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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1401. NeurIPS 2025Adaptive Re-calibration Learning for Balanced Multimodal Intention Recognition
1402. NeurIPS 2025AdaSTaR: Adaptive Data Sampling for Training Self-Taught Reasoners
1403. NeurIPS 2025AdaVideoRAG: Omni-Contextual Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Efficient Long Video Understanding
1404. NeurIPS 2025ADMN: A Layer-Wise Adaptive Multimodal Network for Dynamic Input Noise and Compute Resources
1405. NeurIPS 2025Advancing Compositional Awareness in CLIP with Efficient Fine-Tuning
1406. NeurIPS 2025AdvEDM: Fine-grained Adversarial Attack against VLM-based Embodied Agents
1407. NeurIPS 2025Adversarial Attacks against Closed-Source MLLMs via Feature Optimal Alignment
1408. NeurIPS 2025AffordBot: 3D Fine-grained Embodied Reasoning via Multimodal Large Language Models
1409. NeurIPS 2025AgMMU: A Comprehensive Agricultural Multimodal Understanding Benchmark
1410. NeurIPS 2025Aha! - Predicting What Matters Next: Online Highlight Detection Without Looking Ahead
1411. NeurIPS 2025AI Progress Should Be Measured by Capability-Per-Resource, Not Scale Alone: A Framework for Gradient-Guided Resource Allocation in LLMs
1412. NeurIPS 2025AI Testing Should Account for Sophisticated Strategic Behaviour
1413. NeurIPS 2025AION-1: Omnimodal Foundation Model for Astronomical Sciences
1414. NeurIPS 2025ALE-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Objective-Driven Algorithm Engineering
1415. NeurIPS 2025Aligning by Misaligning: Boundary-aware Curriculum Learning for Multimodal Alignment
1416. NeurIPS 2025AlignVLM: Bridging Vision and Language Latent Spaces for Multimodal Document Understanding
1417. NeurIPS 2025AlphaDecay: Module-wise Weight Decay for Heavy-Tailed Balancing in LLMs
1418. NeurIPS 2025ALTo: Adaptive-Length Tokenizer for Autoregressive Mask Generation
1419. NeurIPS 2025Amplifying Prominent Representations in Multimodal Learning via Variational Dirichlet Process
1420. NeurIPS 2025An Evidence-Based Post-Hoc Adjustment Framework for Anomaly Detection Under Data Contamination
1421. NeurIPS 2025An Information-theoretical Framework for Understanding Out-of-distribution Detection with Pretrained Vision-Language Models
1422. NeurIPS 2025Analyzing Fine-Grained Alignment and Enhancing Vision Understanding in Multimodal Language Models
1423. NeurIPS 2025AnomalyCoT: A Multi-Scenario Chain-of-Thought Dataset for Multimodal Large Language Models
1424. NeurIPS 2025AOR: Anatomical Ontology-Guided Reasoning for Medical Large Multimodal Model in Chest X-Ray Interpretation
1425. NeurIPS 2025Approximate Domain Unlearning for Vision-Language Models
1426. NeurIPS 2025Approximately Aligned Decoding
1427. NeurIPS 2025ARGenSeg: Image Segmentation with Autoregressive Image Generation Model
1428. NeurIPS 2025Asymmetric Dual-Lens Video Deblurring
1429. NeurIPS 2025Atom of Thoughts for Markov LLM Test-Time Scaling
1430. NeurIPS 2025Attack via Overfitting: 10-shot Benign Fine-tuning to Jailbreak LLMs
1431. NeurIPS 2025Attention! Your Vision Language Model Could Be Maliciously Manipulated
1432. NeurIPS 2025Automated Model Discovery via Multi-modal & Multi-step Pipeline
1433. NeurIPS 2025Automatic Synthetic Data and Fine-grained Adaptive Feature Alignment for Composed Person Retrieval
1434. NeurIPS 2025AutoVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Adaptive Reasoning and Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
1435. NeurIPS 2025Aux-Think: Exploring Reasoning Strategies for Data-Efficient Vision-Language Navigation
1436. NeurIPS 2025AVCD: Mitigating Hallucinations in Audio-Visual Large Language Models through Contrastive Decoding
1437. NeurIPS 2025AVerImaTeC: A Dataset for Automatic Verification of Image-Text Claims with Evidence from the Web
1438. NeurIPS 2025Backpropagation-Free Test-Time Adaptation via Probabilistic Gaussian Alignment
1439. NeurIPS 2025BadVLA: Towards Backdoor Attacks on Vision-Language-Action Models via Objective-Decoupled Optimization
1440. NeurIPS 2025Balanced Token Pruning: Accelerating Vision Language Models Beyond Local Optimization
1441. NeurIPS 2025Balancing Multimodal Training Through Game-Theoretic Regularization
1442. NeurIPS 2025BEAST: Efficient Tokenization of B-Splines Encoded Action Sequences for Imitation Learning
1443. NeurIPS 2025BeliefMapNav: 3D Voxel-Based Belief Map for Zero-Shot Object Navigation
1444. NeurIPS 2025Benchmarking Egocentric Multimodal Goal Inference for Assistive Wearable Agents
1445. NeurIPS 2025Benchmarking Retrieval-Augmented Multimomal Generation for Document Question Answering
1446. NeurIPS 2025Benford’s Curse: Tracing Digit Bias to Numerical Hallucination in LLMs
1447. NeurIPS 2025Better Tokens for Better 3D: Advancing Vision-Language Modeling in 3D Medical Imaging
1448. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Accuracy: Dissecting Mathematical Reasoning for LLMs Under Reinforcement Learning
1449. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Attention or Similarity: Maximizing Conditional Diversity for Token Pruning in MLLMs
1450. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Components: Singular Vector-Based Interpretability of Transformer Circuits

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.