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

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1351. CVPR 2026Where Does Vision Meet Language Understanding and Refining Visual Fusion
1352. CVPR 2026Where MLLMs Attend and What They Rely On Explaining Autoregressive
1353. CVPR 2026Which Concepts to Forget and How to Refuse Decomposing Concepts
1354. CVPR 2026White-Balance First Adjust Later Cross-Camera Color Constancy via Vision-Language Evaluation
1355. CVPR 2026Why Does RL Generalize Better Than SFT A Data-Centric Perspective
1356. CVPR 2026Widget2Code From Visual Widgets to UI Code via Multimodal LLMs
1357. CVPR 2026WildCap Facial Albedo Capture in the Wild via Hybrid Inverse
1358. CVPR 2026WildPose A Unified Framework for Robust Pose Estimation in the
1359. CVPR 2026Will Multimodal Models Be Dazzled by Multi-Image Visual Puzzles
1360. CVPR 2026WISER Wider Search Deeper Thinking and Adaptive Fusion for Training-Free
1361. CVPR 2026World in a Frame Understanding Culture Mixing as a New
1362. CVPR 2026WorldMM Dynamic Multimodal Memory Agent for Long Video Reasoning
1363. CVPR 2026X-PCR A Benchmark for Cross-modality Progressive Clinical Reasoning in Ophthalmic
1364. CVPR 2026x2-Fusion Cross-Modality and Cross-Dimension Flow Estimation in Event Edge Space
1365. CVPR 2026XPaintNet An eXtreme Lightweight Framework for Stereoscopic Conversion without Inpainting
1366. CVPR 2026YieldSAT A Multimodal Benchmark Dataset for High-Resolution Crop Yield Prediction
1367. CVPR 2026YOSE You Only Select Essential Tokens for Efficient DiT-based Video
1368. CVPR 2026Your One-Stop Solution for AI-Generated Video Detection
1369. CVPR 2026Zero-Shot Depth Completion with Vision-Language Model
1370. CVPR 2026ZINA Multimodal Fine-grained Hallucination Detection and Editing
1371. CVPR 2026ZOO-Prune Training-Free Token Pruning via Zeroth-Order Gradient Estimation in Vision-Language
1372. CVPR 2026ZoomEarth Active Perception for Ultra-High-Resolution Geospatial Vision-Language Tasks
1373. CVPR 20252DMamba: Efficient State Space Model for Image Representation with Applications on Giga-Pixel Whole Slide Image Classification
1374. CVPR 20253D-GRAND: A Million-Scale Dataset for 3D-LLMs with Better Grounding and Less Hallucination
1375. CVPR 20253D-LLaVA: Towards Generalist 3D LMMs with Omni Superpoint Transformer
1376. CVPR 20253D-Mem: 3D Scene Memory for Embodied Exploration and Reasoning
1377. CVPR 20254D-Fly: Fast 4D Reconstruction from a Single Monocular Video
1378. CVPR 20254Deform: Neural Surface Deformation for Robust Shape Interpolation
1379. CVPR 2025A Comprehensive Study of Decoder-Only LLMs for Text-to-Image Generation
1380. CVPR 2025A Data-Centric Revisit of Pre-Trained Vision Models for Robot Learning
1381. CVPR 2025A Flag Decomposition for Hierarchical Datasets
1382. CVPR 2025A New Statistical Model of Star Speckles for Learning to Detect and Characterize Exoplanets in Direct Imaging Observations
1383. CVPR 2025A Polarization-Aided Transformer for Image Deblurring via Motion Vector Decomposition
1384. CVPR 2025A Regularization-Guided Equivariant Approach for Image Restoration
1385. CVPR 2025A Semantic Knowledge Complementarity based Decoupling Framework for Semi-supervised Class-imbalanced Medical Image Segmentation
1386. CVPR 2025A Stitch in Time Saves Nine: Small VLM is a Precise Guidance for Accelerating Large VLMs
1387. CVPR 2025A Unified Image-Dense Annotation Generation Model for Underwater Scenes
1388. CVPR 2025A Unified Model for Compressed Sensing MRI Across Undersampling Patterns
1389. CVPR 2025A Universal Scale-Adaptive Deformable Transformer for Image Restoration across Diverse Artifacts
1390. CVPR 2025A3: Few-shot Prompt Learning of Unlearnable Examples with Cross-Modal Adversarial Feature Alignment
1391. CVPR 2025ABBSPO: Adaptive Bounding Box Scaling and Symmetric Prior based Orientation Prediction for Detecting Aerial Image Objects
1392. CVPR 2025Accelerating Multimodal Large Language Models by Searching Optimal Vision Token Reduction
1393. CVPR 2025ACL: Activating Capability of Linear Attention for Image Restoration
1394. CVPR 2025Acquire and then Adapt: Squeezing out Text-to-Image Model for Image Restoration
1395. CVPR 2025Activating Sparse Part Concepts for 3D Class Incremental Learning
1396. CVPR 2025Active Data Curation Effectively Distills Large-Scale Multimodal Models
1397. CVPR 2025Active Event-based Stereo Vision
1398. CVPR 2025AdaDARE-gamma: Balancing Stability and Plasticity in Multi-modal LLMs through Efficient Adaptation
1399. CVPR 2025AdaMMS: Model Merging for Heterogeneous Multimodal Large Language Models with Unsupervised Coefficient Optimization
1400. CVPR 2025Adapter Merging with Centroid Prototype Mapping for Scalable Class-Incremental Learning

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.