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

1,074 papers, page 14 of 22

651. NeurIPS 2025PAC Bench: Do Foundation Models Understand Prerequisites for Executing Manipulation Policies?
652. NeurIPS 2025PaceLLM: Brain-Inspired Large Language Models for Long-Context Understanding
653. NeurIPS 2025Pancakes: Consistent Multi-Protocol Image Segmentation Across Biomedical Domains
654. NeurIPS 2025PANDA: Towards Generalist Video Anomaly Detection via Agentic AI Engineer
655. NeurIPS 2025PANGEA: Projection-Based Augmentation with Non-Relevant General Data for Enhanced Domain Adaptation in LLMs
656. NeurIPS 2025Panoptic Captioning: An Equivalence Bridge for Image and Text
657. NeurIPS 2025Paper2Poster: Towards Multimodal Poster Automation from Scientific Papers
658. NeurIPS 2025PARROT: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs in Cross-System SQL Translation
659. NeurIPS 2025Part-Aware Bottom-Up Group Reasoning for Fine-Grained Social Interaction Detection
660. NeurIPS 2025Partial Information Decomposition via Normalizing Flows in Latent Gaussian Distributions
661. NeurIPS 2025Partition to Evolve: Niching-enhanced Evolution with LLMs for Automated Algorithm Discovery
662. NeurIPS 2025PartNeXt: A Next-Generation Dataset for Fine-Grained and Hierarchical 3D Part Understanding
663. NeurIPS 2025PARTONOMY: Large Multimodal Models with Part-Level Visual Understanding
664. NeurIPS 2025PathVQ: Reforming Computational Pathology Foundation Model for Whole Slide Image Analysis via Vector Quantization
665. NeurIPS 2025PC-Net: Weakly Supervised Compositional Moment Retrieval via Proposal-Centric Network
666. NeurIPS 2025Perceive Anything: Recognize, Explain, Caption, and Segment Anything in Images and Videos
667. NeurIPS 2025Perception Encoder: The best visual embeddings are not at the output of the network
668. NeurIPS 2025PerceptionLM: Open-Access Data and Models for Detailed Visual Understanding
669. NeurIPS 2025PeRL: Permutation-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning for Interleaved Vision-Language Reasoning
670. NeurIPS 2025Permissioned LLMs: Enforcing Access Control in Large Language Models
671. NeurIPS 2025Personalized Decision Modeling: Utility Optimization or Textualized-Symbolic Reasoning
672. NeurIPS 2025PhyBlock: A Progressive Benchmark for Physical Understanding and Planning via 3D Block Assembly
673. NeurIPS 2025PhysDrive: A Multimodal Remote Physiological Measurement Dataset for In-vehicle Driver Monitoring
674. NeurIPS 2025PhysGym: Benchmarking LLMs in Interactive Physics Discovery with Controlled Priors
675. NeurIPS 2025PhysioWave: A Multi-Scale Wavelet-Transformer for Physiological Signal Representation
676. NeurIPS 2025PhysVLM-AVR: Active Visual Reasoning for Multimodal Large Language Models in Physical Environments
677. NeurIPS 2025PhySwin: An Efficient and Physically-Informed Foundation Model for Multispectral Earth Observation
678. NeurIPS 2025PhysX-3D: Physical-Grounded 3D Asset Generation
679. NeurIPS 2025Pixel Reasoner: Incentivizing Pixel Space Reasoning via Curiosity-Driven Reinforcement Learning
680. NeurIPS 2025PlanarGS: High-Fidelity Indoor 3D Gaussian Splatting Guided by Vision-Language Planar Priors
681. NeurIPS 2025PlanU: Large Language Model Reasoning through Planning under Uncertainty
682. NeurIPS 2025Plug-and-play Feature Causality Decomposition for Multimodal Representation Learning
683. NeurIPS 2025PMQ-VE: Progressive Multi-Frame Quantization for Video Enhancement
684. NeurIPS 2025Point or Line? Using Line-based Representation for Panoptic Symbol Spotting in CAD Drawings
685. NeurIPS 2025Point-RFT: Improving Multimodal Reasoning with Visually Grounded Reinforcement Finetuning
686. NeurIPS 2025Poison as Cure: Visual Noise for Mitigating Object Hallucinations in LVMs
687. NeurIPS 2025Polyline Path Masked Attention for Vision Transformer
688. NeurIPS 2025PolyPose: Deformable 2D/3D Registration via Polyrigid Transformations
689. NeurIPS 2025PolypSense3D: A Multi-Source Benchmark Dataset for Depth-Aware Polyp Size Measurement in Endoscopy
690. NeurIPS 2025Pool Me Wisely: On the Effect of Pooling in Transformer-Based Models
691. NeurIPS 2025Positional Fragility in LLMs: How Offset Effects Reshape Our Understanding of Memorization Risks
692. NeurIPS 2025Power Lines: Scaling laws for weight decay and batch size in LLM pre-training
693. NeurIPS 2025PPMStereo: Pick-and-Play Memory Construction for Consistent Dynamic Stereo Matching
694. NeurIPS 2025Practical and Effective Code Watermarking for Large Language Models
695. NeurIPS 2025Praxis-VLM: Vision-Grounded Decision Making via Text-Driven Reinforcement Learning
696. NeurIPS 2025Predictable Scale (Part II) --- Farseer: A Refined Scaling Law in LLMs
697. NeurIPS 2025PrefixKV: Adaptive Prefix KV Cache is What Vision Instruction-Following Models Need for Efficient Generation
698. NeurIPS 2025PRESTO: Preimage-Informed Instruction Optimization for Prompting Black-Box LLMs
699. NeurIPS 2025PRIMT: Preference-based Reinforcement Learning with Multimodal Feedback and Trajectory Synthesis from Foundation Models
700. NeurIPS 2025Principled Data Augmentation for Learning to Solve Quadratic Programming Problems

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.