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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2351. NeurIPS 2025Unleashing Foundation Vision Models: Adaptive Transfer for Diverse Data-Limited Scientific Domains
2352. NeurIPS 2025Unleashing the Potential of Multimodal LLMs for Zero-Shot Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding
2353. NeurIPS 2025Unlocking Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning via Process Reward Model
2354. NeurIPS 2025Unsupervised Trajectory Optimization for 3D Registration in Serial Section Electron Microscopy using Neural ODEs
2355. NeurIPS 2025Unveiling Chain of Step Reasoning for Vision-Language Models with Fine-grained Rewards
2356. NeurIPS 2025Unveiling the Compositional Ability Gap in Vision-Language Reasoning Model
2357. NeurIPS 2025URDF-Anything: Constructing Articulated Objects with 3D Multimodal Language Model
2358. NeurIPS 2025UVE: Are MLLMs Unified Evaluators for AI-Generated Videos?
2359. NeurIPS 2025V-CECE: Visual Counterfactual Explanations via Conceptual Edits
2360. NeurIPS 2025V2V: Scaling Event-Based Vision through Efficient Video-to-Voxel Simulation
2361. NeurIPS 2025Vad-R1: Towards Video Anomaly Reasoning via Perception-to-Cognition Chain-of-Thought
2362. NeurIPS 2025VADB: A Large-Scale Video Aesthetic Database with Professional and Multi-Dimensional Annotations
2363. NeurIPS 2025VADTree: Explainable Training-Free Video Anomaly Detection via Hierarchical Granularity-Aware Tree
2364. NeurIPS 2025VAGEN: Reinforcing World Model Reasoning for Multi-Turn VLM Agents
2365. NeurIPS 2025Value-Guided KV Compression for LLMs via Approximated CUR Decomposition
2366. NeurIPS 2025VaMP: Variational Multi-Modal Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models
2367. NeurIPS 2025Vanish into Thin Air: Cross-prompt Universal Adversarial Attacks for SAM2
2368. NeurIPS 2025VCM: Vision Concept Modeling with Adaptive Vision Token Compression via Instruction Fine-Tuning
2369. NeurIPS 2025VESSA: Video-based objEct-centric Self-Supervised Adaptation for Visual Foundation Models
2370. NeurIPS 2025VIBE: Annotation-Free Video-to-Text Information Bottleneck Evaluation for TL;DR
2371. NeurIPS 2025ViCrit: A Verifiable Reinforcement Learning Proxy Task for Visual Perception in VLMs
2372. NeurIPS 2025Vid-SME: Membership Inference Attacks against Large Video Understanding Models
2373. NeurIPS 2025VidEmo: Affective-Tree Reasoning for Emotion-Centric Video Foundation Models
2374. NeurIPS 2025Video Perception Models for 3D Scene Synthesis
2375. NeurIPS 2025Video-R1: Reinforcing Video Reasoning in MLLMs
2376. NeurIPS 2025Video-SafetyBench: A Benchmark for Safety Evaluation of Video LVLMs
2377. NeurIPS 2025VideoCAD: A Dataset and Model for Learning Long‑Horizon 3D CAD UI Interactions from Video
2378. NeurIPS 2025VideoChat-R1.5: Visual Test-Time Scaling to Reinforce Multimodal Reasoning by Iterative Perception
2379. NeurIPS 2025VideoGameQA-Bench: Evaluating Vision-Language Models for Video Game Quality Assurance
2380. NeurIPS 2025VideoHallu: Evaluating and Mitigating Multi-modal Hallucinations on Synthetic Video Understanding
2381. NeurIPS 2025VideoLucy: Deep Memory Backtracking for Long Video Understanding
2382. NeurIPS 2025VideoRFT: Incentivizing Video Reasoning Capability in MLLMs via Reinforced Fine-Tuning
2383. NeurIPS 2025VideoVLA: Video Generators Can Be Generalizable Robot Manipulators
2384. NeurIPS 2025VIKI‑R: Coordinating Embodied Multi-Agent Cooperation via Reinforcement Learning
2385. NeurIPS 2025Virus Infection Attack on LLMs: Your Poisoning Can Spread "VIA" Synthetic Data
2386. NeurIPS 2025VisDiff: SDF-Guided Polygon Generation for Visibility Reconstruction, Characterization and Recognition
2387. NeurIPS 2025Vision as a Dialect: Unifying Visual Understanding and Generation via Text-Aligned Representations
2388. NeurIPS 2025Vision Foundation Models as Effective Visual Tokenizers for Autoregressive Generation
2389. NeurIPS 2025Vision Function Layer in Multimodal LLMs
2390. NeurIPS 2025Vision Transformers Don't Need Trained Registers
2391. NeurIPS 2025Vision Transformers with Self-Distilled Registers
2392. NeurIPS 2025Vision-centric Token Compression in Large Language Model
2393. NeurIPS 2025Vision‑Language‑Vision Auto‑Encoder: Scalable Knowledge Distillation from Diffusion Models
2394. NeurIPS 2025VisionThink: Smart and Efficient Vision Language Model via Reinforcement Learning
2395. NeurIPS 2025ViSpec: Accelerating Vision-Language Models with Vision-Aware Speculative Decoding
2396. NeurIPS 2025ViSPLA: Visual Iterative Self-Prompting for Language-Guided 3D Affordance Learning
2397. NeurIPS 2025Visual Diversity and Region-aware Prompt Learning for Zero-shot HOI Detection
2398. NeurIPS 2025Visual Instruction Bottleneck Tuning
2399. NeurIPS 2025Visual Structures Help Visual Reasoning: Addressing the Binding Problem in LVLMs
2400. NeurIPS 2025Visual Thoughts: A Unified Perspective of Understanding Multimodal Chain-of-Thought

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.