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 24 of 28

1151. NeurIPS 2026SynthForensics: Benchmarking and Evaluating People-Centric Synthetic Video Deepfakes
1152. NeurIPS 2026T-ReX: Learning Tile-Reuse Indexes for Structured Model Compression
1153. NeurIPS 2026T2V-AttnDisrupt: Inducing Hallucinations in LVLMs via Misrouting Visual Evidence Retrieval
1154. NeurIPS 2026TailAdapt: Heavy-Tailed Sparse Variational Adaptation for Long-Tailed Class Incremental Learning
1155. NeurIPS 2026Task-Induced Riemannian Metrics for Vision Transformer Feature Spaces
1156. NeurIPS 2026TaskGround: Structured Executable Task Inference for Full-Scene Household Reasoning
1157. NeurIPS 2026TasteBench: multimodal benchmark for sensory prediction, from molecules to sustainable foods
1158. NeurIPS 2026Teaching Large Language Models When Not to Know: Learning Temporal Critique for Ex-Ante Reasoning
1159. NeurIPS 2026Teaching VLMs What to Say, Not How to Reason: Rethinking Counterfactual Reasoning in Autonomous Driving
1160. NeurIPS 2026TED: Text-Axis Evidence Decomposition for Prompted Anomaly Localization
1161. NeurIPS 2026Tempered Guided Diffusion
1162. NeurIPS 2026TeMPO: Frame-Causal Token Compression for Efficient Video Large Language Model
1163. NeurIPS 2026Temporal Backtracking Search for Test-time Generative Video Reasoning
1164. NeurIPS 2026Temporal Slice Learning for AI-Generated Video Detection with 400× Fewer FLOPs
1165. NeurIPS 2026Test-Time Adaptation via Self-Reinforced Optimal Transport for Zero-Shot OOD Detection with Vision–Language Models
1166. NeurIPS 2026Test-Time Defense Against Adversarial Attacks via Stochastic Resonance of Latent Ensembles
1167. NeurIPS 2026Tethered Predictive-Inertial Proposals with Objective Verification for Diffusion-Prior Inverse Problems
1168. NeurIPS 2026Text as Partial Constraint: Core–Residual Alignment for Robust Vision–Language Learning
1169. NeurIPS 2026Text-Vision Co-Instructed Image Editing
1170. NeurIPS 2026TF-PRVR: Training-Free Partially Relevant Video Retrieval for Real-World Generalization
1171. NeurIPS 2026The Adversarial Gait: Detecting Visual Adversarial Attacks against Vision-Language Models via Self-Targeted Gradient Characterization
1172. NeurIPS 2026The Alignment Illusion in Multimodal Large Language Models
1173. NeurIPS 2026The BAMBI Dataset: Multimodal Nadir UAV-Recordings of Forest Wildlife
1174. NeurIPS 2026The Butterfly Effect in Reasoning: Branch-Structured Distributional Memory for Stochastic Agents
1175. NeurIPS 2026The Cost of Absolute Position: A Spread-Expressivity Tradeoff for Additive Positional Encodings
1176. NeurIPS 2026The FACTS Leaderboard: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Large Language Model Factuality
1177. NeurIPS 2026The Fault in Our Metrics: Revisiting Generative Model Evaluation with Chamfer Distance
1178. NeurIPS 2026The Graph Concept Bottleneck: Decoding Combinatorial Reasoning in GNNs for Interpretability
1179. NeurIPS 2026The Marauder’s Map: Bézier Manifolds Reveal Hidden Surfaces for Model Merging and Ensembling
1180. NeurIPS 2026The Missing Corpus: Infinite Ground Truth for File-Grounded LLM Evaluation
1181. NeurIPS 2026The Optimal Control Foundation of Early Exits – Turnpikes and ResNets
1182. NeurIPS 2026The Power of Second Order Methods for Sequence Preconditioning
1183. NeurIPS 2026The Prestige: Benchmarking Cognitive Visual Reasoning using Magic Tricks
1184. NeurIPS 2026The road reaches every place, the short cut only one: Self-Adversarial Shortcut Mitigation for AI-Generated Image Detection
1185. NeurIPS 2026The Subjectivity of Monoculture
1186. NeurIPS 2026The Unembedding Bottleneck: A Mechanistic Analysis of Single Digit Counting in LLMs
1187. NeurIPS 2026The VLM as Sensor: Bayesian Active Search for Long Video Understanding
1188. NeurIPS 2026THEIA: A Multimodal Dataset and Benchmark for Vision-Language Analysis of Layout
1189. NeurIPS 2026They Can See It but not Say It: Iterative Self Knowledge Re-expression in Visual Reasoning Relative Pose Identification
1190. NeurIPS 2026Think Densely, Act Sparsely: Latent Expert Cognitive Chains for Vision-Language-Action Autonomous Driving
1191. NeurIPS 2026Thinking in Pictures: A Systematic Benchmark for Reasoning-driven Image Generation
1192. NeurIPS 2026Thinking with Imagination: Agentic Visual Spatial Reasoning with World Simulators
1193. NeurIPS 2026ThinkJEPA: Empowering Latent World Models with Large Vision-Language Reasoning Model
1194. NeurIPS 2026TIDE: Asymmetric Neural Circuits for Stabilized Temporal Inhibitory-Excitatory Dynamics
1195. NeurIPS 2026TIGER: Bridging the Multimodal Reasoning-Access Gap via Modality Counterfactuals
1196. NeurIPS 2026Tight Gap-Dependent Regret Bounds and Problem-Independent Bounds for Cost-aware Cascading Bandits
1197. NeurIPS 2026Tiny but Trusted: Efficient Vision-Language Reasoning for Time-Series Anomaly Detection
1198. NeurIPS 2026Tokenizer-Generator Coupling in Medical Image Generation
1199. NeurIPS 2026TokenSwap: Benchmarking and Reducing the Modality Gap in Multimodal LLMs
1200. NeurIPS 2026Too Aligned to be Real: Detecting AI-Generated Images via Cross-modal Alignment Shift

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.