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 27 of 28

1301. CVPR 2026Vision-Language Attribute Disentanglement and Reinforcement for Lifelong Person Re-Identification
1302. CVPR 2026Vision-Language Model Guided Source-Free Domain Adaptation via Optimal Transport
1303. CVPR 2026Vision-Speech Models Teaching Speech Models to Converse about Images
1304. CVPR 2026VisionDirector Vision-Language Guided Closed-Loop Refinement for Generative Image Synthesis
1305. CVPR 2026VisionLeaf Entropy-Guided Leaf-First Reasoning for Efficient and Accurate Think-with-Image
1306. CVPR 2026VisMem Latent Vision Memory Unlocks Potential of Vision-Language Models
1307. CVPR 2026VisPlay Self-Evolving Vision-Language Models
1308. CVPR 2026VisRes Bench On Evaluating the Visual Reasoning Capabilities of VLMs
1309. CVPR 2026ViStoryBench Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for Story Visualization
1310. CVPR 2026Visual Document Understanding and Reasoning A Multi-Agent Collaboration Framework with
1311. CVPR 2026Visual Personalization Turing Test
1312. CVPR 2026VisualAD Language-Free Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection via Vision Transformer
1313. CVPR 2026ViT3 Unlocking Test-Time Training in Vision
1314. CVPR 2026VITAL Vision-Encoder-centered Pre-training for LMMs in Visual Quality Assessment
1315. CVPR 2026ViTPrompt Training-Free Prompt Refinement with Visual Tokens for Open-Vocabulary Detection
1316. CVPR 2026VIVA VLM-Guided Instruction-Based Video Editing with Reward Optimization
1317. CVPR 2026VKG-QA Visual Knowledge Graph-based Question Answer for Large Multimodal Models
1318. CVPR 2026VL-Eraser Vacuum Distillation for Machine Unlearning in Vision-Language Models
1319. CVPR 2026VL-RouterBench A Benchmark for Vision-Language Model Routing
1320. CVPR 2026VLA Models Are More Generalizable Than You Think Revisiting Physical
1321. CVPR 2026VLIC Vision-Language Models As Perceptual Judges for Human-Aligned Image Compression
1322. CVPR 2026VLM-3R Vision-Language Models Augmented with Instruction-Aligned 3D Reconstruction
1323. CVPR 2026VLM-Guided Group Preference Alignment for Diffusion-based Human Mesh Recovery
1324. CVPR 2026VLM-Loc Localization in Point Cloud Maps via Vision-Language Models
1325. CVPR 2026VLM-Pruner Buffering for Spatial Sparsity in an Efficient VLM Centrifugal
1326. CVPR 2026VLM-PTQ Efficient Post-Training Quantization for Large Vision-Language Models
1327. CVPR 2026VLM4RSDet Collaborative Optimization with Vision-Language Model for Enhancing Remote Sensing
1328. CVPR 2026VMD-FACT A New Video Dataset and MLLM-based method for Detecting
1329. CVPR 2026Vocabulary Scaling Law Tuning Open-vocabulary Predictors for Their Openness
1330. CVPR 2026VOLD Reasoning Transfer from LLMs to Vision-Language Models via On-Policy
1331. CVPR 2026VoxTell Free-Text Promptable Universal 3D Medical Image Segmentation
1332. CVPR 2026VQRAE Representation Quantization Autoencoders for Multimodal Understanding Generation and Reconstruction
1333. CVPR 2026VRCLIP Multimodal Canonical Correlation Alignment for CLIP-Driven Vision-Radio Person Re-Identification
1334. CVPR 2026VRR-QA Visual Relational Reasoning in Videos Beyond Explicit Cues
1335. CVPR 2026VS-Bench Evaluating VLMs for Strategic Abilities in Multi-Agent Environments
1336. CVPR 2026VSRELL A Simple Baseline for Video Super-Resolution and Enhancement in
1337. CVPR 2026VULCAN Tool-Augmented Multi Agents for Iterative 3D Object Arrangement
1338. CVPR 2026WAM-Flow Parallel Coarse-to-Fine Motion Planning via Discrete Flow Matching for
1339. CVPR 2026Wavelet-based Frame Selection by Detecting Semantic Boundary for Long Video
1340. CVPR 2026WEAVE Unleashing and Benchmarking the In-context Interleaved Comprehension and Generation
1341. CVPR 2026WeaveTime Streaming from Earlier Frames into Emergent Memory in VideoLLMs
1342. CVPR 2026WebGym Scaling Training Environments for Long-Horizon Visual Web Agents with
1343. CVPR 2026WeMMU Enhanced Bridging of Vision-Language Models and Diffusion Models via
1344. CVPR 2026What Do Visual Tokens Really Encode Uncovering Sparsity and Redundancy
1345. CVPR 2026What Your Features Reveal Data-Efficient Black-Box Feature Inversion Attack for
1346. CVPR 2026When AVSR Meets Video Conferencing Dataset Degradation and the Hidden
1347. CVPR 2026When CLIP Sees More It Fights Back Harder Multi-View Guided
1348. CVPR 2026When Robots Obey the Patch Universal Transferable Patch Attacks on
1349. CVPR 2026When to Think and When to Look Uncertainty-Guided Lookback
1350. CVPR 2026When Transformers Meet Mamba A Hybrid Transformer-Mamba Network for Video

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.