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 28 of 35

1351. NeurIPS 2024Connecting the Dots: LLMs can Infer and Verbalize Latent Structure from Disparate Training Data
1352. NeurIPS 2024Continuously Learning, Adapting, and Improving: A Dual-Process Approach to Autonomous Driving
1353. NeurIPS 2024Contrasting with Symile: Simple Model-Agnostic Representation Learning for Unlimited Modalities
1354. NeurIPS 2024ControlMLLM: Training-Free Visual Prompt Learning for Multimodal Large Language Models
1355. NeurIPS 2024ConvBench: A Multi-Turn Conversation Evaluation Benchmark with Hierarchical Ablation Capability for Large Vision-Language Models
1356. NeurIPS 2024CountGD: Multi-Modal Open-World Counting
1357. NeurIPS 2024cPAPERS: A Dataset of Situated and Multimodal Interactive Conversations in Scientific Papers
1358. NeurIPS 2024Cracking the Code of Juxtaposition: Can AI Models Understand the Humorous Contradictions
1359. NeurIPS 2024Cross-modal Representation Flattening for Multi-modal Domain Generalization
1360. NeurIPS 2024CTIBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs in Cyber Threat Intelligence
1361. NeurIPS 2024CuMo: Scaling Multimodal LLM with Co-Upcycled Mixture-of-Experts
1362. NeurIPS 2024Curriculum Fine-tuning of Vision Foundation Model for Medical Image Classification Under Label Noise
1363. NeurIPS 2024DART-Eval: A Comprehensive DNA Language Model Evaluation Benchmark on Regulatory DNA
1364. NeurIPS 2024Data curation via joint example selection further accelerates multimodal learning
1365. NeurIPS 2024Decision-Making Behavior Evaluation Framework for LLMs under Uncertain Context
1366. NeurIPS 2024Deep Correlated Prompting for Visual Recognition with Missing Modalities
1367. NeurIPS 2024DeeR-VLA: Dynamic Inference of Multimodal Large Language Models for Efficient Robot Execution
1368. NeurIPS 2024Déjà Vu Memorization in Vision–Language Models
1369. NeurIPS 2024Dense Connector for MLLMs
1370. NeurIPS 2024DenseFusion-1M: Merging Vision Experts for Comprehensive Multimodal Perception
1371. NeurIPS 2024Detecting Bugs with Substantial Monetary Consequences by LLM and Rule-based Reasoning
1372. NeurIPS 2024DeTikZify: Synthesizing Graphics Programs for Scientific Figures and Sketches with TikZ
1373. NeurIPS 2024DevBench: A multimodal developmental benchmark for language learning
1374. NeurIPS 2024Diffusion-Inspired Truncated Sampler for Text-Video Retrieval
1375. NeurIPS 2024DiPEx: Dispersing Prompt Expansion for Class-Agnostic Object Detection
1376. NeurIPS 2024DiReCT: Diagnostic Reasoning for Clinical Notes via Large Language Models
1377. NeurIPS 2024Do Multimodal Foundation Models Understand Enterprise Workflows? A Benchmark for Business Process Management Tasks
1378. NeurIPS 2024Does Video-Text Pretraining Help Open-Vocabulary Online Action Detection?
1379. NeurIPS 2024Domain Adaptation for Large-Vocabulary Object Detectors
1380. NeurIPS 2024DRACO: A Denoising-Reconstruction Autoencoder for Cryo-EM
1381. NeurIPS 2024Dual Prototype Evolving for Test-Time Generalization of Vision-Language Models
1382. NeurIPS 2024E.T. Bench: Towards Open-Ended Event-Level Video-Language Understanding
1383. NeurIPS 2024E2E-MFD: Towards End-to-End Synchronous Multimodal Fusion Detection
1384. NeurIPS 2024EAI: Emotional Decision-Making of LLMs in Strategic Games and Ethical Dilemmas
1385. NeurIPS 2024Easy Regional Contrastive Learning of Expressive Fashion Representations
1386. NeurIPS 2024Easy2Hard-Bench: Standardized Difficulty Labels for Profiling LLM Performance and Generalization
1387. NeurIPS 2024Efficient Large Multi-modal Models via Visual Context Compression
1388. NeurIPS 2024ELSA: Exploiting Layer-wise N:M Sparsity for Vision Transformer Acceleration
1389. NeurIPS 2024Embodied Agent Interface: Benchmarking LLMs for Embodied Decision Making
1390. NeurIPS 2024Emotion-LLaMA: Multimodal Emotion Recognition and Reasoning with Instruction Tuning
1391. NeurIPS 2024Empowering Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification with Large Foundation Models
1392. NeurIPS 2024Enhancing Domain Adaptation through Prompt Gradient Alignment
1393. NeurIPS 2024Enhancing Large Vision Language Models with Self-Training on Image Comprehension
1394. NeurIPS 2024Enhancing LLM Reasoning via Vision-Augmented Prompting
1395. NeurIPS 2024Enhancing Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs via Principled Synthetic Logic Corpus
1396. NeurIPS 2024Enhancing vision-language models for medical imaging: bridging the 3D gap with innovative slice selection
1397. NeurIPS 2024Enhancing Zero-Shot Vision Models by Label-Free Prompt Distribution Learning and Bias Correcting
1398. NeurIPS 2024ERBench: An Entity-Relationship based Automatically Verifiable Hallucination Benchmark for Large Language Models
1399. NeurIPS 2024Evaluating Large Vision-and-Language Models on Children's Mathematical Olympiads
1400. NeurIPS 2024Evaluating Multiview Object Consistency in Humans and Image Models

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.