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 37 of 67

1801. NeurIPS 2025Instant Video Models: Universal Adapters for Stabilizing Image-Based Networks
1802. NeurIPS 2025InstructSAM: A Training-free Framework for Instruction-Oriented Remote Sensing Object Recognition
1803. NeurIPS 2025Intend to Move: A Multimodal Dataset for Intention-Aware Human Motion Understanding
1804. NeurIPS 2025Interactive Anomaly Detection for Articulated Objects via Motion Anticipation
1805. NeurIPS 2025Interpreting Arithmetic Reasoning in Large Language Models using Game-Theoretic Interactions
1806. NeurIPS 2025Intervene-All-Paths: Unified Mitigation of LVLM Hallucinations across Alignment Formats
1807. NeurIPS 2025Introducing FOReCAst: The Future Outcome Reasoning and Confidence Assessment Benchmark
1808. NeurIPS 2025Inv-Entropy: A Fully Probabilistic Framework for Uncertainty Quantification in Language Models
1809. NeurIPS 2025IR-OptSet: An Optimization-Sensitive Dataset for Advancing LLM-Based IR Optimizer
1810. NeurIPS 2025IR3D-Bench: Evaluating Vision-Language Model Scene Understanding as Agentic Inverse Rendering
1811. NeurIPS 2025IRRISIGHT: A Large-Scale Multimodal Dataset and Scalable Pipeline to Address Irrigation and Water Management in Agriculture
1812. NeurIPS 2025Is the acquisition worth the cost? Surrogate losses for Consistent Two-stage Classifiers
1813. NeurIPS 2025Is This Tracker On? A Benchmark Protocol for Dynamic Tracking
1814. NeurIPS 2025Iterative Tool Usage Exploration for Multimodal Agents via Step-wise Preference Tuning
1815. NeurIPS 2025JailBound: Jailbreaking Internal Safety Boundaries of Vision-Language Models
1816. NeurIPS 2025Jailbreak-AudioBench: In-Depth Evaluation and Analysis of Jailbreak Threats for Large Audio Language Models
1817. NeurIPS 2025JanusDNA: A Powerful Bi-directional Hybrid DNA Foundation Model
1818. NeurIPS 2025JavisGPT: A Unified Multi-modal LLM for Sounding-Video Comprehension and Generation
1819. NeurIPS 2025Joint Modeling of fMRI and EEG Imaging Using Ordinary Differential Equation-Based Hypergraph Neural Networks
1820. NeurIPS 2025K-DeCore: Facilitating Knowledge Transfer in Continual Structured Knowledge Reasoning via Knowledge Decoupling
1821. NeurIPS 2025Knowledge Insulating Vision-Language-Action Models: Train Fast, Run Fast, Generalize Better
1822. NeurIPS 2025Knowledge-based Visual Question Answer with Multimodal Processing, Retrieval and Filtering
1823. NeurIPS 2025KRIS-Bench: Benchmarking Next-Level Intelligent Image Editing Models
1824. NeurIPS 2025L2DGCN: Learnable Enhancement and Label Selection Dynamic Graph Convolutional Networks for Mitigating Degree Bias
1825. NeurIPS 2025LangHOPS: Language Grounded Hierarchical Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation
1826. NeurIPS 2025Large Language Models for Lossless Image Compression: Next-Pixel Prediction in Language Space is All You Need
1827. NeurIPS 2025Latent Chain-of-Thought for Visual Reasoning
1828. NeurIPS 2025LaViDa: A Large Diffusion Model for Vision-Language Understanding
1829. NeurIPS 2025LaX: Boosting Low-Rank Training of Foundation Models via Latent Crossing
1830. NeurIPS 2025Layer as Puzzle Pieces: Compressing Large Language Models through Layer Concatenation
1831. NeurIPS 2025Layer-Wise Modality Decomposition for Interpretable Multimodal Sensor Fusion
1832. NeurIPS 2025LayerIF: Estimating Layer Quality for Large Language Models using Influence Functions
1833. NeurIPS 2025LBMKGC: Large Model-Driven Balanced Multimodal Knowledge Graph Completion
1834. NeurIPS 2025Learning a Cross-Modal Schrödinger Bridge for Visual Domain Generalization
1835. NeurIPS 2025Learning from Videos for 3D World: Enhancing MLLMs with 3D Vision Geometry Priors
1836. NeurIPS 2025Learning Intractable Multimodal Policies with Reparameterization and Diversity Regularization
1837. NeurIPS 2025Learning Reconfigurable Representations for Multimodal Federated Learning with Missing Data
1838. NeurIPS 2025Learning Robust Vision-Language Models from Natural Latent Spaces
1839. NeurIPS 2025Learning Shared Representations from Unpaired Data
1840. NeurIPS 2025Learning Skill-Attributes for Transferable Assessment in Video
1841. NeurIPS 2025Learning Spatial-Aware Manipulation Ordering
1842. NeurIPS 2025Learning to Instruct for Visual Instruction Tuning
1843. NeurIPS 2025Learning to Route: Per-Sample Adaptive Routing for Multimodal Multitask Prediction
1844. NeurIPS 2025Learning to Steer: Input-dependent Steering for Multimodal LLMs
1845. NeurIPS 2025LeMiCa: Lexicographic Minimax Path Caching for Efficient Diffusion-Based Video Generation
1846. NeurIPS 2025Less Is More, but Where? Dynamic Token Compression via LLM-Guided Keyframe Prior
1847. NeurIPS 2025Less is More: Local Intrinsic Dimensions of Contextual Language Models
1848. NeurIPS 2025Let's Revise Step-by-Step: A Unified Local Search Framework for Code Generation with LLMs
1849. NeurIPS 2025Lie Detector: Unified Backdoor Detection via Cross-Examination Framework
1850. NeurIPS 2025Linear Differential Vision Transformer: Learning Visual Contrasts via Pairwise Differentials

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.