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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1101. CVPR 2026Stay in your Lane Role Specific Queries with Overlap Suppression
1102. CVPR 2026STiTch Semantic Transition and Transportation in Collaboration for Training-Free Zero-Shot
1103. CVPR 2026Streaming Video Crime Anticipation with Spatio-Temporal Causal Reasoning
1104. CVPR 2026Streaming Video Instruction Tuning
1105. CVPR 2026StreamingTOM Streaming Token Compression for Efficient Video Understanding
1106. CVPR 2026Streamlined Open-Vocabulary Human-Object Interaction Detection
1107. CVPR 2026Structural Graph Probing of Vision-Language Models
1108. CVPR 2026StructXLIP Enhancing Vision-language Models with Multimodal Structural Cues
1109. CVPR 2026Style-GRPO Semantic-Aware Preference Optimization for Image Style Transfer Guided by
1110. CVPR 2026Subspace Alignment for CLIP-based Continual Learning via Canonical Correlation Analysis
1111. CVPR 2026SubspaceAD Training-Free Few-Shot Anomaly Detection via Subspace Modeling
1112. CVPR 2026Superman Unifying Skeleton and Vision for Human Motion Perception and
1113. CVPR 2026SVBench Evaluation of Video Generation Models on Social Reasoning
1114. CVPR 2026SWIFT Sliding Window Reconstruction for Few-Shot Training-Free Generated Video Attribution
1115. CVPR 2026SwiftTailor Efficient 3D Garment Generation with Geometry Image Representation
1116. CVPR 2026SwiftVLA Unlocking Spatiotemporal Dynamics for Lightweight VLA Models at Minimal
1117. CVPR 2026Symphony A Cognitively-Inspired Multi-Agent System for Long-Video Understanding
1118. CVPR 2026SynCLIP Synonym-Coherent Language-Image Pretraining for Robust Open-Vocabulary Dense Perception
1119. CVPR 2026Synthesizing Visual Concepts as Vision-Language Programs
1120. CVPR 2026SynthRGB-T Language-Vision Guided Image Translation for Diversity Synthesis
1121. CVPR 2026T2SGrid Temporal-to-Spatial Gridification for Video Temporal Grounding
1122. CVPR 2026TableMix Enhancing Multimodal Table Reasoning in MLLMs from a Data-Centric
1123. CVPR 2026TALO Pushing 3D Vision Foundation Models Towards Globally Consistent Online
1124. CVPR 2026TANGO Learning Distribution-wise Foundation Prior Consistency and Instance-wise Style Calibration
1125. CVPR 2026TANGO Text-Anchored Guided Optimization for Robust Fine-tuning Vision-Language Models under
1126. CVPR 2026Task-Aware Image Signal Processor for Advanced Visual Perception
1127. CVPR 2026Taxonomy-Aware Representation Alignment for Hierarchical Visual Recognition with Large Multimodal
1128. CVPR 2026TDATR Improving End-to-End Table Recognition via Table Detail-Aware Learning and
1129. CVPR 2026Teacher-Guided Routing for Sparse Vision Mixture-of-Experts
1130. CVPR 2026TEAR Temporal-aware Automated Red-teaming for Text-to-Video Models
1131. CVPR 2026Temporal Inversion for Learning Interval Change in Chest X-Rays
1132. CVPR 2026TerraScope Pixel-Grounded Visual Reasoning for Earth Observation
1133. CVPR 2026TESSERA Temporal Embeddings of Surface Spectra for Earth Representation and
1134. CVPR 2026Test-Time Attention Purification for Backdoored Large Vision Language Models
1135. CVPR 2026Test-Time Multi-Prompt Adaptation for Open-Vocabulary Remote Sensing Image Segmentation
1136. CVPR 2026Test-Time Perturbation Tuning with Delayed Feedback for Vision-Language-Action Models
1137. CVPR 2026Text-guided Feature Disentanglement for Cross-modal Gait Recognition
1138. CVPR 2026Text-Image Conditioned 3D Generation
1139. CVPR 2026Text-Printed Image Bridging the Image-Text Modality Gap for Text-centric Training
1140. CVPR 2026TextFM Robust Semi-dense Feature Matching with Language Guidance
1141. CVPR 2026TF-SSD A Strong Pipeline via Synergic Mask Filter for Training-free
1142. CVPR 2026The Blind Spot of Adaptation Quantifying and Mitigating Forgetting in
1143. CVPR 2026The Consistency Critic Correcting Inconsistencies in Generated Images via Reference-Guided
1144. CVPR 2026The Geometry of Robustness Optimizing Loss Landscape Curvature and Feature
1145. CVPR 2026The LLM Bottleneck Why Open-Source Vision LLMs Struggle with Hierarchical
1146. CVPR 2026The Midas Touch for Metric Depth
1147. CVPR 2026The Missing Point in Vision Transformers for Universal Image Segmentation
1148. CVPR 2026THE MORE THE MERRIER CONTRASTIVE FUSION FOR HIGHER-ORDER MULTIMODAL ALIGNMENT
1149. CVPR 2026The Road Less Seen Segment Exploration for Weakly Supervised Video
1150. CVPR 2026The SA-FARI Dataset Segment Anything in Footage of Animals for

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.