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 15 of 104

701. CVPR 2026Mind the Hitch Dynamic Calibration and Articulated Perception for Autonomous
702. CVPR 2026Mind the Way You Select Negative Texts Pursuing the Distance
703. CVPR 2026MindDriver Introducing Progressive Multimodal Reasoning for Autonomous Driving
704. CVPR 2026MindPower Enabling Theory-of-Mind Reasoning in VLM-based Embodied Agents
705. CVPR 2026Minimal Constraint Relaxation for Multiview Autocalibration
706. CVPR 2026Mining Attribute Subspaces for Efficient Fine-tuning of 3D Foundation Models
707. CVPR 2026Mining Instance-Centric Vision-Language Contexts for Human-Object Interaction Detection
708. CVPR 2026Mitigating Multimodal Hallucinations via Gradient-based Self-Reflection
709. CVPR 2026Mitigating Objectness Bias and Region-to-Text Misalignment for Open-Vocabulary Panoptic Segmentation
710. CVPR 2026Mixture of Style Experts for Diverse Image Stylization
711. CVPR 2026MLLM-HWSI A Multimodal Large Language Model for Hierarchical Whole Slide
712. CVPR 2026MM-ACT Learn from Multimodal Parallel Generation to Act
713. CVPR 2026MM-OVSeg Multimodal Optical-SAR Fusion for Open-Vocabulary Segmentation in Remote Sensing
714. CVPR 2026MM-SeR Multimodal Self-Refinement for Lightweight Image Captioning
715. CVPR 2026MMCP-GEN A Modality-Extensible Diffusion Language Model for Conditional Protein Sequence
716. CVPR 2026MMDIR Multimodal Instruction-Driven Framework for Mixed-Degradation Document Image Restoration
717. CVPR 2026MMLandmarks a Cross-View Instance-Level Benchmark for Geo-Spatial Understanding
718. CVPR 2026MMR-AD A Large-Scale Multimodal Dataset for Benchmarking General Anomaly Detection
719. CVPR 2026MMSD3.0 A Multi-Image Benchmark for Real-World Multimodal Sarcasm Detection
720. CVPR 2026MMTIT-Bench A Multilingual and Multi-Scenario Benchmark with Cognition-Perception-Reasoning Guided Text-Image
721. CVPR 2026MMVIP A Visible-infrared Paired Dataset for Multi-weather Marine Vision
722. CVPR 2026MoBind Motion Binding for Fine-Grained IMU-Video Pose Alignment
723. CVPR 2026MoD-DPO Towards Mitigating Cross-modal Hallucinations in Omni LLMs using Modality
724. CVPR 2026Modeling Cross-vision Synergy for Unified Large Vision Model
725. CVPR 2026Models as Lego Builders Assembling Malice from Benign Blocks via
726. CVPR 2026MoDES Accelerating Mixture-of-Experts Multimodal Large Language Models via Dynamic Expert
727. CVPR 2026MODIX A Training-Free Multimodal Information-Driven Positional Index Scaling for Vision-Language
728. CVPR 2026MoE-GRPO Optimizing Mixture-of-Experts via Reinforcement Learning in Vision-Language Models
729. CVPR 2026MoEActok A MoE-based Action Tokenizer for Vision-Language-Action Models
730. CVPR 2026Molmo2 Open Weights and Data for Vision-Language Models with Video
731. CVPR 2026Monet Reasoning in Latent Visual Space Beyond Image and Language
732. CVPR 2026MonoVLM Monocular 3D Visual Grounding with Vision Language Models
733. CVPR 2026MOON2.0 Dynamic Modality-balanced Multimodal Representation Learning for E-commerce Product Understanding
734. CVPR 2026More than the Sum Panorama-Language Models for Adverse Omni-Scenes
735. CVPR 2026MoReGen Multi-Agent Motion-Reasoning Engine for Code-based Text-to-Video Synthesis
736. CVPR 2026Mostly Text Smart Visuals Asymmetric Text-Visual Pruning for Large Vision-Language
737. CVPR 2026MotionEnhancer Leveraging Video Diffusion for Motion-Enhanced Vision-Language Models
738. CVPR 2026Motus A Unified Latent Action World Model
739. CVPR 2026MovieRecapsQA A Multimodal Open-Ended Video Question-Answering Benchmark
740. CVPR 2026MR-RAG Multimodal Relevance-Aware Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Medical Visual Question Answering
741. CVPR 2026MSJoE Jointly Evolving MLLM and Sampler for Efficient Long-Form Video
742. CVPR 2026MTA Multimodal Task Alignment for BEV Perception and Captioning
743. CVPR 2026MuCo Multi-turn Contrastive Learning for Multimodal Embedding Model
744. CVPR 2026MuKV Multi-Grained KV Cache Compression for Long Streaming Video Question-Answering
745. CVPR 2026Multi-Crit Benchmarking Multimodal Judges on Pluralistic Criteria-Following
746. CVPR 2026Multi-Metric Representation Learning Strategy Based on Clustering for Fine-Grained Multimodal
747. CVPR 2026Multi-Scale Local Speculative Decoding for Image Generation
748. CVPR 2026Multi-speaker Attention Alignment for Multimodal Social Interaction
749. CVPR 2026MultiAnimate Pose-Guided Image Animation Made Extensible
750. CVPR 2026Multimodal Causality-Driven Representation Learning for Generalizable Medical Image 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.