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 22 of 28

1051. NeurIPS 2026See it to Place it: Evolving Macro Placements with Vision Language Models
1052. NeurIPS 2026Seeing or Rationalizing? Scene-Evidence-Guided Chain-of-Thought for Faithful 3D Multimodal Reasoning
1053. NeurIPS 2026Seeing the World through Any Eyes
1054. NeurIPS 2026Seeing Together: Multi-Robot Cooperative Egocentric Spatial Reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Models
1055. NeurIPS 2026SEGA: Spectral-Energy Guided Attention for Resolution Extrapolation in Diffusion Transformers
1056. NeurIPS 2026Segment and Select: Vision-Language Segmentation in 3D Scenarios
1057. NeurIPS 2026Selection, Not Fusion: Radar-Modulated State Space Models for Radar-Camera Depth Estimation
1058. NeurIPS 2026Selective Answering for Medical VQA via Parallel Independent Claim Verification
1059. NeurIPS 2026Selective Disk Bispectrum: A Complete and Rotation Invariant Image Descriptor
1060. NeurIPS 2026Self-Calibrated GUI Reward Model via Inverse Dynamic Modeling
1061. NeurIPS 2026Self-Rewarded Multimodal Coherent Reasoning Across Diverse Visual Domains
1062. NeurIPS 2026SelfCritic-VLA: Language as Intrinsic Critic for Vision Language Action Models in Autonomous Driving
1063. NeurIPS 2026Semantic Consistency of Vision Tokens: A Vision-Centric Perspective on Multimodal Large Language Models
1064. NeurIPS 2026Semantic Freedom Bottleneck for Domain-Generalized Multimodal Face Anti-Spoofing
1065. NeurIPS 2026SemanticDialect: Semantic-Aware Mixed-Format Quantization for Video Diffusion Transformers
1066. NeurIPS 2026SemMSA: Latent Semantic-Aided Robust Multimodal Sentiment Analysis with Incomplete Data
1067. NeurIPS 2026Senses Wide Shut: A Representation-Action Gap in Omnimodal LLMs
1068. NeurIPS 2026SeoulMMOD: A Large-Scale Multimodal Origin-Destination Flow Benchmark
1069. NeurIPS 2026SetCon: Towards Open-Ended Referring Segmentation via Set-Level Concept Prediction
1070. NeurIPS 2026SF-DST: Adapting Vision-Language Models for Anomaly Detection via Asymmetric Modulation and A-LoRA
1071. NeurIPS 2026SH$^2$: A Mathematician-Curated benchmark for Assessing Research-level Math Capabilities of LLMs
1072. NeurIPS 2026Shared-Noise Mechanisms for Verifiable Differentially Private Counting
1073. NeurIPS 2026SIEVES: Selective Prediction Generalizes through Visual Evidence Scoring
1074. NeurIPS 2026SIGMA: Semantic-Difference Instruction-Grounding Mask Annotator for Text-Driven Image Manipulation Localization
1075. NeurIPS 2026Signed-Permutation Coordinate Transport for RMSNorm Transformers
1076. NeurIPS 2026SiliciclasticReservoirs: A Million-Reservoir Dataset and Flow-Matching Foundation Model for 3D Siliciclastic Reservoir Generation
1077. NeurIPS 2026SiliconBench: Speed, Memory, and Fidelity for LLM Inference on Apple Silicon
1078. NeurIPS 2026Simple yet Effective Semi-supervised Knowledge Distillation from Vision-Language Models via Dual-Head Optimization
1079. NeurIPS 2026Simplified Reversible Residual Networks
1080. NeurIPS 2026SimVLA: Attributing Gains in VLA Models Through Controlled Ablation
1081. NeurIPS 2026SimWorld Studio: Automatic Environment Generation with Evolving Coding Agent for Embodied Agent Learning
1082. NeurIPS 2026SING-CH: Task-Scale-Agnostic Lifelong Cross-Modal Hashing on Statistical Manifolds
1083. NeurIPS 2026Single-Pass Evidence Measurement for Interpretable and Uncertainty-Aware Multimodal Face Anti-Spoofing
1084. NeurIPS 2026SkillCIR: Intent-Guided Skill Composition for Training-Free Composed Image Retrieval
1085. NeurIPS 2026SkipSR: Faster Super-Resolution with Token Skipping
1086. NeurIPS 2026SLVMBench: Skill Learning from Video Memory
1087. NeurIPS 2026SMMBench: A Benchmark for Source-Distributed Multimodal Agent Memory
1088. NeurIPS 2026sMMC-22M: A Context-Aware Dataset and Benchmark for Single-Cell Spatial Transcriptomics
1089. NeurIPS 2026SOAR: Regression-based LiDAR Relocalization for UAVs
1090. NeurIPS 2026SocialDirector: Training-Free Social Interaction Control for Multi-Person Video Generation
1091. NeurIPS 2026Soft Token Alignment for Cross-Lingual Reasoning
1092. NeurIPS 2026SOLA: A Structured Operator Library for Attention in Pretrained Vision Transformers
1093. NeurIPS 2026SOLE-R1: Video-Language Reasoning as the Sole Reward for On-Robot Reinforcement Learning
1094. NeurIPS 2026Solving Every Step Is Not Enough: Milestone Oracles Reveal a Composition Gap in LLM Math Reasoning
1095. NeurIPS 2026Sophon: A Procedural Diagnostic for Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
1096. NeurIPS 2026SP$^2$ec: Adaptive Self-Speculative Decoding for Vision-Language Models
1097. NeurIPS 2026SP$^3$: Spherical Priors for Plug-and-Play Restoration
1098. NeurIPS 2026SPACE: Unifying Symmetric and Asymmetric Routing Problems for Generalist Neural Solver
1099. NeurIPS 2026SpaG-DiT: Enhancing Spatial Grounding for Diffusion Transformers
1100. NeurIPS 2026Sparse All-Layer Connector for Domain Generalised Semantic Segmentation

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.