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

1,372 papers, page 26 of 28

1251. CVPR 2026UniGame Turning a Unified Multimodal Model Into Its Own Adversary
1252. CVPR 2026UniGenDet A Unified Generative-Discriminative Framework for Co-Evolutionary Image Generation and
1253. CVPR 2026UniGeoRS A Unified Benchmark for Tri-view Geo-Localization
1254. CVPR 2026UniGeoSeg Towards Unified Open-World Segmentation for Geospatial Scenes
1255. CVPR 2026UniLDiff Unlocking the Power of Diffusion Priors for All-in-One Image
1256. CVPR 2026UniRefiner Teaching Pre-trained ViTs to Self-Dispose Dross via Contrastive Register
1257. CVPR 2026UniSER A Foundation Model for Unified Soft Effects Removal
1258. CVPR 2026Universal 3D Shape Matching via Coarse-to-Fine Language Guidance
1259. CVPR 2026Universal-to-Specific Dynamic Knowledge-Guided Multiple Instance Learning for Few-Shot Whole Slide
1260. CVPR 2026UniVerse Empower Unified Generation with Reasoning and Knowledge
1261. CVPR 2026Unlearning without Forgetting Securely Removing Targeted Concepts from Large-Scale Vision-Language
1262. CVPR 2026Unleashing the Intrinsic Visual Representation Capability of Multimodal Large Language
1263. CVPR 2026Unleashing Vision-Language Semantics for Deepfake Video Detection
1264. CVPR 2026Unleashing VLA Potentials in Autonomous Driving via Explicit Learning from
1265. CVPR 2026Unlocking Motion from Large Vision Models with a Semantic and
1266. CVPR 2026Unsafe2Safe Controllable Image Anonymization for Downstream Utility
1267. CVPR 2026Unstitching the Chimera Frame-Level Risk and Train-Free Mitigation for Video
1268. CVPR 2026URICA A Uniformity Region Affine Identifier Capture Algorithm for Arbitrary
1269. CVPR 2026UTPTrack Towards Simple and Unified Token Pruning for Visual Tracking
1270. CVPR 2026UVU Improving Multimodal Understanding via Vision-Language Unified Autoregressive Paradigm
1271. CVPR 2026UZ3DVG Unaided Zero-Shot 3D Visual Grounding with Generated Language Conditions
1272. CVPR 2026V-Attack Targeting Disentangled Value Features for Controllable Adversarial Attacks on
1273. CVPR 2026Variation-aware Vision Token Dropping for Faster Large Vision-Language Models
1274. CVPR 2026VAST Video Ability-Stratified Taxonomy for Data-Efficient Video Reasoning
1275. CVPR 2026VCP-Attack Visual-Contrastive Projection for Transferable Black-Box Targeted Attacks on Large
1276. CVPR 2026Vector Prism Animating Vector Graphics by Stratifying Semantic Structure
1277. CVPR 2026VectorArk Learning Practical Image Vectorization with Rounded Polygon Representation
1278. CVPR 2026Venus Benchmarking and Empowering Multimodal Large Language Models for Aesthetic
1279. CVPR 2026VES-RFT Rewarding Visual Evidence Sensitivity to Mitigate Hallucinations in Large
1280. CVPR 2026VGA-Bench A Unified Benchmark and Multi-Model Framework for Video Aesthetics
1281. CVPR 2026VGent Visual Grounding via Modular Design for Disentangling Reasoning and
1282. CVPR 2026VGGDrive Empowering Vision-Language Models with Cross-View Geometric Grounding for Autonomous
1283. CVPR 2026VIAFormer Voxel-Image Alignment Transformer for High-Fidelity Voxel Refinement
1284. CVPR 2026Vibe Spaces for Creatively Connecting and Expressing Visual Concepts
1285. CVPR 2026Video-as-Answer Predict and Generate Next Video Event with Joint-GRPO
1286. CVPR 2026Video-Only ToM Enhancing Theory of Mind in Multimodal Large Language
1287. CVPR 2026VideoFusion A Spatio-Temporal Collaborative Network for Multi-modal Video Fusion
1288. CVPR 2026VideoITG Multimodal Video Understanding with Instructed Temporal Grounding
1289. CVPR 2026VidEoMT Your ViT is Secretly Also a Video Segmentation Model
1290. CVPR 2026VideoNet A Large-Scale Dataset for Domain-Specific Action Recognition
1291. CVPR 2026VideoWeaver Multimodal Multi-View Video-to-Video Transfer for Embodied Agents
1292. CVPR 2026VidPrism Heterogeneous Mixture of Experts for Image-to-Video Transfer
1293. CVPR 2026VidTAG Temporally Aligned Video to GPS Geolocalization with Denoising Sequence
1294. CVPR 2026ViHOI Human-Object Interaction Synthesis with Visual Priors
1295. CVPR 2026ViRC Enhancing Visual Interleaved Mathematical CoT with Reason Chunking
1296. CVPR 2026VIRO Robust and Efficient Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning with Verification for Referring
1297. CVPR 2026VIRST Video-Instructed Reasoning Assistant for SpatioTemporal Segmentation
1298. CVPR 2026VirtueBench Evaluating Trustworthiness under Uncertainty in Long Video Understanding
1299. CVPR 2026VISion On Request Enhanced VLLM efficiency with sparse dynamically selected
1300. CVPR 2026Vision Transformers Need More Than Registers

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.