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 39 of 67

1901. NeurIPS 2025MindOmni: Unleashing Reasoning Generation in Vision Language Models with RGPO
1902. NeurIPS 2025MineAnyBuild: Benchmarking Spatial Planning for Open-world AI Agents
1903. NeurIPS 2025Minimum Width for Deep, Narrow MLP: A Diffeomorphism Approach
1904. NeurIPS 2025MINT-CoT: Enabling Interleaved Visual Tokens in Mathematical Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
1905. NeurIPS 2025Mint: A Simple Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models against Common Corruptions
1906. NeurIPS 2025MIP against Agent: Malicious Image Patches Hijacking Multimodal OS Agents
1907. NeurIPS 2025MIRAGE: A Benchmark for Multimodal Information-Seeking and Reasoning in Agricultural Expert-Guided Conversations
1908. NeurIPS 2025MIRAGE: Assessing Hallucination in Multimodal Reasoning Chains of MLLM
1909. NeurIPS 2025Miss-ReID: Delivering Robust Multi-Modality Object Re-Identification Despite Missing Modalities
1910. NeurIPS 2025Mitigating Hallucination in VideoLLMs via Temporal-Aware Activation Engineering
1911. NeurIPS 2025Mitigating Hallucination Through Theory-Consistent Symmetric Multimodal Preference Optimization
1912. NeurIPS 2025Mitigating Intra- and Inter-modal Forgetting in Continual Learning of Unified Multimodal Models
1913. NeurIPS 2025Mitra: Mixed Synthetic Priors for Enhancing Tabular Foundation Models
1914. NeurIPS 2025MixAT: Combining Continuous and Discrete Adversarial Training for LLMs
1915. NeurIPS 2025MixPrompt: Efficient Mixed Prompting for Multimodal Semantic Segmentation
1916. NeurIPS 2025Mixtures of Subspaces for Bandwidth Efficient Context Parallel Training
1917. NeurIPS 2025MJ-Bench: Is Your Multimodal Reward Model Really a Good Judge for Text-to-Image Generation?
1918. NeurIPS 2025MLEP: Multi-granularity Local Entropy Patterns for Generalized AI-generated Image Detection
1919. NeurIPS 2025MLLM-For3D: Adapting Multimodal Large Language Model for 3D Reasoning Segmentation
1920. NeurIPS 2025MLLM-ISU: The First-Ever Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models based Intrusion Scene Understanding
1921. NeurIPS 2025MLLMs Need 3D-Aware Representation Supervision for Scene Understanding
1922. NeurIPS 2025MLZero: A Multi-Agent System for End-to-end Machine Learning Automation
1923. NeurIPS 2025MM-OPERA: Benchmarking Open-ended Association Reasoning for Large Vision-Language Models
1924. NeurIPS 2025MMaDA: Multimodal Large Diffusion Language Models
1925. NeurIPS 2025MMCSBench: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Large Vision-Language Models in Camouflage Scenes
1926. NeurIPS 2025MME-VideoOCR: Evaluating OCR-Based Capabilities of Multimodal LLMs in Video Scenarios
1927. NeurIPS 2025MME: A Comprehensive Evaluation Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models
1928. NeurIPS 2025MMIG-Bench: Towards Comprehensive and Explainable Evaluation of Multi-Modal Image Generation Models
1929. NeurIPS 2025MMLongBench: Benchmarking Long-Context Vision-Language Models Effectively and Thoroughly
1930. NeurIPS 2025MMMG: A Massive, Multidisciplinary, Multi-Tier Generation Benchmark for Text-to-Image Reasoning
1931. NeurIPS 2025MMOT: The First Challenging Benchmark for Drone-based Multispectral Multi-Object Tracking
1932. NeurIPS 2025MMPB: It’s Time for Multi-Modal Personalization
1933. NeurIPS 2025MMPerspective: Do MLLMs Understand Perspective? A Comprehensive Benchmark for Perspective Perception, Reasoning, and Robustness
1934. NeurIPS 2025mmWalk: Towards Multi-modal Multi-view Walking Assistance
1935. NeurIPS 2025MoBA: Mixture of Block Attention for Long-Context LLMs
1936. NeurIPS 2025Modality-Aware SAM: Sharpness-Aware-Minimization Driven Gradient Modulation for Harmonized Multimodal Learning
1937. NeurIPS 2025Model Editing for Vision Transformers
1938. NeurIPS 2025Model Inversion with Layer-Specific Modeling and Alignment for Data-Free Continual Learning
1939. NeurIPS 2025Model Provenance Testing for Large Language Models
1940. NeurIPS 2025MODEM: A Morton-Order Degradation Estimation Mechanism for Adverse Weather Image Recovery
1941. NeurIPS 2025ModHiFi: Identifying High Fidelity predictive components for Model Modification
1942. NeurIPS 2025ModuLM: Enabling Modular and Multimodal Molecular Relational Learning with Large Language Models
1943. NeurIPS 2025MokA: Multimodal Low-Rank Adaptation for MLLMs
1944. NeurIPS 2025MolVision: Molecular Property Prediction with Vision Language Models
1945. NeurIPS 2025Moment- and Power-Spectrum-Based Gaussianity Regularization for Text-to-Image Models
1946. NeurIPS 2025MomentSeeker: A Task-Oriented Benchmark For Long-Video Moment Retrieval
1947. NeurIPS 2025MoniTor: Exploiting Large Language Models with Instruction for Online Video Anomaly Detection
1948. NeurIPS 2025MONITRS: Multimodal Observations of Natural Incidents Through Remote Sensing
1949. NeurIPS 2025MoRIC: A Modular Region-based Implicit Codec for Image Compression
1950. NeurIPS 2025MR. Video: MapReduce as an Effective Principle for Long Video Understanding

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.