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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2051. CVPR 2025SymDPO: Boosting In-Context Learning of Large Multimodal Models with Symbol Demonstration Direct Preference Optimization
2052. CVPR 2025SynerGen-VL: Towards Synergistic Image Understanding and Generation with Vision Experts and Token Folding
2053. CVPR 2025Synergizing Motion and Appearance: Multi-Scale Compensatory Codebooks for Talking Head Video Generation
2054. CVPR 2025SynTab-LLaVA: Enhancing Multimodal Table Understanding with Decoupled Synthesis
2055. CVPR 2025Synthetic Data is an Elegant GIFT for Continual Vision-Language Models
2056. CVPR 2025T2ICount: Enhancing Cross-modal Understanding for Zero-Shot Counting
2057. CVPR 2025T2SG: Traffic Topology Scene Graph for Topology Reasoning in Autonomous Driving
2058. CVPR 2025T2V-CompBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Compositional Text-to-video Generation
2059. CVPR 2025Taming Teacher Forcing for Masked Autoregressive Video Generation
2060. CVPR 2025TANGO: Training-free Embodied AI Agents for Open-world Tasks
2061. CVPR 2025TAPT: Test-Time Adversarial Prompt Tuning for Robust Inference in Vision-Language Models
2062. CVPR 2025Targeted Forgetting of Image Subgroups in CLIP Models
2063. CVPR 2025Tartan IMU: A Light Foundation Model for Inertial Positioning in Robotics
2064. CVPR 2025Task Preference Optimization: Improving Multimodal Large Language Models with Vision Task Alignment
2065. CVPR 2025Task-Aware Clustering for Prompting Vision-Language Models
2066. CVPR 2025TASTE-Rob: Advancing Video Generation of Task-Oriented Hand-Object Interaction for Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
2067. CVPR 2025Taxonomy-Aware Evaluation of Vision-Language Models
2068. CVPR 2025TensoFlow: Tensorial Flow-based Sampler for Inverse Rendering
2069. CVPR 2025Test-Time Domain Generalization via Universe Learning: A Multi-Graph Matching Approach for Medical Image Segmentation
2070. CVPR 2025The Devil is in Temporal Token: High Quality Video Reasoning Segmentation
2071. CVPR 2025The Impact Label Noise and Choice of Threshold has on Cross-Entropy and Soft-Dice in Image Segmentation
2072. CVPR 2025The Photographer's Eye: Teaching Multimodal Large Language Models to See, and Critique Like Photographers
2073. CVPR 2025Thinking in Space: How Multimodal Large Language Models See, Remember, and Recall Spaces
2074. CVPR 2025Through-The-Mask: Mask-based Motion Trajectories for Image-to-Video Generation
2075. CVPR 2025TimeTracker: Event-based Continuous Point Tracking for Video Frame Interpolation with Non-linear Motion
2076. CVPR 2025Token Cropr: Faster ViTs for Quite a Few Tasks
2077. CVPR 2025TokenFlow: Unified Image Tokenizer for Multimodal Understanding and Generation
2078. CVPR 2025Tokenize Image Patches: Global Context Fusion for Effective Haze Removal in Large Images
2079. CVPR 2025TopV: Compatible Token Pruning with Inference Time Optimization for Fast and Low-Memory Multimodal Vision Language Model
2080. CVPR 2025Towards a Universal Synthetic Video Detector: From Face or Background Manipulations to Fully AI-Generated Content
2081. CVPR 2025Towards Continual Universal Segmentation
2082. CVPR 2025Towards Long-Horizon Vision-Language Navigation: Platform, Benchmark and Method
2083. CVPR 2025Towards More General Video-based Deepfake Detection through Facial Component Guided Adaptation for Foundation Model
2084. CVPR 2025Towards Natural Language-Based Document Image Retrieval: New Dataset and Benchmark
2085. CVPR 2025Towards Training-free Anomaly Detection with Vision and Language Foundation Models
2086. CVPR 2025Towards Understanding and Quantifying Uncertainty for Text-to-Image Generation
2087. CVPR 2025Towards Understanding How Knowledge Evolves in Large Vision-Language Models
2088. CVPR 2025Towards Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection and Reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Models
2089. CVPR 2025Training-free Dense-Aligned Diffusion Guidance for Modular Conditional Image Synthesis
2090. CVPR 2025TSAM: Temporal SAM Augmented with Multimodal Prompts for Referring Audio-Visual Segmentation
2091. CVPR 2025TSP-Mamba: The Travelling Salesman Problem Meets Mamba for Image Super-resolution and Beyond
2092. CVPR 2025Two is Better than One: Efficient Ensemble Defense for Robust and Compact Models
2093. CVPR 2025UCM-VeID V2: A Richer Dataset and A Pre-training Method for UAV Cross-Modality Vehicle Re-Identification
2094. CVPR 2025UHD-processer: Unified UHD Image Restoration with Progressive Frequency Learning and Degradation-aware Prompts
2095. CVPR 2025Uncertain Multimodal Intention and Emotion Understanding in the Wild
2096. CVPR 2025Uncertainty Weighted Gradients for Model Calibration
2097. CVPR 2025Understanding Fine-tuning CLIP for Open-vocabulary Semantic Segmentation in Hyperbolic Space
2098. CVPR 2025UNEM: UNrolled Generalized EM for Transductive Few-Shot Learning
2099. CVPR 2025Uni4D: Unifying Visual Foundation Models for 4D Modeling from a Single Video
2100. CVPR 2025UNIALIGN: Scaling Multimodal Alignment within One Unified Model

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.