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

1,074 papers, page 4 of 22

151. NeurIPS 2025Co-Reinforcement Learning for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
152. NeurIPS 2025CoC-VLA: Delving into Adversarial Domain Transfer for Explainable Autonomous Driving via Chain-of-Causality Visual-Language-Action Model
153. NeurIPS 2025CoCoA: A Minimum Bayes Risk Framework Bridging Confidence and Consistency for Uncertainty Quantification in LLMs
154. NeurIPS 2025COCONut-PanCap: Joint Panoptic Segmentation and Grounded Captions for Fine-Grained Understanding and Generation
155. NeurIPS 2025Code Graph Model (CGM): A Graph-Integrated Large Language Model for Repository-Level Software Engineering Tasks
156. NeurIPS 2025CodeGEMM: A Codebook-Centric Approach to Efficient GEMM in Quantized LLMs
157. NeurIPS 2025CoFFT: Chain of Foresight-Focus Thought for Visual Language Models
158. NeurIPS 2025CogPhys: Assessing Cognitive Load via Multimodal Remote and Contact-based Physiological Sensing
159. NeurIPS 2025CogVLA: Cognition-Aligned Vision-Language-Action Models via Instruction-Driven Routing & Sparsification
160. NeurIPS 2025Collaborating Vision, Depth, and Thermal Signals for Multi-Modal Tracking: Dataset and Algorithm
161. NeurIPS 2025ColorBench: Can VLMs See and Understand the Colorful World? A Comprehensive Benchmark for Color Perception, Reasoning, and Robustness
162. NeurIPS 2025Composing Global Solutions to Reasoning Tasks via Algebraic Objects in Neural Nets
163. NeurIPS 2025Compositional Reasoning with Transformers, RNNs, and Chain of Thought
164. NeurIPS 2025Compress & Cache: Vision token compression for efficient generation and retrieval
165. NeurIPS 2025Concentration and excess risk bounds for imbalanced classification with synthetic oversampling
166. NeurIPS 2025ConceptScope: Characterizing Dataset Bias via Disentangled Visual Concepts
167. NeurIPS 2025Conditional Representation Learning for Customized Tasks
168. NeurIPS 2025Conditioning Matters: Training Diffusion Policies is Faster Than You Think
169. NeurIPS 2025ConfTuner: Training Large Language Models to Express Their Confidence Verbally
170. NeurIPS 2025ConnectomeBench: Can LLMs proofread the connectome?
171. NeurIPS 2025Constrained Entropic Unlearning: A Primal-Dual Framework for Large Language Models
172. NeurIPS 2025Context-Aware Hierarchical Learning: A Two-Step Paradigm towards Safer LLMs
173. NeurIPS 2025Continual Multimodal Contrastive Learning
174. NeurIPS 2025Contrastive Representations for Temporal Reasoning
175. NeurIPS 2025ControlFusion: A Controllable Image Fusion Network with Language-Vision Degradation Prompts
176. NeurIPS 2025ConViS-Bench: Estimating Video Similarity Through Semantic Concepts
177. NeurIPS 2025CoralVQA: A Large-Scale Visual Question Answering Dataset for Coral Reef Image Understanding
178. NeurIPS 2025CoRe: Benchmarking LLMs’ Code Reasoning Capabilities through Static Analysis Tasks
179. NeurIPS 2025CORE: Reducing UI Exposure in Mobile Agents via Collaboration Between Cloud and Local LLMs
180. NeurIPS 2025CoreGuard: Safeguarding Foundational Capabilities of LLMs Against Model Stealing in Edge Deployment
181. NeurIPS 2025Cost-Aware Contrastive Routing for LLMs
182. NeurIPS 2025Counterfactual Evolution of Multimodal Datasets via Visual Programming
183. NeurIPS 2025Counterfactual Reasoning for Steerable Pluralistic Value Alignment of Large Language Models
184. NeurIPS 2025Counterfactual reasoning: an analysis of in-context emergence
185. NeurIPS 2025CovMatch: Cross-Covariance Guided Multimodal Dataset Distillation with Trainable Text Encoder
186. NeurIPS 2025CPathAgent: An Agent-based Foundation Model for Interpretable High-Resolution Pathology Image Analysis Mimicking Pathologists' Diagnostic Logic
187. NeurIPS 2025Creativity or Brute Force? Using Brainteasers as a Window into the Problem-Solving Abilities of Large Language Models
188. NeurIPS 2025CrypticBio: A Large Multimodal Dataset for Visually Confusing Species
189. NeurIPS 2025Curriculum Model Merging: Harmonizing Chemical LLMs for Enhanced Cross-Task Generalization
190. NeurIPS 2025CURV: Coherent Uncertainty-Aware Reasoning in Vision-Language Models for X-Ray Report Generation
191. NeurIPS 2025CXReasonBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Structured Diagnostic Reasoning in Chest X-rays
192. NeurIPS 2025CyIN: Cyclic Informative Latent Space for Bridging Complete and Incomplete Multimodal Learning
193. NeurIPS 2025DAMamba: Vision State Space Model with Dynamic Adaptive Scan
194. NeurIPS 2025Data Mixing Can Induce Phase Transitions in Knowledge Acquisition
195. NeurIPS 2025Data Selection Matters: Towards Robust Instruction Tuning of Large Multimodal Models
196. NeurIPS 2025Data-Dependent Regret Bounds for Constrained MABs
197. NeurIPS 2025Data-Juicer 2.0: Cloud-Scale Adaptive Data Processing for and with Foundation Models
198. NeurIPS 2025Dataset Distillation for Pre-Trained Self-Supervised Vision Models
199. NeurIPS 2025DATE-LM: Benchmarking Data Attribution Evaluation for Large Language Models
200. NeurIPS 2025Decoupling Contrastive Decoding: Robust Hallucination Mitigation in Multimodal Large Language Models

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.