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

1,074 papers, page 2 of 22

51. NeurIPS 2025AlphaDecay: Module-wise Weight Decay for Heavy-Tailed Balancing in LLMs
52. NeurIPS 2025ALTo: Adaptive-Length Tokenizer for Autoregressive Mask Generation
53. NeurIPS 2025Amplifying Prominent Representations in Multimodal Learning via Variational Dirichlet Process
54. NeurIPS 2025An Evidence-Based Post-Hoc Adjustment Framework for Anomaly Detection Under Data Contamination
55. NeurIPS 2025An Information-theoretical Framework for Understanding Out-of-distribution Detection with Pretrained Vision-Language Models
56. NeurIPS 2025Analyzing Fine-Grained Alignment and Enhancing Vision Understanding in Multimodal Language Models
57. NeurIPS 2025AnomalyCoT: A Multi-Scenario Chain-of-Thought Dataset for Multimodal Large Language Models
58. NeurIPS 2025AOR: Anatomical Ontology-Guided Reasoning for Medical Large Multimodal Model in Chest X-Ray Interpretation
59. NeurIPS 2025Approximate Domain Unlearning for Vision-Language Models
60. NeurIPS 2025Approximately Aligned Decoding
61. NeurIPS 2025ARGenSeg: Image Segmentation with Autoregressive Image Generation Model
62. NeurIPS 2025Asymmetric Dual-Lens Video Deblurring
63. NeurIPS 2025Atom of Thoughts for Markov LLM Test-Time Scaling
64. NeurIPS 2025Attack via Overfitting: 10-shot Benign Fine-tuning to Jailbreak LLMs
65. NeurIPS 2025Attention! Your Vision Language Model Could Be Maliciously Manipulated
66. NeurIPS 2025Automated Model Discovery via Multi-modal & Multi-step Pipeline
67. NeurIPS 2025Automatic Synthetic Data and Fine-grained Adaptive Feature Alignment for Composed Person Retrieval
68. NeurIPS 2025AutoVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Adaptive Reasoning and Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
69. NeurIPS 2025Aux-Think: Exploring Reasoning Strategies for Data-Efficient Vision-Language Navigation
70. NeurIPS 2025AVCD: Mitigating Hallucinations in Audio-Visual Large Language Models through Contrastive Decoding
71. NeurIPS 2025AVerImaTeC: A Dataset for Automatic Verification of Image-Text Claims with Evidence from the Web
72. NeurIPS 2025Backpropagation-Free Test-Time Adaptation via Probabilistic Gaussian Alignment
73. NeurIPS 2025BadVLA: Towards Backdoor Attacks on Vision-Language-Action Models via Objective-Decoupled Optimization
74. NeurIPS 2025Balanced Token Pruning: Accelerating Vision Language Models Beyond Local Optimization
75. NeurIPS 2025Balancing Multimodal Training Through Game-Theoretic Regularization
76. NeurIPS 2025BEAST: Efficient Tokenization of B-Splines Encoded Action Sequences for Imitation Learning
77. NeurIPS 2025BeliefMapNav: 3D Voxel-Based Belief Map for Zero-Shot Object Navigation
78. NeurIPS 2025Benchmarking Egocentric Multimodal Goal Inference for Assistive Wearable Agents
79. NeurIPS 2025Benchmarking Retrieval-Augmented Multimomal Generation for Document Question Answering
80. NeurIPS 2025Benford’s Curse: Tracing Digit Bias to Numerical Hallucination in LLMs
81. NeurIPS 2025Better Tokens for Better 3D: Advancing Vision-Language Modeling in 3D Medical Imaging
82. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Accuracy: Dissecting Mathematical Reasoning for LLMs Under Reinforcement Learning
83. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Attention or Similarity: Maximizing Conditional Diversity for Token Pruning in MLLMs
84. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Components: Singular Vector-Based Interpretability of Transformer Circuits
85. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Greedy Exits: Improved Early Exit Decisions for Risk Control and Reliability
86. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Modality Collapse: Representation Blending for Multimodal Dataset Distillation
87. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Oracle: Verifier-Supervision for Instruction Hierarchy in Reasoning and Instruction-Tuned LLMs
88. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Single-Task: Robust Multi-Task Length Generalization for LLMs
89. NeurIPS 2025Bifrost-1: Bridging Multimodal LLMs and Diffusion Models with Patch-level CLIP Latents
90. NeurIPS 2025Bio-Inspired Image Restoration
91. NeurIPS 2025BioCLIP 2: Emergent Properties from Scaling Hierarchical Contrastive Learning
92. NeurIPS 2025BioReason: Incentivizing Multimodal Biological Reasoning within a DNA-LLM Model
93. NeurIPS 2025Bisecle: Binding and Separation in Continual Learning for Video Language Understanding
94. NeurIPS 2025Bits Leaked per Query: Information-Theoretic Bounds for Adversarial Attacks on LLMs
95. NeurIPS 2025Black-Box Membership Inference Attack for LVLMs via Prior Knowledge-Calibrated Memory Probing
96. NeurIPS 2025BLINK-Twice: You see, but do you observe? A Reasoning Benchmark on Visual Perception
97. NeurIPS 2025Block-Biased Mamba for Long-Range Sequence Processing
98. NeurIPS 2025BlockScan: Detecting Anomalies in Blockchain Transactions
99. NeurIPS 2025BlurGuard: A Simple Approach for Robustifying Image Protection Against AI-Powered Editing
100. NeurIPS 2025BMMR: A Large-Scale Bilingual Multimodal Multi-Discipline Reasoning Dataset

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.