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

11,207 papers, page 155 of 225

7701. NeurIPS 2025Mamba Only Glances Once (MOGO): A Lightweight Framework for Efficient Video Action Detection
7702. NeurIPS 2025MANGO: Multimodal Attention-based Normalizing Flow Approach to Fusion Learning
7703. NeurIPS 2025MAPLE: Multi-scale Attribute-enhanced Prompt Learning for Few-shot Whole Slide Image Classification
7704. NeurIPS 2025Mars-Bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Foundation Models for Mars Science Tasks
7705. NeurIPS 2025Martian World Model: Controllable Video Synthesis with Physically Accurate 3D Reconstructions
7706. NeurIPS 2025Matching Markets Meet LLMs: Algorithmic Reasoning with Ranked Preferences
7707. NeurIPS 2025MathArena: Evaluating LLMs on Uncontaminated Math Competitions
7708. NeurIPS 2025Matryoshka Pilot: Learning to Drive Black-Box LLMs with LLMs
7709. NeurIPS 2025Mechanism Design for LLM Fine-tuning with Multiple Reward Models
7710. NeurIPS 2025MedicalNarratives: Connecting Medical Vision and Language with Localized Narratives
7711. NeurIPS 2025MedMax: Mixed-Modal Instruction Tuning for Training Biomedical Assistants
7712. NeurIPS 2025MedSG-Bench: A Benchmark for Medical Image Sequences Grounding
7713. NeurIPS 2025MEgoHand: Multimodal Egocentric Hand-Object Interaction Motion Generation
7714. NeurIPS 2025Mellow: a small audio language model for reasoning
7715. NeurIPS 2025MemEIC: A Step Toward Continual and Compositional Knowledge Editing
7716. NeurIPS 2025MEMOIR: Lifelong Model Editing with Minimal Overwrite and Informed Retention for LLMs
7717. NeurIPS 2025MergeBench: A Benchmark for Merging Domain-Specialized LLMs
7718. NeurIPS 2025Meta CLIP 2: A Worldwide Scaling Recipe
7719. NeurIPS 2025MiCo: Multi-image Contrast for Reinforcement Visual Reasoning
7720. NeurIPS 2025MIDAS: Misalignment-based Data Augmentation Strategy for Imbalanced Multimodal Learning
7721. NeurIPS 2025MimeQA: Towards Socially-Intelligent Nonverbal Foundation Models
7722. NeurIPS 2025Mind the Quote: Enabling Quotation-Aware Dialogue in LLMs via Plug-and-Play Modules
7723. NeurIPS 2025MindForge: Empowering Embodied Agents with Theory of Mind for Lifelong Cultural Learning
7724. NeurIPS 2025MindGYM: What Matters in Question Synthesis for Thinking-Centric Fine-Tuning?
7725. NeurIPS 2025MindJourney: Test-Time Scaling with World Models for Spatial Reasoning
7726. NeurIPS 2025MindOmni: Unleashing Reasoning Generation in Vision Language Models with RGPO
7727. NeurIPS 2025MineAnyBuild: Benchmarking Spatial Planning for Open-world AI Agents
7728. NeurIPS 2025Minimum Width for Deep, Narrow MLP: A Diffeomorphism Approach
7729. NeurIPS 2025MINT-CoT: Enabling Interleaved Visual Tokens in Mathematical Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
7730. NeurIPS 2025Mint: A Simple Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models against Common Corruptions
7731. NeurIPS 2025MIP against Agent: Malicious Image Patches Hijacking Multimodal OS Agents
7732. NeurIPS 2025MIRAGE: A Benchmark for Multimodal Information-Seeking and Reasoning in Agricultural Expert-Guided Conversations
7733. NeurIPS 2025MIRAGE: Assessing Hallucination in Multimodal Reasoning Chains of MLLM
7734. NeurIPS 2025Miss-ReID: Delivering Robust Multi-Modality Object Re-Identification Despite Missing Modalities
7735. NeurIPS 2025Mitigating Hallucination in VideoLLMs via Temporal-Aware Activation Engineering
7736. NeurIPS 2025Mitigating Hallucination Through Theory-Consistent Symmetric Multimodal Preference Optimization
7737. NeurIPS 2025Mitigating Intra- and Inter-modal Forgetting in Continual Learning of Unified Multimodal Models
7738. NeurIPS 2025Mitra: Mixed Synthetic Priors for Enhancing Tabular Foundation Models
7739. NeurIPS 2025MixAT: Combining Continuous and Discrete Adversarial Training for LLMs
7740. NeurIPS 2025MixPrompt: Efficient Mixed Prompting for Multimodal Semantic Segmentation
7741. NeurIPS 2025Mixtures of Subspaces for Bandwidth Efficient Context Parallel Training
7742. NeurIPS 2025MJ-Bench: Is Your Multimodal Reward Model Really a Good Judge for Text-to-Image Generation?
7743. NeurIPS 2025MLEP: Multi-granularity Local Entropy Patterns for Generalized AI-generated Image Detection
7744. NeurIPS 2025MLLM-For3D: Adapting Multimodal Large Language Model for 3D Reasoning Segmentation
7745. NeurIPS 2025MLLM-ISU: The First-Ever Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models based Intrusion Scene Understanding
7746. NeurIPS 2025MLLMs Need 3D-Aware Representation Supervision for Scene Understanding
7747. NeurIPS 2025MLZero: A Multi-Agent System for End-to-end Machine Learning Automation
7748. NeurIPS 2025MM-OPERA: Benchmarking Open-ended Association Reasoning for Large Vision-Language Models
7749. NeurIPS 2025MMaDA: Multimodal Large Diffusion Language Models
7750. NeurIPS 2025MMCSBench: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Large Vision-Language Models in Camouflage Scenes

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.