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

5,190 papers, page 4 of 104

151. CVPR 2026CARE A Molecular-Guided Foundation Model with Adaptive Region Modeling for
152. CVPR 2026CARE What Fails Contrastive Anchored-REflection for Verifiable Multimodal Reasoning
153. CVPR 2026CASPA Graph-Structured Concept Anchors for Modality-Agnostic Adaptation in Vision-Language Models
154. CVPR 2026CASR A Robust Cyclic Framework for Arbitrary Large-Scale Super-Resolution with
155. CVPR 2026CAST Context-Aware Dynamic Latent Space Transformation for Interactive Text-to-Image Retrieval
156. CVPR 2026CaST-Bench Benchmarking Causal Chain-Grounded Spatio-Temporal Reasoning for Video Question Answering
157. CVPR 2026CaTok Taming Mean Flows for One-Dimensional Causal Image Tokenization
158. CVPR 2026CausalLens Sensitivity-Guided Multi-Head Causal Intervention for Hallucination Mitigation in Large
159. CVPR 2026CC-VQA Conflict- and Correlation-Aware Method for Mitigating Knowledge Conflict in
160. CVPR 2026CCCaption Dual-Reward Reinforcement Learning for Complete and Correct Image Captioning
161. CVPR 2026CF-IPT Cross-Modal Fusion Interactive Prompt Tuning of Vision-Language Pre-Trained Model
162. CVPR 2026CG-Reasoner Centroid-Guided Positional Reasoning Segmentation for Medical Imaging with a
163. CVPR 2026Chain of Event-Centric Causal Thought for Physically Plausible Video Generation
164. CVPR 2026Chain of World World Model Thinking in Latent Motion
165. CVPR 2026Chain-of-Frames Advancing Video Understanding in Multimodal LLMs via Frame-Aware Reasoning
166. CVPR 2026Chain-of-Models Pre-Training Rethinking Training Acceleration of Vision Foundation Models
167. CVPR 2026ChangeBridge Spatiotemporal Image Generation with Multimodal Controls for Remote Senisng
168. CVPR 2026ChartNet A Million-Scale High-Quality Multimodal Dataset for Robust Chart Understanding
169. CVPR 2026ChartR Evaluating Reasoning Accuracy and Robustness in Chart Question Answering
170. CVPR 2026ChordEdit One-Step Low-Energy Transport for Image Editing
171. CVPR 2026CI-VID A Coherent Interleaved Text-Video Dataset
172. CVPR 2026CICA Coupling Confidence-Aware Pretraining with Confidence-Informed Attention for Robust Multimodal
173. CVPR 2026CIGMA Causal Information-Gain Mechanistic Attribution of Attention Heads in Vision
174. CVPR 2026CineBrain A Large-Scale Multi-Modal Audiovisual Brain Dataset for Brain-Conditioned Video
175. CVPR 2026CineScene Implicit 3D as Effective Scene Representation for Cinematic Video
176. CVPR 2026CineSRD Leveraging Visual Acoustic and Linguistic Cues for Open-World Visual
177. CVPR 2026Clair Obscur an Illumination-Aware Method for Real-World Image Vectorization
178. CVPR 2026CLAY Conditional Visual Similarity Modulation in Vision-Language Embedding Space
179. CVPR 2026CLCR Cross-Level Semantic Collaborative Representation for Multimodal Learning
180. CVPR 2026CLEP Contrastive Language-Pose Pretraining
181. CVPR 2026Clinically-Grounded Counterfactual Reasoning for Medical Video Diagnosis
182. CVPR 2026CLIP Is Shortsighted Paying Attention Beyond the First Sentence
183. CVPR 2026CLIP-like Model as a Foundational Density Ratio Estimator
184. CVPR 2026CLIPoint3D Language-Grounded Few-Shot Unsupervised 3D Point Cloud Domain Adaptation
185. CVPR 2026CLiViS Unleashing Cognitive Map through Linguistic-Visual Synergy for Embodied Visual
186. CVPR 2026Cluster-Aware Neural Collapse Prompt Tuning for Long-Tailed Generalization of Vision-Language
187. CVPR 2026Cluster-Wise Spatio-Temporal Masking for Efficient Video-Language Pretraining
188. CVPR 2026CMR-RD Long-Tailed Adaptive VLM for Explainable CMR Diagnosis
189. CVPR 2026CoCoVideo The High-Quality Commercial-Model-Based Contrastive Benchmark for AI-Generated Video Detection
190. CVPR 2026CoD A Diffusion Foundation Model for Image Compression
191. CVPR 2026CodeDance A Dynamic Tool-integrated MLLM for Executable Visual Reasoning
192. CVPR 2026CodeV Code with Images for Faithful Visual Reasoning via Tool-Aware
193. CVPR 2026CoFiDA-M Concept-Aware Feature Modulation for Cross-Domain Adaptation with Image-Only Inference
194. CVPR 2026CogDriver Integrating Cognitive Inertia for Temporally Coherent Planning in Autonomous
195. CVPR 2026CoIn Coverage and Informativeness-Guided Token Reduction for Efficient Large Multimodal
196. CVPR 2026ColaVLA Leveraging Cognitive Latent Reasoning for Hierarchical Parallel Trajectory Planning
197. CVPR 2026Collaborative Multi-Mode Pruning for Vision-Language Models
198. CVPR 2026CoLoR The Devil is in Scene Coordinate Regression for Large-Scale
199. CVPR 2026Common Inpainted Objects In-N-Out of Context
200. CVPR 2026Complementary Prototype Mapping for Efficient Multimodal Anomaly Detection

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.