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 34 of 35

1651. NeurIPS 2024TripletCLIP: Improving Compositional Reasoning of CLIP via Synthetic Vision-Language Negatives
1652. NeurIPS 2024UKnow: A Unified Knowledge Protocol with Multimodal Knowledge Graph Datasets for Reasoning and Vision-Language Pre-Training
1653. NeurIPS 2024UMFC: Unsupervised Multi-Domain Feature Calibration for Vision-Language Models
1654. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Information Storage and Transfer in Multi-Modal Large Language Models
1655. NeurIPS 2024UniBench: Visual Reasoning Requires Rethinking Vision-Language Beyond Scaling
1656. NeurIPS 2024Unified Generative and Discriminative Training for Multi-modal Large Language Models
1657. NeurIPS 2024UNIT: Unifying Image and Text Recognition in One Vision Encoder
1658. NeurIPS 2024Unity by Diversity: Improved Representation Learning for Multimodal VAEs
1659. NeurIPS 2024Unleashing Region Understanding in Intermediate Layers for MLLM-based Referring Expression Generation
1660. NeurIPS 2024Unraveling Molecular Structure: A Multimodal Spectroscopic Dataset for Chemistry
1661. NeurIPS 2024Unsupervised Homography Estimation on Multimodal Image Pair via Alternating Optimization
1662. NeurIPS 2024Unveiling Encoder-Free Vision-Language Models
1663. NeurIPS 2024Unveiling the Tapestry of Consistency in Large Vision-Language Models
1664. NeurIPS 2024UPS: Unified Projection Sharing for Lightweight Single-Image Super-resolution and Beyond
1665. NeurIPS 2024UrbanDataLayer: A Unified Data Pipeline for Urban Science
1666. NeurIPS 2024USCILab3D: A Large-scale, Long-term, Semantically Annotated Outdoor Dataset
1667. NeurIPS 2024Value Imprint: A Technique for Auditing the Human Values Embedded in RLHF Datasets
1668. NeurIPS 2024VastTrack: Vast Category Visual Object Tracking
1669. NeurIPS 2024VERIFIED: A Video Corpus Moment Retrieval Benchmark for Fine-Grained Video Understanding
1670. NeurIPS 2024VHELM: A Holistic Evaluation of Vision Language Models
1671. NeurIPS 2024Video Token Merging for Long Video Understanding
1672. NeurIPS 2024VideoGUI: A Benchmark for GUI Automation from Instructional Videos
1673. NeurIPS 2024VideoLLM-MoD: Efficient Video-Language Streaming with Mixture-of-Depths Vision Computation
1674. NeurIPS 2024ViLCo-Bench: VIdeo Language COntinual learning Benchmark
1675. NeurIPS 2024Vision Transformer Neural Architecture Search for Out-of-Distribution Generalization: Benchmark and Insights
1676. NeurIPS 2024Vision-Language Models are Strong Noisy Label Detectors
1677. NeurIPS 2024Vision-Language Navigation with Energy-Based Policy
1678. NeurIPS 2024VisionLLM v2: An End-to-End Generalist Multimodal Large Language Model for Hundreds of Vision-Language Tasks
1679. NeurIPS 2024VisMin: Visual Minimal-Change Understanding
1680. NeurIPS 2024Visual Anchors Are Strong Information Aggregators For Multimodal Large Language Model
1681. NeurIPS 2024Visual Perception by Large Language Model’s Weights
1682. NeurIPS 2024Visual Riddles: a Commonsense and World Knowledge Challenge for Large Vision and Language Models
1683. NeurIPS 2024Visual Sketchpad: Sketching as a Visual Chain of Thought for Multimodal Language Models
1684. NeurIPS 2024Vitron: A Unified Pixel-level Vision LLM for Understanding, Generating, Segmenting, Editing
1685. NeurIPS 2024VLG-CBM: Training Concept Bottleneck Models with Vision-Language Guidance
1686. NeurIPS 2024VLKEB: A Large Vision-Language Model Knowledge Editing Benchmark
1687. NeurIPS 2024VLM Agents Generate Their Own Memories: Distilling Experience into Embodied Programs of Thought
1688. NeurIPS 2024VLM4Bio: A Benchmark Dataset to Evaluate Pretrained Vision-Language Models for Trait Discovery from Biological Images
1689. NeurIPS 2024VLMimic: Vision Language Models are Visual Imitation Learner for Fine-grained Actions
1690. NeurIPS 2024Voila-A: Aligning Vision-Language Models with User's Gaze Attention
1691. NeurIPS 2024Vript: A Video Is Worth Thousands of Words
1692. NeurIPS 2024VRSBench: A Versatile Vision-Language Benchmark Dataset for Remote Sensing Image Understanding
1693. NeurIPS 2024WATT: Weight Average Test Time Adaptation of CLIP
1694. NeurIPS 2024Weak-eval-Strong: Evaluating and Eliciting Lateral Thinking of LLMs with Situation Puzzles
1695. NeurIPS 2024Web-Scale Visual Entity Recognition: An LLM-Driven Data Approach
1696. NeurIPS 2024Web2Code: A Large-scale Webpage-to-Code Dataset and Evaluation Framework for Multimodal LLMs
1697. NeurIPS 2024WebUOT-1M: Advancing Deep Underwater Object Tracking with A Million-Scale Benchmark
1698. NeurIPS 2024WenMind: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Chinese Classical Literature and Language Arts
1699. NeurIPS 2024What Makes CLIP More Robust to Long-Tailed Pre-Training Data? A Controlled Study for Transferable Insights
1700. NeurIPS 2024What matters when building 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.