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 163 of 225

8101. NeurIPS 2025Text to Sketch Generation with Multi-Styles
8102. NeurIPS 2025The Curse of Depth in Large Language Models
8103. NeurIPS 2025The Curse of Multi-Modalities: Evaluating Hallucinations of Large Multimodal Models across Language, Visual, and Audio
8104. NeurIPS 2025The Illusion of Progress? A Critical Look at Test-Time Adaptation for Vision-Language Models
8105. NeurIPS 2025The Indra Representation Hypothesis
8106. NeurIPS 2025The Mirage of Performance Gains: Why Contrastive Decoding Fails to Mitigate Object Hallucinations in MLLMs?
8107. NeurIPS 2025The Narrow Gate: Localized Image-Text Communication in Native Multimodal Models
8108. NeurIPS 2025The Promise of RL for Autoregressive Image Editing
8109. NeurIPS 2025The Quest for Universal Master Key Filters in DS-CNNs
8110. NeurIPS 2025Think or Not? Selective Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language Models
8111. NeurIPS 2025ThinkAct: Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Reinforced Visual Latent Planning
8112. NeurIPS 2025ThinkSound: Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs for Audio Generation and Editing
8113. NeurIPS 2025Thresholds for sensitive optimality and Blackwell optimality in stochastic games
8114. NeurIPS 2025THUNDER: Tile-level Histopathology image UNDERstanding benchmark
8115. NeurIPS 2025Time-IMM: A Dataset and Benchmark for Irregular Multimodal Multivariate Time Series
8116. NeurIPS 2025Time-R1: Post-Training Large Vision Language Model for Temporal Video Grounding
8117. NeurIPS 2025Timely Clinical Diagnosis through Active Test Selection
8118. NeurIPS 2025Too Late to Recall: Explaining the Two-Hop Problem in Multimodal Knowledge Retrieval
8119. NeurIPS 2025Tool-Augmented Spatiotemporal Reasoning for Streamlining Video Question Answering Task
8120. NeurIPS 2025Toward a Vision-Language Foundation Model for Medical Data: Multimodal Dataset and Benchmarks for Vietnamese PET/CT Report Generation
8121. NeurIPS 2025Toward Engineering AGI: Benchmarking the Engineering Design Capabilities of LLMs
8122. NeurIPS 2025Towards Better Dental AI: A Multimodal Benchmark and Instruction Dataset for Panoramic X-ray Analysis
8123. NeurIPS 2025Towards Building Model/Prompt-Transferable Attackers against Large Vision-Language Models
8124. NeurIPS 2025Towards Comprehensive Scene Understanding: Integrating First and Third-Person Views for LVLMs
8125. NeurIPS 2025Towards Evaluating Proactive Risk Awareness of Multimodal Language Models
8126. NeurIPS 2025Towards Fully FP8 GEMM LLM Training at Scale
8127. NeurIPS 2025Towards General Continuous Memory for Vision-Language Models
8128. NeurIPS 2025Towards Generalizable Detector for Generated Image
8129. NeurIPS 2025Towards Implicit Aggregation: Robust Image Representation for Place Recognition in the Transformer Era
8130. NeurIPS 2025Towards Minimizing Feature Drift in Model Merging: Layer-wise Task Vector Fusion for Adaptive Knowledge Integration
8131. NeurIPS 2025Towards Physics-informed Spatial Intelligence with Human Priors: An Autonomous Driving Pilot Study
8132. NeurIPS 2025Towards Reliable LLM-based Robots Planning via Combined Uncertainty Estimation
8133. NeurIPS 2025Towards Robust Uncertainty Calibration for Composed Image Retrieval
8134. NeurIPS 2025Towards Self-Refinement of Vision-Language Models with Triangular Consistency
8135. NeurIPS 2025Towards Understanding Camera Motions in Any Video
8136. NeurIPS 2025Towards Unified Multimodal Interleaved Generation via Group Relative Policy Optimization
8137. NeurIPS 2025ToxicTextCLIP: Text-Based Poisoning and Backdoor Attacks on CLIP Pre-training
8138. NeurIPS 2025TP-MDDN: Task-Preferenced Multi-Demand-Driven Navigation with Autonomous Decision-Making
8139. NeurIPS 2025TRACE: Grounding Time Series in Context for Multimodal Embedding and Retrieval
8140. NeurIPS 2025Track3R: Joint Point Map and Trajectory Prior for Spatiotemporal 3D Understanding
8141. NeurIPS 2025Training-free Online Video Step Grounding
8142. NeurIPS 2025Training-Free Test-Time Adaptation via Shape and Style Guidance for Vision-Language Models
8143. NeurIPS 2025Trans-EnV: A Framework for Evaluating the Linguistic Robustness of LLMs Against English Varieties
8144. NeurIPS 2025Transferring Linear Features Across Language Models With Model Stitching
8145. NeurIPS 2025Transforming Generic Coder LLMs to Effective Binary Code Embedding Models for Similarity Detection
8146. NeurIPS 2025Transition Matching: Scalable and Flexible Generative Modeling
8147. NeurIPS 2025TRAP: Targeted Redirecting of Agentic Preferences
8148. NeurIPS 2025Tri-MARF: A Tri-Modal Multi-Agent Responsive Framework for Comprehensive 3D Object Annotation
8149. NeurIPS 2025TRIDENT: Tri-Modal Molecular Representation Learning with Taxonomic Annotations and Local Correspondence
8150. NeurIPS 2025Triplets Better Than Pairs: Towards Stable and Effective Self-Play Fine-Tuning for LLMs

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.