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

446 papers, page 5 of 9

201. NeurIPS 2024IPO: Interpretable Prompt Optimization for Vision-Language Models
202. NeurIPS 2024Is A Picture Worth A Thousand Words? Delving Into Spatial Reasoning for Vision Language Models
203. NeurIPS 2024JourneyBench: A Challenging One-Stop Vision-Language Understanding Benchmark of Generated Images
204. NeurIPS 2024Kangaroo: Lossless Self-Speculative Decoding for Accelerating LLMs via Double Early Exiting
205. NeurIPS 2024KptLLM: Unveiling the Power of Large Language Model for Keypoint Comprehension
206. NeurIPS 2024LAVIB: A Large-scale Video Interpolation Benchmark
207. NeurIPS 2024Learning Action and Reasoning-Centric Image Editing from Videos and Simulation
208. NeurIPS 2024Learning Frequency-Adapted Vision Foundation Model for Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation
209. NeurIPS 2024Learning Multimodal Behaviors from Scratch with Diffusion Policy Gradient
210. NeurIPS 2024Learning Spatially-Aware Language and Audio Embeddings
211. NeurIPS 2024Learning to Reason Iteratively and Parallelly for Complex Visual Reasoning Scenarios
212. NeurIPS 2024Learning Truncated Causal History Model for Video Restoration
213. NeurIPS 2024Lever LM: Configuring In-Context Sequence to Lever Large Vision Language Models
214. NeurIPS 2024Leveraging Visual Tokens for Extended Text Contexts in Multi-Modal Learning
215. NeurIPS 2024Lexicon3D: Probing Visual Foundation Models for Complex 3D Scene Understanding
216. NeurIPS 2024LG-CAV: Train Any Concept Activation Vector with Language Guidance
217. NeurIPS 2024Linearly Decomposing and Recomposing Vision Transformers for Diverse-Scale Models
218. NeurIPS 2024LINGOLY: A Benchmark of Olympiad-Level Linguistic Reasoning Puzzles in Low Resource and Extinct Languages
219. NeurIPS 2024LIVE: Learnable In-Context Vector for Visual Question Answering
220. NeurIPS 2024LLaMo: Large Language Model-based Molecular Graph Assistant
221. NeurIPS 2024LLMCBench: Benchmarking Large Language Model Compression for Efficient Deployment
222. NeurIPS 2024LLMs Can Evolve Continually on Modality for $\mathbb{X}$-Modal Reasoning
223. NeurIPS 2024LongVideoBench: A Benchmark for Long-context Interleaved Video-Language Understanding
224. NeurIPS 2024LOVA3: Learning to Visual Question Answering, Asking and Assessment
225. NeurIPS 2024Lumen: Unleashing Versatile Vision-Centric Capabilities of Large Multimodal Models
226. NeurIPS 2024M$^3$GPT: An Advanced Multimodal, Multitask Framework for Motion Comprehension and Generation
227. NeurIPS 2024Magnet: We Never Know How Text-to-Image Diffusion Models Work, Until We Learn How Vision-Language Models Function
228. NeurIPS 2024Make-it-Real: Unleashing Large Multimodal Model for Painting 3D Objects with Realistic Materials
229. NeurIPS 2024MAN TruckScenes: A multimodal dataset for autonomous trucking in diverse conditions
230. NeurIPS 2024MARPLE: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Inference
231. NeurIPS 2024Mars: Situated Inductive Reasoning in an Open-World Environment
232. NeurIPS 2024MathPile: A Billion-Token-Scale Pretraining Corpus for Math
233. NeurIPS 2024Matryoshka Query Transformer for Large Vision-Language Models
234. NeurIPS 2024MaVEn: An Effective Multi-granularity Hybrid Visual Encoding Framework for Multimodal Large Language Model
235. NeurIPS 2024Me, Myself, and AI: The Situational Awareness Dataset (SAD) for LLMs
236. NeurIPS 2024Measuring Dejavu Memorization Efficiently
237. NeurIPS 2024Measuring Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning with MATH-Vision Dataset
238. NeurIPS 2024MECD: Unlocking Multi-Event Causal Discovery in Video Reasoning
239. NeurIPS 2024MedCalc-Bench: Evaluating Large Language Models for Medical Calculations
240. NeurIPS 2024MediQ: Question-Asking LLMs and a Benchmark for Reliable Interactive Clinical Reasoning
241. NeurIPS 2024Membership Inference Attacks against Large Vision-Language Models
242. NeurIPS 2024MemVLT: Vision-Language Tracking with Adaptive Memory-based Prompts
243. NeurIPS 2024MEQA: A Benchmark for Multi-hop Event-centric Question Answering with Explanations
244. NeurIPS 2024MetaUAS: Universal Anomaly Segmentation with One-Prompt Meta-Learning
245. NeurIPS 2024Meteor: Mamba-based Traversal of Rationale for Large Language and Vision Models
246. NeurIPS 2024Micro-Bench: A Microscopy Benchmark for Vision-Language Understanding
247. NeurIPS 2024Mind's Eye of LLMs: Visualization-of-Thought Elicits Spatial Reasoning in Large Language Models
248. NeurIPS 2024MInference 1.0: Accelerating Pre-filling for Long-Context LLMs via Dynamic Sparse Attention
249. NeurIPS 2024MINT-1T: Scaling Open-Source Multimodal Data by 10x: A Multimodal Dataset with One Trillion Tokens
250. NeurIPS 2024Mitigating Object Hallucination via Concentric Causal Attention

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.