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. NeurIPS 2026Who Needs Labels? Adapting Vision Foundation Models With the Metadata You Already Have
1352. NeurIPS 2026Who Says What: Symbolic Trimodal Binding Mechanisms in Audio-Visual LLMs
1353. NeurIPS 2026Why Are LLMs Confidently Wrong? Correcting Overconfident Errors via Causal Head Intervention
1354. NeurIPS 2026Why Do DiT Editors Drift? Plug-and-Play Low Frequency Alignment in VAE Latent Space
1355. NeurIPS 2026Why Heavy-Tailed Weights Predict Model Quality
1356. NeurIPS 2026Why Invariance is Not Enough for Biomedical Domain Generalization and How to Fix It
1357. NeurIPS 2026Winfree Oscillatory Neural Network
1358. NeurIPS 2026Witness Overlap: Directional Provenance Inside Open-Weight Model Families
1359. NeurIPS 2026Words Before Pixels: Selective Modality Routing for Vision-Language Model Unlearning
1360. NeurIPS 2026Words That Make Language Models Perceive
1361. NeurIPS 2026World–Value–Action Model: Implicit Planning for Vision–Language–Action Systems
1362. NeurIPS 2026WorldSR: Harnessing World Knowledge Search for Grounded Image Super-Resolution
1363. NeurIPS 2026WorldVLN: Autoregressive World Action Model for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation
1364. NeurIPS 2026WovenAnchor Matcher: Specialized Intra- and Inter-Image Context Modeling for Feature Matching
1365. NeurIPS 2026XMNoise2Clean: Cross-Modal Denoising Under Sparse Data
1366. NeurIPS 2026Z0-Inf: Zeroth Order Approximation for Data Influence
1367. NeurIPS 2025$\Delta \mathrm{Energy}$: Optimizing Energy Change During Vision-Language Alignment Improves both OOD Detection and OOD Generalization
1368. NeurIPS 2025$\mathcal{X}^2$-DFD: A framework for e$\mathcal{X}$plainable and e$\mathcal{X}$tendable Deepfake Detection
1369. NeurIPS 20253D Visual Illusion Depth Estimation
1370. NeurIPS 20253D-RAD: A Comprehensive 3D Radiology Med-VQA Dataset with Multi-Temporal Analysis and Diverse Diagnostic Tasks
1371. NeurIPS 20253DLLM-Mem: Long-Term Spatial-Temporal Memory for Embodied 3D Large Language Model
1372. NeurIPS 20253EED: Ground Everything Everywhere in 3D
1373. NeurIPS 20254D-VLA: Spatiotemporal Vision-Language-Action Pretraining with Cross-Scene Calibration
1374. NeurIPS 20254DGCPro: Efficient Hierarchical 4D Gaussian Compression for Progressive Volumetric Video Streaming
1375. NeurIPS 20254KAgent: Agentic Any Image to 4K Super-Resolution
1376. NeurIPS 2025A Circular Argument: Does RoPE need to be Equivariant for Vision?
1377. NeurIPS 2025A compressive-expressive communication framework for compositional representations
1378. NeurIPS 2025A Frustratingly Simple Yet Highly Effective Attack Baseline: Over 90% Success Rate Against the Strong Black-box Models of GPT-4.5/4o/o1
1379. NeurIPS 2025A Implies B: Circuit Analysis in LLMs for Propositional Logical Reasoning
1380. NeurIPS 2025A Minimalistic Unified Framework for Incremental Learning across Image Restoration Tasks
1381. NeurIPS 2025A Multimodal Benchmark for Framing of Oil & Gas Advertising and Potential Greenwashing Detection
1382. NeurIPS 2025A Multimodal BiMamba Network with Test-Time Adaptation for Emotion Recognition Based on Physiological Signals
1383. NeurIPS 2025A Standardized Benchmark for Multilabel Antimicrobial Peptide Classification
1384. NeurIPS 2025A Theoretical Study on Bridging Internal Probability and Self-Consistency for LLM Reasoning
1385. NeurIPS 2025A TRIANGLE Enables Multimodal Alignment Beyond Cosine Similarity
1386. NeurIPS 2025A unified framework for establishing the universal approximation of transformer-type architectures
1387. NeurIPS 2025A Unified Reasoning Framework for Holistic Zero-Shot Video Anomaly Analysis
1388. NeurIPS 2025A Unified Solution to Video Fusion: From Multi-Frame Learning to Benchmarking
1389. NeurIPS 2025A$^3$E: Towards Compositional Model Editing
1390. NeurIPS 2025A2Seek: Towards Reasoning-Centric Benchmark for Aerial Anomaly Understanding
1391. NeurIPS 2025AC-LoRA: (Almost) Training-Free Access Control Aware Multi-Modal LLMs
1392. NeurIPS 2025Accelerating Diffusion LLMs via Adaptive Parallel Decoding
1393. NeurIPS 2025Accelerating Multimodal Large Language Models via Dynamic Visual-Token Exit and the Empirical Findings
1394. NeurIPS 2025ACT as Human: Multimodal Large Language Model Data Annotation with Critical Thinking
1395. NeurIPS 2025Actial: Activate Spatial Reasoning Ability of Multimodal Large Language Models
1396. NeurIPS 2025Activated LoRA: Fine-tuned LLMs for Intrinsics
1397. NeurIPS 2025Active Test-time Vision-Language Navigation
1398. NeurIPS 2025ActiveVOO: Value of Observation Guided Active Knowledge Acquisition for Open-World Embodied Lifted Regression Planning
1399. NeurIPS 2025AdaLRS: Loss-Guided Adaptive Learning Rate Search for Efficient Foundation Model Pretraining
1400. NeurIPS 2025Adaptive Gradient Masking for Balancing ID and MLLM-based Representations in Recommendation

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.