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. NeurIPS 2025TAPVid-360: Tracking Any Point in 360 from Narrow Field of View Video
902. NeurIPS 2025TCM-Ladder: A Benchmark for Multimodal Question Answering on Traditional Chinese Medicine
903. NeurIPS 2025Teaching Transformers to Solve Combinatorial Problems through Efficient Trial & Error
904. NeurIPS 2025Temporal Chain of Thought: Long-Video Understanding by Thinking in Frames
905. NeurIPS 2025TempSamp-R1: Effective Temporal Sampling with Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Video LLMs
906. NeurIPS 2025Tensor-Parallelism with Partially Synchronized Activations
907. NeurIPS 2025Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
908. NeurIPS 2025Test-Time Adaptive Object Detection with Foundation Model
909. NeurIPS 2025Test-Time Spectrum-Aware Latent Steering for Zero-Shot Generalization in Vision-Language Models
910. NeurIPS 2025Text to Sketch Generation with Multi-Styles
911. NeurIPS 2025The Curse of Depth in Large Language Models
912. NeurIPS 2025The Curse of Multi-Modalities: Evaluating Hallucinations of Large Multimodal Models across Language, Visual, and Audio
913. NeurIPS 2025The Illusion of Progress? A Critical Look at Test-Time Adaptation for Vision-Language Models
914. NeurIPS 2025The Indra Representation Hypothesis
915. NeurIPS 2025The Mirage of Performance Gains: Why Contrastive Decoding Fails to Mitigate Object Hallucinations in MLLMs?
916. NeurIPS 2025The Narrow Gate: Localized Image-Text Communication in Native Multimodal Models
917. NeurIPS 2025The Promise of RL for Autoregressive Image Editing
918. NeurIPS 2025The Quest for Universal Master Key Filters in DS-CNNs
919. NeurIPS 2025Think or Not? Selective Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language Models
920. NeurIPS 2025ThinkAct: Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Reinforced Visual Latent Planning
921. NeurIPS 2025ThinkSound: Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs for Audio Generation and Editing
922. NeurIPS 2025Thresholds for sensitive optimality and Blackwell optimality in stochastic games
923. NeurIPS 2025THUNDER: Tile-level Histopathology image UNDERstanding benchmark
924. NeurIPS 2025Time-IMM: A Dataset and Benchmark for Irregular Multimodal Multivariate Time Series
925. NeurIPS 2025Time-R1: Post-Training Large Vision Language Model for Temporal Video Grounding
926. NeurIPS 2025Timely Clinical Diagnosis through Active Test Selection
927. NeurIPS 2025Too Late to Recall: Explaining the Two-Hop Problem in Multimodal Knowledge Retrieval
928. NeurIPS 2025Tool-Augmented Spatiotemporal Reasoning for Streamlining Video Question Answering Task
929. NeurIPS 2025Toward a Vision-Language Foundation Model for Medical Data: Multimodal Dataset and Benchmarks for Vietnamese PET/CT Report Generation
930. NeurIPS 2025Toward Engineering AGI: Benchmarking the Engineering Design Capabilities of LLMs
931. NeurIPS 2025Towards Better Dental AI: A Multimodal Benchmark and Instruction Dataset for Panoramic X-ray Analysis
932. NeurIPS 2025Towards Building Model/Prompt-Transferable Attackers against Large Vision-Language Models
933. NeurIPS 2025Towards Comprehensive Scene Understanding: Integrating First and Third-Person Views for LVLMs
934. NeurIPS 2025Towards Evaluating Proactive Risk Awareness of Multimodal Language Models
935. NeurIPS 2025Towards Fully FP8 GEMM LLM Training at Scale
936. NeurIPS 2025Towards General Continuous Memory for Vision-Language Models
937. NeurIPS 2025Towards Generalizable Detector for Generated Image
938. NeurIPS 2025Towards Implicit Aggregation: Robust Image Representation for Place Recognition in the Transformer Era
939. NeurIPS 2025Towards Minimizing Feature Drift in Model Merging: Layer-wise Task Vector Fusion for Adaptive Knowledge Integration
940. NeurIPS 2025Towards Physics-informed Spatial Intelligence with Human Priors: An Autonomous Driving Pilot Study
941. NeurIPS 2025Towards Reliable LLM-based Robots Planning via Combined Uncertainty Estimation
942. NeurIPS 2025Towards Robust Uncertainty Calibration for Composed Image Retrieval
943. NeurIPS 2025Towards Self-Refinement of Vision-Language Models with Triangular Consistency
944. NeurIPS 2025Towards Understanding Camera Motions in Any Video
945. NeurIPS 2025Towards Unified Multimodal Interleaved Generation via Group Relative Policy Optimization
946. NeurIPS 2025ToxicTextCLIP: Text-Based Poisoning and Backdoor Attacks on CLIP Pre-training
947. NeurIPS 2025TP-MDDN: Task-Preferenced Multi-Demand-Driven Navigation with Autonomous Decision-Making
948. NeurIPS 2025TRACE: Grounding Time Series in Context for Multimodal Embedding and Retrieval
949. NeurIPS 2025Track3R: Joint Point Map and Trajectory Prior for Spatiotemporal 3D Understanding
950. NeurIPS 2025Training-free Online Video Step Grounding

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.