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

5,190 papers, page 3 of 104

101. CVPR 2026Beyond Sequential Tools A Unified VLM Agent System for Photographic
102. CVPR 2026Beyond Single Images A Comprehensive Benchmark for Album-Level Vision-Language Understanding
103. CVPR 2026Beyond Single Solution Multi-Hypothesis Deep Unfolding Network for Image Compressive
104. CVPR 2026Beyond Static Frames Temporal Aggregate-and-Restore Vision Transformer for Human Pose
105. CVPR 2026Beyond Strict Pairing Arbitrarily Paired Training for High-Performance Infrared and
106. CVPR 2026Beyond Success Refining Elegant Robot Manipulation from Mixed-Quality Data via
107. CVPR 2026Beyond the Global Scores Fine-Grained Token Grounding as a Robust
108. CVPR 2026Beyond the Ground Truth Enhanced Supervision for Image Restoration
109. CVPR 2026Beyond the Static-World Lifelong Learning for All-in-One Medical Image Restoration
110. CVPR 2026Beyond Whats Shared Recovering Lost Unique Information from Intermediate Layers
111. CVPR 2026Bi-Bridge Bidirectional Diffusion Bridges for Low-Light Image Enhancement
112. CVPR 2026Bias Is a Subspace Not a Coordinate A Geometric Rethinking
113. CVPR 2026Bidirectional Multimodal Prompt Learning with Scale-Aware Training for Few-Shot Multi-Class
114. CVPR 2026BiEvLight Bi-level Learning of Task-Aware Event Refinement for Low-Light Image
115. CVPR 2026BiGMINT Biologically-guided Hierarchical Multimodal Integration for Modeling Multiple Compound Activities
116. CVPR 2026Bilevel Layer-Positioning LoRA for Real Image Dehazing
117. CVPR 2026BinaryAttention One-Bit QK-Attention for Vision and Diffusion Transformers
118. CVPR 2026BiomedCCPL Causal Conditional Prompt Learning for Biomedical Vision-Language Models
119. CVPR 2026BiOTPrompt Bidirectional Optimal Transport Guided Prompting for Disease Evolution-aware Radiology
120. CVPR 2026BioVITA Biological Dataset Model and Benchmark for Visual-Textual-Acoustic Alignment
121. CVPR 2026BIT Matching-based Bi-directional Interaction Transformation Network for Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification
122. CVPR 2026Blink Dynamic Visual Token Resolution for Enhanced Multimodal Understanding
123. CVPR 2026Boosting Document Parsing Efficiency and Performance with Coarse-to-Fine Visual Processing
124. CVPR 2026Boosting Reasoning in Large Multimodal Models via Activation Replay
125. CVPR 2026Boosting Vision-Language Models Towards Cross-Domain Incremental Object Detection
126. CVPR 2026Boosting Vision-Language-Action Finetuning with Feasible Action Neighborhood Prior
127. CVPR 2026BOP-ASK Object-Interaction Reasoning for Vision-Language Models
128. CVPR 2026Breaking Multimodal LLM Safety via Video-Driven Prompting
129. CVPR 2026Breaking Semantic Boundaries Distribution-Guided Semantic Exploration for Creative Generation
130. CVPR 2026Breaking the Continuum Discrete Distribution Learning for Structural MRI Reconstruction
131. CVPR 2026Breaking the Illusion When Positive Meets Negative in Multimodal Decoding
132. CVPR 2026Breaking the Regional Perception Bottleneck of Multimodal Large Language Models
133. CVPR 2026Brewing Stronger Features Dual-Teacher Distillation for Multispectral Earth Observation
134. CVPR 2026BridgeEQA Virtual Embodied Agents for Real Bridge Inspections
135. CVPR 2026Bridging Brain and Semantics A Hierarchical Framework for Semantically Enhanced
136. CVPR 2026Bridging Domain Expertise and Generalization for Performance Estimation
137. CVPR 2026Bridging Fidelity-Reality with Controllable One-Step Diffusion for Image Super-Resolution
138. CVPR 2026Bridging Pixels and Words Mask-Aware Local Semantic Fusion for Multimodal
139. CVPR 2026Bridging the 2D-3D Gap A Hierarchical Semantic-Geometric Map for Vision
140. CVPR 2026Bringing Your Portrait to 3D Presence
141. CVPR 2026Building Robust Vision Encoders for Cross-Dataset Evaluation in Immunofluorescent Microscopy
142. CVPR 2026CADFS A Big CAD Program Dataset and Framework for Computer-Aided
143. CVPR 2026Camera Control for Text-to-Image Generation via Learning Viewpoint Tokens
144. CVPR 2026Can a Second-View Image Be a Language Geometric and Semantic
145. CVPR 2026Can Natural Image Autoencoders Compactly Tokenize fMRI Volumes for Long-Range
146. CVPR 2026Can You Learn to See Without Images Procedural Warm-Up for
147. CVPR 2026CapNav Benchmarking Vision Language Models on Capability-conditioned Indoor Navigation
148. CVPR 2026CAPT Confusion-Aware Prompt Tuning for Reducing Vision-Language Misalignment
149. CVPR 2026CaptionFormer Unified Segmentation Tracking and Captioning for Spatio-Temporal Objects
150. CVPR 2026CAR-SAM Cross-Attention Reconstruction for Post-Training Quantization of the Segment Anything

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.