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 2023JourneyDB: A Benchmark for Generative Image Understanding
1002. NeurIPS 2023Kiki or Bouba? Sound Symbolism in Vision-and-Language Models
1003. NeurIPS 2023Knowledge-Augmented Reasoning Distillation for Small Language Models in Knowledge-Intensive Tasks
1004. NeurIPS 2023L-CAD: Language-based Colorization with Any-level Descriptions using Diffusion Priors
1005. NeurIPS 2023LaFTer: Label-Free Tuning of Zero-shot Classifier using Language and Unlabeled Image Collections
1006. NeurIPS 2023LANCE: Stress-testing Visual Models by Generating Language-guided Counterfactual Images
1007. NeurIPS 2023Language Is Not All You Need: Aligning Perception with Language Models
1008. NeurIPS 2023Language Model Tokenizers Introduce Unfairness Between Languages
1009. NeurIPS 2023Language Models are Weak Learners
1010. NeurIPS 2023Language Models Can Improve Event Prediction by Few-Shot Abductive Reasoning
1011. NeurIPS 2023Language Models can Solve Computer Tasks
1012. NeurIPS 2023Language Models Don't Always Say What They Think: Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting
1013. NeurIPS 2023Language Models Meet World Models: Embodied Experiences Enhance Language Models
1014. NeurIPS 2023Language Quantized AutoEncoders: Towards Unsupervised Text-Image Alignment
1015. NeurIPS 2023Large Language Models are Visual Reasoning Coordinators
1016. NeurIPS 2023Large Language Models as Commonsense Knowledge for Large-Scale Task Planning
1017. NeurIPS 2023Large Language Models for Automated Data Science: Introducing CAAFE for Context-Aware Automated Feature Engineering
1018. NeurIPS 2023Large Language Models of Code Fail at Completing Code with Potential Bugs
1019. NeurIPS 2023Large language models transition from integrating across position-yoked, exponential windows to structure-yoked, power-law windows
1020. NeurIPS 2023Latent Diffusion for Language Generation
1021. NeurIPS 2023Latent Space Translation via Semantic Alignment
1022. NeurIPS 2023Laughing Hyena Distillery: Extracting Compact Recurrences From Convolutions
1023. NeurIPS 2023LayoutGPT: Compositional Visual Planning and Generation with Large Language Models
1024. NeurIPS 2023LayoutPrompter: Awaken the Design Ability of Large Language Models
1025. NeurIPS 2023LeanDojo: Theorem Proving with Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
1026. NeurIPS 2023Learning a Neuron by a Shallow ReLU Network: Dynamics and Implicit Bias for Correlated Inputs
1027. NeurIPS 2023Learning better with Dale’s Law: A Spectral Perspective
1028. NeurIPS 2023Learning Curves for Noisy Heterogeneous Feature-Subsampled Ridge Ensembles
1029. NeurIPS 2023Learning from Both Structural and Textual Knowledge for Inductive Knowledge Graph Completion
1030. NeurIPS 2023Learning Unseen Modality Interaction
1031. NeurIPS 2023Learning-to-Rank Meets Language: Boosting Language-Driven Ordering Alignment for Ordinal Classification
1032. NeurIPS 2023LegalBench: A Collaboratively Built Benchmark for Measuring Legal Reasoning in Large Language Models
1033. NeurIPS 2023Leveraging Vision-Centric Multi-Modal Expertise for 3D Object Detection
1034. NeurIPS 2023Lexinvariant Language Models
1035. NeurIPS 2023LICO: Explainable Models with Language-Image COnsistency
1036. NeurIPS 2023Likelihood-Based Diffusion Language Models
1037. NeurIPS 2023LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment
1038. NeurIPS 2023Limits, approximation and size transferability for GNNs on sparse graphs via graphops
1039. NeurIPS 2023LLaVA-Med: Training a Large Language-and-Vision Assistant for Biomedicine in One Day
1040. NeurIPS 2023LLM-Pruner: On the Structural Pruning of Large Language Models
1041. NeurIPS 2023LLMScore: Unveiling the Power of Large Language Models in Text-to-Image Synthesis Evaluation
1042. NeurIPS 2023Localized Symbolic Knowledge Distillation for Visual Commonsense Models
1043. NeurIPS 2023LoCoOp: Few-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection via Prompt Learning
1044. NeurIPS 2023LoRA: A Logical Reasoning Augmented Dataset for Visual Question Answering
1045. NeurIPS 2023Lossy Image Compression with Conditional Diffusion Models
1046. NeurIPS 2023LOVM: Language-Only Vision Model Selection
1047. NeurIPS 2023LuminAIRe: Illumination-Aware Conditional Image Repainting for Lighting-Realistic Generation
1048. NeurIPS 2023LVM-Med: Learning Large-Scale Self-Supervised Vision Models for Medical Imaging via Second-order Graph Matching
1049. NeurIPS 2023M3Exam: A Multilingual, Multimodal, Multilevel Benchmark for Examining Large Language Models
1050. NeurIPS 2023MADLAD-400: A Multilingual And Document-Level Large Audited Dataset

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.