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 33 of 35

1601. NeurIPS 2024Self-Calibrated Tuning of Vision-Language Models for Out-of-Distribution Detection
1602. NeurIPS 2024SeTAR: Out-of-Distribution Detection with Selective Low-Rank Approximation
1603. NeurIPS 2024Shadowcast: Stealthy Data Poisoning Attacks Against Vision-Language Models
1604. NeurIPS 2024SHDocs: A dataset, benchmark, and method to efficiently generate high-quality, real-world specular highlight data with near-perfect alignment
1605. NeurIPS 2024Shopping MMLU: A Massive Multi-Task Online Shopping Benchmark for Large Language Models
1606. NeurIPS 2024Single Image Unlearning: Efficient Machine Unlearning in Multimodal Large Language Models
1607. NeurIPS 2024SIRIUS : Contexual Sparisty with Correction for Efficient LLMs
1608. NeurIPS 2024Slice-100K: A Multimodal Dataset for Extrusion-based 3D Printing
1609. NeurIPS 2024Slot-VLM: Object-Event Slots for Video-Language Modeling
1610. NeurIPS 2024SocialGPT: Prompting LLMs for Social Relation Reasoning via Greedy Segment Optimization
1611. NeurIPS 2024SpatialPIN: Enhancing Spatial Reasoning Capabilities of Vision-Language Models through Prompting and Interacting 3D Priors
1612. NeurIPS 2024SpatialRGPT: Grounded Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
1613. NeurIPS 2024SpeechForensics: Audio-Visual Speech Representation Learning for Face Forgery Detection
1614. NeurIPS 2024Spider2-V: How Far Are Multimodal Agents From Automating Data Science and Engineering Workflows?
1615. NeurIPS 2024SPIQA: A Dataset for Multimodal Question Answering on Scientific Papers
1616. NeurIPS 2024Splatter a Video: Video Gaussian Representation for Versatile Processing
1617. NeurIPS 2024SR-CACO-2: A Dataset for Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy Image Super-Resolution
1618. NeurIPS 2024Stabilizing Zero-Shot Prediction: A Novel Antidote to Forgetting in Continual Vision-Language Tasks
1619. NeurIPS 2024StackEval: Benchmarking LLMs in Coding Assistance
1620. NeurIPS 2024STimage-1K4M: A histopathology image-gene expression dataset for spatial transcriptomics
1621. NeurIPS 2024StreamFlow: Streamlined Multi-Frame Optical Flow Estimation for Video Sequences
1622. NeurIPS 2024Streaming Detection of Queried Event Start
1623. NeurIPS 2024Streaming Long Video Understanding with Large Language Models
1624. NeurIPS 2024SUGARCREPE++ Dataset: Vision-Language Model Sensitivity to Semantic and Lexical Alterations
1625. NeurIPS 2024SuperVLAD: Compact and Robust Image Descriptors for Visual Place Recognition
1626. NeurIPS 2024SurgicAI: A Fine-grained Platform for Data Collection and Benchmarking in Surgical Policy Learning
1627. NeurIPS 2024T2Vs Meet VLMs: A Scalable Multimodal Dataset for Visual Harmfulness Recognition
1628. NeurIPS 2024TabPedia: Towards Comprehensive Visual Table Understanding with Concept Synergy
1629. NeurIPS 2024TACT: Advancing Complex Aggregative Reasoning with Information Extraction Tools
1630. NeurIPS 2024TAPVid-3D: A Benchmark for Tracking Any Point in 3D
1631. NeurIPS 2024Task Me Anything
1632. NeurIPS 2024Testing Semantic Importance via Betting
1633. NeurIPS 2024Text-Guided Attention is All You Need for Zero-Shot Robustness in Vision-Language Models
1634. NeurIPS 2024Textual Training for the Hassle-Free Removal of Unwanted Visual Data: Case Studies on OOD and Hateful Image Detection
1635. NeurIPS 2024The FineWeb Datasets: Decanting the Web for the Finest Text Data at Scale
1636. NeurIPS 2024The Multimodal Universe: Enabling Large-Scale Machine Learning with 100 TB of Astronomical Scientific Data
1637. NeurIPS 2024Time-FFM: Towards LM-Empowered Federated Foundation Model for Time Series Forecasting
1638. NeurIPS 2024Time-MMD: Multi-Domain Multimodal Dataset for Time Series Analysis
1639. NeurIPS 2024TOPA: Extending Large Language Models for Video Understanding via Text-Only Pre-Alignment
1640. NeurIPS 2024TorchSpatial: A Location Encoding Framework and Benchmark for Spatial Representation Learning
1641. NeurIPS 2024Toward a Stable, Fair, and Comprehensive Evaluation of Object Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models
1642. NeurIPS 2024Toward Self-Improvement of LLMs via Imagination, Searching, and Criticizing
1643. NeurIPS 2024Towards Calibrated Robust Fine-Tuning of Vision-Language Models
1644. NeurIPS 2024Towards Flexible Visual Relationship Segmentation
1645. NeurIPS 2024Towards Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation Without Semantic Labels
1646. NeurIPS 2024Towards Robust Multimodal Sentiment Analysis with Incomplete Data
1647. NeurIPS 2024Towards Unified Multimodal Editing with Enhanced Knowledge Collaboration
1648. NeurIPS 2024TPR: Topology-Preserving Reservoirs for Generalized Zero-Shot Learning
1649. NeurIPS 2024Training-Free Open-Ended Object Detection and Segmentation via Attention as Prompts
1650. NeurIPS 2024TransAgent: Transfer Vision-Language Foundation Models with Heterogeneous Agent Collaboration

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.