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

3,302 papers, page 37 of 67

1801. CVPR 2025Mamba as a Bridge: Where Vision Foundation Models Meet Vision Language Models for Domain-Generalized Semantic Segmentation
1802. CVPR 2025Mamba-Reg: Vision Mamba Also Needs Registers
1803. CVPR 2025MambaIC: State Space Models for High-Performance Learned Image Compression
1804. CVPR 2025MambaOut: Do We Really Need Mamba for Vision?
1805. CVPR 2025MambaVLT: Time-Evolving Multimodal State Space Model for Vision-Language Tracking
1806. CVPR 2025MarkushGrapher: Joint Visual and Textual Recognition of Markush Structures
1807. CVPR 2025MARVEL-40M+: Multi-Level Visual Elaboration for High-Fidelity Text-to-3D Content Creation
1808. CVPR 2025MASH-VLM: Mitigating Action-Scene Hallucination in Video-LLMs through Disentangled Spatial-Temporal Representations
1809. CVPR 2025Mask-Adapter: The Devil is in the Masks for Open-Vocabulary Segmentation
1810. CVPR 2025MAtCha Gaussians: Atlas of Charts for High-Quality Geometry and Photorealism From Sparse Views
1811. CVPR 2025MBQ: Modality-Balanced Quantization for Large Vision-Language Models
1812. CVPR 2025MDP: Multidimensional Vision Model Pruning with Latency Constraint
1813. CVPR 2025MedUnifier: Unifying Vision-and-Language Pre-training on Medical Data with Vision Generation Task using Discrete Visual Representations
1814. CVPR 2025Mesh Mamba: A Unified State Space Model for Saliency Prediction in Non-Textured and Textured Meshes
1815. CVPR 2025MicroVQA: A Multimodal Reasoning Benchmark for Microscopy-Based Scientific Research
1816. CVPR 2025Mimic In-Context Learning for Multimodal Tasks
1817. CVPR 2025MIMO: A Medical Vision Language Model with Visual Referring Multimodal Input and Pixel Grounding Multimodal Output
1818. CVPR 2025Minding Fuzzy Regions: A Data-driven Alternating Learning Paradigm for Stable Lesion Segmentation
1819. CVPR 2025MINIMA: Modality Invariant Image Matching
1820. CVPR 2025Minimizing Labeled, Maximizing Unlabeled: An Image-Driven Approach for Video Instance Segmentation
1821. CVPR 2025Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models via DPO: On-Policy Data Hold the Key
1822. CVPR 2025Mitigating Object Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models with Assembly of Global and Local Attention
1823. CVPR 2025MM-OR: A Large Multimodal Operating Room Dataset for Semantic Understanding of High-Intensity Surgical Environments
1824. CVPR 2025MMAudio: Taming Multimodal Joint Training for High-Quality Video-to-Audio Synthesis
1825. CVPR 2025MMRL: Multi-Modal Representation Learning for Vision-Language Models
1826. CVPR 2025MMTL-UniAD: A Unified Framework for Multimodal and Multi-Task Learning in Assistive Driving Perception
1827. CVPR 2025MMVU: Measuring Expert-Level Multi-Discipline Video Understanding
1828. CVPR 2025Modeling Thousands of Human Annotators for Generalizable Text-to-Image Person Re-identification
1829. CVPR 2025ModeSeq: Taming Sparse Multimodal Motion Prediction with Sequential Mode Modeling
1830. CVPR 2025MoEdit: On Learning Quantity Perception for Multi-object Image Editing
1831. CVPR 2025Molmo and PixMo: Open Weights and Open Data for State-of-the-Art Vision-Language Models
1832. CVPR 2025MoManipVLA: Transferring Vision-language-action Models for General Mobile Manipulation
1833. CVPR 2025Mono-InternVL: Pushing the Boundaries of Monolithic Multimodal Large Language Models with Endogenous Visual Pre-training
1834. CVPR 2025MonSter: Marry Monodepth to Stereo Unleashes Power
1835. CVPR 2025Mosaic of Modalities: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal Graph Learning
1836. CVPR 2025Mosaic3D: Foundation Dataset and Model for Open-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation
1837. CVPR 2025Motion-Grounded Video Reasoning: Understanding and Perceiving Motion at Pixel Level
1838. CVPR 2025MotionBench: Benchmarking and Improving Fine-grained Video Motion Understanding for Vision Language Models
1839. CVPR 2025MotionPro: A Precise Motion Controller for Image-to-Video Generation
1840. CVPR 2025MotionStone: Decoupled Motion Intensity Modulation with Diffusion Transformer for Image-to-Video Generation
1841. CVPR 2025MoVE-KD: Knowledge Distillation for VLMs with Mixture of Visual Encoders
1842. CVPR 2025Multi-Group Proportional Representations for Text-to-Image Models
1843. CVPR 2025Multi-Layer Visual Feature Fusion in Multimodal LLMs: Methods, Analysis, and Best Practices
1844. CVPR 2025Multi-modal Knowledge Distillation-based Human Trajectory Forecasting
1845. CVPR 2025Multi-Modal Synergistic Implicit Image Enhancement for Efficient Optical Flow Estimation
1846. CVPR 2025Multi-modal Vision Pre-training for Medical Image Analysis
1847. CVPR 2025Multi-Resolution Pathology-Language Pre-training Model with Text-Guided Visual Representation
1848. CVPR 2025Multimodal Autoregressive Pre-training of Large Vision Encoders
1849. CVPR 2025MultiVENT 2.0: A Massive Multilingual Benchmark for Event-Centric Video Retrieval
1850. CVPR 2025MuTri: Multi-view Tri-alignment for OCT to OCTA 3D Image Translation

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.