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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2401. NeurIPS 2025VisualLens: Personalization through Task-Agnostic Visual History
2402. NeurIPS 2025VITA-1.5: Towards GPT-4o Level Real-Time Vision and Speech Interaction
2403. NeurIPS 2025VITRIX-CLIPIN: Enhancing Fine-Grained Visual Understanding in CLIP via Instruction-Editing Data and Long Captions
2404. NeurIPS 2025VITRIX-UniViTAR: Unified Vision Transformer with Native Resolution
2405. NeurIPS 2025VL-Rethinker: Incentivizing Self-Reflection of Vision-Language Models with Reinforcement Learning
2406. NeurIPS 2025VL-SAE: Interpreting and Enhancing Vision-Language Alignment with a Unified Concept Set
2407. NeurIPS 2025VLA-Cache: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Manipulation via Adaptive Token Caching
2408. NeurIPS 2025VLA-OS: Structuring and Dissecting Planning Representations and Paradigms in Vision-Language-Action Models
2409. NeurIPS 2025VLM in a flash: I/O-Efficient Sparsification of Vision-Language Model via Neuron Chunking
2410. NeurIPS 2025VLM-R³: Region Recognition, Reasoning, and Refinement for Enhanced Multimodal Chain-of-Thought
2411. NeurIPS 2025VLMLight: Safety-Critical Traffic Signal Control via Vision-Language Meta-Control and Dual-Branch Reasoning Architecture
2412. NeurIPS 2025VLMs can Aggregate Scattered Training Patches
2413. NeurIPS 2025VLMs have Tunnel Vision: Evaluating Nonlocal Visual Reasoning in Leading VLMs
2414. NeurIPS 2025VMDT: Decoding the Trustworthiness of Video Foundation Models
2415. NeurIPS 2025Vocabulary-Guided Gait Recognition
2416. NeurIPS 2025VQ-Seg: Vector-Quantized Token Perturbation for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
2417. NeurIPS 2025VQToken: Neural Discrete Token Representation Learning for Extreme Token Reduction in Video Large Language Models
2418. NeurIPS 2025VRAG-RL: Empower Vision-Perception-Based RAG for Visually Rich Information Understanding via Iterative Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning
2419. NeurIPS 2025VT-FSL: Bridging Vision and Text with LLMs for Few-Shot Learning
2420. NeurIPS 2025Watch and Listen: Understanding Audio-Visual-Speech Moments with Multimodal LLM
2421. NeurIPS 2025Watermarking Autoregressive Image Generation
2422. NeurIPS 2025WearVQA: A Visual Question Answering Benchmark for Wearables in Egocentric Authentic Real-world scenarios
2423. NeurIPS 2025What’s in Common? Multimodal Models Hallucinate When Reasoning Across Scenes
2424. NeurIPS 2025When Kernels Multiply, Clusters Unify: Fusing Embeddings with the Kronecker Product
2425. NeurIPS 2025When Less Language is More: Language-Reasoning Disentanglement Makes LLMs Better Multilingual Reasoners
2426. NeurIPS 2025When Models Know More Than They Can Explain: Quantifying Knowledge Transfer in Human-AI Collaboration
2427. NeurIPS 2025When Semantics Mislead Vision: Mitigating Large Multimodal Models Hallucinations in Scene Text Spotting and Understanding
2428. NeurIPS 2025Where Does It Exist from the Low-Altitude: Spatial Aerial Video Grounding
2429. NeurIPS 2025Which Data Attributes Stimulate Math and Code Reasoning? An Investigation via Influence Functions
2430. NeurIPS 2025Who Reasons in the Large Language Models?
2431. NeurIPS 2025Why 1 + 1 < 1 in Visual Token Pruning: Beyond Naive Integration via Multi-Objective Balanced Covering
2432. NeurIPS 2025Why and How LLMs Hallucinate: Connecting the Dots with Subsequence Associations
2433. NeurIPS 2025Wider or Deeper? Scaling LLM Inference-Time Compute with Adaptive Branching Tree Search
2434. NeurIPS 2025Wisdom is Knowing What not to Say: Hallucination-Free LLMs Unlearning via Attention Shifting
2435. NeurIPS 2025With Limited Data for Multimodal Alignment, Let the STRUCTURE Guide You
2436. NeurIPS 2025WKV-sharing embraced random shuffle RWKV high-order modeling for pan-sharpening
2437. NeurIPS 2025World-aware Planning Narratives Enhance Large Vision-Language Model Planner
2438. NeurIPS 2025Yggdrasil: Bridging Dynamic Speculation and Static Runtime for Latency-Optimal Tree-Based LLM Decoding
2439. NeurIPS 2025Zero-Shot Blind-Spot Image Denoising via Cross-Scale Non-Local Pixel Refilling
2440. NeurIPS 2025Zooming from Context to Cue: Hierarchical Preference Optimization for Multi-Image MLLMs
2441. NeurIPS 2024$E^3$: Exploring Embodied Emotion Through A Large-Scale Egocentric Video Dataset
2442. NeurIPS 20243DCoMPaT200: Language Grounded Large-Scale 3D Vision Dataset for Compositional Recognition
2443. NeurIPS 20244M-21: An Any-to-Any Vision Model for Tens of Tasks and Modalities
2444. NeurIPS 2024A Benchmark Suite for Systematically Evaluating Reasoning Shortcuts
2445. NeurIPS 2024A Careful Examination of Large Language Model Performance on Grade School Arithmetic
2446. NeurIPS 2024A Concept-Based Explainability Framework for Large Multimodal Models
2447. NeurIPS 2024A General Protocol to Probe Large Vision Models for 3D Physical Understanding
2448. NeurIPS 2024A Hitchhiker's Guide to Fine-Grained Face Forgery Detection Using Common Sense Reasoning
2449. NeurIPS 2024A Neuro-Symbolic Benchmark Suite for Concept Quality and Reasoning Shortcuts
2450. NeurIPS 2024A Novel Benchmark for Decision-Making in Uncertain and Competitive Games

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.