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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51. NeurIPS 2026AdShot: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Video Advertisement Clipping
52. NeurIPS 2026Advancing Affordance-Grounded Creative Tool Use in Large Multimodal Models
53. NeurIPS 2026Advancing Narrative Long Video Generation via Training-Free Identity-Aware Memory
54. NeurIPS 2026AeroMosaic:Transport-Aware Multimodal Evidence Fusion for Atmospheric Pollution Risk Inference
55. NeurIPS 2026AesGI-Bench: Benchmarking and Evaluating the Aesthetic Quality of AI-Generated Images via Large Multimodal Models
56. NeurIPS 2026Affine-Image Propagation for Tight and Scalable $\ell_{2}$ Neural Network Verification
57. NeurIPS 2026AffordSim: A Scalable Data Generator and Benchmark for Affordance-Aware Robotic Manipulation
58. NeurIPS 2026Agent Explorative Policy Optimization for Agentic Multimodal Reasoning
59. NeurIPS 2026Agentick: A Unified Benchmark for General Sequential Decision-Making Agents
60. NeurIPS 2026AgenticVBench: Can AI Agents Complete Real-World Video Production Tasks?
61. NeurIPS 2026Agents as Neuro-Symbolic Reasoners: Path Feasibility Reasoning for Precise Static Bug Detection
62. NeurIPS 2026AgentVista: Evaluating Multimodal Agent in Ultra-Challenging Realistic Visual Scenarios
63. NeurIPS 2026Agree to Disagree: Multimodal Autonomous Negotiation and Calibration for Entity Representation Learning
64. NeurIPS 2026AgroOmni: A Large-Scale Multi-view Agricultural Dataset for Cross-Scale Multimodal Reasoning
65. NeurIPS 2026AIM: Adaptive Interaction in Multi-Agent Debate for Multimodal LLM Inference
66. NeurIPS 2026AIR: Rethinking Image-Text Offset Alignment in Multimodal Contrastive Representation Space
67. NeurIPS 2026AirIAD: Agentic Iterative Reasoning for Industrial Anomaly Detection
68. NeurIPS 2026ALAM: Algebraically Consistent Latent Transitions for Vision-Language-Action Models
69. NeurIPS 2026Algorithm for Contextual Queueing Bandits with Rate-Optimal Queue Length Regret
70. NeurIPS 2026Aligning Forest and Trees in Images & Long Captions for Visually Grounded Understanding
71. NeurIPS 2026Aligning LLMs Toward Multi-Turn Conversational Outcomes Using Iterative RLHF
72. NeurIPS 2026Aligning LLMs with Biomedical Knowledge using Balanced Fine-Tuning
73. NeurIPS 2026Allocentric Perceiver: Disentangling Allocentric Reasoning from Egocentric Visual Priors via Frame Instantiation
74. NeurIPS 2026ALTER: An Allen's Algebra-Based Evaluation Framework for Temporal Reasoning of LLMs
75. NeurIPS 2026AMARIS: Merging Generalist and Specialist LLMs via Adaptive Subspace Inheritance
76. NeurIPS 2026AmbientFM: A Foundation Model for Ambient Sensing
77. NeurIPS 2026AmbiguousWorld: Benchmarking and Resolving Ambiguous Instructions in Video World Models
78. NeurIPS 2026An Efficient Cross-modal Feature Reconstruction Model for Multimodal Multi-class Anomaly Detection
79. NeurIPS 2026An Open-Source Training Dataset for Foundation Models for Black-box Optimization
80. NeurIPS 2026Anatomy-Activated Mixture-of-Experts for 3D Medical Vision-Language Pre-training
81. NeurIPS 2026Anatomy-aware Spatio-Temporal Modeling for Echocardiography Segmentation
82. NeurIPS 2026AnchorRep: Defending LLMs Against Cross-Model Adversarial Transfer via Representation Repulsion
83. NeurIPS 2026Angular Networks: Low-Bit Learning from Randomized Similarity Estimators
84. NeurIPS 2026Animation2Code: Evaluating Temporal Visual Reasoning in Video-to-Code Generation
85. NeurIPS 2026Anti-Self-Distillation for Reasoning RL via Pointwise Mutual Information
86. NeurIPS 2026APIVOT: Adaptive Planning with Interleaved Vision-Language Thoughts
87. NeurIPS 2026Apple-$\pi$: Benchmarking Thinking with Video Towards Law-Grounded Physical Intelligence
88. NeurIPS 2026Approaching Effective Merging in Model Embedding Space
89. NeurIPS 2026Approximate Bayesian inference with exchangeable distributions for neurosymbolic AI
90. NeurIPS 2026Approximation Algorithms for GPU Pricing under Finite Capacity
91. NeurIPS 2026Are Multimodal Benchmarks Really Useful? Item-Level Multimodal Benchmark Diagnosis via Structure-Response Co-Calibration
92. NeurIPS 2026Are Text-to-Image Models Inductivist Turkeys? A Counterfactual Benchmark for Causal Reasoning
93. NeurIPS 2026Are We Making Progress in Multimodal Domain Generalization? A Comprehensive Benchmark Study
94. NeurIPS 2026Arena-T2I Hard: Benchmarking and Improving Faithfulness with Dependency-Aware Checklist Rewards
95. NeurIPS 2026Argus: A Cross-Regime Benchmark for the Transferability of Uncertainty Quantification in Computer-Use Agents
96. NeurIPS 2026ARK: A Dual-Axis Multimodal Retrieval Benchmark along Reasoning and Knowledge
97. NeurIPS 2026As the Story Unfolds: Watching a Film and Identifying Characters as a Human Does
98. NeurIPS 2026ASAP: Assembly-Source Aligned Pseudocode Refinement For Binary Decompilation
99. NeurIPS 2026ASAP: Attention Sink Anchored Pruning
100. NeurIPS 2026ASTRA: ADMM-Accelerated Topology Reconfiguration for Dynamic Satellite Constellations

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.