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 17 of 225

801. CVPR 2026One Token Two Fates A Unified Framework via Vision Token
802. CVPR 2026OneCAT Decoder-Only Auto-Regressive Model for Unified Understanding and Generation
803. CVPR 2026OneSparse A Unified Framework for Sparse Activation Layers in Vision
804. CVPR 2026OneThinker All-in-one Reasoning Model for Image and Video
805. CVPR 2026Online Data Curation for Object Detection via Marginal Contributions to
806. CVPR 2026OnlinePG Online Open-Vocabulary Panoptic Mapping with 3D Gaussian Splatting
807. CVPR 2026OntoAug Rethinking Generative Data Augmentation via Ontology Guidance
808. CVPR 2026Open-Vocabulary Domain Generalization in Urban-Scene Segmentation
809. CVPR 2026OpenDance Multimodal Controllable 3D Dance Generation with Large-scale Internet Data
810. CVPR 2026OpenDPR Open-Vocabulary Change Detection via Vision-Centric Diffusion-Guided Prototype Retrieval for
811. CVPR 2026OpenMarcie Dataset for Multimodal Action Recognition in Industrial Environments
812. CVPR 2026OpenMMReasoner Pushing the Frontiers in Multimodal Reasoning with an Open
813. CVPR 2026OpenVision 2 A Family of Generative Pretrained Visual Encoders for
814. CVPR 2026OpenVoxel Training-Free Grouping and Captioning Voxels for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene
815. CVPR 2026OralGPT-Plus Learning to Use Visual Tools via Reinforcement Learning for
816. CVPR 2026OraPO Oracle-educated Reinforcement Learning for Data-efficient and Factual Radiology Report
817. CVPR 2026ORBIT Benchmarking SfM in the Wild with 360deg Video
818. CVPR 2026ORIC Benchmarking Object Recognition under Contextual Incongruity in Large Vision-Language
819. CVPR 2026OrienPose Orientation-Guided Novel View Synthesis for Single-Image Unseen Object Pose
820. CVPR 2026ORION ORthonormal Text Encoding for Universal VLM AdaptatION
821. CVPR 2026OrionEdit Bridging Reference and Source Images for Generalized Cross-Image Editing
822. CVPR 2026ORSATR-X A Foundation Model based on Differential-and-Excitation Networks for Optical
823. CVPR 2026OSMO Open-vocabulary Self-eMOtion Tracking
824. CVPR 2026OVI-MAP Open-Vocabulary Instance-Semantic Mapping
825. CVPR 2026OVOD-Agent A Markov-Bandit Framework for Proactive Visual Reasoning and Self-Evolving
826. CVPR 2026P-Flow Prompting Visual Effects Generation
827. CVPR 2026PA-Attack Guiding Gray-Box Attacks on LVLM Vision Encoders with Prototypes
828. CVPR 2026PACT Phase-Like Transition Constraints in Adapter-Based Continual Learning of Vision-Language
829. CVPR 2026PAI-Bench A Comprehensive Benchmark For Physical AI
830. CVPR 2026PALM Progress-Aware Policy Learning via Affordance Reasoning for Long-Horizon Robotic
831. CVPR 2026PanDA Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Multimodal 3D Panoptic Segmentation in
832. CVPR 2026Pano360 Perspective to Panoramic Vision with Geometric Consistency
833. CVPR 2026PanoEnv Exploring 3D Spatial Intelligence in Panoramic Environments with Reinforcement
834. CVPR 2026Parallax to Align Them All An OmniParallax Attention Mechanism for
835. CVPR 2026Parallel Jacobi Decoding for Fast Autoregressive Image Generation
836. CVPR 2026ParaUni Enhance Generation in Unified Multimodal Model with Reinforcement-driven Hierarchical
837. CVPR 2026PAS A Training-Free Stabilizer for Temporal Encoding in Video LLMs
838. CVPR 2026PAS Prelim Attention Score for Detecting Object Hallucinations in Large
839. CVPR 2026PatchAlign3D Local Feature Alignment for Dense 3D Shape Understanding
840. CVPR 2026PAVAS Physics-Aware Video-to-Audio Synthesis
841. CVPR 2026PCA-Seg Revisiting Cost Aggregation for Open-Vocabulary Semantic and Part Segmentation
842. CVPR 2026PDCR Perception-Decomposed Confidence Reward for Vision-Language Reasoning
843. CVPR 2026Percept-WAM Perception-Enhanced World-Awareness-Action Model for Robust End-to-End Autonomous Driving
844. CVPR 2026Perceptual-Evidence Anchored Reinforced Learning for Multimodal Reasoning
845. CVPR 2026PercHead Perceptual Head Model for Single-Image 3D Head Reconstruction
846. CVPR 2026PerformRecast Expression and Head Pose Disentanglement for Portrait Video Editing
847. CVPR 2026PersonaLive Expressive Portrait Image Animation for Live Streaming
848. CVPR 2026Personalized Image Descriptions from Attention Sequences
849. CVPR 2026PersonaVLM Long-Term Personalized Multimodal LLMs
850. CVPR 2026PETAR Localized Findings Generation with Mask-Aware Vision-Language Modeling for PET

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.