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

3,319 papers, page 30 of 67

1451. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Greedy Exits: Improved Early Exit Decisions for Risk Control and Reliability
1452. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Modality Collapse: Representation Blending for Multimodal Dataset Distillation
1453. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Oracle: Verifier-Supervision for Instruction Hierarchy in Reasoning and Instruction-Tuned LLMs
1454. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Single-Task: Robust Multi-Task Length Generalization for LLMs
1455. NeurIPS 2025Bifrost-1: Bridging Multimodal LLMs and Diffusion Models with Patch-level CLIP Latents
1456. NeurIPS 2025Bio-Inspired Image Restoration
1457. NeurIPS 2025BioCLIP 2: Emergent Properties from Scaling Hierarchical Contrastive Learning
1458. NeurIPS 2025BioReason: Incentivizing Multimodal Biological Reasoning within a DNA-LLM Model
1459. NeurIPS 2025Bisecle: Binding and Separation in Continual Learning for Video Language Understanding
1460. NeurIPS 2025Bits Leaked per Query: Information-Theoretic Bounds for Adversarial Attacks on LLMs
1461. NeurIPS 2025Black-Box Membership Inference Attack for LVLMs via Prior Knowledge-Calibrated Memory Probing
1462. NeurIPS 2025BLINK-Twice: You see, but do you observe? A Reasoning Benchmark on Visual Perception
1463. NeurIPS 2025Block-Biased Mamba for Long-Range Sequence Processing
1464. NeurIPS 2025BlockScan: Detecting Anomalies in Blockchain Transactions
1465. NeurIPS 2025BlurGuard: A Simple Approach for Robustifying Image Protection Against AI-Powered Editing
1466. NeurIPS 2025BMMR: A Large-Scale Bilingual Multimodal Multi-Discipline Reasoning Dataset
1467. NeurIPS 2025Boosting Knowledge Utilization in Multimodal Large Language Models via Adaptive Logits Fusion and Attention Reallocation
1468. NeurIPS 2025Brain Harmony: A Multimodal Foundation Model Unifying Morphology and Function into 1D Tokens
1469. NeurIPS 2025Brain network science modelling of sparse neural networks enables Transformers and LLMs to perform as fully connected
1470. NeurIPS 2025Breaking the Batch Barrier (B3) of Contrastive Learning via Smart Batch Mining
1471. NeurIPS 2025Breaking the Gradient Barrier: Unveiling Large Language Models for Strategic Classification
1472. NeurIPS 2025BridgeVLA: Input-Output Alignment for Efficient 3D Manipulation Learning with Vision-Language Models
1473. NeurIPS 2025Bridging the gap to real-world language-grounded visual concept learning
1474. NeurIPS 2025Bridging Time and Linguistics: LLMs as Time Series Analyzer through Symbolization and Segmentation
1475. NeurIPS 2025BTL-UI: Blink-Think-Link Reasoning Model for GUI Agent
1476. NeurIPS 2025Building 3D Representations and Generating Motions From a Single Image via Video-Generation
1477. NeurIPS 2025BurstDeflicker: A Benchmark Dataset for Flicker Removal in Dynamic Scenes
1478. NeurIPS 2025C3Po: Cross-View Cross-Modality Correspondence by Pointmap Prediction
1479. NeurIPS 2025C3PO: Optimized Large Language Model Cascades with Probabilistic Cost Constraints for Reasoning
1480. NeurIPS 2025Calibrating Translation Decoding with Quality Estimation on LLMs
1481. NeurIPS 2025CAMILA: Context-Aware Masking for Image Editing with Language Alignment
1482. NeurIPS 2025Can Large Language Models Help Multimodal Language Analysis? MMLA: A Comprehensive Benchmark
1483. NeurIPS 2025Can Large Multimodal Models Understand Agricultural Scenes? Benchmarking with AgroMind
1484. NeurIPS 2025Can LLMs Reason Over Non-Text Modalities in a Training-Free Manner? A Case Study with In-Context Representation Learning
1485. NeurIPS 2025Can Multi-Modal LLMs Provide Live Step-by-Step Task Guidance?
1486. NeurIPS 2025Can We Infer Confidential Properties of Training Data from LLMs?
1487. NeurIPS 2025CAPability: A Comprehensive Visual Caption Benchmark for Evaluating Both Correctness and Thoroughness
1488. NeurIPS 2025Caption This, Reason That: VLMs Caught in the Middle
1489. NeurIPS 2025CAS-Spec: Cascade Adaptive Self-Speculative Decoding for On-the-Fly Lossless Inference Acceleration of LLMs
1490. NeurIPS 2025Cascaded Language Models for Cost-Effective Human–AI Decision-Making
1491. NeurIPS 2025CAT: Circular-Convolutional Attention for Sub-Quadratic Transformers
1492. NeurIPS 2025CAT: Content-Adaptive Image Tokenization
1493. NeurIPS 2025Causal Head Gating: A Framework for Interpreting Roles of Attention Heads in Transformers
1494. NeurIPS 2025Causal-R: A Causal-Reasoning Geometry Problem Solver for Optimized Solution Exploration
1495. NeurIPS 2025Causality Meets the Table: Debiasing LLMs for Faithful TableQA via Front-Door Intervention
1496. NeurIPS 2025CausalVTG: Towards Robust Video Temporal Grounding via Causal Inference
1497. NeurIPS 2025CellVerse: Do Large Language Models Really Understand Cell Biology?
1498. NeurIPS 2025CF-VLM：CounterFactual Vision-Language Fine-tuning
1499. NeurIPS 2025CG-SSL: Concept-Guided Self-Supervised Learning
1500. NeurIPS 2025ChA-MAEViT: Unifying Channel-Aware Masked Autoencoders and Multi-Channel Vision Transformers for Improved Cross-Channel 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.