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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1151. CVPR 2026The Surprising Effectiveness of Noise Pretraining for Implicit Neural Representations
1152. CVPR 2026TherA Thermal-Aware Visual-Language Prompting for Controllable RGB-to-Thermal Infrared Translation
1153. CVPR 2026Think 360deg Beyond Depth Evaluating the Width-centric Reasoning Capability of
1154. CVPR 2026Think Visually Reason Textually Vision-Language Synergy in Abstract Reasoning
1155. CVPR 2026Think with 3D Geometric Imagination Grounded Spatial Reasoning from Limited
1156. CVPR 2026Think-as-You-See Streaming Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Large Vision-Language Models
1157. CVPR 2026Thinking Diffusion Penalize and Guide Visual-Grounded Reasoning in Diffusion Multimodal
1158. CVPR 2026Thinking with Drafts Speculative Temporal Reasoning for Efficient Long Video
1159. CVPR 2026Thinking with Programming Vision Towards a Unified View for Thinking
1160. CVPR 2026Thinking with Video Video Generation as a Promising Multimodal Reasoning
1161. CVPR 2026ThinkingViT Matryoshka Thinking Vision Transformer for Elastic Inference
1162. CVPR 2026TIM Temporal Decoupling with Iterative Mutual-Refinement Model for Longitudinal Radiology
1163. CVPR 2026Time Blindness Why Video-Language Models Cant See What Humans Can
1164. CVPR 2026Time-Aware One Step Diffusion Network for Real-World Image Super-Resolution
1165. CVPR 2026Time-Specialized Event-Image Alignment for Blur-to-Video Decomposition
1166. CVPR 2026TimeLens Rethinking Video Temporal Grounding with Multimodal LLMs
1167. CVPR 2026TimeViper A Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Vision-Language Model for Efficient Long Video
1168. CVPR 2026TIPSv2 Advancing Vision-Language Pretraining with Enhanced Patch-Text Alignment
1169. CVPR 2026TiViBench Benchmarking Think-in-Video Reasoning for Video Generation
1170. CVPR 2026TLMA Mitigating the Impact of Weakly Labeled Information for Video
1171. CVPR 2026Token Warping Helps MLLMs Look from Nearby Viewpoints
1172. CVPR 2026Tokenization Allows Multimodal Large Language Models to Understand Generate and
1173. CVPR 2026TopoHR Hierarchical Centerline Representation for Cyclic Topology Reasoning in Driving
1174. CVPR 2026TopoSlide Topologically-Informed Histopathology Whole Slide Image Representation Learning
1175. CVPR 2026Toward Low-Cost yet Effective Temporal Learning for UAV Tracking
1176. CVPR 2026Towards an Incremental Unified Multimodal Anomaly Detection Augmenting Multimodal Denoising
1177. CVPR 2026Towards Calibrating Prompt Tuning of Vision- Language Models
1178. CVPR 2026Towards Dynamic Modality Alignment in Multimodal Continual Learning
1179. CVPR 2026Towards Efficient Medical Reasoning with Minimal Fine-Tuning Data
1180. CVPR 2026Towards Fine-Grained Attribution Instance-Aware Preference Optimization for Aligning Diffusion Models
1181. CVPR 2026Towards Generalized Multimodal Homography Estimation
1182. CVPR 2026Towards GUI Agents Vision-Language Diffusion Models for GUI Grounding
1183. CVPR 2026Towards Highly Transferable Vision-Language Attack via Semantic-Augmented Dynamic Contrastive Interaction
1184. CVPR 2026Towards Holistic Modeling for Video Frame Interpolation with Auto-regressive Diffusion
1185. CVPR 2026Towards Intrinsic-Aware Monocular 3D Object Detection
1186. CVPR 2026Towards Knowledge-augmented Bayesian Deep Learning For Computer Vision
1187. CVPR 2026Towards Multimodal Domain Generalization with Few Labels
1188. CVPR 2026Towards Open Environments and Instructions General Vision-Language Navigation via Fast-Slow
1189. CVPR 2026Towards Open-Vocabulary Industrial Defect Understanding with a Large-Scale Multimodal Dataset
1190. CVPR 2026Towards Policy-Adaptive Image Guardrail Benchmark and Method
1191. CVPR 2026Towards Realistic and Consistent Orbital Video Generation via 3D Foundation
1192. CVPR 2026Towards Robust Multimodal Large Language Models Against Jailbreak Attacks
1193. CVPR 2026Towards Robust Sequential Decomposition for Complex Image Editing
1194. CVPR 2026Towards Robust Vision Transformers Path Dependency Analysis and a Simple
1195. CVPR 2026Towards Sparse Video Understanding and Reasoning
1196. CVPR 2026Towards Unified Human Perception and Machine Understanding Token Flow Guided
1197. CVPR 2026TrackMAE Video Representation Learning via Track Mask and Predict
1198. CVPR 2026Training High-Level Schedulers with Execution-Feedback Reinforcement Learning for Long-Horizon GUI
1199. CVPR 2026Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Camouflaged Object Segmentation via Fine-Grained Object Binding and
1200. CVPR 2026Training-Only Heterogeneous Image-Patch-Text Graph Supervision for Advancing Few-Shot Learning Adapters

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.