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. NeurIPS 2025Spatial-MLLM: Boosting MLLM Capabilities in Visual-based Spatial Intelligence
852. NeurIPS 2025SpatialLM: Training Large Language Models for Structured Indoor Modeling
853. NeurIPS 2025SpatialReasoner: Towards Explicit and Generalizable 3D Spatial Reasoning
854. NeurIPS 2025SPAZER: Spatial-Semantic Progressive Reasoning Agent for Zero-shot 3D Visual Grounding
855. NeurIPS 2025SpecEdge: Scalable Edge-Assisted Serving Framework for Interactive LLMs
856. NeurIPS 2025Speculate Deep and Accurate: Lossless and Training-Free Acceleration for Offloaded LLMs via Substitute Speculative Decoding
857. NeurIPS 2025Spot the Fake: Large Multimodal Model-Based Synthetic Image Detection with Artifact Explanation
858. NeurIPS 2025SPRO: Improving Image Generation via Self-Play
859. NeurIPS 2025SRPO: Enhancing Multimodal LLM Reasoning via Reflection-Aware Reinforcement Learning
860. NeurIPS 2025SSR: Enhancing Depth Perception in Vision-Language Models via Rationale-Guided Spatial Reasoning
861. NeurIPS 2025SSTAG: Structure-Aware Self-Supervised Learning Method for Text-Attributed Graphs
862. NeurIPS 2025ST$^2$360D: Spatial-to-Temporal Consistency for Training-free 360 Monocular Depth Estimation
863. NeurIPS 2025Stable Cinemetrics : Structured Taxonomy and Evaluation for Professional Video Generation
864. NeurIPS 2025State Space Prompting via Gathering and Spreading Spatio-Temporal Information for Video Understanding
865. NeurIPS 2025Statistical Analysis of the Sinkhorn Iterations for Two-Sample Schr\"{o}dinger Bridge Estimation
866. NeurIPS 2025Statistical inference for Linear Stochastic Approximation with Markovian Noise
867. NeurIPS 2025Statistics Caching Test-Time Adaptation for Vision-Language Models
868. NeurIPS 2025STEER-ME: Assessing the Microeconomic Reasoning of Large Language Models
869. NeurIPS 2025SteerConf: Steering LLMs for Confidence Elicitation
870. NeurIPS 2025Stepsize anything: A unified learning rate schedule for budgeted-iteration training
871. NeurIPS 2025Stitch and Tell: A Structured Data Augmentation Method for Spatial Understanding
872. NeurIPS 2025Stop DDoS Attacking the Research Community with AI-Generated Survey Papers
873. NeurIPS 2025StreamBP: Memory-Efficient Exact Backpropagation for Long Sequence Training of LLMs
874. NeurIPS 2025StreamForest: Efficient Online Video Understanding with Persistent Event Memory
875. NeurIPS 2025STRIDER: Navigation via Instruction-Aligned Structural Decision Space Optimization
876. NeurIPS 2025Struct2D: A Perception-Guided Framework for Spatial Reasoning in MLLMs
877. NeurIPS 2025Structural Entropy Guided Agent for Detecting and Repairing Knowledge Deficiencies in LLMs
878. NeurIPS 2025Structure-Aware Cooperative Ensemble Evolutionary Optimization on Combinatorial Problems with Multimodal Large Language Models
879. NeurIPS 2025Structure-Aware Fusion with Progressive Injection for Multimodal Molecular Representation Learning
880. NeurIPS 2025Structured Initialization for Vision Transformers
881. NeurIPS 2025Structured Spectral Reasoning for Frequency-Adaptive Multimodal Recommendation
882. NeurIPS 2025STSBench: A Spatio-temporal Scenario Benchmark for Multi-modal Large Language Models in Autonomous Driving
883. NeurIPS 2025SuperCLIP: CLIP with Simple Classification Supervision
884. NeurIPS 2025SURDS: Benchmarking Spatial Understanding and Reasoning in Driving Scenarios with Vision Language Models
885. NeurIPS 2025Surface-Aware Feed-Forward Quadratic Gaussian for Frame Interpolation with Large Motion
886. NeurIPS 2025Surprise3D: A Dataset for Spatial Understanding and Reasoning in Complex 3D Scenes
887. NeurIPS 2025SutureBot: A Precision Framework & Benchmark For Autonomous End-to-End Suturing
888. NeurIPS 2025Switchable Token-Specific Codebook Quantization For Face Image Compression
889. NeurIPS 2025SymRTLO: Enhancing RTL Code Optimization with LLMs and Neuron-Inspired Symbolic Reasoning
890. NeurIPS 2025Synthesizing Photorealistic and Dynamic Urban Environments for Multimodal Robot Navigation and Collaboration
891. NeurIPS 2025Systematic Reward Gap Optimization for Mitigating VLM Hallucinations
892. NeurIPS 2025T-SHIRT: Token-Selective Hierarchical Data Selection for Instruction Tuning
893. NeurIPS 2025T2I-R1: Reinforcing Image Generation with Collaborative Semantic-level and Token-level CoT
894. NeurIPS 2025TabArena: A Living Benchmark for Machine Learning on Tabular Data
895. NeurIPS 2025Table as a Modality for Large Language Models
896. NeurIPS 2025TabSTAR: A Tabular Foundation Model for Tabular Data with Text Fields
897. NeurIPS 2025Tabula: A Tabular Self-Supervised Foundation Model for Single-Cell Transcriptomics
898. NeurIPS 2025TaiwanVQA: Benchmarking and Enhancing Cultural Understanding in Vision-Language Models
899. NeurIPS 2025Talk2Event: Grounded Understanding of Dynamic Scenes from Event Cameras
900. NeurIPS 2025TalkCuts: A Large-Scale Dataset for Multi-Shot Human Speech Video Generation

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.