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 32 of 35

1551. NeurIPS 2024One Token to Seg Them All: Language Instructed Reasoning Segmentation in Videos
1552. NeurIPS 2024One-to-Normal: Anomaly Personalization for Few-shot Anomaly Detection
1553. NeurIPS 2024OpenDlign: Open-World Point Cloud Understanding with Depth-Aligned Images
1554. NeurIPS 2024Optimized Feature Generation for Tabular Data via LLMs with Decision Tree Reasoning
1555. NeurIPS 2024Optimus-1: Hybrid Multimodal Memory Empowered Agents Excel in Long-Horizon Tasks
1556. NeurIPS 2024OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer Environments
1557. NeurIPS 2024Pandora's Box: Towards Building Universal Attackers against Real-World Large Vision-Language Models
1558. NeurIPS 2024PERIA: Perceive, Reason, Imagine, Act via Holistic Language and Vision Planning for Manipulation
1559. NeurIPS 2024Personalized Instance-based Navigation Toward User-Specific Objects in Realistic Environments
1560. NeurIPS 2024Personalizing Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback with Variational Preference Learning
1561. NeurIPS 2024PertEval: Unveiling Real Knowledge Capacity of LLMs with Knowledge-Invariant Perturbations
1562. NeurIPS 2024PLIP: Language-Image Pre-training for Person Representation Learning
1563. NeurIPS 2024PPLNs: Parametric Piecewise Linear Networks for Event-Based Temporal Modeling and Beyond
1564. NeurIPS 2024Pre-trained Text-to-Image Diffusion Models Are Versatile Representation Learners for Control
1565. NeurIPS 2024Prejudice and Volatility: A Statistical Framework for Measuring Social Discrimination in Large Language Models
1566. NeurIPS 2024Prism: A Framework for Decoupling and Assessing the Capabilities of VLMs
1567. NeurIPS 2024Privacy Backdoors: Enhancing Membership Inference through Poisoning Pre-trained Models
1568. NeurIPS 2024Private Attribute Inference from Images with Vision-Language Models
1569. NeurIPS 2024Probabilistic Conformal Distillation for Enhancing Missing Modality Robustness
1570. NeurIPS 2024PromptFix: You Prompt and We Fix the Photo
1571. NeurIPS 2024Propensity Score Alignment of Unpaired Multimodal Data
1572. NeurIPS 2024Prune and Repaint: Content-Aware Image Retargeting for any Ratio
1573. NeurIPS 2024Q-VLM: Post-training Quantization for Large Vision-Language Models
1574. NeurIPS 2024QBB: Quantization with Binary Bases for LLMs
1575. NeurIPS 2024QUEST: Quadruple Multimodal Contrastive Learning with Constraints and Self-Penalization
1576. NeurIPS 2024RaVL: Discovering and Mitigating Spurious Correlations in Fine-Tuned Vision-Language Models
1577. NeurIPS 2024Recognize Any Regions
1578. NeurIPS 2024Referring Human Pose and Mask Estimation In the Wild
1579. NeurIPS 2024Relationship Prompt Learning is Enough for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
1580. NeurIPS 2024ReMI: A Dataset for Reasoning with Multiple Images
1581. NeurIPS 2024Renovating Names in Open-Vocabulary Segmentation Benchmarks
1582. NeurIPS 2024RepLiQA: A Question-Answering Dataset for Benchmarking LLMs on Unseen Reference Content
1583. NeurIPS 2024RestoreAgent: Autonomous Image Restoration Agent via Multimodal Large Language Models
1584. NeurIPS 2024Rethinking Misalignment in Vision-Language Model Adaptation from a Causal Perspective
1585. NeurIPS 2024Revisiting Few-Shot Object Detection with Vision-Language Models
1586. NeurIPS 2024Revisiting the Integration of Convolution and Attention for Vision Backbone
1587. NeurIPS 2024ReXTime: A Benchmark Suite for Reasoning-Across-Time in Videos
1588. NeurIPS 2024RoboMamba: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model for Robotic Reasoning and Manipulation
1589. NeurIPS 2024Robust Sleep Staging over Incomplete Multimodal Physiological Signals via Contrastive Imagination
1590. NeurIPS 2024RSA: Resolving Scale Ambiguities in Monocular Depth Estimators through Language Descriptions
1591. NeurIPS 2024Scene Graph Generation with Role-Playing Large Language Models
1592. NeurIPS 2024SciFIBench: Benchmarking Large Multimodal Models for Scientific Figure Interpretation
1593. NeurIPS 2024SciInstruct: a Self-Reflective Instruction Annotated Dataset for Training Scientific Language Models
1594. NeurIPS 2024SeafloorAI: A Large-scale Vision-Language Dataset for Seafloor Geological Survey
1595. NeurIPS 2024SearchLVLMs: A Plug-and-Play Framework for Augmenting Large Vision-Language Models by Searching Up-to-Date Internet Knowledge
1596. NeurIPS 2024Seeing Beyond the Crop: Using Language Priors for Out-of-Bounding Box Keypoint Prediction
1597. NeurIPS 2024Seeing the Image: Prioritizing Visual Correlation by Contrastive Alignment
1598. NeurIPS 2024SegVol: Universal and Interactive Volumetric Medical Image Segmentation
1599. NeurIPS 2024SELECT: A Large-Scale Benchmark of Data Curation Strategies for Image Classification
1600. NeurIPS 2024SelectIT: Selective Instruction Tuning for LLMs via Uncertainty-Aware Self-Reflection

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.