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

5,190 papers, page 2 of 104

51. CVPR 2026Anchor-Guided Gradient Alignment for Incomplete Multimodal Learning
52. CVPR 2026AnomalyVFM -- Transforming Vision Foundation Models into Zero-Shot Anomaly Detectors
53. CVPR 2026ApET Approximation-Error Guided Token Compression for Efficient VLMs
54. CVPR 2026APEX A Decoupled Memory-based Explorer for Asynchronous Aerial Object Goal
55. CVPR 2026APPO Attention-guided Perception Policy Optimization for Video Reasoning
56. CVPR 2026AR2-4FV Anchored Referring and Re-identification for Long-Term Grounding in Fixed-View
57. CVPR 2026Ar2Can An Architect and an Artist Leveraging a Canvas for
58. CVPR 2026Arcadia Toward a Full-Lifecycle Framework for Embodied Lifelong Learning
59. CVPR 2026Archon A Unified Multimodal Model for Holistic Digital Human Generation
60. CVPR 2026ArchSym Detecting 3D-Grounded Architectural Symmetries in the Wild
61. CVPR 2026AREA3D Active Reconstruction Agent with Unified Feed-Forward 3D Perception and
62. CVPR 2026ARES Unifying Asymmetric RGB-Event Stereo for Probabilistic Scene Flow Estimation
63. CVPR 2026ARGUS Defending Against Multimodal Indirect Prompt Injection via Steering Instruction-Following
64. CVPR 2026ARM-Thinker Reinforcing Multimodal Generative Reward Models with Agentic Tool Use
65. CVPR 2026ArtHOI Taming Foundation Models for Monocular 4D Reconstruction of Hand-Articulated-Object
66. CVPR 2026ArtiMuse Fine-Grained Image Aesthetics Assessment with Joint Scoring and Expert-Level
67. CVPR 2026Asking like Socrates Socrates helps VLMs understand remote sensing images
68. CVPR 2026Asynchronous Temporal Modeling with Two-Agent Framework for Streaming Dense Video
69. CVPR 2026AT-VLA Adaptive Tactile Injection for Enhanced Feedback Reaction in Vision-Language-Action
70. CVPR 2026AToken A Unified Tokenizer for Vision
71. CVPR 2026Attention-aware Inference Optimizations for Large Vision-Language Models with Memory-efficient Decoding
72. CVPR 2026AURA Multi-modal Shared Autonomy for Urban Navigation
73. CVPR 2026Authorize-on-Demand Dynamic Authorization with Legality-Aware Intellectual Property Protection for VLMs
74. CVPR 2026AutoCut End-to-end advertisement video editing based on multimodal discretization and
75. CVPR 2026AutoTraces Autoregressive Trajectory Forecasting via Multimodal Large Language Models
76. CVPR 2026AVA-Bench Atomic Visual Ability Benchmark for Vision Foundation Models
77. CVPR 2026AVA-VLA Improving Vision-Language-Action models with Active Visual Attention
78. CVPR 2026AVFakeBench A Comprehensive Audio-Video Forgery Detection Benchmark for AV-LMMs
79. CVPR 2026AVGGT Rethinking Global Attention for Accelerating VGGT
80. CVPR 2026AVION Aerial Vision-Language Instruction from Offline Teacher to Prompt-Tuned Network
81. CVPR 2026AwareVLN Reasoning with Self-awareness for Vision-Language Navigation
82. CVPR 2026AXG-Reasoner Error Detection and Explanation in Long Task Videos with
83. CVPR 2026b-CLIP Text-Conditioned Contrastive Learning for Multi-Granular Vision-Language Alignment
84. CVPR 2026BabyVLM-V2 Toward Developmentally Grounded Pretraining and Benchmarking of Vision Foundation
85. CVPR 2026Back to Point Exploring Point-Language Models for Zero-Shot 3D Anomaly
86. CVPR 2026BALM A Model-Agnostic Framework for Balanced Multimodal Learning under Imbalanced
87. CVPR 2026Batch Loss Score for Dynamic Data Pruning
88. CVPR 2026Best Segmentation Buddies for Image-Shape Correspondence
89. CVPR 2026Better Stronger Faster Tackling the Trilemma in MLLM-based Segmentation with
90. CVPR 2026Beyond 3D VQAs Injecting 3D Spatial Priors into Vision-Language Models
91. CVPR 2026Beyond CLS Token Query-Driven Token-Level Forgery Purification for Generalizable Deepfake
92. CVPR 2026Beyond Explicit Language Plug-and-Play Visual-to-Linguistic Modeling Toward General Object Tracking
93. CVPR 2026Beyond Global Similarity Multi-Conditional Retrieval for Fine-Grained Cross-Modal Understanding
94. CVPR 2026Beyond Graph Model Reliable VLM Fine-Tuning via Random Graph Adapter
95. CVPR 2026Beyond Ground-Truth Leveraging Image Quality Priors for Real-World Image Restoration
96. CVPR 2026Beyond Heuristic Prompting A Concept-Guided Bayesian Framework for Zero-Shot Image
97. CVPR 2026Beyond Layer-Wise Merging Chain-of-Merging for Vision-Language Models
98. CVPR 2026Beyond Multiple Choice Verifiable OpenQA for Robust Vision-Language RFT
99. CVPR 2026Beyond Patches Global-aware Autoregressive Model for Multimodal Few-Shot Font Generation
100. CVPR 2026Beyond Perceptual Shortcuts Causal-Inspired Debiasing Optimization for Generalizable Video Reasoning

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.