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 43 of 67

2101. NeurIPS 2025REASONING COMPILER: LLM-Guided Optimizations for Efficient Model Serving
2102. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning is Periodicity? Improving Large Language Models Through Effective Periodicity Modeling
2103. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Planning for Language Models
2104. NeurIPS 2025Recognition through Reasoning: Reinforcing Image Geo-localization with Large Vision-Language Models
2105. NeurIPS 2025Recurrent Attention-based Token Selection for Efficient Streaming Video-LLMs
2106. NeurIPS 2025Recursive Inference Scaling: A Winning Path to Scalable Inference in Language and Multimodal Systems
2107. NeurIPS 2025REGen: Multimodal Retrieval-Embedded Generation for Long-to-Short Video Editing
2108. NeurIPS 2025Reinforcement Learning for Out-of-Distribution Reasoning in LLMs: An Empirical Study on Diagnosis-Related Group Coding
2109. NeurIPS 2025Reinforcing Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models with Interwoven Thinking and Visual Drawing
2110. NeurIPS 2025Reliable Lifelong Multimodal Editing: Conflict-Aware Retrieval Meets Multi-Level Guidance
2111. NeurIPS 2025Remarkable Robustness of LLMs: Stages of Inference?
2112. NeurIPS 2025Rendering-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Vector Graphics Generation
2113. NeurIPS 2025REOBench: Benchmarking Robustness of Earth Observation Foundation Models
2114. NeurIPS 2025REOrdering Patches Improves Vision Models
2115. NeurIPS 2025ReplaceMe: Network Simplification via Depth Pruning and Transformer Block Linearization
2116. NeurIPS 2025Representation Consistency for Accurate and Coherent LLM Answer Aggregation
2117. NeurIPS 2025Representation-Level Counterfactual Calibration for Debiased Zero-Shot Recognition
2118. NeurIPS 2025ResearchCodeBench: Benchmarking LLMs on Implementing Novel Machine Learning Research Code
2119. NeurIPS 2025Restoring Pruned Large Language Models via Lost Component Compensation
2120. NeurIPS 2025Restricted Spectral Gap Decomposition for Simulated Tempering Targeting Mixture Distributions
2121. NeurIPS 2025Rethinking Multimodal Learning from the Perspective of Mitigating Classification Ability Disproportion
2122. NeurIPS 2025Retrv-R1: A Reasoning-Driven MLLM Framework for Universal and Efficient Multimodal Retrieval
2123. NeurIPS 2025Revealing Multimodal Causality with Large Language Models
2124. NeurIPS 2025Revisiting Logit Distributions for Reliable Out-of-Distribution Detection
2125. NeurIPS 2025Revisiting LRP: Positional Attribution as the Missing Ingredient for Transformer Explainability
2126. NeurIPS 2025Revisiting Residual Connections: Orthogonal Updates for Stable and Efficient Deep Networks
2127. NeurIPS 2025Revisiting Semi-Supervised Learning in the Era of Foundation Models
2128. NeurIPS 2025Revitalizing SVD for Global Covariance Pooling: Halley’s Method to Overcome Over-Flattening
2129. NeurIPS 2025RGB-to-Polarization Estimation: A New Task and Benchmark Study
2130. NeurIPS 2025RHYTHM: Reasoning with Hierarchical Temporal Tokenization for Human Mobility
2131. NeurIPS 2025Right for the Right Reasons: Avoiding Reasoning Shortcuts via Prototypical Neurosymbolic AI
2132. NeurIPS 2025RL Tango: Reinforcing Generator and Verifier Together for Language Reasoning
2133. NeurIPS 2025Robo2VLM: Improving Visual Question Answering using Large-Scale Robot Manipulation Data
2134. NeurIPS 2025RoboCerebra: A Large-scale Benchmark for Long-horizon Robotic Manipulation Evaluation
2135. NeurIPS 2025Roboflow100-VL: A Multi-Domain Object Detection Benchmark for Vision-Language Models
2136. NeurIPS 2025RoboRefer: Towards Spatial Referring with Reasoning in Vision-Language Models for Robotics
2137. NeurIPS 2025Robot-R1: Reinforcement Learning for Enhanced Embodied Reasoning in Robotics
2138. NeurIPS 2025RobotSmith: Generative Robotic Tool Design for Acquisition of Complex Manipulation Skills
2139. NeurIPS 2025Robust Cross-modal Alignment Learning for Cross-Scene Spatial Reasoning and Grounding
2140. NeurIPS 2025Robust Egocentric Referring Video Object Segmentation via Dual-Modal Causal Intervention
2141. NeurIPS 2025Robust Hallucination Detection in LLMs via Adaptive Token Selection
2142. NeurIPS 2025Robust SuperAlignment: Weak-to-Strong Robustness Generalization for Vision-Language Models
2143. NeurIPS 2025Robustness in Both Domains: CLIP Needs a Robust Text Encoder
2144. NeurIPS 2025RoMA: Scaling up Mamba-based Foundation Models for Remote Sensing
2145. NeurIPS 2025ROVER: Recursive Reasoning Over Videos with Vision-Language Models for Embodied Tasks
2146. NeurIPS 2025RSafe: Incentivizing proactive reasoning to build robust and adaptive LLM safeguards
2147. NeurIPS 2025RSAVQ: Riemannian Sensitivity-Aware Vector Quantization for Large Language Models
2148. NeurIPS 2025RSCC: A Large-Scale Remote Sensing Change Caption Dataset for Disaster Events
2149. NeurIPS 2025RTV-Bench: Benchmarking MLLM Continuous Perception, Understanding and Reasoning through Real-Time Video
2150. NeurIPS 2025Safe + Safe = Unsafe? Exploring How Safe Images Can Be Exploited to Jailbreak Large Vision-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.