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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1001. CVPR 2026SaPaVe Towards Active Perception and Manipulation in Vision-Language Action Models
1002. CVPR 2026SASNet Spatially-Adaptive Sinusoidal Networks for INRs
1003. CVPR 2026Scalable Object Relation Encoding for Better 3D Spatial Reasoning in
1004. CVPR 2026Scaling Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Tool-Integrated Reasoning in VLMs
1005. CVPR 2026Scaling Multi-Identity Consistency for Image Customization via Multi-to-Multi Matching Paradigm
1006. CVPR 2026Scaling Parallel Sequence Models to Vision Foundation Models
1007. CVPR 2026Scaling Self-Supervised and Cross-Modal Pretraining for Volumetric CT Transformers
1008. CVPR 2026Scaling Spatial Intelligence with Multimodal Foundation Models
1009. CVPR 2026Scaling Test-Time Robustness of Vision-Language Models via Self-Critical Inference Framework
1010. CVPR 2026Scaling the Long Video Understanding of Multimodal Large Language Models
1011. CVPR 2026Scan Clusters Not Pixels A Cluster-Centric Paradigm for Efficient Ultra-high-definition
1012. CVPR 2026SCE-Depth A Spherical Compound Eye Framework for Wide FOV Depth
1013. CVPR 2026Scenes as Tokens Multi-Scale Normal Distributions Transform Tokenizer for General
1014. CVPR 2026SceneTok A Compressed Diffusable Token Space for 3D Scenes
1015. CVPR 2026SCIEval Evaluating and Benchmarking the Faithfulness of Scientific Image Generation
1016. CVPR 2026SCoRe Salience-Coverage Reduction for Vision Token Pruning in Vision-Language Models
1017. CVPR 2026SDTrack A Baseline for Event-based Tracking via Spiking Neural Networks
1018. CVPR 2026SEA Evaluating Sketch Abstraction Efficiency via Element-level Commonsense Visual Question
1019. CVPR 2026SEA-Vision A Multilingual Benchmark for Comprehensive Document and Scene Text
1020. CVPR 2026SEASON Mitigating Temporal Hallucination in Video Large Language Models via
1021. CVPR 2026SEATrack Simple Efficient and Adaptive Multimodal Tracker
1022. CVPR 2026SeD-UD An Influence-Driven and Hierarchically-Decoupled Information Bottleneck for Multimodal Intent
1023. CVPR 2026See Further Think Deeper Advancing VLMs Reasoning Ability with Low-level
1024. CVPR 2026See It Say It Sorted An Iterative Training-Free Framework for
1025. CVPR 2026See Less See Right Bi-directional Perceptual Shaping For Multimodal Reasoning
1026. CVPR 2026See What I Mean Aligning Vision and Language Representations for
1027. CVPR 2026See What We Cannot See A Geo-guided Reasoning Benchmark for
1028. CVPR 2026Seeing as Experts Do A Knowledge-Augmented Agent for Open-Set Fine-Grained
1029. CVPR 2026Seeing Beyond 8bits Subjective and Objective Quality Assessment of HDR-UGC
1030. CVPR 2026Seeing Clearly Reasoning Confidently Plug-and-Play Remedies for Vision Language Model
1031. CVPR 2026Seeing Conversations Communication Context Identification in Egocentric Video
1032. CVPR 2026Seeing Motion Through Polarity for Event-based Action Recognition
1033. CVPR 2026Seeing the Scene Matters Revealing Forgetting in Video Understanding Models
1034. CVPR 2026Seeing What Matters A Training-Free Self-Guided Framework for Multimodal Detail
1035. CVPR 2026SegGBC Justifiable Coarse-to-Fine Granular-Ball Computing for Enhancing Clustering Image Segmentation
1036. CVPR 2026SegMoTE Token-Level Mixture of Experts for Medical Image Segmentation
1037. CVPR 2026Select Less Reason More Prioritizing Evidence Purity for Video Reasoning
1038. CVPR 2026Selective Amnesia using Contrastive Subnet Erasure for Class Level Unlearning
1039. CVPR 2026Selective Regularized and Calibrated Harnessing Vision Foundation Models for Cross-Domain
1040. CVPR 2026SelecTKD Selective Token-Weighted Knowledge Distillation for LLMs
1041. CVPR 2026Self-Consistency for LLM-Based Motion Trajectory Generation and Verification
1042. CVPR 2026Self-Critical Distillation Network for Video-based Commonsense Captioning
1043. CVPR 2026Self-supervised Dynamic Heterogeneous Degradation Modeling for Unified Zero-Shot Image Restoration
1044. CVPR 2026Semantic Scale Space A Framework for Controllable Image Abstraction
1045. CVPR 2026Semantic-Guided Global-Local Collaborative Prompt Learning for Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning
1046. CVPR 2026SemanticVLA Towards Semantic Reasoning over Action Memorization via Synergistic Explicit
1047. CVPR 2026SemVideo Reconstructs What You Watch from Brain Activity via Hierarchical
1048. CVPR 2026SenseSearch Empowering Vision-Language Models with High-Resolution Agentic Search-Reasoning via Reinforcement
1049. CVPR 2026SGDrive Scene-to-Goal Hierarchical World Cognition for Autonomous Driving
1050. CVPR 2026SGSoft Learning Fused Semantic-Geometric Features for 3D Shape Correspondence via

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.