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 31 of 67

1501. NeurIPS 2025Chain-of-Model Learning for Language Model
1502. NeurIPS 2025Chain-of-Zoom: Extreme Super-Resolution via Scale Autoregression and Preference Alignment
1503. NeurIPS 2025ChartMuseum: Testing Visual Reasoning Capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models
1504. NeurIPS 2025ChartSketcher: Reasoning with Multimodal Feedback and Reflection for Chart Understanding
1505. NeurIPS 2025CHASM: Unveiling Covert Advertisements on Chinese Social Media
1506. NeurIPS 2025ChatbotID: Identifying Chatbots with Granger Causality Test
1507. NeurIPS 2025ChatVLA-2: Vision-Language-Action Model with Open-World Reasoning
1508. NeurIPS 2025ChemOrch: Empowering LLMs with Chemical Intelligence via Groundbreaking Synthetic Instructions
1509. NeurIPS 2025Chiron-o1: Igniting Multimodal Large Language Models towards Generalizable Medical Reasoning via Mentor-Intern Collaborative Search
1510. NeurIPS 2025CHOICE: Benchmarking the Remote Sensing Capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models
1511. NeurIPS 2025ChromFound: Towards A Universal Foundation Model for Single-Cell Chromatin Accessibiltiy Data
1512. NeurIPS 2025CIDD: Collaborative Intelligence for Structure-Based Drug Design Empowered by LLMs
1513. NeurIPS 2025CineTechBench: A Benchmark for Cinematographic Technique Understanding and Generation
1514. NeurIPS 2025CLIPGaussian: Universal and Multimodal Style Transfer Based on Gaussian Splatting
1515. NeurIPS 2025CLIPTTA: Robust Contrastive Vision-Language Test-Time Adaptation
1516. NeurIPS 2025CMoB: Modality Valuation via Causal Effect for Balanced Multimodal Learning
1517. NeurIPS 2025Co-Reinforcement Learning for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
1518. NeurIPS 2025CoC-VLA: Delving into Adversarial Domain Transfer for Explainable Autonomous Driving via Chain-of-Causality Visual-Language-Action Model
1519. NeurIPS 2025CoCoA: A Minimum Bayes Risk Framework Bridging Confidence and Consistency for Uncertainty Quantification in LLMs
1520. NeurIPS 2025COCONut-PanCap: Joint Panoptic Segmentation and Grounded Captions for Fine-Grained Understanding and Generation
1521. NeurIPS 2025Code Graph Model (CGM): A Graph-Integrated Large Language Model for Repository-Level Software Engineering Tasks
1522. NeurIPS 2025CodeGEMM: A Codebook-Centric Approach to Efficient GEMM in Quantized LLMs
1523. NeurIPS 2025CoFFT: Chain of Foresight-Focus Thought for Visual Language Models
1524. NeurIPS 2025CogPhys: Assessing Cognitive Load via Multimodal Remote and Contact-based Physiological Sensing
1525. NeurIPS 2025CogVLA: Cognition-Aligned Vision-Language-Action Models via Instruction-Driven Routing & Sparsification
1526. NeurIPS 2025Collaborating Vision, Depth, and Thermal Signals for Multi-Modal Tracking: Dataset and Algorithm
1527. NeurIPS 2025ColorBench: Can VLMs See and Understand the Colorful World? A Comprehensive Benchmark for Color Perception, Reasoning, and Robustness
1528. NeurIPS 2025Composing Global Solutions to Reasoning Tasks via Algebraic Objects in Neural Nets
1529. NeurIPS 2025Compositional Reasoning with Transformers, RNNs, and Chain of Thought
1530. NeurIPS 2025Compress & Cache: Vision token compression for efficient generation and retrieval
1531. NeurIPS 2025Concentration and excess risk bounds for imbalanced classification with synthetic oversampling
1532. NeurIPS 2025ConceptScope: Characterizing Dataset Bias via Disentangled Visual Concepts
1533. NeurIPS 2025Conditional Representation Learning for Customized Tasks
1534. NeurIPS 2025Conditioning Matters: Training Diffusion Policies is Faster Than You Think
1535. NeurIPS 2025ConfTuner: Training Large Language Models to Express Their Confidence Verbally
1536. NeurIPS 2025ConnectomeBench: Can LLMs proofread the connectome?
1537. NeurIPS 2025Constrained Entropic Unlearning: A Primal-Dual Framework for Large Language Models
1538. NeurIPS 2025Context-Aware Hierarchical Learning: A Two-Step Paradigm towards Safer LLMs
1539. NeurIPS 2025Continual Multimodal Contrastive Learning
1540. NeurIPS 2025Contrastive Representations for Temporal Reasoning
1541. NeurIPS 2025ControlFusion: A Controllable Image Fusion Network with Language-Vision Degradation Prompts
1542. NeurIPS 2025ConViS-Bench: Estimating Video Similarity Through Semantic Concepts
1543. NeurIPS 2025CoralVQA: A Large-Scale Visual Question Answering Dataset for Coral Reef Image Understanding
1544. NeurIPS 2025CoRe: Benchmarking LLMs’ Code Reasoning Capabilities through Static Analysis Tasks
1545. NeurIPS 2025CORE: Reducing UI Exposure in Mobile Agents via Collaboration Between Cloud and Local LLMs
1546. NeurIPS 2025CoreGuard: Safeguarding Foundational Capabilities of LLMs Against Model Stealing in Edge Deployment
1547. NeurIPS 2025Cost-Aware Contrastive Routing for LLMs
1548. NeurIPS 2025Counterfactual Evolution of Multimodal Datasets via Visual Programming
1549. NeurIPS 2025Counterfactual Reasoning for Steerable Pluralistic Value Alignment of Large Language Models
1550. NeurIPS 2025Counterfactual reasoning: an analysis of in-context emergence

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.