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 35 of 35

1701. NeurIPS 2024What to Say and When to Say it: Live Fitness Coaching as a Testbed for Situated Interaction
1702. NeurIPS 2024When LLMs Meet Cunning Texts: A Fallacy Understanding Benchmark for Large Language Models
1703. NeurIPS 2024Who Evaluates the Evaluations? Objectively Scoring Text-to-Image Prompt Coherence Metrics with T2IScoreScore (TS2)
1704. NeurIPS 2024WhodunitBench: Evaluating Large Multimodal Agents via Murder Mystery Games
1705. NeurIPS 2024Why are Visually-Grounded Language Models Bad at Image Classification?
1706. NeurIPS 2024WikiDO: A New Benchmark Evaluating Cross-Modal Retrieval for Vision-Language Models
1707. NeurIPS 2024WikiDO: Evaluating Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Vision-Language Models in Cross-Modal Retrieval
1708. NeurIPS 2024WildGuard: Open One-stop Moderation Tools for Safety Risks, Jailbreaks, and Refusals of LLMs
1709. NeurIPS 2024WildPPG: A Real-World PPG Dataset of Long Continuous Recordings
1710. NeurIPS 2024WildVision: Evaluating Vision-Language Models in the Wild with Human Preferences
1711. NeurIPS 2024Wings: Learning Multimodal LLMs without Text-only Forgetting
1712. NeurIPS 2024WONDERBREAD: A Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal Foundation Models on Business Process Management Tasks
1713. NeurIPS 2024WorkArena++: Towards Compositional Planning and Reasoning-based Common Knowledge Work Tasks
1714. NeurIPS 2024XMask3D: Cross-modal Mask Reasoning for Open Vocabulary 3D Semantic Segmentation
1715. NeurIPS 2024Yo'LLaVA: Your Personalized Language and Vision Assistant
1716. NeurIPS 2024Zero-shot Generalizable Incremental Learning for Vision-Language Object Detection

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.