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 30 of 35

1451. NeurIPS 2024II-Bench: An Image Implication Understanding Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models
1452. NeurIPS 2024Image Textualization: An Automatic Framework for Generating Rich and Detailed Image Descriptions
1453. NeurIPS 2024Image2Struct: A Benchmark for Evaluating Vision-Language Models in Extracting Structured Information from Images
1454. NeurIPS 2024Image2Struct: Benchmarking Structure Extraction for Vision-Language Models
1455. NeurIPS 2024Images that Sound: Composing Images and Sounds on a Single Canvas
1456. NeurIPS 2024IMDL-BenCo: A Comprehensive Benchmark and Codebase for Image Manipulation Detection & Localization
1457. NeurIPS 2024ImOV3D: Learning Open Vocabulary Point Clouds 3D Object Detection from Only 2D Images
1458. NeurIPS 2024IMPACT: A Large-scale Integrated Multimodal Patent Analysis and Creation Dataset for Design Patents
1459. NeurIPS 2024Implicit Multimodal Alignment: On the Generalization of Frozen LLMs to Multimodal Inputs
1460. NeurIPS 2024InfiBench: Evaluating the Question-Answering Capabilities of Code Large Language Models
1461. NeurIPS 2024InfLLM: Training-Free Long-Context Extrapolation for LLMs with an Efficient Context Memory
1462. NeurIPS 2024INQUIRE: A Natural World Text-to-Image Retrieval Benchmark
1463. NeurIPS 2024InstructG2I: Synthesizing Images from Multimodal Attributed Graphs
1464. NeurIPS 2024Instruction-Guided Visual Masking
1465. NeurIPS 2024Interfacing Foundation Models' Embeddings
1466. NeurIPS 2024InternLM-XComposer2-4KHD: A Pioneering Large Vision-Language Model Handling Resolutions from 336 Pixels to 4K HD
1467. NeurIPS 2024Interpret Your Decision: Logical Reasoning Regularization for Generalization in Visual Classification
1468. NeurIPS 2024Interpretable Image Classification with Adaptive Prototype-based Vision Transformers
1469. NeurIPS 2024Interpreting and Analysing CLIP's Zero-Shot Image Classification via Mutual Knowledge
1470. NeurIPS 2024Interpreting CLIP with Sparse Linear Concept Embeddings (SpLiCE)
1471. NeurIPS 2024IPO: Interpretable Prompt Optimization for Vision-Language Models
1472. NeurIPS 2024Is A Picture Worth A Thousand Words? Delving Into Spatial Reasoning for Vision Language Models
1473. NeurIPS 2024JourneyBench: A Challenging One-Stop Vision-Language Understanding Benchmark of Generated Images
1474. NeurIPS 2024Kangaroo: Lossless Self-Speculative Decoding for Accelerating LLMs via Double Early Exiting
1475. NeurIPS 2024KptLLM: Unveiling the Power of Large Language Model for Keypoint Comprehension
1476. NeurIPS 2024LAVIB: A Large-scale Video Interpolation Benchmark
1477. NeurIPS 2024Learning Action and Reasoning-Centric Image Editing from Videos and Simulation
1478. NeurIPS 2024Learning Frequency-Adapted Vision Foundation Model for Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation
1479. NeurIPS 2024Learning Multimodal Behaviors from Scratch with Diffusion Policy Gradient
1480. NeurIPS 2024Learning Spatially-Aware Language and Audio Embeddings
1481. NeurIPS 2024Learning to Reason Iteratively and Parallelly for Complex Visual Reasoning Scenarios
1482. NeurIPS 2024Learning Truncated Causal History Model for Video Restoration
1483. NeurIPS 2024Lever LM: Configuring In-Context Sequence to Lever Large Vision Language Models
1484. NeurIPS 2024Leveraging Visual Tokens for Extended Text Contexts in Multi-Modal Learning
1485. NeurIPS 2024Lexicon3D: Probing Visual Foundation Models for Complex 3D Scene Understanding
1486. NeurIPS 2024LG-CAV: Train Any Concept Activation Vector with Language Guidance
1487. NeurIPS 2024Linearly Decomposing and Recomposing Vision Transformers for Diverse-Scale Models
1488. NeurIPS 2024LINGOLY: A Benchmark of Olympiad-Level Linguistic Reasoning Puzzles in Low Resource and Extinct Languages
1489. NeurIPS 2024LIVE: Learnable In-Context Vector for Visual Question Answering
1490. NeurIPS 2024LLaMo: Large Language Model-based Molecular Graph Assistant
1491. NeurIPS 2024LLMCBench: Benchmarking Large Language Model Compression for Efficient Deployment
1492. NeurIPS 2024LLMs Can Evolve Continually on Modality for $\mathbb{X}$-Modal Reasoning
1493. NeurIPS 2024LongVideoBench: A Benchmark for Long-context Interleaved Video-Language Understanding
1494. NeurIPS 2024LOVA3: Learning to Visual Question Answering, Asking and Assessment
1495. NeurIPS 2024Lumen: Unleashing Versatile Vision-Centric Capabilities of Large Multimodal Models
1496. NeurIPS 2024M$^3$GPT: An Advanced Multimodal, Multitask Framework for Motion Comprehension and Generation
1497. NeurIPS 2024Magnet: We Never Know How Text-to-Image Diffusion Models Work, Until We Learn How Vision-Language Models Function
1498. NeurIPS 2024Make-it-Real: Unleashing Large Multimodal Model for Painting 3D Objects with Realistic Materials
1499. NeurIPS 2024MAN TruckScenes: A multimodal dataset for autonomous trucking in diverse conditions
1500. NeurIPS 2024MARPLE: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Inference

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.