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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951. CVPR 2026ReMoT Reinforcement Learning with Motion Contrast Triplets
952. CVPR 2026Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution for Imbalanced Textures A Texture-Aware Diffusion
953. CVPR 2026Residual Decoding Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models via History-Aware
954. CVPR 2026Residual Diffusion Bridge Model for Image Restoration
955. CVPR 2026ResiHMR Residual-Limb Aware Single-Image 3D Human Mesh Recovery for Individuals
956. CVPR 2026Resolving Evidence Sparsity Agentic Context Engineering for Long-Document Understanding
957. CVPR 2026Restore Assess Repeat A Unified Framework for Iterative Image Restoration
958. CVPR 2026RetFormer Multimodal Retrieval for Enhancing Image Recognition
959. CVPR 2026Rethinking Asymmetric Quantization Hidden Symmetry in Vision Model Weights
960. CVPR 2026Rethinking BCE Loss for Multi-Label Image Recognition with Fine-Tuning
961. CVPR 2026Rethinking Concept Bottleneck Models From Pitfalls to Solutions
962. CVPR 2026Rethinking Intermediate Representation for VLM-based Robot Manipulation
963. CVPR 2026Rethinking Model Selection in VLM Through the Lens of Gromov-Wasserstein
964. CVPR 2026Rethinking Token Reduction for Large Vision-Language Models
965. CVPR 2026RetouchIQ MLLM Agents for Instruction-Based Image Retouching with Generalist Reward
966. CVPR 2026Retrieve and Segment Are a Few Examples Enough to Bridge
967. CVPR 2026Retrieving Counterfactuals Improves Visual In-Context Learning
968. CVPR 2026Revisiting 2D Foundation Models for Scalable 3D Medical Image Classification
969. CVPR 2026Revisiting Geometric Obfuscation with Dual Convergent Lines for Privacy-Preserving Image
970. CVPR 2026Revisiting Model Stitching In the Foundation Model Era
971. CVPR 2026Revisiting Multimodal KV Cache Compression A Frequency-Domain-Guided Outlier-KV-Aware Approach
972. CVPR 2026Revisiting the Necessity of Lengthy Chain-of-Thought in Vision-centric Reasoning Generalization
973. CVPR 2026Revisiting Visual Corruptions in LVLMs A Shape-Texture Perspective on Model
974. CVPR 2026REVISOR Beyond Textual Reflection Towards Multimodal Introspective Reasoning in Long-Form
975. CVPR 2026REVIVE 3D Refinement via Encoded Voluminous Inflated prior for Volume
976. CVPR 2026Reward Forcing Efficient Streaming Video Generation with Rewarded Distribution Matching
977. CVPR 2026RMIR A Benchmark Dataset for Reasoning-Intensive Multimodal Image Retrieval
978. CVPR 2026RNED Rotary Number Encoding and Decoding for Medical VLMs
979. CVPR 2026RoadSceneBench A Lightweight Benchmark for Mid-Level Road Scene Understanding
980. CVPR 2026RoboAgent Chaining Basic Capabilities for Embodied Task Planning
981. CVPR 2026RobotSeg A Model and Dataset for Segmenting Robots in Image
982. CVPR 2026RoboWheel A Data Engine from Real-World Human Demonstrations for Cross-Embodiment
983. CVPR 2026RobustVisRAG Causality-Aware Vision-Based Retrieval-Augmented Generation under Visual Degradations
984. CVPR 2026RoMo A Large-Scale Richly Organized Dataset and Semantic Taxonomy for
985. CVPR 2026ROSE Rotate Your Large Language Model to See
986. CVPR 2026Rosetta Stone For Unified MLLMs A Unified Tokenizer to Decipher
987. CVPR 2026Rounded or Streamlined Head Bridging Concept Bottleneck Models and Attribute-Described
988. CVPR 2026rPPG-VQA A Video Quality Assessment Framework for Unsupervised rPPG Training
989. CVPR 2026RS-SSM Refining Forgotten Specifics in State Space Model for Video
990. CVPR 2026RunawayEvil Jailbreaking the Image-to-Video Generative Models
991. CVPR 2026S2C2Seg Semantic-Spatial Consistency and Category Optimization for Open-Vocabulary Segmentation
992. CVPR 2026S2D Selective Spectral Decay for Quantization-Friendly Conditioning of Neural Activations
993. CVPR 2026SafeGRPO Self-Rewarded Multimodal Safety Alignment via Rule-Governed Policy Optimization
994. CVPR 2026SafeLogo Turning Your Logos into Jailbreak Shields via Micro-Regional Adversarial
995. CVPR 2026Saliency-Driven Token Merging for Vision Transformers
996. CVPR 2026Saliency-R1 Enforcing Interpretable and Faithful Vision-language Reasoning via Saliency-map Alignment
997. CVPR 2026SALMUBench A Benchmark for Sensitive Association-Level Multimodal Unlearning
998. CVPR 2026Same Attention Different Truths Put Logit-Lens over Visual Attention to
999. CVPR 2026Same or Not Enhancing Visual Perception in Vision-Language Models
1000. CVPR 2026SANER Switchable Adapter with Non-parametric Enhanced Routing for Person De-Reidentification

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.