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 26 of 28

1251. NeurIPS 2026UniCustom: Unified Visual Conditioning for Multi-reference Image Generation
1252. NeurIPS 2026Unified Forensic Preference Learning for Generalizable Synthetic Image Detection
1253. NeurIPS 2026UniFunc3D: Unified Active Spatial-Temporal Grounding for 3D Affordance Segmentation
1254. NeurIPS 2026Unify-Agent: A Unified Multimodal Agent for World-Grounded Image Synthesis
1255. NeurIPS 2026Unifying Sparsity and Discreteness: One-Shot Pruning for Quantized LLMs via Discrete Optimization
1256. NeurIPS 2026UniPath: Adaptive Coordination of Understanding and Generation for Unified Multimodal Reasoning
1257. NeurIPS 2026UniRAP: Towards Unified Part-level Physical Affordance Reasoning and Actionable Perception
1258. NeurIPS 2026UniReFP: Robust Unified Fingerprinting for Vision Models against Cross-Task Repurposing Attacks
1259. NeurIPS 2026UniverSat: Resolution- and Modality-Agnostic Transformers for Earth Observation
1260. NeurIPS 2026UniVLR: Unifying Text and Vision in Visual Latent Reasoning for Multimodal LLMs
1261. NeurIPS 2026Unrolled gradients in disguise: bridging interpolation-based and Jacobian regularization for stable neural dynamics
1262. NeurIPS 2026V-LUMEN: Visual Lookup Memory for Embedding Scaling in Vision-Language Models
1263. NeurIPS 2026V1-Inspired Dynamic Vision System: A Bio-Plausible Video Embedding Framework with Decoupled Shape–Color Pathways and Long-Range Spatiotemporal Perception
1264. NeurIPS 2026V2VFusion: Text-Controlled Video-to-Video Diffusion for Degradation-Aware Video Fusion
1265. NeurIPS 2026VAANI: Capturing the language landscape for an inclusive digital India
1266. NeurIPS 2026Value Entanglement: Conflation Between Different Kinds of Good In (Some) Large Language Models
1267. NeurIPS 2026VAR-Q: Tuning-free KV Cache Quantization for Visual Autoregressive Image and Video Generation
1268. NeurIPS 2026Variational Wasserstein Model on Riemannian Manifolds for Image Segmentation
1269. NeurIPS 2026VC-OPD: Visual Counterfactual On-Policy Distillation for Grounded Vision-Language Reasoning
1270. NeurIPS 2026Verifiable LLM-Guided Focal SMT Solving for Quantified Arrays
1271. NeurIPS 2026Verifier-Backed Hard Problem Generation for Mathematical Reasoning
1272. NeurIPS 2026VeriScope: Measuring Verification-Ready Verilog Artifacts
1273. NeurIPS 2026VeriTrip: A Verifiable Benchmark for Travel Planning Agents over Unstructured Web Corpora
1274. NeurIPS 2026VeriWorld: A Verifiable Visual SWE-Bench for Spatial Reasoning in 3D Environments
1275. NeurIPS 2026VersaCamVLA: Camera-Configurable VLA Policies for Robotic Manipulation
1276. NeurIPS 2026VESTA: Visual Exploration with Statistical Tool Agents
1277. NeurIPS 2026VFIG: Vectorizing Complex Figures in SVG with Vision-Language Models
1278. NeurIPS 2026VI-Bench: Benchmarking Prompt Inversion from AIGC Videos
1279. NeurIPS 2026ViCO: A Training Strategy towards Semantic Aware Dynamic High-Resolution
1280. NeurIPS 2026Video Forensic Self-Descriptions: Leveraging Temporally Distributed Forensic Microstructures for Zero-Shot Detection of AI-Generated Videos
1281. NeurIPS 2026Video Generation Research Needs a Legally Sustainable Data Infrastructure
1282. NeurIPS 2026Video Models Can Reason with Verifiable Rewards
1283. NeurIPS 2026Video Stitching from Multiple Moving Cameras
1284. NeurIPS 2026Video-FLAIR: Not Whether to Reason, But How
1285. NeurIPS 2026VidHalluDoctor: Learning Video Differences to Mitigate Hallucinations in Vision-Language Models
1286. NeurIPS 2026ViDiC: Video Difference Captioning
1287. NeurIPS 2026VidVec: Unlocking Video MLLM Embeddings for Video-Text Retrieval
1288. NeurIPS 2026ViewRec3D: Learning to Recommend 3D Viewpoints for AI Photography
1289. NeurIPS 2026ViewSAM: Learning View-aware Semantics for Weakly Supervised Cross-view Referring Multi-Object Tracking
1290. NeurIPS 2026VIGOR: Benchmarking Visual Rationale Correctness in Multimodal Large Language Models
1291. NeurIPS 2026VIGOR: Visual Gain Ordering for Hallucination Mitigation in Multimodal Discrete Diffusion Language Models
1292. NeurIPS 2026ViLo: LiDAR Localization with Vision-Language Priors
1293. NeurIPS 2026ViMU: Benchmarking Video Metaphorical Understanding
1294. NeurIPS 2026VIPER: An Expert-Curated Benchmark for Vision-Language Models in Veterinary Pathology
1295. NeurIPS 2026Vision to Geometry: 3D Spatial Memory for Sequential Embodied MLLM Reasoning and Exploration
1296. NeurIPS 2026Vision Token Pruning via Query-Vision Interaction Decomposition
1297. NeurIPS 2026Vision Transformers Learn Gestalt-Like Figure-Ground Cues from Natural Images
1298. NeurIPS 2026Vision-Language Grounding as Bidirectional Concept Correspondence
1299. NeurIPS 2026Vision-OPD: Learning to See Fine Details for Multimodal LLMs via On-Policy Self-Distillation
1300. NeurIPS 2026VISTA: Support-Anchored Value Targeting for Fast Flow-Based Vision-Language-Action Policies

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.