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

1,716 papers, page 26 of 35

1251. ICML 2024Understanding Retrieval-Augmented Task Adaptation for Vision-Language Models
1252. ICML 2024Understanding Unimodal Bias in Multimodal Deep Linear Networks
1253. ICML 2024Unifying Image Processing as Visual Prompting Question Answering
1254. ICML 2024Universal Consistency of Wide and Deep ReLU Neural Networks and Minimax Optimal Convergence Rates for Kolmogorov-Donoho Optimal Function Classes
1255. ICML 2024Unlocking the Power of Spatial and Temporal Information in Medical Multimodal Pre-training
1256. ICML 2024Unsupervised Evaluation of Code LLMs with Round-Trip Correctness
1257. ICML 2024Use Your INSTINCT: INSTruction optimization for LLMs usIng Neural bandits Coupled with Transformers
1258. ICML 2024Using Left and Right Brains Together: Towards Vision and Language Planning
1259. ICML 2024Video-LaVIT: Unified Video-Language Pre-training with Decoupled Visual-Motional Tokenization
1260. ICML 2024VideoPoet: A Large Language Model for Zero-Shot Video Generation
1261. ICML 2024ViP: A Differentially Private Foundation Model for Computer Vision
1262. ICML 2024Vision Mamba: Efficient Visual Representation Learning with Bidirectional State Space Model
1263. ICML 2024Vision Transformers as Probabilistic Expansion from Learngene
1264. ICML 2024VisionGraph: Leveraging Large Multimodal Models for Graph Theory Problems in Visual Context
1265. ICML 2024Visual-Text Cross Alignment: Refining the Similarity Score in Vision-Language Models
1266. ICML 2024Watermarks in the Sand: Impossibility of Strong Watermarking for Language Models
1267. ICML 2024Weakly Convex Regularisers for Inverse Problems: Convergence of Critical Points and Primal-Dual Optimisation
1268. ICML 2024What’s the score? Automated Denoising Score Matching for Nonlinear Diffusions
1269. ICML 2024Why Do You Grok? A Theoretical Analysis on Grokking Modular Addition
1270. ICML 2024Zero-Shot ECG Classification with Multimodal Learning and Test-time Clinical Knowledge Enhancement
1271. NeurIPS 2024$E^3$: Exploring Embodied Emotion Through A Large-Scale Egocentric Video Dataset
1272. NeurIPS 20243DCoMPaT200: Language Grounded Large-Scale 3D Vision Dataset for Compositional Recognition
1273. NeurIPS 20244M-21: An Any-to-Any Vision Model for Tens of Tasks and Modalities
1274. NeurIPS 2024A Benchmark Suite for Systematically Evaluating Reasoning Shortcuts
1275. NeurIPS 2024A Careful Examination of Large Language Model Performance on Grade School Arithmetic
1276. NeurIPS 2024A Concept-Based Explainability Framework for Large Multimodal Models
1277. NeurIPS 2024A General Protocol to Probe Large Vision Models for 3D Physical Understanding
1278. NeurIPS 2024A Hitchhiker's Guide to Fine-Grained Face Forgery Detection Using Common Sense Reasoning
1279. NeurIPS 2024A Neuro-Symbolic Benchmark Suite for Concept Quality and Reasoning Shortcuts
1280. NeurIPS 2024A Novel Benchmark for Decision-Making in Uncertain and Competitive Games
1281. NeurIPS 2024A Practitioner's Guide to Real-World Continual Multimodal Pretraining
1282. NeurIPS 2024A StrongREJECT for Empty Jailbreaks
1283. NeurIPS 2024A Unified Debiasing Approach for Vision-Language Models across Modalities and Tasks
1284. NeurIPS 2024A Versatile Diffusion Transformer with Mixture of Noise Levels for Audiovisual Generation
1285. NeurIPS 2024Accelerating Pre-training of Multimodal LLMs via Chain-of-Sight
1286. NeurIPS 2024AdaNeg: Adaptive Negative Proxy Guided OOD Detection with Vision-Language Models
1287. NeurIPS 2024Adaptive Image Quality Assessment via Teaching Large Multimodal Model to Compare
1288. NeurIPS 2024Advancing Cross-domain Discriminability in Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models
1289. NeurIPS 2024Aggregate-and-Adapt Natural Language Prompts for Downstream Generalization of CLIP
1290. NeurIPS 2024Aligning Audio-Visual Joint Representations with an Agentic Workflow
1291. NeurIPS 2024Aligning Vision Models with Human Aesthetics in Retrieval: Benchmarks and Algorithms
1292. NeurIPS 2024All-in-One Image Coding for Joint Human-Machine Vision with Multi-Path Aggregation
1293. NeurIPS 2024Alleviating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models through Hallucination-Induced Optimization
1294. NeurIPS 2024AMBROSIA: A Benchmark for Parsing Ambiguous Questions into Database Queries
1295. NeurIPS 2024An eye for an ear: zero-shot audio description leveraging an image captioner with audio-visual token distribution matching
1296. NeurIPS 2024Analytically deriving Partial Information Decomposition for affine systems of stable and convolution-closed distributions
1297. NeurIPS 2024Animal-Bench: Benchmarking Multimodal Video Models for Animal-centric Video Understanding
1298. NeurIPS 2024Are Large Language Models Good Statisticians?
1299. NeurIPS 2024Are We on the Right Way for Evaluating Large Vision-Language Models?
1300. NeurIPS 2024ART: Automatic Red-teaming for Text-to-Image Models to Protect Benign Users

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.