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

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1551. NeurIPS 2025CovMatch: Cross-Covariance Guided Multimodal Dataset Distillation with Trainable Text Encoder
1552. NeurIPS 2025CPathAgent: An Agent-based Foundation Model for Interpretable High-Resolution Pathology Image Analysis Mimicking Pathologists' Diagnostic Logic
1553. NeurIPS 2025Creativity or Brute Force? Using Brainteasers as a Window into the Problem-Solving Abilities of Large Language Models
1554. NeurIPS 2025CrypticBio: A Large Multimodal Dataset for Visually Confusing Species
1555. NeurIPS 2025Curriculum Model Merging: Harmonizing Chemical LLMs for Enhanced Cross-Task Generalization
1556. NeurIPS 2025CURV: Coherent Uncertainty-Aware Reasoning in Vision-Language Models for X-Ray Report Generation
1557. NeurIPS 2025CXReasonBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Structured Diagnostic Reasoning in Chest X-rays
1558. NeurIPS 2025CyIN: Cyclic Informative Latent Space for Bridging Complete and Incomplete Multimodal Learning
1559. NeurIPS 2025DAMamba: Vision State Space Model with Dynamic Adaptive Scan
1560. NeurIPS 2025Data Mixing Can Induce Phase Transitions in Knowledge Acquisition
1561. NeurIPS 2025Data Selection Matters: Towards Robust Instruction Tuning of Large Multimodal Models
1562. NeurIPS 2025Data-Dependent Regret Bounds for Constrained MABs
1563. NeurIPS 2025Data-Juicer 2.0: Cloud-Scale Adaptive Data Processing for and with Foundation Models
1564. NeurIPS 2025Dataset Distillation for Pre-Trained Self-Supervised Vision Models
1565. NeurIPS 2025DATE-LM: Benchmarking Data Attribution Evaluation for Large Language Models
1566. NeurIPS 2025Decoupling Contrastive Decoding: Robust Hallucination Mitigation in Multimodal Large Language Models
1567. NeurIPS 2025Deeper with Riemannian Geometry: Overcoming Oversmoothing and Oversquashing for Graph Foundation Models
1568. NeurIPS 2025Defending Multimodal Backdoored Models by Repulsive Visual Prompt Tuning
1569. NeurIPS 2025Degradation-Aware Dynamic Schrödinger Bridge for Unpaired Image Restoration
1570. NeurIPS 2025DeltaFlow: An Efficient Multi-frame Scene Flow Estimation Method
1571. NeurIPS 2025Democratizing Clinical Risk Prediction with Cross-Cohort Cross-Modal Knowledge Transfer
1572. NeurIPS 2025DenoiseRotator: Enhance Pruning Robustness for LLMs via Importance Concentration
1573. NeurIPS 2025Depth-Bounds for Neural Networks via the Braid Arrangement
1574. NeurIPS 2025Depth-Supervised Fusion Network for Seamless-Free Image Stitching
1575. NeurIPS 2025DERD-Net: Learning Depth from Event-based Ray Densities
1576. NeurIPS 2025DermaCon-IN: A Multiconcept-Annotated Dermatological Image Dataset of Indian Skin Disorders for Clinical AI Research
1577. NeurIPS 2025DetectiumFire: A Comprehensive Multi-modal Dataset Bridging Vision and Language for Fire Understanding
1578. NeurIPS 2025DEXTER: Diffusion-Guided EXplanations with TExtual Reasoning for Vision Models
1579. NeurIPS 2025Diffusion Model as a Noise-Aware Latent Reward Model for Step-Level Preference Optimization
1580. NeurIPS 2025Dimension-Reduction Attack! Video Generative Models are Experts on Controllable Image Synthesis
1581. NeurIPS 2025Directed-Tokens: A Robust Multi-Modality Alignment Approach to Large Language-Vision Models
1582. NeurIPS 2025DisasterM3: A Remote Sensing Vision-Language Dataset for Disaster Damage Assessment and Response
1583. NeurIPS 2025DISCO: Disentangled Communication Steering for Large Language Models
1584. NeurIPS 2025Discovering Compositional Hallucinations in LVLMs
1585. NeurIPS 2025Disentanglement Beyond Static vs. Dynamic: A Benchmark and Evaluation Framework for Multi-Factor Sequential Representations
1586. NeurIPS 2025Distil-E2D: Distilling Image-to-Depth Priors for Event-Based Monocular Depth Estimation
1587. NeurIPS 2025Diversity as a Reward: Fine-Tuning LLMs on a Mixture of Domain-Undetermined Data
1588. NeurIPS 2025Do LLMs Really Forget? Evaluating Unlearning with Knowledge Correlation and Confidence Awareness
1589. NeurIPS 2025Do LVLMs Truly Understand Video Anomalies? Revealing Hallucination via Co-Occurrence Patterns
1590. NeurIPS 2025Domain Adaptive Hashing Retrieval via VLM Assisted Pseudo-Labeling and Dual Space Adaptation
1591. NeurIPS 2025Don’t Forget the Enjoin: FocalLoRA for Instruction Hierarchical Alignment in Large Language Models
1592. NeurIPS 2025DON’T NEED RETRAINING: A Mixture of DETR and Vision Foundation Models for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Object Detection
1593. NeurIPS 2025DOTA: Distributional Test-time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models
1594. NeurIPS 2025Dr. RAW: Towards General High-Level Vision from RAW with Efficient Task Conditioning
1595. NeurIPS 2025Drag-and-Drop LLMs: Zero-Shot Prompt-to-Weights
1596. NeurIPS 2025DreamPRM: Domain-reweighted Process Reward Model for Multimodal Reasoning
1597. NeurIPS 2025DreamVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model Dreamed with Comprehensive World Knowledge
1598. NeurIPS 2025DrVD-Bench: Do Vision-Language Models Reason Like Human Doctors in Medical Image Diagnosis?
1599. NeurIPS 2025Dual-Stage Value-Guided Inference with Margin-Based Reward Adjustment for Fast and Faithful VLM Captioning
1600. NeurIPS 2025DualCnst: Enhancing Zero-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection via Text-Image Consistency in Vision-Language Models

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.