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

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851. CVPR 2026PGR-Net Prior-Guided ROI Reasoning Network for Brain Tumor MRI Segmentation
852. CVPR 2026pH-Strips for Selective Forgetting A Blunt but Fast Diagnostic Baseline
853. CVPR 2026PhaSR Generalized Image Shadow Removal with Physically Aligned Priors
854. CVPR 2026Phrase-Grounding-Aware Supervised Fine-Tuning for Chart Recognition via Side-Masked Attention
855. CVPR 2026PhyCo Learning Controllable Physical Priors for Generative Motion
856. CVPR 2026PhyCritic Multimodal Critic Models for Physical AI
857. CVPR 2026PhysHead Simulation-Ready Gaussian Head Avatars
858. CVPR 2026PhysX-Anything Simulation-Ready Physical 3D Assets from Single Image
859. CVPR 2026Pico-Banana-400K A Large-Scale Dataset for Text-Guided Image Editing
860. CVPR 2026PixDLM A Dual-Path Multimodal Language Model for UAV Reasoning Segmentation
861. CVPR 2026Pixels Dont Lie But Your Detector Might Bootstrapping MLLM-as-a-Judge for
862. CVPR 2026Plant Taxonomy Meets Plant Counting A Fine-Grained Taxonomic Dataset for
863. CVPR 2026Pluggable Pruning with Contiguous Layer Distillation for Diffusion Transformers
864. CVPR 2026PointAlign Feature-Level Alignment Regularization for 3D Vision-Language Models
865. CVPR 2026Pointing at Parts Training-Free Few-Shot Grounding in Multimodal LLMs
866. CVPR 2026POINTS-Long Adaptive Dual-Mode Visual Reasoning in MLLMs
867. CVPR 2026PolySLGen Online Multimodal Speaking-Listening Reaction Generation in Polyadic Interaction
868. CVPR 2026PoseGAM Robust Unseen Object Pose Estimation via Geometry-Aware Multi-View Reasoning
869. CVPR 2026PosterIQ A Design Perspective Benchmark for Poster Understanding and Generation
870. CVPR 2026POUR A Provably Optimal Method for Unlearning Representation via Neural
871. CVPR 2026PowerCLIP Powerset Alignment for Contrastive Pre-Training
872. CVPR 2026PP-OCRv5 A Specialized 5M-Parameter Model Rivaling Billion-Parameter Vision-Language Models on
873. CVPR 2026PPM-CLIP Probabilistic Prompt Modeling for Generalizable AI-Generated Image Detection
874. CVPR 2026Predictive Regularization Against Visual Representation Degradation in Multimodal Large Language
875. CVPR 2026Prefill-Time Intervention for Mitigating Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models
876. CVPR 2026Preserving Source Video Realism High-Fidelity Face Swapping for Cinematic Quality
877. CVPR 2026Principled Steering via Null-space Projection for Jailbreak Defense in Vision-Language
878. CVPR 2026PRISM Prototype-based Reasoning with Inter-modal Semantic Mining for Interpretable Image
879. CVPR 2026PRISM Video Dataset Condensation with Progressive Refinement and Insertion for
880. CVPR 2026PriVi Towards a General-Purpose Video Model for Primate Behavior in
881. CVPR 2026ProactiveMobile A Comprehensive Benchmark for Boosting Proactive Intelligence On Mobile
882. CVPR 2026Probabilistic Concept Graph Reasoning for Multimodal Misinformation Detection
883. CVPR 2026Probabilistic Prompt Adaptation for Unified Image Aesthetics and Quality Assessment
884. CVPR 2026Probing and Bridging Geometry-Interaction Cues for Affordance Reasoning in Vision
885. CVPR 2026ProFocus Proactive Perception and Focused Reasoning in Vision-and-Language Navigation
886. CVPR 2026Progress-Think Semantic Progress Reasoning for Vision-Language Navigation
887. CVPR 2026Progressive Cross-Modal Causal Intervention for Long-Term Action Recognition
888. CVPR 2026Progressive Mask Distillation for Self-supervised Video Representation
889. CVPR 2026ProM3E Probabilistic Masked MultiModal Embedding Model for Ecology
890. CVPR 2026Prompt-Anchored Vision-Text Distillation for Lifelong Person Re-identification
891. CVPR 2026PROMPTMINER Black-Box Prompt Stealing against Text-to-Image Generative Models via Reinforcement
892. CVPR 2026ProPhy Progressive Physical Alignment for Dynamic World Simulation
893. CVPR 2026Protect to Adapt Orthogonal Subspace Control with Ranked Negative-Prompt Curriculum
894. CVPR 2026Prototype-as-Prompt Multimodal Sentiment Prototypes Endowing Large Language Models the Capability
895. CVPR 2026Prototype-based Causal Intervention for Multi-Label Image Classification
896. CVPR 2026Prototypical Action Reasoning Facilitated by Vision-Language Alignment for Egocentric Action
897. CVPR 2026Proxy-Tuning Tailoring Multimodal Autoregressive Models for Subject-Driven Image Generation
898. CVPR 2026Proxy3D Efficient 3D Representations for Vision-Language Models via Semantic Clustering
899. CVPR 2026Prune2Drive A Plug-and-Play Framework for Accelerating Vision-Language Models in Autonomous
900. CVPR 2026PureCC Pure Learning for Text-to-Image Concept Customization

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.