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

1,074 papers, page 3 of 22

101. NeurIPS 2025Boosting Knowledge Utilization in Multimodal Large Language Models via Adaptive Logits Fusion and Attention Reallocation
102. NeurIPS 2025Brain Harmony: A Multimodal Foundation Model Unifying Morphology and Function into 1D Tokens
103. NeurIPS 2025Brain network science modelling of sparse neural networks enables Transformers and LLMs to perform as fully connected
104. NeurIPS 2025Breaking the Batch Barrier (B3) of Contrastive Learning via Smart Batch Mining
105. NeurIPS 2025Breaking the Gradient Barrier: Unveiling Large Language Models for Strategic Classification
106. NeurIPS 2025BridgeVLA: Input-Output Alignment for Efficient 3D Manipulation Learning with Vision-Language Models
107. NeurIPS 2025Bridging the gap to real-world language-grounded visual concept learning
108. NeurIPS 2025Bridging Time and Linguistics: LLMs as Time Series Analyzer through Symbolization and Segmentation
109. NeurIPS 2025BTL-UI: Blink-Think-Link Reasoning Model for GUI Agent
110. NeurIPS 2025Building 3D Representations and Generating Motions From a Single Image via Video-Generation
111. NeurIPS 2025BurstDeflicker: A Benchmark Dataset for Flicker Removal in Dynamic Scenes
112. NeurIPS 2025C3Po: Cross-View Cross-Modality Correspondence by Pointmap Prediction
113. NeurIPS 2025C3PO: Optimized Large Language Model Cascades with Probabilistic Cost Constraints for Reasoning
114. NeurIPS 2025Calibrating Translation Decoding with Quality Estimation on LLMs
115. NeurIPS 2025CAMILA: Context-Aware Masking for Image Editing with Language Alignment
116. NeurIPS 2025Can Large Language Models Help Multimodal Language Analysis? MMLA: A Comprehensive Benchmark
117. NeurIPS 2025Can Large Multimodal Models Understand Agricultural Scenes? Benchmarking with AgroMind
118. NeurIPS 2025Can LLMs Reason Over Non-Text Modalities in a Training-Free Manner? A Case Study with In-Context Representation Learning
119. NeurIPS 2025Can Multi-Modal LLMs Provide Live Step-by-Step Task Guidance?
120. NeurIPS 2025Can We Infer Confidential Properties of Training Data from LLMs?
121. NeurIPS 2025CAPability: A Comprehensive Visual Caption Benchmark for Evaluating Both Correctness and Thoroughness
122. NeurIPS 2025Caption This, Reason That: VLMs Caught in the Middle
123. NeurIPS 2025CAS-Spec: Cascade Adaptive Self-Speculative Decoding for On-the-Fly Lossless Inference Acceleration of LLMs
124. NeurIPS 2025Cascaded Language Models for Cost-Effective Human–AI Decision-Making
125. NeurIPS 2025CAT: Circular-Convolutional Attention for Sub-Quadratic Transformers
126. NeurIPS 2025CAT: Content-Adaptive Image Tokenization
127. NeurIPS 2025Causal Head Gating: A Framework for Interpreting Roles of Attention Heads in Transformers
128. NeurIPS 2025Causal-R: A Causal-Reasoning Geometry Problem Solver for Optimized Solution Exploration
129. NeurIPS 2025Causality Meets the Table: Debiasing LLMs for Faithful TableQA via Front-Door Intervention
130. NeurIPS 2025CausalVTG: Towards Robust Video Temporal Grounding via Causal Inference
131. NeurIPS 2025CellVerse: Do Large Language Models Really Understand Cell Biology?
132. NeurIPS 2025CF-VLM：CounterFactual Vision-Language Fine-tuning
133. NeurIPS 2025CG-SSL: Concept-Guided Self-Supervised Learning
134. NeurIPS 2025ChA-MAEViT: Unifying Channel-Aware Masked Autoencoders and Multi-Channel Vision Transformers for Improved Cross-Channel Learning
135. NeurIPS 2025Chain-of-Model Learning for Language Model
136. NeurIPS 2025Chain-of-Zoom: Extreme Super-Resolution via Scale Autoregression and Preference Alignment
137. NeurIPS 2025ChartMuseum: Testing Visual Reasoning Capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models
138. NeurIPS 2025ChartSketcher: Reasoning with Multimodal Feedback and Reflection for Chart Understanding
139. NeurIPS 2025CHASM: Unveiling Covert Advertisements on Chinese Social Media
140. NeurIPS 2025ChatbotID: Identifying Chatbots with Granger Causality Test
141. NeurIPS 2025ChatVLA-2: Vision-Language-Action Model with Open-World Reasoning
142. NeurIPS 2025ChemOrch: Empowering LLMs with Chemical Intelligence via Groundbreaking Synthetic Instructions
143. NeurIPS 2025Chiron-o1: Igniting Multimodal Large Language Models towards Generalizable Medical Reasoning via Mentor-Intern Collaborative Search
144. NeurIPS 2025CHOICE: Benchmarking the Remote Sensing Capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models
145. NeurIPS 2025ChromFound: Towards A Universal Foundation Model for Single-Cell Chromatin Accessibiltiy Data
146. NeurIPS 2025CIDD: Collaborative Intelligence for Structure-Based Drug Design Empowered by LLMs
147. NeurIPS 2025CineTechBench: A Benchmark for Cinematographic Technique Understanding and Generation
148. NeurIPS 2025CLIPGaussian: Universal and Multimodal Style Transfer Based on Gaussian Splatting
149. NeurIPS 2025CLIPTTA: Robust Contrastive Vision-Language Test-Time Adaptation
150. NeurIPS 2025CMoB: Modality Valuation via Causal Effect for Balanced Multimodal 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.