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

1,366 papers, page 18 of 28

851. NeurIPS 2026Optimizing Computational-Statistical Runtime for Wasserstein Distance Estimation
852. NeurIPS 2026OrbitLoRA: Learning Rotation-Aware Low-Data Adaptation of Vision Foundation Models
853. NeurIPS 2026Order Matters: Competition-Guided Query Ordering for RNN-Based Object Detection
854. NeurIPS 2026Origami as a Real-Image Benchmark for Procedural State-Transition Reasoning
855. NeurIPS 2026OroPrecipBench: a km-scale benchmark for spatial precipitation downscaling over complex terrain
856. NeurIPS 2026OT-Robust3DVLA: A Wasserstein Barycenter is the Right Inductive Bias for Robust Multi-View 3D Vision-Language-Action Policies
857. NeurIPS 2026OTEdit: Entropic Transport Corrected Trajectory for Inversion-Free Flow-Based Image Editing
858. NeurIPS 2026Overcoming Kernel Redundancy for Scaling Logic Gate Networks
859. NeurIPS 2026OxyGen: Unified KV Cache Management for VLA Inference under Multi-Task Parallelism
860. NeurIPS 2026P-EAGLE: Parallel-Drafting EAGLE with Scalable Training
861. NeurIPS 2026P$^3$-VLM: A Point-based Alternative for Grounded 3D Vision-Language Models
862. NeurIPS 2026PACE-dLLM: Elastic Block Decoding via Confidence Cliff Estimation for Diffusion Language Models
863. NeurIPS 2026PACE: Pareto-Adaptive Compression for Efficient Native MLLMs
864. NeurIPS 2026PACE: Progress Actively-internalized Conditioning Execution for Long-horizon Manipulation
865. NeurIPS 2026PAGER: Bridging the Semantic-Execution Gap in Point-Precise Geometric GUI Control
866. NeurIPS 2026PAI-Actor: Cinematic Multi-Actor Character Replacement in Dynamic Scenes
867. NeurIPS 2026Palette: A Modular, Controllable, and Efficient Framework for On-demand Authorized Safety Alignment Relaxation in LLMs
868. NeurIPS 2026Pan-FM: A Pan-Organ Foundation Model with Saliency-Guided Masking for Missing Robustness
869. NeurIPS 2026PanoWorld: Towards Spatial Supersensing in 360◦ Panorama World
870. NeurIPS 2026PaperLens: How Predictable Is Paper Acceptance?
871. NeurIPS 2026PAPO-VLA: Planning-Aware Policy Optimization for Vision-Language-Action Models
872. NeurIPS 2026Parameterized Stripe Attention for Efficient Video Generation
873. NeurIPS 2026Parametric Meets Non-parametric: Bridging Dual Prediction Spaces for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation
874. NeurIPS 2026PARE: Pruning and Adaptive Routing for Efficient Video Generation
875. NeurIPS 2026Partition-Aware Unlearning for Removing Spurious Correlations in Large Vision-Language Models
876. NeurIPS 2026Patch Rebirth: Fast and Transferable Model Inversion of Vision Transformers
877. NeurIPS 2026Patch4Patch: Restoring Structural Connectivity in Patch-based Vision Encoders
878. NeurIPS 2026PatchKV: Weight Space Compensation of KV Cache
879. NeurIPS 2026PathView-Bench: Can Multimodal Large Language Models Achieve Fine-grained Multiscale Understanding of Pathology Images?
880. NeurIPS 2026Pathways of Visual Information Flow in Vision-Language Models
881. NeurIPS 2026PAVE: Prefill-Conditioned Activation Editing for Hallucination Mitigation in LVLMs
882. NeurIPS 2026PCDFusion: Proposal-Context-Detail Bayesian Rendering for Infrared-Visible Image Fusion
883. NeurIPS 2026PCFBench: How Far Can Large Vision-Language Models Go in Physics-aware Photonic Inverse Design?
884. NeurIPS 2026Perceive-then-Plan: Layout-as-Policy for Monocular 3D Scene Layout Estimation
885. NeurIPS 2026Perceive, Interact, Reason: Building Tool-Augmented Visual Agents for Spatial Reasoning
886. NeurIPS 2026Personal Visual Memory from Explicit and Implicit Evidence
887. NeurIPS 2026Perturb, Repair, Verify: Self-Play Vision-Language Verifiers for Compositional Understanding
888. NeurIPS 2026PerturbReason: A Knowledge-Grounded Benchmark and Framework for Cell-State–Conditioned Mechanistic Reasoning of Perturbation Effects
889. NeurIPS 2026PGGT-Loc: Primitive-Grounded Geometry Transformer for Feed-Forward Camera Localization
890. NeurIPS 2026Phase-Adaptive Fusion: Spatio-Temporal Modulation for VLA Models
891. NeurIPS 2026PHOEBI: An Open-World Benchmark for Multi-Label Bacterial Identification in Phase-Contrast Microscopy
892. NeurIPS 2026PhyProbe: Rethinking Physical Consistency Evaluation in Generated Videos
893. NeurIPS 2026PhysDNet: Physics-Driven Gradient Amplification for Real-Time Image Dehazing
894. NeurIPS 2026PhysElite: How Far Are LLMs from Solving Olympiad-Level Physics Problems?
895. NeurIPS 2026PhysGraphNet: Physical-State Scene Graphs via Latent Graph Reasoning and Counterfactual Supervision
896. NeurIPS 2026PhysVista: Benchmarking Physical Intelligence in VLMs via a Perception-Reasoning-Assessment Loop
897. NeurIPS 2026PickMoment: Continuous-Time Single-Image-to-Video via Learning Deblurring and Blur-to-Video
898. NeurIPS 2026PipeFSDP: Efficient Pipeline Parallel under Fully Sharded Data Parallel for Large Language Model Training
899. NeurIPS 2026PIS: Pose-Interpolation Smoothness for Skinning Weight Refinement
900. NeurIPS 2026PIU-CR: Physics-Informed Deep Unfolding Network with SAR-Optical Image Fusion for Cloud Removal

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.