Analyzing Semantic Invariants in Classifiers
668. CVPR 2026Mantis A Versatile Vision-Language-Action Model with Disentangled Visual Foresight
669. CVPR 2026Mapping Networks
670. CVPR 2026MAPS Preserving Vision-Language Representations via Module-Wise Proximity Scheduling for Better
671. CVPR 2026Mario Multimodal Graph Reasoning with Large Language Models
672. CVPR 2026MarkushGrapher-2 End-to-end Multimodal Recognition of Chemical Structures
673. CVPR 2026Masked-Diffusion Autoencoders for 3D Medical Vision Representation Learning
674. CVPR 2026Masking Matters Unlocking the Spatial Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs for
675. CVPR 2026Masking Teacher and Reinforcing Student for Distilling Vision-Language Models
676. CVPR 2026MASQuant Modality-Aware Smoothing Quantization for Multimodal Large Language Models
677. CVPR 2026Matching Every Pair to Track Every Point PairFormer for All-Pairs
678. CVPR 2026MatPedia A Universal Generative Foundation for High-Fidelity Material Synthesis
679. CVPR 2026MDS-VQA Model-Informed Data Selection for Video Quality Assessment
680. CVPR 2026Mechanisms of Object Localization in Vision-Language Models
681. CVPR 2026MedCLIPSeg Probabilistic Vision-Language Adaptation for Data-Efficient and Generalizable Medical Image
682. CVPR 2026MedFG-VQA Low-Frequency Memory and Graph Attention for Lightweight Medical VQA
683. CVPR 2026MedGRPO Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning for Heterogeneous Medical Video Understanding
684. CVPR 2026Medic-AD Towards Medical Vision-Language Models Clinical Intelligence
685. CVPR 2026MedKCO Medical Vision-Language Pretraining via Knowledge-Driven Cognitive Orchestration
686. CVPR 2026MedMO Grounding and Understanding Multimodal Large Language Model for Medical
687. CVPR 2026MedTVT-R1 A Multimodal LLM Empowering Medical Reasoning and Diagnosis
688. CVPR 2026Memory Matters Boosting Training-Free Zero-Shot Temporal Action Localization with a
689. CVPR 2026Merge3D Efficient 3D Multimodal LLMs via Joint 2D-3D Token Merging
690. CVPR 2026MergeVLA Cross-Skill Model Merging Toward a Generalist Vision-Language-Action Agent
691. CVPR 2026MERLIN Building Low-SNR Robust Multimodal LLMs for Electromagnetic Signals
692. CVPR 2026META Meta Evolution of Tool Trajectory Adaptation for Long-Video Understanding
693. CVPR 2026Meta-FC Meta-Learning with Feature Consistency for Robust and Generalizable Watermarking
694. CVPR 2026MetaSpectra A Compact Broadband Metasurface Camera for Snapshot Hyperspectral Imaging
695. CVPR 2026MeteorPred A Meteorological Multimodal Large Model and Dataset for Severe
696. CVPR 2026MeToM Metadata-Guided Token Merging for Efficient Video LLMs
697. CVPR 2026MICON-Bench Benchmarking and Enhancing Multi-Image Context Image Generation in Unified
698. CVPR 2026Mimic Human Cognition Master Multi-Image Reasoning A Meta-Action Framework for
699. CVPR 2026MimicTalker A Multimodal Interactive and Memory-Enhanced Framework for Real-Time Dyadic
700. CVPR 2026Mind the Discriminability Trap in Source-Free Cross-domain Few-shot Learning

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.