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 40 of 67

1951. NeurIPS 2025MS-Bench: Evaluating LMMs in Ancient Manuscript Study through a Dunhuang Case Study
1952. NeurIPS 2025MSTAR: Box-free Multi-query Scene Text Retrieval with Attention Recycling
1953. NeurIPS 2025MTBBench: A Multimodal Sequential Clinical Decision-Making Benchmark in Oncology
1954. NeurIPS 2025Multi-Kernel Correlation-Attention Vision Transformer for Enhanced Contextual Understanding and Multi-Scale Integration
1955. NeurIPS 2025Multi-Modal Interactive Agent Layer for Few-Shot Universal Cross-Domain Retrieval and Beyond
1956. NeurIPS 2025Multi-Modal View Enhanced Large Vision Models for Long-Term Time Series Forecasting
1957. NeurIPS 2025Multi-Scale Finetuning for Encoder-based Time Series Foundation Models
1958. NeurIPS 2025Multi-scale Temporal Prediction via Incremental Generation and Multi-agent Collaboration
1959. NeurIPS 2025MultiHuman-Testbench: Benchmarking Image Generation for Multiple Humans
1960. NeurIPS 2025Multimodal 3D Genome Pre-training
1961. NeurIPS 2025Multimodal Causal Reasoning for UAV Object Detection
1962. NeurIPS 2025Multimodal Disease Progression Modeling via Spatiotemporal Disentanglement and Multiscale Alignment
1963. NeurIPS 2025Multimodal LiDAR-Camera Novel View Synthesis with Unified Pose-free Neural Fields
1964. NeurIPS 2025Multimodal Negative Learning
1965. NeurIPS 2025Multimodal Tabular Reasoning with Privileged Structured Information
1966. NeurIPS 2025MuRating: A High Quality Data Selecting Approach to Multilingual Large Language Model Pretraining
1967. NeurIPS 2025MuSLR: Multimodal Symbolic Logical Reasoning
1968. NeurIPS 2025MUVR: A Multi-Modal Untrimmed Video Retrieval Benchmark with Multi-Level Visual Correspondence
1969. NeurIPS 2025MVU-Eval: Towards Multi-Video Understanding Evaluation for Multimodal LLMs
1970. NeurIPS 2025NaDRO: Leveraging Dual-Reward Strategies for LLMs Training on Noisy Data
1971. NeurIPS 2025Native Segmentation Vision Transformers
1972. NeurIPS 2025NAUTILUS: A Large Multimodal Model for Underwater Scene Understanding
1973. NeurIPS 2025NavBench: Probing Multimodal Large Language Models for Embodied Navigation
1974. NeurIPS 2025‌Navigating the MIL Trade-Off: Flexible Pooling for Whole Slide Image Classification
1975. NeurIPS 2025NaViL: Rethinking Scaling Properties of Native Multimodal Large Language Models under Data Constraints
1976. NeurIPS 2025Neither Valid nor Reliable? Investigating the Use of LLMs as Judges
1977. NeurIPS 2025Neptune-X: Active X-to-Maritime Generation for Universal Maritime Object Detection
1978. NeurIPS 2025NestedFP: High-Performance, Memory-Efficient Dual-Precision Floating Point Support for LLMs
1979. NeurIPS 2025Neural Atlas Graphs for Dynamic Scene Decomposition and Editing
1980. NeurIPS 2025Noise Matters: Optimizing Matching Noise for Diffusion Classifiers
1981. NeurIPS 2025NoisyGRPO: Incentivizing Multimodal CoT Reasoning via Noise Injection and Bayesian Estimation
1982. NeurIPS 2025NoisyRollout: Reinforcing Visual Reasoning with Data Augmentation
1983. NeurIPS 2025Normalize Filters! Classical Wisdom for Deep Vision
1984. NeurIPS 2025NormFit: A Lightweight Solution for Few-Shot Federated Learning with Non-IID Data
1985. NeurIPS 2025NOVA: A Benchmark for Rare Anomaly Localization and Clinical Reasoning in Brain MRI
1986. NeurIPS 2025Novel Class Discovery for Point Cloud Segmentation via Joint Learning of Causal Representation and Reasoning
1987. NeurIPS 2025Object-centric binding in Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining
1988. NeurIPS 2025OCRBench v2: An Improved Benchmark for Evaluating Large Multimodal Models on Visual Text Localization and Reasoning
1989. NeurIPS 2025Omni-DNA: A Genomic Model Supporting Sequence Understanding, Long-context, and Textual Annotation
1990. NeurIPS 2025Omni-Mol: Multitask Molecular Model for Any-to-any Modalities
1991. NeurIPS 2025OmniBench: Towards The Future of Universal Omni-Language Models
1992. NeurIPS 2025OmniSVG: A Unified Scalable Vector Graphics Generation Model
1993. NeurIPS 2025OmniVCus: Feedforward Subject-driven Video Customization with Multimodal Control Conditions
1994. NeurIPS 2025On Epistemic Uncertainty of Visual Tokens for Object Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models
1995. NeurIPS 2025On Evaluating LLM Alignment by Evaluating LLMs as Judges
1996. NeurIPS 2025On Fairness of Unified Multimodal Large Language Model for Image Generation
1997. NeurIPS 2025On the Robustness of Verbal Confidence of LLMs in Adversarial Attacks
1998. NeurIPS 2025On the Value of Cross-Modal Misalignment in Multimodal Representation Learning
1999. NeurIPS 2025One Head to Rule Them All: Amplifying LVLM Safety through a Single Critical Attention Head
2000. NeurIPS 2025One SPACE to Rule Them All: Jointly Mitigating Factuality and Faithfulness Hallucinations in LLMs

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.