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 34 of 67

1651. NeurIPS 2025Exploring and Leveraging Class Vectors for Classifier Editing
1652. NeurIPS 2025Exploring Polyglot Harmony: On Multilingual Data Allocation for Large Language Models Pretraining
1653. NeurIPS 2025Exploring the Limits of Vision-Language-Action Manipulation in Cross-task Generalization
1654. NeurIPS 2025Extremely Simple Multimodal Outlier Synthesis for Out-of-Distribution Detection and Segmentation
1655. NeurIPS 2025EyeBench: Predictive Modeling from Eye Movements in Reading
1656. NeurIPS 2025Eyes Wide Open: Ego Proactive Video-LLM for Streaming Video
1657. NeurIPS 2025FACT: Mitigating Inconsistent Hallucinations in LLMs via Fact-Driven Alternating Code-Text Training
1658. NeurIPS 2025Fairshare Data Pricing via Data Valuation for Large Language Models
1659. NeurIPS 2025Fast-in-Slow: A Dual-System VLA Model Unifying Fast Manipulation within Slow Reasoning
1660. NeurIPS 2025Fast-Slow Thinking GRPO for Large Vision-Language Model Reasoning
1661. NeurIPS 2025FastDINOv2: Frequency Based Curriculum Learning Improves Robustness and Training Speed
1662. NeurIPS 2025FastJAM: a Fast Joint Alignment Model for Images
1663. NeurIPS 2025FastVID: Dynamic Density Pruning for Fast Video Large Language Models
1664. NeurIPS 2025FAVOR-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Fine-Grained Video Motion Understanding
1665. NeurIPS 2025Federated Dialogue-Semantic Diffusion for Emotion Recognition under Incomplete Modalities
1666. NeurIPS 2025FedMGP: Personalized Federated Learning with Multi-Group Text-Visual Prompts
1667. NeurIPS 2025FEEDBACK FRICTION: LLMs Struggle to Fully Incorporate External Feedback
1668. NeurIPS 2025Few-Shot Knowledge Distillation of LLMs With Counterfactual Explanations
1669. NeurIPS 2025Few-Shot Learning from Gigapixel Images via Hierarchical Vision-Language Alignment and Modeling
1670. NeurIPS 2025FGBench: A Dataset and Benchmark for Molecular Property Reasoning at Functional Group-Level in Large Language Models
1671. NeurIPS 2025FHGS: Feature-Homogenized Gaussian Splatting
1672. NeurIPS 2025Filter Like You Test: Data-Driven Data Filtering for CLIP Pretraining
1673. NeurIPS 2025Fine-Grained Preference Optimization Improves Spatial Reasoning in VLMs
1674. NeurIPS 2025FineGRAIN: Evaluating Failure Modes of Text-to-Image Models with Vision Language Model Judges
1675. NeurIPS 2025FineRS: Fine-grained Reasoning and Segmentation of Small Objects with Reinforcement Learning
1676. NeurIPS 2025FIPER: Factorized Features for Robust Image Super-Resolution and Compression
1677. NeurIPS 2025Fira: Can We Achieve Full-rank Training of LLMs Under Low-rank Constraint?
1678. NeurIPS 2025Fire360: A Benchmark for Robust Perception and Episodic Memory in Degraded 360° Firefighting Video
1679. NeurIPS 2025Fit the Distribution: Cross-Image/Prompt Adversarial Attacks on Multimodal Large Language Models
1680. NeurIPS 2025Flex-Judge: Text-Only Reasoning Unleashes Zero-Shot Multimodal Evaluators
1681. NeurIPS 2025FlexAC: Towards Flexible Control of Associative Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models
1682. NeurIPS 2025Flexible Realignment of Language Models
1683. NeurIPS 2025FLiP: Towards Comprehensive and Reliable Evaluation of Federated Prompt Learning
1684. NeurIPS 2025FlowCut: Rethinking Redundancy via Information Flow for Efficient Vision-Language Models
1685. NeurIPS 2025FlowPrune: Accelerating Attention Flow Calculation by Pruning Flow Network
1686. NeurIPS 2025FlySearch: Exploring how vision-language models explore
1687. NeurIPS 2025Focus-Then-Reuse: Fast Adaptation in Visual Perturbation Environments
1688. NeurIPS 2025FOCUS: Internal MLLM Representations for Efficient Fine-Grained Visual Question Answering
1689. NeurIPS 2025FOCUS: Unified Vision-Language Modeling for Interactive Editing Driven by Referential Segmentation
1690. NeurIPS 2025ForceVLA: Enhancing VLA Models with a Force-aware MoE for Contact-rich Manipulation
1691. NeurIPS 2025ForensicHub: A Unified Benchmark & Codebase for All-Domain Fake Image Detection and Localization
1692. NeurIPS 2025ForgerySleuth: Empowering Multimodal Large Language Models for Image Manipulation Detection
1693. NeurIPS 2025Foundation Cures Personalization: Improving Personalized Models’ Prompt Consistency via Hidden Foundation Knowledge
1694. NeurIPS 2025Foundation Models for Scientific Discovery: From Paradigm Enhancement to Paradigm Transition
1695. NeurIPS 2025Foundations of Top-$k$ Decoding for Language Models
1696. NeurIPS 2025Fourier Analysis Network
1697. NeurIPS 2025FRBNet: Revisiting Low-Light Vision through Frequency-Domain Radial Basis Network
1698. NeurIPS 2025FreqPolicy: Efficient Flow-based Visuomotor Policy via Frequency Consistency
1699. NeurIPS 2025Frequency-Aware Token Reduction for Efficient Vision Transformer
1700. NeurIPS 2025From Flat to Hierarchical: Extracting Sparse Representations with Matching Pursuit

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.