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 36 of 67

1751. NeurIPS 2025Hawaii: Hierarchical Visual Knowledge Transfer for Efficient Vision-Language Models
1752. NeurIPS 2025HBLLM: Wavelet-Enhanced High-Fidelity 1-Bit Quantization for LLMs
1753. NeurIPS 2025Head Pursuit: Probing Attention Specialization in Multimodal Transformers
1754. NeurIPS 2025HermesFlow: Seamlessly Closing the Gap in Multimodal Understanding and Generation
1755. NeurIPS 2025Hierarchical Information Aggregation for Incomplete Multimodal Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis
1756. NeurIPS 2025Hierarchical Semantic-Augmented Navigation: Optimal Transport and Graph-Driven Reasoning for Vision-Language Navigation
1757. NeurIPS 2025Highlighting What Matters: Promptable Embeddings for Attribute-Focused Image Retrieval
1758. NeurIPS 2025HMVLM:Human Motion-Vision-Language Model via MoE LoRA
1759. NeurIPS 2025HoliTom: Holistic Token Merging for Fast Video Large Language Models
1760. NeurIPS 2025HoloLLM: Multisensory Foundation Model for Language-Grounded Human Sensing and Reasoning
1761. NeurIPS 2025Homogeneous Keys, Heterogeneous Values: Exploiting Local KV Cache Asymmetry for Long-Context LLMs
1762. NeurIPS 2025HopaDIFF: Holistic-Partial Aware Fourier Conditioned Diffusion for Referring Human Action Segmentation in Multi-Person Scenarios
1763. NeurIPS 2025HoPE: Hybrid of Position Embedding for Long Context Vision-Language Models
1764. NeurIPS 2025How do Transformers Learn Implicit Reasoning?
1765. NeurIPS 2025How to Auto-optimize Prompts for Domain Tasks? Adaptive Prompting and Reasoning through Evolutionary Domain Knowledge Adaptation
1766. NeurIPS 2025HQA-VLAttack: Towards High Quality Adversarial Attack on Vision-Language Pre-Trained Models
1767. NeurIPS 2025Human-assisted Robotic Policy Refinement via Action Preference Optimization
1768. NeurIPS 2025HumanoidGen: Data Generation for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation via LLM Reasoning
1769. NeurIPS 2025Hyper-Modality Enhancement for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis with Missing Modalities
1770. NeurIPS 2025Hyperphantasia: A Benchmark for Evaluating the Mental Visualization Capabilities of Multimodal LLMs
1771. NeurIPS 2025HypoBootstrap: A Bootstrapping Framework for Inductive Reasoning
1772. NeurIPS 2025IF-Guide: Influence Function-Guided Detoxification of LLMs
1773. NeurIPS 2025iFinder: Structured Zero-Shot Vision-Based LLM Grounding for Dash-Cam Video Reasoning
1774. NeurIPS 2025IGD: Token Decisiveness Modeling via Information Gain in LLMs for Personalized Recommendation
1775. NeurIPS 2025Image as a World: Generating Interactive World from Single Image via Panoramic Video Generation
1776. NeurIPS 2025Image Token Matters: Mitigating Hallucination in Discrete Tokenizer-based Large Vision-Language Models via Latent Editing
1777. NeurIPS 2025ImageSentinel: Protecting Visual Datasets from Unauthorized Retrieval-Augmented Image Generation
1778. NeurIPS 2025ImgEdit: A Unified Image Editing Dataset and Benchmark
1779. NeurIPS 2025Implicit Modeling for Transferability Estimation of Vision Foundation Models
1780. NeurIPS 2025Impromptu VLA: Open Weights and Open Data for Driving Vision-Language-Action Models
1781. NeurIPS 2025Improve Temporal Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models via Video Contrastive Decoding
1782. NeurIPS 2025Improved Algorithms for Overlapping and Robust Clustering of Edge-Colored Hypergraphs: An LP-Based Combinatorial Approach
1783. NeurIPS 2025Improved Bounds for Swap Multicalibration and Swap Omniprediction
1784. NeurIPS 2025Improved Training Technique for Shortcut Models
1785. NeurIPS 2025Improving Deep Learning for Accelerated MRI With Data Filtering
1786. NeurIPS 2025Improving Formal Reasoning of Transformer with State Stack
1787. NeurIPS 2025Improving Task-Specific Multimodal Sentiment Analysis with General MLLMs via Prompting
1788. NeurIPS 2025In the Eye of MLLM: Benchmarking Egocentric Video Intent Understanding with Gaze-Guided Prompting
1789. NeurIPS 2025In-Context Compositional Learning vis Sparse Coding Transformer
1790. NeurIPS 2025IndEgo: A Dataset of Industrial Scenarios and Collaborative Work for Egocentric Assistants
1791. NeurIPS 2025IneqSearch: Hybrid Reasoning for Olympiad Inequality Proofs
1792. NeurIPS 2025InfantAgent-Next: A Multimodal Generalist Agent for Automated Computer Interaction
1793. NeurIPS 2025Inference of Whole Brain Electrophysiological Networks Through Multimodal Integration of Simultaneous Scalp and Intracranial EEG
1794. NeurIPS 2025InfiFPO: Implicit Model Fusion via Preference Optimization in Large Language Models
1795. NeurIPS 2025InfiniPot-V: Memory-Constrained KV Cache Compression for Streaming Video Understanding
1796. NeurIPS 2025InfMasking: Unleashing Synergistic Information by Contrastive Multimodal Interactions
1797. NeurIPS 2025InfoChartQA: A Benchmark for Multimodal Question Answering on Infographic Charts
1798. NeurIPS 2025Inner Speech as Behavior Guides: Steerable Imitation of Diverse Behaviors for Human-AI coordination
1799. NeurIPS 2025INST-IT: Boosting Instance Understanding via Explicit Visual Prompt Instruction Tuning
1800. NeurIPS 2025Instance-Level Composed Image Retrieval

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.