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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1051. CVPR 2026SHands A Multi-View Dataset and Benchmark for Surgical Hand-Gesture and
1052. CVPR 2026Shape-of-You Fused Gromov-Wasserstein Optimal Transport for Semantic Correspondence in-the-Wild
1053. CVPR 2026ShelfOcc Native 3D Supervision beyond LiDAR for Vision-Based Occupancy Estimation
1054. CVPR 2026ShiftLUT Spatial Shift Enhanced Look-Up Tables for Efficient Image Restoration
1055. CVPR 2026SIF Semantically In-Distribution Fingerprints for Large Vision-Language Models
1056. CVPR 2026SigLino Efficient Multi-Teacher Distillation for Agglomerative Vision Foundation Models
1057. CVPR 2026SimLBR Learning to Detect Fake Images by Learning to Detect
1058. CVPR 2026SIMPACT Simulation-Enabled Action Planning using Vision-Language Models
1059. CVPR 2026Simple-ViLMedSAM Simple Text Prompts Meet Vision-Language Models for Medical Image
1060. CVPR 2026SineProject Machine Unlearning for Stable Vision-Language Alignment
1061. CVPR 2026SIR Structured Image Representations for Explainable Robot Learning
1062. CVPR 2026SketchDeco Training-Free Latent Composition for Precise Sketch Colourisation
1063. CVPR 2026SketchRevive Fine-Grained Pixel-to-Vector Sketch Completion with Diffusion-Prior-Guided Multimodal LLMs
1064. CVPR 2026Skyra AI-Generated Video Detection via Grounded Artifact Reasoning
1065. CVPR 2026SLARM Streaming and Language-Aligned Reconstruction Model for Dynamic Scenes
1066. CVPR 2026SMAP Semantic Route Planning with Map-Grounded Multimodal Alignment
1067. CVPR 2026SO-Bench A Structural Output Evaluation of Multimodal LLM
1068. CVPR 2026SoC Semantic Orthogonal Calibration for Test-Time Prompt Tuning
1069. CVPR 2026SoccerMaster A Vision Foundation Model for Soccer Understanding
1070. CVPR 2026Socratic-Geo Synthetic Data Generation and Cross-Modal Geometric Reasoning via Multi-Agent
1071. CVPR 2026Soft Modality-Guided Expert Specialization in MoE-VLMs
1072. CVPR 2026SoliReward Mitigating Susceptibility to Reward Hacking and Annotation Noise in
1073. CVPR 2026SoPE Spherical Coordinate-Based Positional Embedding for Enhancing Spatial Perception of
1074. CVPR 2026SOTA Self-adaptive Optimal Transport for Zero-Shot Classification with Multiple Foundation
1075. CVPR 2026Soul Breathe Life into Digital Human for High-fidelity Long-term Multimodal
1076. CVPR 2026SpaceDrive Infusing Spatial Awareness into VLM-based Autonomous Driving
1077. CVPR 2026SpaceMind Camera-Guided Modality Fusion for Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
1078. CVPR 2026SPAR Single-Pass Any-Resolution ViT for Open-vocabulary Segmentation
1079. CVPR 2026SPARK Sim-ready Part-level Articulated Reconstruction with VLM Knowledge
1080. CVPR 2026SPARROW Learning Spatial Precision and Temporal Referential Consistency in Pixel-Grounded
1081. CVPR 2026Sparse Spectral LoRA Routed Experts for Medical VLMs
1082. CVPR 2026Sparsely Timing the Change A Spiking Temporal Framework for Remote
1083. CVPR 2026Spatial-Aware VLA Pretraining through Visual-Physical Alignment from Human Videos
1084. CVPR 2026Spatial-Frequency Collaborative Learning for Occluded Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification
1085. CVPR 2026Spatial-SSRL Enhancing Spatial Understanding via Self-Supervised Reinforcement Learning
1086. CVPR 2026SpatiaLQA A Benchmark for Evaluating Spatial Logical Reasoning in Vision-Language
1087. CVPR 2026SpatialReward Verifiable Spatial Reward Modeling for Fine-Grained Spatial Consistency in
1088. CVPR 2026SpatialStack Layered Geometry-Language Fusion for 3D VLM Spatial Reasoning
1089. CVPR 2026Spatio-Temporal Conditional Denoising Transformer for Modality-Missing RGBT Tracking
1090. CVPR 2026SPEAR-1 Scaling Beyond Robot Demonstrations via 3D Understanding
1091. CVPR 2026Spectrally Distilled Representations Aligned with Instruction-Augmented LLMs for Satellite Imagery
1092. CVPR 2026Spk2VidNet A Hierarchical Recurrent Architecture for High-Fidelity Video Reconstruction from
1093. CVPR 2026SPOT Spatiotemporal Prompt Optimization for Motion-Stabilized MLLM-Guided Video Segmentation
1094. CVPR 2026Spot The Ball A Benchmark for Visual Social Inference
1095. CVPR 2026SRPO Self-Referential Policy Optimization for Vision-Language-Action Models
1096. CVPR 2026Stabilizing Streaming Video Geometry via Dynamic Feature Normalization
1097. CVPR 2026Stable and Efficient Single-Rollout RL for Multimodal Reasoning
1098. CVPR 2026Stand-In A Lightweight and Plug-and-Play Identity Control for Video Generation
1099. CVPR 2026STAR Test-Time Adaptation Can Enhance Universal Prompt Learning for Vision-Language
1100. CVPR 2026STAR-R1 Multi-View Spatial TrAnsformation Reasoning by Reinforcing Multimodal LLMs

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.