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 25 of 28

1201. NeurIPS 2026Tool-IQA: Augmenting Image Quality Assessment with Simple Tools
1202. NeurIPS 2026TopoCurve: Geometry-Aware Topology Reasoning via Bézier Curves in Autonomous Driving
1203. NeurIPS 2026TopoGraphRAG-Bench: Evaluating Multimodal GraphRAG on Layout-Grounded Evidence Reasoning
1204. NeurIPS 2026Topology-Aware Representation Alignment for Semi-Supervised Vision-Language Learning
1205. NeurIPS 2026Topology-Reinforced Swin Transformer for Medical Image Analysis
1206. NeurIPS 2026TorchUMM: A Unified Multimodal Model Codebase for Evaluation, Analysis, and Post-training
1207. NeurIPS 2026Toward Cognitive Supersensing in Multimodal Large Language Models
1208. NeurIPS 2026Toward in Silico Strain Evaluation: A Multimodal Surrogate for Fermentation Dynamics with Metabolic Graph Pretraining
1209. NeurIPS 2026Toward Multimodal Sheet Music Recognition and Understanding
1210. NeurIPS 2026Toward Semantically-Consistent Tuning-Free Customization for Rectified Flow Transformers
1211. NeurIPS 2026Towards Explainable Industrial Anomaly Detection via Knowledge-Guided Latent Reasoning
1212. NeurIPS 2026Towards Multi-Human-Value Alignment via Value Localization in LLMs
1213. NeurIPS 2026Towards Reconstructing Geographically Diverse Architecture with 3D Foundation Models
1214. NeurIPS 2026Towards Reliable VLM Judges: State-Conditional Invariance and Presentation-Aware Diagnostics
1215. NeurIPS 2026Towards Scalable Egocentric HOI for Humanoids: Benchmarking Whole-Body Dexterous Interaction with Tactile Prediction
1216. NeurIPS 2026TPRL: Adaptive Visual Token Pruning in LVLMs via Language-Guided Reinforcement Learning
1217. NeurIPS 2026TRACE: Data-Free Text Reconstruction Attacks against Approximate Unlearning in LLMs
1218. NeurIPS 2026TRACE: Trajectory-Aware Conceps for Explainable Video Understanding
1219. NeurIPS 2026Tracing Psychometric Inference in Large Language Models
1220. NeurIPS 2026Training Long-Context Vision-Language Models Effectively with Generalization Beyond 128K Context
1221. NeurIPS 2026Training Vision Transformers to Focus: Emergence of Attention Head Specialization
1222. NeurIPS 2026Training with Harnesses: On-Policy Harness Self-Distillation for Complex Reasoning
1223. NeurIPS 2026Training-Free Dynamic Upcycling of Expert Language Models
1224. NeurIPS 2026Training-Free Open World Object Detection
1225. NeurIPS 2026Trajectory-Consistent Dropout for Uncertainty Decomposition in Hamiltonian Neural Networks
1226. NeurIPS 2026TrajLoc: Trajectory-Attention Localization for Multi-Object Motion Control
1227. NeurIPS 2026Transfer Entropy as a Measure of Information Flow in VLMs and LLMs
1228. NeurIPS 2026Transferring Visual Explainability from Self-Explaining to Prediction-Only Vision Transformers via Task Arithmetic
1229. NeurIPS 2026TreemapMix: Dirichlet-Controlled Multi-Image Augmentation for Probability and Ordinal Supervision
1230. NeurIPS 2026TRIAD: Benchmarking Omni-Modal Ambiguity in Multimodal Large Language Models
1231. NeurIPS 2026Triggering Generalist Reasoning via Predictive Uncertainty for Dual-System VLA
1232. NeurIPS 2026TrioPose: Native Triple-Stream Diffusion Transformers for Pose-Guided Text-to-Image Generation
1233. NeurIPS 2026TriTD: Tri-Partite Trajectory–Distribution Distillation for Real-Time Autoregressive Video Generation
1234. NeurIPS 2026TrustMod-SM: A Multi-Axis Benchmark for Evaluating Trustworthiness of LLMs in Social Media Content Moderation
1235. NeurIPS 2026TS-ICL: A Flexible Time-Indexed Foundation Model for Time Series via In-Context Learning
1236. NeurIPS 2026TSFM Meets LLM: Context as Covariate
1237. NeurIPS 2026TTVidT: Decoupling the Temporal Axis for Efficient Motion-Centric Video Pretraining
1238. NeurIPS 2026Tuna-2: Pixel Embeddings Beat Vision Encoders for Multimodal Understanding and Generation
1239. NeurIPS 2026TwinPrune: Density-Aware Two-Phase Token Pruning for Vision-Language Models
1240. NeurIPS 2026Two Drifts, One Principle: Conflict-Aware Spectral Consolidation for Multimodal Continual Learning
1241. NeurIPS 2026UGGRH: Unsupervised Generative Completion and Graph-attention Refinement for Incomplete Cross-modal Hashing
1242. NeurIPS 2026Uncertainty Estimation for Pretrained Medical Image Registration Models via Transformation Equivariance
1243. NeurIPS 2026Uncertainty Quantification for Multimodal Large Language Models with Incoherence-adjusted Semantic Volume
1244. NeurIPS 2026Uncertainty Quantification of Least Squares Estimator for Generalized Orthogonal Procrustes Problems
1245. NeurIPS 2026Uncovering and Shaping the Latent Representation of 3D Scene Topology in Vision-Language Models
1246. NeurIPS 2026Understanding and Defending VLM Jailbreaks via Jailbreak-Related Representation Shift
1247. NeurIPS 2026Understanding the Challenges in Iterative Generative Optimization with LLMs
1248. NeurIPS 2026UnfoldArt: Zero-Shot Recovery of Full Articulated 3D Objects from Text or Image
1249. NeurIPS 2026Uni-Synergy: Bridging Understanding and Generation for Personalized Reasoning
1250. NeurIPS 2026UNICOM: Unified Multimodal Modeling via Compressed Continuous Semantic Representations

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.