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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2201. NeurIPS 2025Single GPU Task Adaptation of Pathology Foundation Models for Whole Slide Image Analysis
2202. NeurIPS 2025Single-pass Adaptive Image Tokenization for Minimum Program Search
2203. NeurIPS 2025Sinusoidal Initialization, Time for a New Start
2204. NeurIPS 2025Situat3DChange: Situated 3D Change Understanding Dataset for Multimodal Large Language Model
2205. NeurIPS 2025SketchMind: A Multi-Agent Cognitive Framework for Assessing Student-Drawn Scientific Sketches
2206. NeurIPS 2025Small Batch Size Training for Language Models: When Vanilla SGD Works, and Why Gradient Accumulation is Wasteful
2207. NeurIPS 2025SMMILE: An expert-driven benchmark for multimodal medical in-context learning
2208. NeurIPS 2025SmokeViz: A Large-Scale Satellite Dataset for Wildfire Smoke Detection and Segmentation
2209. NeurIPS 2025Smooth Regularization for Efficient Video Recognition
2210. NeurIPS 2025SoFar: Language-Grounded Orientation Bridges Spatial Reasoning and Object Manipulation
2211. NeurIPS 2025SolidGeo: Measuring Multimodal Spatial Math Reasoning in Solid Geometry
2212. NeurIPS 2025SoMi-ToM: Evaluating Multi-Perspective Theory of Mind in Embodied Social Interactions
2213. NeurIPS 2025SoTA with Less: MCTS-Guided Sample Selection for Data-Efficient Visual Reasoning Self-Improvement
2214. NeurIPS 2025SpaceServe: Spatial Multiplexing of Complementary Encoders and Decoders for Multimodal LLMs
2215. NeurIPS 2025Sparse Autoencoders Learn Monosemantic Features in Vision-Language Models
2216. NeurIPS 2025Spatial Understanding from Videos: Structured Prompts Meet Simulation Data
2217. NeurIPS 2025Spatial-MLLM: Boosting MLLM Capabilities in Visual-based Spatial Intelligence
2218. NeurIPS 2025SpatialLM: Training Large Language Models for Structured Indoor Modeling
2219. NeurIPS 2025SpatialReasoner: Towards Explicit and Generalizable 3D Spatial Reasoning
2220. NeurIPS 2025SPAZER: Spatial-Semantic Progressive Reasoning Agent for Zero-shot 3D Visual Grounding
2221. NeurIPS 2025SpecEdge: Scalable Edge-Assisted Serving Framework for Interactive LLMs
2222. NeurIPS 2025Speculate Deep and Accurate: Lossless and Training-Free Acceleration for Offloaded LLMs via Substitute Speculative Decoding
2223. NeurIPS 2025Spot the Fake: Large Multimodal Model-Based Synthetic Image Detection with Artifact Explanation
2224. NeurIPS 2025SPRO: Improving Image Generation via Self-Play
2225. NeurIPS 2025SRPO: Enhancing Multimodal LLM Reasoning via Reflection-Aware Reinforcement Learning
2226. NeurIPS 2025SSR: Enhancing Depth Perception in Vision-Language Models via Rationale-Guided Spatial Reasoning
2227. NeurIPS 2025SSTAG: Structure-Aware Self-Supervised Learning Method for Text-Attributed Graphs
2228. NeurIPS 2025ST$^2$360D: Spatial-to-Temporal Consistency for Training-free 360 Monocular Depth Estimation
2229. NeurIPS 2025Stable Cinemetrics : Structured Taxonomy and Evaluation for Professional Video Generation
2230. NeurIPS 2025State Space Prompting via Gathering and Spreading Spatio-Temporal Information for Video Understanding
2231. NeurIPS 2025Statistical Analysis of the Sinkhorn Iterations for Two-Sample Schr\"{o}dinger Bridge Estimation
2232. NeurIPS 2025Statistical inference for Linear Stochastic Approximation with Markovian Noise
2233. NeurIPS 2025Statistics Caching Test-Time Adaptation for Vision-Language Models
2234. NeurIPS 2025STEER-ME: Assessing the Microeconomic Reasoning of Large Language Models
2235. NeurIPS 2025SteerConf: Steering LLMs for Confidence Elicitation
2236. NeurIPS 2025Stepsize anything: A unified learning rate schedule for budgeted-iteration training
2237. NeurIPS 2025Stitch and Tell: A Structured Data Augmentation Method for Spatial Understanding
2238. NeurIPS 2025Stop DDoS Attacking the Research Community with AI-Generated Survey Papers
2239. NeurIPS 2025StreamBP: Memory-Efficient Exact Backpropagation for Long Sequence Training of LLMs
2240. NeurIPS 2025StreamForest: Efficient Online Video Understanding with Persistent Event Memory
2241. NeurIPS 2025STRIDER: Navigation via Instruction-Aligned Structural Decision Space Optimization
2242. NeurIPS 2025Struct2D: A Perception-Guided Framework for Spatial Reasoning in MLLMs
2243. NeurIPS 2025Structural Entropy Guided Agent for Detecting and Repairing Knowledge Deficiencies in LLMs
2244. NeurIPS 2025Structure-Aware Cooperative Ensemble Evolutionary Optimization on Combinatorial Problems with Multimodal Large Language Models
2245. NeurIPS 2025Structure-Aware Fusion with Progressive Injection for Multimodal Molecular Representation Learning
2246. NeurIPS 2025Structured Initialization for Vision Transformers
2247. NeurIPS 2025Structured Spectral Reasoning for Frequency-Adaptive Multimodal Recommendation
2248. NeurIPS 2025STSBench: A Spatio-temporal Scenario Benchmark for Multi-modal Large Language Models in Autonomous Driving
2249. NeurIPS 2025SuperCLIP: CLIP with Simple Classification Supervision
2250. NeurIPS 2025SURDS: Benchmarking Spatial Understanding and Reasoning in Driving Scenarios with 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.