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

3,075 papers, page 49 of 62

2401. NeurIPS 2025HQA-VLAttack: Towards High Quality Adversarial Attack on Vision-Language Pre-Trained Models
2402. NeurIPS 2025Human-assisted Robotic Policy Refinement via Action Preference Optimization
2403. NeurIPS 2025HumanoidGen: Data Generation for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation via LLM Reasoning
2404. NeurIPS 2025Hyper-Modality Enhancement for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis with Missing Modalities
2405. NeurIPS 2025Hyperphantasia: A Benchmark for Evaluating the Mental Visualization Capabilities of Multimodal LLMs
2406. NeurIPS 2025HypoBootstrap: A Bootstrapping Framework for Inductive Reasoning
2407. NeurIPS 2025IF-Guide: Influence Function-Guided Detoxification of LLMs
2408. NeurIPS 2025iFinder: Structured Zero-Shot Vision-Based LLM Grounding for Dash-Cam Video Reasoning
2409. NeurIPS 2025IGD: Token Decisiveness Modeling via Information Gain in LLMs for Personalized Recommendation
2410. NeurIPS 2025Image as a World: Generating Interactive World from Single Image via Panoramic Video Generation
2411. NeurIPS 2025Image Token Matters: Mitigating Hallucination in Discrete Tokenizer-based Large Vision-Language Models via Latent Editing
2412. NeurIPS 2025ImageSentinel: Protecting Visual Datasets from Unauthorized Retrieval-Augmented Image Generation
2413. NeurIPS 2025ImgEdit: A Unified Image Editing Dataset and Benchmark
2414. NeurIPS 2025Implicit Modeling for Transferability Estimation of Vision Foundation Models
2415. NeurIPS 2025Impromptu VLA: Open Weights and Open Data for Driving Vision-Language-Action Models
2416. NeurIPS 2025Improve Temporal Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models via Video Contrastive Decoding
2417. NeurIPS 2025Improved Algorithms for Overlapping and Robust Clustering of Edge-Colored Hypergraphs: An LP-Based Combinatorial Approach
2418. NeurIPS 2025Improved Bounds for Swap Multicalibration and Swap Omniprediction
2419. NeurIPS 2025Improved Training Technique for Shortcut Models
2420. NeurIPS 2025Improving Deep Learning for Accelerated MRI With Data Filtering
2421. NeurIPS 2025Improving Formal Reasoning of Transformer with State Stack
2422. NeurIPS 2025Improving Task-Specific Multimodal Sentiment Analysis with General MLLMs via Prompting
2423. NeurIPS 2025In the Eye of MLLM: Benchmarking Egocentric Video Intent Understanding with Gaze-Guided Prompting
2424. NeurIPS 2025In-Context Compositional Learning vis Sparse Coding Transformer
2425. NeurIPS 2025IndEgo: A Dataset of Industrial Scenarios and Collaborative Work for Egocentric Assistants
2426. NeurIPS 2025IneqSearch: Hybrid Reasoning for Olympiad Inequality Proofs
2427. NeurIPS 2025InfantAgent-Next: A Multimodal Generalist Agent for Automated Computer Interaction
2428. NeurIPS 2025Inference of Whole Brain Electrophysiological Networks Through Multimodal Integration of Simultaneous Scalp and Intracranial EEG
2429. NeurIPS 2025InfiFPO: Implicit Model Fusion via Preference Optimization in Large Language Models
2430. NeurIPS 2025InfiniPot-V: Memory-Constrained KV Cache Compression for Streaming Video Understanding
2431. NeurIPS 2025InfMasking: Unleashing Synergistic Information by Contrastive Multimodal Interactions
2432. NeurIPS 2025InfoChartQA: A Benchmark for Multimodal Question Answering on Infographic Charts
2433. NeurIPS 2025Inner Speech as Behavior Guides: Steerable Imitation of Diverse Behaviors for Human-AI coordination
2434. NeurIPS 2025INST-IT: Boosting Instance Understanding via Explicit Visual Prompt Instruction Tuning
2435. NeurIPS 2025Instance-Level Composed Image Retrieval
2436. NeurIPS 2025Instant Video Models: Universal Adapters for Stabilizing Image-Based Networks
2437. NeurIPS 2025InstructSAM: A Training-free Framework for Instruction-Oriented Remote Sensing Object Recognition
2438. NeurIPS 2025Intend to Move: A Multimodal Dataset for Intention-Aware Human Motion Understanding
2439. NeurIPS 2025Interactive Anomaly Detection for Articulated Objects via Motion Anticipation
2440. NeurIPS 2025Interpreting Arithmetic Reasoning in Large Language Models using Game-Theoretic Interactions
2441. NeurIPS 2025Intervene-All-Paths: Unified Mitigation of LVLM Hallucinations across Alignment Formats
2442. NeurIPS 2025Introducing FOReCAst: The Future Outcome Reasoning and Confidence Assessment Benchmark
2443. NeurIPS 2025Inv-Entropy: A Fully Probabilistic Framework for Uncertainty Quantification in Language Models
2444. NeurIPS 2025IR-OptSet: An Optimization-Sensitive Dataset for Advancing LLM-Based IR Optimizer
2445. NeurIPS 2025IR3D-Bench: Evaluating Vision-Language Model Scene Understanding as Agentic Inverse Rendering
2446. NeurIPS 2025IRRISIGHT: A Large-Scale Multimodal Dataset and Scalable Pipeline to Address Irrigation and Water Management in Agriculture
2447. NeurIPS 2025Is the acquisition worth the cost? Surrogate losses for Consistent Two-stage Classifiers
2448. NeurIPS 2025Is This Tracker On? A Benchmark Protocol for Dynamic Tracking
2449. NeurIPS 2025Iterative Tool Usage Exploration for Multimodal Agents via Step-wise Preference Tuning
2450. NeurIPS 2025JailBound: Jailbreaking Internal Safety Boundaries of 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.