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

1,366 papers, page 15 of 28

701. NeurIPS 2026LoopPrune: Evolutionary Module Selection with Iterative Execution for Efficient Large Language Model Compression
702. NeurIPS 2026Lost on Campus: Evaluating Embodied Spatial Reasoning of Vision-Language Models in the Wild
703. NeurIPS 2026LPG: Balancing Efficiency and Policy Reasoning in Latent Policy Guardrails
704. NeurIPS 2026LSVD: Loss-Aware Low-Rank Approximation for Efficient Low-Precision Vision-Language Models
705. NeurIPS 2026M-plicits: Neural Implicit Surfaces via Nested Multiscale Residuals
706. NeurIPS 2026M*: A Modular, Extensible, Serving System for Multimodal Models
707. NeurIPS 2026M3-HNTM: Hyperspherical Multimodal Topic Modeling with Symbolic and Contextual Evidence
708. NeurIPS 2026Machine Unlearning in Diffusion LLMs
709. NeurIPS 2026Magnifying What Matters: Attention-Guided Adaptive Rendering for Visual Text Comprehension
710. NeurIPS 2026MammoGPS: A Benchmark for Visual Grounding, Perception, and Spatial Reasoning in Mammography
711. NeurIPS 2026Manifold Embedding of Deep Image Features for Image Matching via Neural Adjoint Maps
712. NeurIPS 2026Manifold Prior Guided Deep Unfolding for Hyperspectral Image Reconstruction
713. NeurIPS 2026MARBLE: an Agent Benchmark for Spatial Reasoning and Visual Abstraction
714. NeurIPS 2026MARS: Harmonizing Multimodal Convergence via Adaptive Rank Search
715. NeurIPS 2026Masked Diffusion Vision-Language Models for Temporal Action Localization
716. NeurIPS 2026MatCurvs: Article Real-Coordinate Curve Extraction for Agent-Ready Materials Reasoning
717. NeurIPS 2026MaxSketch: Robust Distinct Counting in Streams via Random Projections
718. NeurIPS 2026MCM-DM: Towards Better Spatio-Temporal Event Representation Learning via Discrete Morse Theory
719. NeurIPS 2026MDMR-Bench: A Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Multi-Reference Image Generation
720. NeurIPS 2026Mean-Field Parallel Decoding for Discrete Diffusion Language Models
721. NeurIPS 2026Measuring Layer-wise Intrinsic Dimensionality of FFNs in LLMs via PCA
722. NeurIPS 2026MedFlowBench: Auditing Medical Agents in Full-Study Workflows
723. NeurIPS 2026Medical LLMs as Medical World Models: Unified Policy-Dynamics Learning with Test-Time Search
724. NeurIPS 2026MedVIGOR: Visual Evidence Internalization for Observation-Driven Reasoning in Medical VLMs
725. NeurIPS 2026MedZERO: Self-Evolving Agents for Open-Ended Medical Reasoning Through Controlled Knowledge Accumulation
726. NeurIPS 2026MegaStyle: Constructing Diverse and Scalable Style Dataset via Consistent Text-to-Image Style Mapping
727. NeurIPS 2026MEME: Lightweight Hierarchical Mixture-of-Experts for Unified Affective Computing
728. NeurIPS 2026MEMEVO: A Memory-Evolved Video Agent for Long Video Understanding
729. NeurIPS 2026Memory Inception: Latent-Space KV Cache Manipulation for Steering LLMs
730. NeurIPS 2026Memory-Driven Contrastive Embedding Enhancement for Fine-Grained Open-Set Semi-Supervised Learning
731. NeurIPS 2026MemoryFusion: Cross-Temporal Memory Learning for Multimodal Video Fusion
732. NeurIPS 2026MemPilot: Learning Transferable Latent Memory Mechanisms for LLM Reasoning
733. NeurIPS 2026MENDR: Manifold-Embedded Neural Data Representations for Channel-Agnostic EEG Foundation Modeling
734. NeurIPS 2026Mental Imagery That Matters: Curing Latent Collapse in Multimodal Reasoning
735. NeurIPS 2026Meta Inverse Prompting for Video Generative Models
736. NeurIPS 2026MetaLoop: Benchmarking the Full Metacognitive Loop in LLMs
737. NeurIPS 2026MICE: Multi-animal Interaction Context Encoder — A Hierarchical Foundation Model for Mouse Behavior
738. NeurIPS 2026MicroWorld: Empowering Multimodal Large Language Models to Bridge the Microscopic Domain Gap with Multimodal Attribute Graph
739. NeurIPS 2026MID: Mask-Image Distributional Divergence for Evaluating Medical Image Segmentation
740. NeurIPS 2026MILES: Modular Instruction Memory with Learnable Selection for Self-Improving LLM Reasoning
741. NeurIPS 2026Mimicking the Physicist's Eye: A VLM-centric Approach for Physics Formula Discovery
742. NeurIPS 2026Mind the Gap: Dataset and Fine-grained Evaluation for Inline Audio Descriptions
743. NeurIPS 2026Mind the Heads: Topological Representation Alignment for Multimodal LLMs
744. NeurIPS 2026MindAlign: Bridging EEG, Vision, and Language for Zero-Shot Visual Decoding
745. NeurIPS 2026MindGames:A Multi-Agent Benchmark and Trajectory Dataset for Evaluating Social and Strategic Reasoning in LLMs
746. NeurIPS 2026MindLoom: Composing Thought Modes for Frontier-Level Reasoning Data Synthesis
747. NeurIPS 2026Mini Amusement Parks (MAPs): A Testbed for Modelling Business Decisions
748. NeurIPS 2026MIRA: Reinforcing Multimodal Reasoning via Deceptive Contextual Augmentation
749. NeurIPS 2026MIRAGE: Adaptive Multimodal Gating for Whole-Brain fMRI Encoding
750. NeurIPS 2026MIRAGE: Duality-Inspired MILP Augmentation for Representation 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.