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 46 of 67

2251. NeurIPS 2025Surface-Aware Feed-Forward Quadratic Gaussian for Frame Interpolation with Large Motion
2252. NeurIPS 2025Surprise3D: A Dataset for Spatial Understanding and Reasoning in Complex 3D Scenes
2253. NeurIPS 2025SutureBot: A Precision Framework & Benchmark For Autonomous End-to-End Suturing
2254. NeurIPS 2025Switchable Token-Specific Codebook Quantization For Face Image Compression
2255. NeurIPS 2025SymRTLO: Enhancing RTL Code Optimization with LLMs and Neuron-Inspired Symbolic Reasoning
2256. NeurIPS 2025Synthesizing Photorealistic and Dynamic Urban Environments for Multimodal Robot Navigation and Collaboration
2257. NeurIPS 2025Systematic Reward Gap Optimization for Mitigating VLM Hallucinations
2258. NeurIPS 2025T-SHIRT: Token-Selective Hierarchical Data Selection for Instruction Tuning
2259. NeurIPS 2025T2I-R1: Reinforcing Image Generation with Collaborative Semantic-level and Token-level CoT
2260. NeurIPS 2025TabArena: A Living Benchmark for Machine Learning on Tabular Data
2261. NeurIPS 2025Table as a Modality for Large Language Models
2262. NeurIPS 2025TabSTAR: A Tabular Foundation Model for Tabular Data with Text Fields
2263. NeurIPS 2025Tabula: A Tabular Self-Supervised Foundation Model for Single-Cell Transcriptomics
2264. NeurIPS 2025TaiwanVQA: Benchmarking and Enhancing Cultural Understanding in Vision-Language Models
2265. NeurIPS 2025Talk2Event: Grounded Understanding of Dynamic Scenes from Event Cameras
2266. NeurIPS 2025TalkCuts: A Large-Scale Dataset for Multi-Shot Human Speech Video Generation
2267. NeurIPS 2025TAPVid-360: Tracking Any Point in 360 from Narrow Field of View Video
2268. NeurIPS 2025TCM-Ladder: A Benchmark for Multimodal Question Answering on Traditional Chinese Medicine
2269. NeurIPS 2025Teaching Transformers to Solve Combinatorial Problems through Efficient Trial & Error
2270. NeurIPS 2025Temporal Chain of Thought: Long-Video Understanding by Thinking in Frames
2271. NeurIPS 2025TempSamp-R1: Effective Temporal Sampling with Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Video LLMs
2272. NeurIPS 2025Tensor-Parallelism with Partially Synchronized Activations
2273. NeurIPS 2025Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
2274. NeurIPS 2025Test-Time Adaptive Object Detection with Foundation Model
2275. NeurIPS 2025Test-Time Spectrum-Aware Latent Steering for Zero-Shot Generalization in Vision-Language Models
2276. NeurIPS 2025Text to Sketch Generation with Multi-Styles
2277. NeurIPS 2025The Curse of Depth in Large Language Models
2278. NeurIPS 2025The Curse of Multi-Modalities: Evaluating Hallucinations of Large Multimodal Models across Language, Visual, and Audio
2279. NeurIPS 2025The Illusion of Progress? A Critical Look at Test-Time Adaptation for Vision-Language Models
2280. NeurIPS 2025The Indra Representation Hypothesis
2281. NeurIPS 2025The Mirage of Performance Gains: Why Contrastive Decoding Fails to Mitigate Object Hallucinations in MLLMs?
2282. NeurIPS 2025The Narrow Gate: Localized Image-Text Communication in Native Multimodal Models
2283. NeurIPS 2025The Promise of RL for Autoregressive Image Editing
2284. NeurIPS 2025The Quest for Universal Master Key Filters in DS-CNNs
2285. NeurIPS 2025Think or Not? Selective Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language Models
2286. NeurIPS 2025ThinkAct: Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Reinforced Visual Latent Planning
2287. NeurIPS 2025ThinkSound: Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs for Audio Generation and Editing
2288. NeurIPS 2025Thresholds for sensitive optimality and Blackwell optimality in stochastic games
2289. NeurIPS 2025THUNDER: Tile-level Histopathology image UNDERstanding benchmark
2290. NeurIPS 2025Time-IMM: A Dataset and Benchmark for Irregular Multimodal Multivariate Time Series
2291. NeurIPS 2025Time-R1: Post-Training Large Vision Language Model for Temporal Video Grounding
2292. NeurIPS 2025Timely Clinical Diagnosis through Active Test Selection
2293. NeurIPS 2025Too Late to Recall: Explaining the Two-Hop Problem in Multimodal Knowledge Retrieval
2294. NeurIPS 2025Tool-Augmented Spatiotemporal Reasoning for Streamlining Video Question Answering Task
2295. NeurIPS 2025Toward a Vision-Language Foundation Model for Medical Data: Multimodal Dataset and Benchmarks for Vietnamese PET/CT Report Generation
2296. NeurIPS 2025Toward Engineering AGI: Benchmarking the Engineering Design Capabilities of LLMs
2297. NeurIPS 2025Towards Better Dental AI: A Multimodal Benchmark and Instruction Dataset for Panoramic X-ray Analysis
2298. NeurIPS 2025Towards Building Model/Prompt-Transferable Attackers against Large Vision-Language Models
2299. NeurIPS 2025Towards Comprehensive Scene Understanding: Integrating First and Third-Person Views for LVLMs
2300. NeurIPS 2025Towards Evaluating Proactive Risk Awareness of Multimodal 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.