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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901. CVPR 2026PureProof Diffusion-Resistant Black-box Targeted Attack on Large Vision-Language Models
902. CVPR 2026Pushing the Frontier of Audiovisual Perception with Large-Scale Multimodal Correspondence
903. CVPR 2026Quant Experts Token-aware Adaptive Error Reconstruction with Mixture of Experts
904. CVPR 2026QUANTIPHY A Quantitative Benchmark Evaluating Physical Reasoning Abilities of Vision-Language
905. CVPR 2026Quantized Residuals to Continuous Prompts for Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning
906. CVPR 2026QuantVLA Scale-Calibrated Post-Training Quantization for Vision-Language-Action Models
907. CVPR 2026QueryOcc Query-based Self-Supervision for 3D Semantic Occupancy
908. CVPR 2026QuietPrune Query-Guided Early Token Pruning for Vision-Language Models
909. CVPR 2026R2-Seg Training-Free OOD Medical Tumor Segmentation via Anatomical Reasoning and
910. CVPR 2026R2TUA Reconstruction-residual Based Targeted and Untargeted Attack Against Text-Image Person
911. CVPR 2026R4 Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning for Vision-Language Models in 4D Spatio-Temporal Space
912. CVPR 2026R4-CGQA Retrieval-based Vision Language Models for Computer Graphics Image Quality
913. CVPR 2026Radar-Guided Polynomial Fitting for Metric Depth Estimation
914. CVPR 2026RAISE Requirement-Adaptive Evolutionary Refinement for Training-Free Text-to-Image Alignment
915. CVPR 2026RAMEN Resolution-Adjustable Multimodal Encoder for Earth Observation
916. CVPR 2026Random Wins All Rethinking Grouping Strategies for Vision Tokens
917. CVPR 2026RARE Learn to RAnk and REtrieve for Monocular 3D Object
918. CVPR 2026Rationale-Enhanced Decoding for Multi-modal Chain-of-Thought
919. CVPR 2026RAVEN Radar Adaptive Vision Encoders for Efficient Chirp-wise Object Detection
920. CVPR 2026RC-NF Robot-Conditioned Normalizing Flow for Real-Time Anomaly Detection in Robotic
921. CVPR 2026RDFace A Benchmark Dataset for Rare Disease Facial Image Analysis
922. CVPR 2026Re-Align Structured Reasoning-guided Alignment for In-Context Image Generation and Editing
923. CVPR 2026Re-evaluating Continual VQA Toward Fair and Robust Evaluation for Multimodal
924. CVPR 2026RE-VLM Event-Augmented Vision-Language Model for Scene Understanding
925. CVPR 2026ReaGEN Adaptive Generation of Structured Chains-of-Thought for Efficient Multimodal Reasoning
926. CVPR 2026Real-Time Multimodal Fingertip Contact Detection via Depth and Motion Fusion
927. CVPR 2026RealBirdID Benchmarking Bird Species Identification in the Era of MLLMs
928. CVPR 2026ReAlign Generalizable Image Forgery Detection via Reasoning-Aligned Representation
929. CVPR 2026REALM An MLLM-Agent Framework for Open World 3D Reasoning Segmentation
930. CVPR 2026RealUnify Do Unified Models Truly Benefit from Unification A Comprehensive
931. CVPR 2026RealVLG-R1 A Large-Scale Real-World Visual-Language Grounding Benchmark for Robotic Perception
932. CVPR 2026ReasonEdit Towards Reasoning-Enhanced Image Editing Models
933. CVPR 2026Reasoning Diffusion for Unpaired Test Time Out-of-distribution Text-Image to Video
934. CVPR 2026Reasoning Palette Modulating Reasoning via Latent Contextualization for Controllable Exploration
935. CVPR 2026Reasoning-Driven Anomaly Detection and Localization with Image-Level Supervision
936. CVPR 2026ReasonMap Towards Fine-Grained Visual Reasoning from Transit Maps
937. CVPR 2026ReasonX MLLM-Guided Intrinsic Image Decomposition
938. CVPR 2026ReBaPL Repulsive Bayesian Prompt Learning
939. CVPR 2026ReCALL Recalibrating Capability Degradation for MLLM-based Composed Image Retrieval
940. CVPR 2026Reconstructing CLIP for Open-Vocabulary Dense Perception
941. CVPR 2026Recurrent Reasoning with Vision-Language Models for Estimating Long-Horizon Embodied Task
942. CVPR 2026ReDirector Creating Any-Length Video Retakes with Rotary Camera Encoding
943. CVPR 2026ReFAct Empowering Multimodal Web Agents with Visual and Context Focusing
944. CVPR 2026RefAV Towards Planning-Centric Scenario Mining
945. CVPR 2026RegionFuse Region-Adaptive Pixel Distribution Learning for Infrared and Visible Image
946. CVPR 2026RehearseVLA Simulated Post-Training for VLAs with Physically-Consistent World Model
947. CVPR 2026Relational Visual Similarity
948. CVPR 2026ReMatch Boosting Representation through Matching for Multimodal Retrieval
949. CVPR 2026ReMoE Region-Mixture Experts for Adversarially-Robust Vision Transformers
950. CVPR 2026ReMoRa Multimodal Large Language Model based on Refined Motion Representation

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.