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

1,366 papers, page 20 of 28

951. NeurIPS 2026RADAR: Text-Guided Medical Image Segmentation via Residual Aggregation and Dense Alignment Representations
952. NeurIPS 2026Radial-Angular Geometry for Reliable Update Diagnosis in Noisy-Label Learning
953. NeurIPS 2026RADIUM: RadioActive Decay of Image-Underlaid Marks
954. NeurIPS 2026RadOmni: Advancing Foundation Model for Non-contrast CT with Omni Radiology Knowledge
955. NeurIPS 2026RamanBench: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Machine Learning on Raman Spectroscopy
956. NeurIPS 2026RANSAC Scoring Done Right
957. NeurIPS 2026Rate-Constrained Edge Metadata for Sender–Receiver Generative Video Super-Resolution
958. NeurIPS 2026Rationale-Guided Policy Optimization: Learning to Reason with Adaptive Rationale Scaffolding
959. NeurIPS 2026RAVEN-Bench: A Paired EO-IR Video QA Benchmark for Aerial Multimodal Understanding
960. NeurIPS 2026Re:Cognize - A Framework For Open-Set Comic Character Re-Identification
961. NeurIPS 2026Reading Attribution from Attention: Evidence Heads as Latent Attribution Mechanisms in LLMs
962. NeurIPS 2026Reading the Unreadable: Text-Aware Image Super-Resolution Needs Reasoning
963. NeurIPS 2026Realtime-VLA FLASH: Speculative Inference Framework for Diffusion-based VLAs
964. NeurIPS 2026Reasoning-based Spatial Prior (RSP): Learning Spatial Priors from Multimodal LLMs for Object Detection
965. NeurIPS 2026Rebalancing Reference Frame Dominance to Improve Motion in Image-to-Video Models
966. NeurIPS 2026Rebellious Student: Reversing Teacher Signals for Reasoning Exploration with Self-Distilled RLVR
967. NeurIPS 2026RECAP: Looking Once Is Not Enough for Vision-Language Reasoning
968. NeurIPS 2026RECIPE: Procedural Planning via Grounding in Instructional Video
969. NeurIPS 2026Recon: Reconstruction-Guided Reasoning Synthesis for User Modeling
970. NeurIPS 2026Recursive Language Models
971. NeurIPS 2026Reduced Cost Influence Functions for Predict-then-Optimize under Noisy Data
972. NeurIPS 2026ReefNet: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Fine-Grained Coral Reef Recognition
973. NeurIPS 2026RefineAny3D: Depth Refinement as Semantic Alignment for Monocular 3D Detection
974. NeurIPS 2026RefineTok: Scale-Wise Tokenization for Progressive Visual Refinement
975. NeurIPS 2026Reformulating Neural Operators in $d+1$ Dimensions for Embedding Evolution
976. NeurIPS 2026ReGen: Agentic Video World Modeling with Synergized Reasoning and Generation
977. NeurIPS 2026Region-Normalized DPO for Medical Image Segmentation
978. NeurIPS 2026Reinforcing Multimodal Reasoning Against Visual Degradation
979. NeurIPS 2026Relaxed On-Policy Distillation: Selective Credit Allocation for Scaling Reasoning Efficiently
980. NeurIPS 2026Relevance Is Not Necessity: Selecting the Necessary API Set for Tool-Using LLMs
981. NeurIPS 2026Remember with Confidence: Uncertainty Quantification for Spatio-temporal Memory with Probabilistic Guarantees
982. NeurIPS 2026Remembering What Matters: From Markovian to Subtask-Causal Memory in VLA Policies
983. NeurIPS 2026RePO-VLA: Recovery-Driven Policy Optimization for Vision-Language-Action Models
984. NeurIPS 2026Representation Forcing for Bottleneck-Free Unified Multimodal Models
985. NeurIPS 2026Repurposing Video Diffusion Transformers for Cross-View Temporal Object Correspondence
986. NeurIPS 2026ReSMap: Recasting Satellite Priors for Robust and Accurate Online HD Map Construction
987. NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Causal Action Tokenization with Conditional Annealing in Flow Matching
988. NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Contrastive Loss in CLIP Post-training: A Complementary Framework with Frozen Text Encoder
989. NeurIPS 2026Rethinking in Spikes: Mitigating Hallucinations in MDLMs with Step-Aware Decoding
990. NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Long-Video Efficiency: A Joint Allocation Perspective on Frames, Pixels, and Front-End Latency
991. NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Post-Training Recipes for Multimodal Time-Series Forecasting
992. NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Projector Training in Multimodal LLMs
993. NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Softmax Attention: Polynomial Activations for Transformers
994. NeurIPS 2026Rethinking the Readout: Unlocking Video Backbones for AI-Generated Video Detection
995. NeurIPS 2026Retrieval Heads Meet Vision: Uncovering How VLMs Locate and Extract Visual Information
996. NeurIPS 2026Revealing Epistemic Uncertainty in MLLMs via Causal-Invariant Masking
997. NeurIPS 2026Revealing the Gap in Human and VLM Scene Perception through Counterfactual Semantic Saliency
998. NeurIPS 2026Revisiting Autoregressive GCNs for Vehicle Routing Problems
999. NeurIPS 2026Revisiting Gradient Ascent: Machine Unlearning from a Geometric Perspective for Source-Free Scenarios
1000. NeurIPS 2026RICE-PO: Turning Retrieval Interactions into Credit Signals for Reasoning Agents

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.