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 2025Spatial Transport Optimization by Repositioning Attention Map for Training-Free Text-to-Image Synthesis
652. CVPR 2025Spatial457: A Diagnostic Benchmark for 6D Spatial Reasoning of Large Mutimodal Models
653. CVPR 2025SpatialLLM: A Compound 3D-Informed Design towards Spatially-Intelligent Large Multimodal Models
654. CVPR 2025Spatiotemporal Decoupling for Efficient Vision-Based Occupancy Forecasting
655. CVPR 2025SphereUFormer: A U-Shaped Transformer for Spherical 360 Perception
656. CVPR 2025Spk2SRImgNet: Super-Resolve Dynamic Scene from Spike Stream via Motion Aligned Collaborative Filtering
657. CVPR 2025Split Adaptation for Pre-trained Vision Transformers
658. CVPR 2025Stable-SCore: A Stable Registration-based Framework for 3D Shape Correspondence
659. CVPR 2025Star with Bilinear Mapping
660. CVPR 2025STCOcc: Sparse Spatial-Temporal Cascade Renovation for 3D Occupancy and Scene Flow Prediction
661. CVPR 2025Steady Progress Beats Stagnation: Mutual Aid of Foundation and Conventional Models in Mixed Domain Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
662. CVPR 2025Stealthy Backdoor Attack in Self-Supervised Learning Vision Encoders for Large Vision Language Models
663. CVPR 2025Steering Away from Harm: An Adaptive Approach to Defending Vision Language Model Against Jailbreaks
664. CVPR 2025STEP: Enhancing Video-LLMs' Compositional Reasoning by Spatio-Temporal Graph-guided Self-Training
665. CVPR 2025STiL: Semi-supervised Tabular-Image Learning for Comprehensive Task-Relevant Information Exploration in Multimodal Classification
666. CVPR 2025STING-BEE: Towards Vision-Language Model for Real-World X-ray Baggage Security Inspection
667. CVPR 2025Stop Learning it all to Mitigate Visual Hallucination, Focus on the Hallucination Target.
668. CVPR 2025Stop Walking in Circles! Bailing Out Early in Projected Gradient Descent
669. CVPR 2025STOP: Integrated Spatial-Temporal Dynamic Prompting for Video Understanding
670. CVPR 2025STPro: Spatial and Temporal Progressive Learning for Weakly Supervised Spatio-Temporal Grounding
671. CVPR 2025Structure-Aware Correspondence Learning for Relative Pose Estimation
672. CVPR 2025Style Evolving along Chain-of-Thought for Unknown-Domain Object Detection
673. CVPR 2025Subspace Constraint and Contribution Estimation for Heterogeneous Federated Learning
674. CVPR 2025Sufficient Invariant Learning for Distribution Shift
675. CVPR 2025SuperLightNet: Lightweight Parameter Aggregation Network for Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation
676. CVPR 2025SVFR: A Unified Framework for Generalized Video Face Restoration
677. CVPR 2025SVLTA: Benchmarking Vision-Language Temporal Alignment via Synthetic Video Situation
678. CVPR 2025Symbolic Representation for Any-to-Any Generative Tasks
679. CVPR 2025SymDPO: Boosting In-Context Learning of Large Multimodal Models with Symbol Demonstration Direct Preference Optimization
680. CVPR 2025SynerGen-VL: Towards Synergistic Image Understanding and Generation with Vision Experts and Token Folding
681. CVPR 2025Synergizing Motion and Appearance: Multi-Scale Compensatory Codebooks for Talking Head Video Generation
682. CVPR 2025SynTab-LLaVA: Enhancing Multimodal Table Understanding with Decoupled Synthesis
683. CVPR 2025Synthetic Data is an Elegant GIFT for Continual Vision-Language Models
684. CVPR 2025T2ICount: Enhancing Cross-modal Understanding for Zero-Shot Counting
685. CVPR 2025T2SG: Traffic Topology Scene Graph for Topology Reasoning in Autonomous Driving
686. CVPR 2025T2V-CompBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Compositional Text-to-video Generation
687. CVPR 2025Taming Teacher Forcing for Masked Autoregressive Video Generation
688. CVPR 2025TANGO: Training-free Embodied AI Agents for Open-world Tasks
689. CVPR 2025TAPT: Test-Time Adversarial Prompt Tuning for Robust Inference in Vision-Language Models
690. CVPR 2025Targeted Forgetting of Image Subgroups in CLIP Models
691. CVPR 2025Tartan IMU: A Light Foundation Model for Inertial Positioning in Robotics
692. CVPR 2025Task Preference Optimization: Improving Multimodal Large Language Models with Vision Task Alignment
693. CVPR 2025Task-Aware Clustering for Prompting Vision-Language Models
694. CVPR 2025TASTE-Rob: Advancing Video Generation of Task-Oriented Hand-Object Interaction for Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
695. CVPR 2025Taxonomy-Aware Evaluation of Vision-Language Models
696. CVPR 2025TensoFlow: Tensorial Flow-based Sampler for Inverse Rendering
697. CVPR 2025Test-Time Domain Generalization via Universe Learning: A Multi-Graph Matching Approach for Medical Image Segmentation
698. CVPR 2025The Devil is in Temporal Token: High Quality Video Reasoning Segmentation
699. CVPR 2025The Impact Label Noise and Choice of Threshold has on Cross-Entropy and Soft-Dice in Image Segmentation
700. CVPR 2025The Photographer's Eye: Teaching Multimodal Large Language Models to See, and Critique Like Photographers

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.