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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1201. CVPR 2026TrajRAG Retrieving Geometric-Semantic Experience for Zero-Shot Object Navigation
1202. CVPR 2026Transform to Transfer Boosting Adversarial Attack Transferability on Vision-Language Pre-training
1203. CVPR 2026Translating Signals to Languages for sEMG-Based Activity Recognition
1204. CVPR 2026TRANSPORTER Transferring Visual Semantics from VLM Manifolds
1205. CVPR 2026TransPrune Token Transition Pruning for Efficient Large Vision-Language Model
1206. CVPR 2026TRCoRSurg Temporal-Relational Co-Reasoning for Surgical Video Triplet Recognition
1207. CVPR 2026TreeTeaming Autonomous Red-Teaming of Vision-Language Models via Hierarchical Strategy Exploration
1208. CVPR 2026Tri-Subspaces Disentanglement for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
1209. CVPR 2026TriDF Evaluating Perception Detection and Hallucination for Interpretable DeepFake Detection
1210. CVPR 2026TRivia Self-supervised Fine-tuning of Vision-Language Models for Table Recognition
1211. CVPR 2026TRM-VLA Temporal-Aware Chain-of-Thought Reasoning and Memorization for Vision-Language-Action Models
1212. CVPR 2026TTL Test-time Textual Learning for OOD Detection with Pretrained Vision-Language
1213. CVPR 2026TTP Test-Time Padding for Adversarial Detection and Robust Adaptation on
1214. CVPR 2026TTRV Test-Time Reinforcement Learning for Vision Language Models
1215. CVPR 2026TUNA Taming Unified Visual Representations for Native Unified Multimodal Models
1216. CVPR 2026Tunable Soft Equivariance with Guarantees
1217. CVPR 2026Turning Pre-Trained Vision Transformers into End-to-End Histopathology Whole Slide Image
1218. CVPR 2026TVHighlights LLM-Guided Human-Free Collaborative Training for Video Highlight Detection in
1219. CVPR 2026Twin-T TwintVQA A Reliable Structure-Detail Separating VLM and a
1220. CVPR 2026U-Mind A Unified Framework for Real-Time Multimodal Interaction with Audiovisual
1221. CVPR 2026UARE A Unified Vision-Language Model for Image Quality Assessment Restoration
1222. CVPR 2026UAST Unified Active Search and Tracking for Arbitrary Targets with
1223. CVPR 2026UCAN Unified Convolutional Attention Network for Expansive Receptive Fields in
1224. CVPR 2026UCMNet Uncertainty-Aware Context Memory Network for Under-Display Camera Image Restoration
1225. CVPR 2026UFVideo Towards Unified Fine-Grained Video Cooperative Understanding with Large Language
1226. CVPR 2026UI-Lens Assessing General MLLMs Potential to Automate UI Display Quality
1227. CVPR 2026UltraFlux Data-Model Co-Design for High-quality Native 4K Text-to-Image Generation across
1228. CVPR 2026Ultrasound-CLIP Semantic-Aware Contrastive Pre-training for Ultrasound Image-Text Understanding
1229. CVPR 2026Uncertainty-Aware Exploratory Direct Preference Optimization for Multimodal Large Language Models
1230. CVPR 2026Uncertainty-Aware Knowledge Distillation for Multimodal Large Language Models
1231. CVPR 2026Uncertainty-guided Compositional Alignment with Part-to-Whole Semantic Representativeness in Hyperbolic Vision-Language
1232. CVPR 2026Understanding and Mitigating Hallucinations in Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Models
1233. CVPR 2026Understanding Counting Mechanisms in Large Language and Vision-Language Models
1234. CVPR 2026Understanding Task Transfer in Vision-Language Models
1235. CVPR 2026Understanding Temporal Logic Consistency in Video-Language Models through Cross-Modal Attention
1236. CVPR 2026Uni-Hema Unified Model for Digital Hematopathology
1237. CVPR 2026UNI-OOD Unified Object- and Image-level Out-of-Distribution Detection via Cross-Context Attentive
1238. CVPR 2026UNICBench UNIfied Counting Benchmark for MLLM
1239. CVPR 2026UnicEdit-10M A Dataset and Benchmark Breaking the Scale-Quality Barrier via
1240. CVPR 2026UniChange Unifying Change Detection with Multimodal Large Language Model
1241. CVPR 2026UniCompress Token Compression for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generation
1242. CVPR 2026UniDAC Universal Metric Depth Estimation for Any Camera
1243. CVPR 2026UniDex A Robot Foundation Suite for Universal Dexterous Hand Control
1244. CVPR 2026UniEdit-I Training-free Image Editing for Unified VLM via Iterative Understanding
1245. CVPR 2026Unified Generation and Self-Verification for Vision-Language Models via Advantage Decoupled
1246. CVPR 2026Unified Primitive Proxies for Structured Shape Completion
1247. CVPR 2026Unified Spatiotemporal Token Compression for Video-LLMs at Ultra-Low Retention
1248. CVPR 2026UniFusion A Unified Image Fusion Framework with Robust Representation and
1249. CVPR 2026Unifying Language-Action Understanding and Generation for Autonomous Driving
1250. CVPR 2026Unifying Perception and Action A Hybrid-Modality Pipeline with Implicit Visual

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.