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 29 of 35

1401. NeurIPS 2024Everyday Object Meets Vision-and-Language Navigation Agent via Backdoor
1402. NeurIPS 2024EvolveDirector: Approaching Advanced Text-to-Image Generation with Large Vision-Language Models
1403. NeurIPS 2024Exploiting Descriptive Completeness Prior for Cross Modal Hashing with Incomplete Labels
1404. NeurIPS 2024EZ-HOI: VLM Adaptation via Guided Prompt Learning for Zero-Shot HOI Detection
1405. NeurIPS 2024Facilitating Multimodal Classification via Dynamically Learning Modality Gap
1406. NeurIPS 2024FairMedFM: Fairness Benchmarking for Medical Imaging Foundation Models
1407. NeurIPS 2024FAST: A Dual-tier Few-Shot Learning Paradigm for Whole Slide Image Classification
1408. NeurIPS 2024Federated Learning from Vision-Language Foundation Models: Theoretical Analysis and Method
1409. NeurIPS 2024FEDMEKI: A Benchmark for Scaling Medical Foundation Models via Federated Knowledge Injection
1410. NeurIPS 2024Few-Shot Adversarial Prompt Learning on Vision-Language Models
1411. NeurIPS 2024FindingEmo: An Image Dataset for Emotion Recognition in the Wild
1412. NeurIPS 2024Fine-grained Image-to-LiDAR Contrastive Distillation with Visual Foundation Models
1413. NeurIPS 2024Fine-Tuning Large Vision-Language Models as Decision-Making Agents via Reinforcement Learning
1414. NeurIPS 2024FIRE: A Dataset for Feedback Integration and Refinement Evaluation of Multimodal Models
1415. NeurIPS 2024FlexCap: Describe Anything in Images in Controllable Detail
1416. NeurIPS 2024Fourier-enhanced Implicit Neural Fusion Network for Multispectral and Hyperspectral Image Fusion
1417. NeurIPS 2024Free Lunch in Pathology Foundation Model: Task-specific Model Adaptation with Concept-Guided Feature Enhancement
1418. NeurIPS 2024From Text to Trajectory: Exploring Complex Constraint Representation and Decomposition in Safe Reinforcement Learning
1419. NeurIPS 2024Frustratingly Easy Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models
1420. NeurIPS 2024FuseMoE: Mixture-of-Experts Transformers for Fleximodal Fusion
1421. NeurIPS 2024G2D: From Global to Dense Radiography Representation Learning via Vision-Language Pre-training
1422. NeurIPS 2024GC-Bench: An Open and Unified Benchmark for Graph Condensation
1423. NeurIPS 2024GenAI Arena: An Open Evaluation Platform for Generative Models
1424. NeurIPS 2024GenArtist: Multimodal LLM as an Agent for Unified Image Generation and Editing
1425. NeurIPS 2024GenRL: Multimodal-foundation world models for generalization in embodied agents
1426. NeurIPS 2024GITA: Graph to Visual and Textual Integration for Vision-Language Graph Reasoning
1427. NeurIPS 2024GMAI-MMBench: A Comprehensive Multimodal Evaluation Benchmark Towards General Medical AI
1428. NeurIPS 2024GoMatching: A Simple Baseline for Video Text Spotting via Long and Short Term Matching
1429. NeurIPS 2024Graph-based Unsupervised Disentangled Representation Learning via Multimodal Large Language Models
1430. NeurIPS 2024GraphVis: Boosting LLMs with Visual Knowledge Graph Integration
1431. NeurIPS 2024Grounding Multimodal Large Language Models in Actions
1432. NeurIPS 2024HARMONIC: Harnessing LLMs for Tabular Data Synthesis and Privacy Protection
1433. NeurIPS 2024Harmonizing Stochasticity and Determinism: Scene-responsive Diverse Human Motion Prediction
1434. NeurIPS 2024Harmonizing Visual Text Comprehension and Generation
1435. NeurIPS 2024HAWK: Learning to Understand Open-World Video Anomalies
1436. NeurIPS 2024HEALNet: Multimodal Fusion for Heterogeneous Biomedical Data
1437. NeurIPS 2024HEMM: Holistic Evaluation of Multimodal Foundation Models
1438. NeurIPS 2024HENASY: Learning to Assemble Scene-Entities for Interpretable Egocentric Video-Language Model
1439. NeurIPS 2024HEST-1k: A Dataset For Spatial Transcriptomics and Histology Image Analysis
1440. NeurIPS 2024Hidden in Plain Sight: Evaluating Abstract Shape Recognition in Vision-Language Models
1441. NeurIPS 2024Hierarchical Visual Feature Aggregation for OCR-Free Document Understanding
1442. NeurIPS 2024Historical Test-time Prompt Tuning for Vision Foundation Models
1443. NeurIPS 2024Homology Consistency Constrained Efficient Tuning for Vision-Language Models
1444. NeurIPS 2024HourVideo: 1-Hour Video-Language Understanding
1445. NeurIPS 2024Human-level shape inferences: A benchmark for evaluating the 3D understanding of vision models
1446. NeurIPS 2024HumanVid: Demystifying Training Data for Camera-controllable Human Image Animation
1447. NeurIPS 2024HumanVLA: Towards Vision-Language Directed Object Rearrangement by Physical Humanoid
1448. NeurIPS 2024Humor in AI: Massive Scale Crowd-Sourced Preferences and Benchmarks for Cartoon Captioning
1449. NeurIPS 2024I2EBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Instruction-based Image Editing
1450. NeurIPS 2024IF-Font: Ideographic Description Sequence-Following Font Generation

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.