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 38 of 67

1851. NeurIPS 2025Linguini: A benchmark for language-agnostic linguistic reasoning
1852. NeurIPS 2025LISAt: Language-Instructed Segmentation Assistant for Satellite Imagery
1853. NeurIPS 2025LiveCodeBench Pro: How Do Olympiad Medalists Judge LLMs in Competitive Programming?
1854. NeurIPS 2025LiveStar: Live Streaming Assistant for Real-World Online Video Understanding
1855. NeurIPS 2025LLM Query Scheduling with Prefix Reuse and Latency Constraints
1856. NeurIPS 2025LLMs Encode Harmfulness and Refusal Separately
1857. NeurIPS 2025LMFusion: Adapting Pretrained Language Models for Multimodal Generation
1858. NeurIPS 2025Logic-in-Frames: Dynamic Keyframe Search via Visual Semantic-Logical Verification for Long Video Understanding
1859. NeurIPS 2025Logic.py: Bridging the Gap between LLMs and Constraint Solvers
1860. NeurIPS 2025LogicTree: Improving Complex Reasoning of LLMs via Instantiated Multi-step Synthetic Logical Data
1861. NeurIPS 2025LOMIA: Label-Only Membership Inference Attacks against Pre-trained Large Vision-Language Models
1862. NeurIPS 2025LoMix: Learnable Weighted Multi-Scale Logits Mixing for Medical Image Segmentation
1863. NeurIPS 2025Longer Context, Deeper Thinking: Uncovering the Role of Long-Context Ability in Reasoning
1864. NeurIPS 2025LongVPO: From Anchored Cues to Self-Reasoning for Long-Form Video Preference Optimization
1865. NeurIPS 2025LooGLE v2: Are LLMs Ready for Real World Long Dependency Challenges?
1866. NeurIPS 2025Look Before You Leap: A GUI-Critic-R1 Model for Pre-Operative Error Diagnosis in GUI Automation
1867. NeurIPS 2025Lookahead Routing for Large Language Models
1868. NeurIPS 2025LoRO: Real-Time on-Device Secure Inference for LLMs via TEE-Based Low Rank Obfuscation
1869. NeurIPS 2025Lost in Transmission: When and Why LLMs Fail to Reason Globally
1870. NeurIPS 2025LoTA-QAF: Lossless Ternary Adaptation for Quantization-Aware Fine-Tuning
1871. NeurIPS 2025LVLM-Driven Attribute-Aware Modeling for Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification
1872. NeurIPS 2025Lyapunov-Stable Adaptive Control for Multimodal Concept Drift
1873. NeurIPS 2025Machine Unlearning via Task Simplex Arithmetic
1874. NeurIPS 2025MAESTRO : Adaptive Sparse Attention and Robust Learning for Multimodal Dynamic Time Series
1875. NeurIPS 2025Mamba Goes HoME: Hierarchical Soft Mixture-of-Experts for 3D Medical Image Segmentation
1876. NeurIPS 2025Mamba Only Glances Once (MOGO): A Lightweight Framework for Efficient Video Action Detection
1877. NeurIPS 2025MANGO: Multimodal Attention-based Normalizing Flow Approach to Fusion Learning
1878. NeurIPS 2025MAPLE: Multi-scale Attribute-enhanced Prompt Learning for Few-shot Whole Slide Image Classification
1879. NeurIPS 2025Mars-Bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Foundation Models for Mars Science Tasks
1880. NeurIPS 2025Martian World Model: Controllable Video Synthesis with Physically Accurate 3D Reconstructions
1881. NeurIPS 2025Matching Markets Meet LLMs: Algorithmic Reasoning with Ranked Preferences
1882. NeurIPS 2025MathArena: Evaluating LLMs on Uncontaminated Math Competitions
1883. NeurIPS 2025Matryoshka Pilot: Learning to Drive Black-Box LLMs with LLMs
1884. NeurIPS 2025Mechanism Design for LLM Fine-tuning with Multiple Reward Models
1885. NeurIPS 2025MedicalNarratives: Connecting Medical Vision and Language with Localized Narratives
1886. NeurIPS 2025MedMax: Mixed-Modal Instruction Tuning for Training Biomedical Assistants
1887. NeurIPS 2025MedSG-Bench: A Benchmark for Medical Image Sequences Grounding
1888. NeurIPS 2025MEgoHand: Multimodal Egocentric Hand-Object Interaction Motion Generation
1889. NeurIPS 2025Mellow: a small audio language model for reasoning
1890. NeurIPS 2025MemEIC: A Step Toward Continual and Compositional Knowledge Editing
1891. NeurIPS 2025MEMOIR: Lifelong Model Editing with Minimal Overwrite and Informed Retention for LLMs
1892. NeurIPS 2025MergeBench: A Benchmark for Merging Domain-Specialized LLMs
1893. NeurIPS 2025Meta CLIP 2: A Worldwide Scaling Recipe
1894. NeurIPS 2025MiCo: Multi-image Contrast for Reinforcement Visual Reasoning
1895. NeurIPS 2025MIDAS: Misalignment-based Data Augmentation Strategy for Imbalanced Multimodal Learning
1896. NeurIPS 2025MimeQA: Towards Socially-Intelligent Nonverbal Foundation Models
1897. NeurIPS 2025Mind the Quote: Enabling Quotation-Aware Dialogue in LLMs via Plug-and-Play Modules
1898. NeurIPS 2025MindForge: Empowering Embodied Agents with Theory of Mind for Lifelong Cultural Learning
1899. NeurIPS 2025MindGYM: What Matters in Question Synthesis for Thinking-Centric Fine-Tuning?
1900. NeurIPS 2025MindJourney: Test-Time Scaling with World Models for Spatial Reasoning

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.