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 31 of 35

1501. NeurIPS 2024Mars: Situated Inductive Reasoning in an Open-World Environment
1502. NeurIPS 2024MathPile: A Billion-Token-Scale Pretraining Corpus for Math
1503. NeurIPS 2024Matryoshka Query Transformer for Large Vision-Language Models
1504. NeurIPS 2024MaVEn: An Effective Multi-granularity Hybrid Visual Encoding Framework for Multimodal Large Language Model
1505. NeurIPS 2024Me, Myself, and AI: The Situational Awareness Dataset (SAD) for LLMs
1506. NeurIPS 2024Measuring Dejavu Memorization Efficiently
1507. NeurIPS 2024Measuring Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning with MATH-Vision Dataset
1508. NeurIPS 2024MECD: Unlocking Multi-Event Causal Discovery in Video Reasoning
1509. NeurIPS 2024MedCalc-Bench: Evaluating Large Language Models for Medical Calculations
1510. NeurIPS 2024MediQ: Question-Asking LLMs and a Benchmark for Reliable Interactive Clinical Reasoning
1511. NeurIPS 2024Membership Inference Attacks against Large Vision-Language Models
1512. NeurIPS 2024MemVLT: Vision-Language Tracking with Adaptive Memory-based Prompts
1513. NeurIPS 2024MEQA: A Benchmark for Multi-hop Event-centric Question Answering with Explanations
1514. NeurIPS 2024MetaUAS: Universal Anomaly Segmentation with One-Prompt Meta-Learning
1515. NeurIPS 2024Meteor: Mamba-based Traversal of Rationale for Large Language and Vision Models
1516. NeurIPS 2024Micro-Bench: A Microscopy Benchmark for Vision-Language Understanding
1517. NeurIPS 2024Mind's Eye of LLMs: Visualization-of-Thought Elicits Spatial Reasoning in Large Language Models
1518. NeurIPS 2024MInference 1.0: Accelerating Pre-filling for Long-Context LLMs via Dynamic Sparse Attention
1519. NeurIPS 2024MINT-1T: Scaling Open-Source Multimodal Data by 10x: A Multimodal Dataset with One Trillion Tokens
1520. NeurIPS 2024Mitigating Object Hallucination via Concentric Causal Attention
1521. NeurIPS 2024MLLM-CompBench: A Comparative Reasoning Benchmark for Multimodal LLMs
1522. NeurIPS 2024MLLMGuard: A Multi-dimensional Safety Evaluation Suite for Multimodal Large Language Models
1523. NeurIPS 2024MMBench-Video: A Long-Form Multi-Shot Benchmark for Holistic Video Understanding
1524. NeurIPS 2024MmCows: A Multimodal Dataset for Dairy Cattle Monitoring
1525. NeurIPS 2024MMDU: A Multi-Turn Multi-Image Dialog Understanding Benchmark and Instruction-Tuning Dataset for LVLMs
1526. NeurIPS 2024MMLONGBENCH-DOC: Benchmarking Long-context Document Understanding with Visualizations
1527. NeurIPS 2024MMM-RS: A Multi-modal, Multi-GSD, Multi-scene Remote Sensing Dataset and Benchmark for Text-to-Image Generation
1528. NeurIPS 2024MoGU: A Framework for Enhancing Safety of LLMs While Preserving Their Usability
1529. NeurIPS 2024MoME: Mixture of Multimodal Experts for Generalist Multimodal Large Language Models
1530. NeurIPS 2024MoTE: Reconciling Generalization with Specialization for Visual-Language to Video Knowledge Transfer
1531. NeurIPS 2024MoVA: Adapting Mixture of Vision Experts to Multimodal Context
1532. NeurIPS 2024MR-Ben: A Meta-Reasoning Benchmark for Evaluating System-2 Thinking in LLMs
1533. NeurIPS 2024Multi-modal Situated Reasoning in 3D Scenes
1534. NeurIPS 2024Multilingual Diversity Improves Vision-Language Representations
1535. NeurIPS 2024Multimodal Large Language Models Make Text-to-Image Generative Models Align Better
1536. NeurIPS 2024Multimodal Task Vectors Enable Many-Shot Multimodal In-Context Learning
1537. NeurIPS 2024MultiOOD: Scaling Out-of-Distribution Detection for Multiple Modalities
1538. NeurIPS 2024MultiTrust: A Comprehensive Benchmark Towards Trustworthy Multimodal Large Language Models
1539. NeurIPS 2024NaturalBench: Evaluating Vision-Language Models on Natural Adversarial Samples
1540. NeurIPS 2024Needle In A Multimodal Haystack
1541. NeurIPS 2024Neuro-Vision to Language: Enhancing Brain Recording-based Visual Reconstruction and Language Interaction
1542. NeurIPS 2024No "Zero-Shot" Without Exponential Data: Pretraining Concept Frequency Determines Multimodal Model Performance
1543. NeurIPS 2024No Filter: Cultural and Socioeconomic Diversity in Contrastive Vision-Language Models
1544. NeurIPS 2024NoiseGPT: Label Noise Detection and Rectification through Probability Curvature
1545. NeurIPS 2024Noisy Ostracods: A Fine-Grained, Imbalanced Real-World Dataset for Benchmarking Robust Machine Learning and Label Correction Methods
1546. NeurIPS 2024NYU CTF Bench: A Scalable Open-Source Benchmark Dataset for Evaluating LLMs in Offensive Security
1547. NeurIPS 2024Octopus: A Multi-modal LLM with Parallel Recognition and Sequential Understanding
1548. NeurIPS 2024OlympicArena: Benchmarking Multi-discipline Cognitive Reasoning for Superintelligent AI
1549. NeurIPS 2024OMG-LLaVA: Bridging Image-level, Object-level, Pixel-level Reasoning and Understanding
1550. NeurIPS 2024OmniJARVIS: Unified Vision-Language-Action Tokenization Enables Open-World Instruction Following Agents

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.