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. NeurIPS 2026RILA: A Radar-Native Structured Interface from Sparse mmWave Point Clouds to Large Language Models
1002. NeurIPS 2026RISE: Red-teaming via Iterative Strategy Evolution for Modern Text-to-Image Models
1003. NeurIPS 2026RiSE: Residual Subspace Expert for Generalizable Text-Centric Image Forgery Localization
1004. NeurIPS 2026RoboAlign-R1: Distilled Multimodal Reward Alignment for Robot Video World Models
1005. NeurIPS 2026RoboExo: Structure-Guided Wrist-to-Exocentric Video Generation for Scalable Robot Learning
1006. NeurIPS 2026Robust and Efficient Finetuning of Vision Foundation Models via Implicit Ensembling
1007. NeurIPS 2026Robust Task-Aware State Estimation from Pre-trained Perception
1008. NeurIPS 2026Robustness of Internal Signals for Hallucination Detection in Vision-Language Models
1009. NeurIPS 2026ROCKET: Residual-Oriented Multi-Layer Alignment for Spatially-Aware Vision-Language-Action Models
1010. NeurIPS 2026RoSeViT: Role-Separated Vision Transformers for ARC Visual Reasoning
1011. NeurIPS 2026RotVLA: Rotational Latent Action for Vision-Language-Action Model
1012. NeurIPS 2026Routeability Before Routing: Routeability Audit Protocol (RAP) and RouteabilityBench for Audited LLM Model Selection
1013. NeurIPS 2026RPFQ-ViT: Rotated Phase-Frame Quantization for Extremely Low-Bit Weights in Vision Transformers
1014. NeurIPS 2026RSPO: Reasoning-Supervised Policy Optimization for Long-Tail Autonomous Driving
1015. NeurIPS 2026RSRCC: A Remote Sensing Regional Change Comprehension Benchmark Constructed via Retrieval-Augmented Best-of-𝑁 Ranking
1016. NeurIPS 2026RxnOptBench: Benchmarking LLMs for Reaction-Condition Optimization in Organic Methodology
1017. NeurIPS 2026S-EDL: Eliciting Self-Evidence from Sequence Likelihoods for Semantic Calibration of LLMs
1018. NeurIPS 2026S2D: Sparse-To-Dense Keymask Distillation for Unsupervised Video Instance Segmentation
1019. NeurIPS 2026s2n-bignum-bench: A practical benchmark for evaluating low-level code reasoning of LLMs
1020. NeurIPS 2026Safe in Its Own Words: Self-Guided Safety Alignment for Multimodal Reasoning Models
1021. NeurIPS 2026SAFE-Hair: Scalp-Anchored Fields for Exportable Single-View Hair Reconstruction
1022. NeurIPS 2026SafeDrug: A Benchmark Dataset for Safety-Critical Pharmacological Reasoning in LLMs
1023. NeurIPS 2026Safeguarding Mutual Correction in Source-Free Domain Adaptation via Cut Statistics
1024. NeurIPS 2026Safety Geometry Collapse in Multimodal LLMs and Adaptive Drift Correction
1025. NeurIPS 2026SAFTAC: Simulation-Augmented Fine-Tuning of Open-Source LLMs for Analog Circuit Design
1026. NeurIPS 2026SAGE: Mitigating Long-Horizon Reasoning Biases via Topological Guidance
1027. NeurIPS 2026SAGE: Semantic-Agnostic Image Embedding for Generalized AI-Generated Image Detection
1028. NeurIPS 2026SALART-VQA: Diagnosing Whether VLMs Understand Salient Artifacts in Generated Images
1029. NeurIPS 2026Saliency-Aware Multi-Route Thinking: Grounding and Reasoning on Vision-Language Agents
1030. NeurIPS 2026Same Concept, Different Directions: Cross-Modal Feature Heterogeneity in Sparse Autoencoders
1031. NeurIPS 2026SAMoR: Motion Modelling for Articulated Objects of Any Skeleton and Topology
1032. NeurIPS 2026Sandboxed Coding Agents are Competitive Omni-modal Task Solvers
1033. NeurIPS 2026SapiensID 2.0: Aligning Human Recognition Foundation Models with Human Perception
1034. NeurIPS 2026SatNav: A Scalable Benchmark for Long-Horizon UAV Vision-Language Navigation from Satellite Imagery
1035. NeurIPS 2026SAVE: Sparsity-Aware Influence Estimation for Vocabulary-Expanded LLMs
1036. NeurIPS 2026Say the Same, Act Differently: Text-Orthogonal Action Subspaces in Reasoning Vision-Language-Action Models
1037. NeurIPS 2026Scalable Minimal-Change Learning for Controllable Image Editing
1038. NeurIPS 2026Scale-Invariant Empirical-Bayes Laplace Approximation for ReLU Networks
1039. NeurIPS 2026ScaleBITS: Scalable Bitwidth Search for Hardware-Aligned Mixed-Precision LLMs
1040. NeurIPS 2026Scaling Causal Reasoning with Increasingly Complex Causal Simulators
1041. NeurIPS 2026Scaling Linear Mode Connectivity and Merging to Billion Parameter Pretrained Transformers
1042. NeurIPS 2026SCDBench: A Benchmark for LLM-Based Smart Contract Decompilers
1043. NeurIPS 2026SceneAligner: 3D-Grounded Floorplan Localization in the Wild
1044. NeurIPS 2026SceneScaffold: Active Scene-State Construction for Unified 3D Scene Understanding
1045. NeurIPS 2026SceneShifter: Training-free Multi-Scene Temporal Control for Audio-driven Human Animation
1046. NeurIPS 2026SCG-HF: Semantic Consistency Grouping for Hierarchical Fusion in Video Emotion Recognition
1047. NeurIPS 2026SchemaPose: RGB-Based Category-Level Pose Estimation with Parametric Category Schema
1048. NeurIPS 2026SciR: A Controllable Benchmark for Scientific Reasoning in LLMs
1049. NeurIPS 2026SCOUT: Planning under Occlusion via Object-Centric World Model Rollouts
1050. NeurIPS 2026SD-LoRA: Training-Time Structural Distillation into LoRA for Few-Shot Vision-Language Adaptation

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.