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

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151. NeurIPS 2024G2D: From Global to Dense Radiography Representation Learning via Vision-Language Pre-training
152. NeurIPS 2024GC-Bench: An Open and Unified Benchmark for Graph Condensation
153. NeurIPS 2024GenAI Arena: An Open Evaluation Platform for Generative Models
154. NeurIPS 2024GenArtist: Multimodal LLM as an Agent for Unified Image Generation and Editing
155. NeurIPS 2024GenRL: Multimodal-foundation world models for generalization in embodied agents
156. NeurIPS 2024GITA: Graph to Visual and Textual Integration for Vision-Language Graph Reasoning
157. NeurIPS 2024GMAI-MMBench: A Comprehensive Multimodal Evaluation Benchmark Towards General Medical AI
158. NeurIPS 2024GoMatching: A Simple Baseline for Video Text Spotting via Long and Short Term Matching
159. NeurIPS 2024Graph-based Unsupervised Disentangled Representation Learning via Multimodal Large Language Models
160. NeurIPS 2024GraphVis: Boosting LLMs with Visual Knowledge Graph Integration
161. NeurIPS 2024Grounding Multimodal Large Language Models in Actions
162. NeurIPS 2024HARMONIC: Harnessing LLMs for Tabular Data Synthesis and Privacy Protection
163. NeurIPS 2024Harmonizing Stochasticity and Determinism: Scene-responsive Diverse Human Motion Prediction
164. NeurIPS 2024Harmonizing Visual Text Comprehension and Generation
165. NeurIPS 2024HAWK: Learning to Understand Open-World Video Anomalies
166. NeurIPS 2024HEALNet: Multimodal Fusion for Heterogeneous Biomedical Data
167. NeurIPS 2024HEMM: Holistic Evaluation of Multimodal Foundation Models
168. NeurIPS 2024HENASY: Learning to Assemble Scene-Entities for Interpretable Egocentric Video-Language Model
169. NeurIPS 2024HEST-1k: A Dataset For Spatial Transcriptomics and Histology Image Analysis
170. NeurIPS 2024Hidden in Plain Sight: Evaluating Abstract Shape Recognition in Vision-Language Models
171. NeurIPS 2024Hierarchical Visual Feature Aggregation for OCR-Free Document Understanding
172. NeurIPS 2024Historical Test-time Prompt Tuning for Vision Foundation Models
173. NeurIPS 2024Homology Consistency Constrained Efficient Tuning for Vision-Language Models
174. NeurIPS 2024HourVideo: 1-Hour Video-Language Understanding
175. NeurIPS 2024Human-level shape inferences: A benchmark for evaluating the 3D understanding of vision models
176. NeurIPS 2024HumanVid: Demystifying Training Data for Camera-controllable Human Image Animation
177. NeurIPS 2024HumanVLA: Towards Vision-Language Directed Object Rearrangement by Physical Humanoid
178. NeurIPS 2024Humor in AI: Massive Scale Crowd-Sourced Preferences and Benchmarks for Cartoon Captioning
179. NeurIPS 2024I2EBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Instruction-based Image Editing
180. NeurIPS 2024IF-Font: Ideographic Description Sequence-Following Font Generation
181. NeurIPS 2024II-Bench: An Image Implication Understanding Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models
182. NeurIPS 2024Image Textualization: An Automatic Framework for Generating Rich and Detailed Image Descriptions
183. NeurIPS 2024Image2Struct: A Benchmark for Evaluating Vision-Language Models in Extracting Structured Information from Images
184. NeurIPS 2024Image2Struct: Benchmarking Structure Extraction for Vision-Language Models
185. NeurIPS 2024Images that Sound: Composing Images and Sounds on a Single Canvas
186. NeurIPS 2024IMDL-BenCo: A Comprehensive Benchmark and Codebase for Image Manipulation Detection & Localization
187. NeurIPS 2024ImOV3D: Learning Open Vocabulary Point Clouds 3D Object Detection from Only 2D Images
188. NeurIPS 2024IMPACT: A Large-scale Integrated Multimodal Patent Analysis and Creation Dataset for Design Patents
189. NeurIPS 2024Implicit Multimodal Alignment: On the Generalization of Frozen LLMs to Multimodal Inputs
190. NeurIPS 2024InfiBench: Evaluating the Question-Answering Capabilities of Code Large Language Models
191. NeurIPS 2024InfLLM: Training-Free Long-Context Extrapolation for LLMs with an Efficient Context Memory
192. NeurIPS 2024INQUIRE: A Natural World Text-to-Image Retrieval Benchmark
193. NeurIPS 2024InstructG2I: Synthesizing Images from Multimodal Attributed Graphs
194. NeurIPS 2024Instruction-Guided Visual Masking
195. NeurIPS 2024Interfacing Foundation Models' Embeddings
196. NeurIPS 2024InternLM-XComposer2-4KHD: A Pioneering Large Vision-Language Model Handling Resolutions from 336 Pixels to 4K HD
197. NeurIPS 2024Interpret Your Decision: Logical Reasoning Regularization for Generalization in Visual Classification
198. NeurIPS 2024Interpretable Image Classification with Adaptive Prototype-based Vision Transformers
199. NeurIPS 2024Interpreting and Analysing CLIP's Zero-Shot Image Classification via Mutual Knowledge
200. NeurIPS 2024Interpreting CLIP with Sparse Linear Concept Embeddings (SpLiCE)

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.