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 165 of 225

8201. NeurIPS 2025Video-SafetyBench: A Benchmark for Safety Evaluation of Video LVLMs
8202. NeurIPS 2025VideoCAD: A Dataset and Model for Learning Long‑Horizon 3D CAD UI Interactions from Video
8203. NeurIPS 2025VideoChat-R1.5: Visual Test-Time Scaling to Reinforce Multimodal Reasoning by Iterative Perception
8204. NeurIPS 2025VideoGameQA-Bench: Evaluating Vision-Language Models for Video Game Quality Assurance
8205. NeurIPS 2025VideoHallu: Evaluating and Mitigating Multi-modal Hallucinations on Synthetic Video Understanding
8206. NeurIPS 2025VideoLucy: Deep Memory Backtracking for Long Video Understanding
8207. NeurIPS 2025VideoRFT: Incentivizing Video Reasoning Capability in MLLMs via Reinforced Fine-Tuning
8208. NeurIPS 2025VideoVLA: Video Generators Can Be Generalizable Robot Manipulators
8209. NeurIPS 2025VIKI‑R: Coordinating Embodied Multi-Agent Cooperation via Reinforcement Learning
8210. NeurIPS 2025Virus Infection Attack on LLMs: Your Poisoning Can Spread "VIA" Synthetic Data
8211. NeurIPS 2025VisDiff: SDF-Guided Polygon Generation for Visibility Reconstruction, Characterization and Recognition
8212. NeurIPS 2025Vision as a Dialect: Unifying Visual Understanding and Generation via Text-Aligned Representations
8213. NeurIPS 2025Vision Foundation Models as Effective Visual Tokenizers for Autoregressive Generation
8214. NeurIPS 2025Vision Function Layer in Multimodal LLMs
8215. NeurIPS 2025Vision Transformers Don't Need Trained Registers
8216. NeurIPS 2025Vision Transformers with Self-Distilled Registers
8217. NeurIPS 2025Vision-centric Token Compression in Large Language Model
8218. NeurIPS 2025Vision‑Language‑Vision Auto‑Encoder: Scalable Knowledge Distillation from Diffusion Models
8219. NeurIPS 2025VisionThink: Smart and Efficient Vision Language Model via Reinforcement Learning
8220. NeurIPS 2025ViSpec: Accelerating Vision-Language Models with Vision-Aware Speculative Decoding
8221. NeurIPS 2025ViSPLA: Visual Iterative Self-Prompting for Language-Guided 3D Affordance Learning
8222. NeurIPS 2025Visual Diversity and Region-aware Prompt Learning for Zero-shot HOI Detection
8223. NeurIPS 2025Visual Instruction Bottleneck Tuning
8224. NeurIPS 2025Visual Structures Help Visual Reasoning: Addressing the Binding Problem in LVLMs
8225. NeurIPS 2025Visual Thoughts: A Unified Perspective of Understanding Multimodal Chain-of-Thought
8226. NeurIPS 2025VisualLens: Personalization through Task-Agnostic Visual History
8227. NeurIPS 2025VITA-1.5: Towards GPT-4o Level Real-Time Vision and Speech Interaction
8228. NeurIPS 2025VITRIX-CLIPIN: Enhancing Fine-Grained Visual Understanding in CLIP via Instruction-Editing Data and Long Captions
8229. NeurIPS 2025VITRIX-UniViTAR: Unified Vision Transformer with Native Resolution
8230. NeurIPS 2025VL-Rethinker: Incentivizing Self-Reflection of Vision-Language Models with Reinforcement Learning
8231. NeurIPS 2025VL-SAE: Interpreting and Enhancing Vision-Language Alignment with a Unified Concept Set
8232. NeurIPS 2025VLA-Cache: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Manipulation via Adaptive Token Caching
8233. NeurIPS 2025VLA-OS: Structuring and Dissecting Planning Representations and Paradigms in Vision-Language-Action Models
8234. NeurIPS 2025VLM in a flash: I/O-Efficient Sparsification of Vision-Language Model via Neuron Chunking
8235. NeurIPS 2025VLM-R³: Region Recognition, Reasoning, and Refinement for Enhanced Multimodal Chain-of-Thought
8236. NeurIPS 2025VLMLight: Safety-Critical Traffic Signal Control via Vision-Language Meta-Control and Dual-Branch Reasoning Architecture
8237. NeurIPS 2025VLMs can Aggregate Scattered Training Patches
8238. NeurIPS 2025VLMs have Tunnel Vision: Evaluating Nonlocal Visual Reasoning in Leading VLMs
8239. NeurIPS 2025VMDT: Decoding the Trustworthiness of Video Foundation Models
8240. NeurIPS 2025Vocabulary-Guided Gait Recognition
8241. NeurIPS 2025VQ-Seg: Vector-Quantized Token Perturbation for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
8242. NeurIPS 2025VQToken: Neural Discrete Token Representation Learning for Extreme Token Reduction in Video Large Language Models
8243. NeurIPS 2025VRAG-RL: Empower Vision-Perception-Based RAG for Visually Rich Information Understanding via Iterative Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning
8244. NeurIPS 2025VT-FSL: Bridging Vision and Text with LLMs for Few-Shot Learning
8245. NeurIPS 2025Watch and Listen: Understanding Audio-Visual-Speech Moments with Multimodal LLM
8246. NeurIPS 2025Watermarking Autoregressive Image Generation
8247. NeurIPS 2025WearVQA: A Visual Question Answering Benchmark for Wearables in Egocentric Authentic Real-world scenarios
8248. NeurIPS 2025What’s in Common? Multimodal Models Hallucinate When Reasoning Across Scenes
8249. NeurIPS 2025When Kernels Multiply, Clusters Unify: Fusing Embeddings with the Kronecker Product
8250. NeurIPS 2025When Less Language is More: Language-Reasoning Disentanglement Makes LLMs Better Multilingual Reasoners

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.