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

1,074 papers, page 5 of 22

201. NeurIPS 2025Deeper with Riemannian Geometry: Overcoming Oversmoothing and Oversquashing for Graph Foundation Models
202. NeurIPS 2025Defending Multimodal Backdoored Models by Repulsive Visual Prompt Tuning
203. NeurIPS 2025Degradation-Aware Dynamic Schrödinger Bridge for Unpaired Image Restoration
204. NeurIPS 2025DeltaFlow: An Efficient Multi-frame Scene Flow Estimation Method
205. NeurIPS 2025Democratizing Clinical Risk Prediction with Cross-Cohort Cross-Modal Knowledge Transfer
206. NeurIPS 2025DenoiseRotator: Enhance Pruning Robustness for LLMs via Importance Concentration
207. NeurIPS 2025Depth-Bounds for Neural Networks via the Braid Arrangement
208. NeurIPS 2025Depth-Supervised Fusion Network for Seamless-Free Image Stitching
209. NeurIPS 2025DERD-Net: Learning Depth from Event-based Ray Densities
210. NeurIPS 2025DermaCon-IN: A Multiconcept-Annotated Dermatological Image Dataset of Indian Skin Disorders for Clinical AI Research
211. NeurIPS 2025DetectiumFire: A Comprehensive Multi-modal Dataset Bridging Vision and Language for Fire Understanding
212. NeurIPS 2025DEXTER: Diffusion-Guided EXplanations with TExtual Reasoning for Vision Models
213. NeurIPS 2025Diffusion Model as a Noise-Aware Latent Reward Model for Step-Level Preference Optimization
214. NeurIPS 2025Dimension-Reduction Attack! Video Generative Models are Experts on Controllable Image Synthesis
215. NeurIPS 2025Directed-Tokens: A Robust Multi-Modality Alignment Approach to Large Language-Vision Models
216. NeurIPS 2025DisasterM3: A Remote Sensing Vision-Language Dataset for Disaster Damage Assessment and Response
217. NeurIPS 2025DISCO: Disentangled Communication Steering for Large Language Models
218. NeurIPS 2025Discovering Compositional Hallucinations in LVLMs
219. NeurIPS 2025Disentanglement Beyond Static vs. Dynamic: A Benchmark and Evaluation Framework for Multi-Factor Sequential Representations
220. NeurIPS 2025Distil-E2D: Distilling Image-to-Depth Priors for Event-Based Monocular Depth Estimation
221. NeurIPS 2025Diversity as a Reward: Fine-Tuning LLMs on a Mixture of Domain-Undetermined Data
222. NeurIPS 2025Do LLMs Really Forget? Evaluating Unlearning with Knowledge Correlation and Confidence Awareness
223. NeurIPS 2025Do LVLMs Truly Understand Video Anomalies? Revealing Hallucination via Co-Occurrence Patterns
224. NeurIPS 2025Domain Adaptive Hashing Retrieval via VLM Assisted Pseudo-Labeling and Dual Space Adaptation
225. NeurIPS 2025Don’t Forget the Enjoin: FocalLoRA for Instruction Hierarchical Alignment in Large Language Models
226. NeurIPS 2025DON’T NEED RETRAINING: A Mixture of DETR and Vision Foundation Models for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Object Detection
227. NeurIPS 2025DOTA: Distributional Test-time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models
228. NeurIPS 2025Dr. RAW: Towards General High-Level Vision from RAW with Efficient Task Conditioning
229. NeurIPS 2025Drag-and-Drop LLMs: Zero-Shot Prompt-to-Weights
230. NeurIPS 2025DreamPRM: Domain-reweighted Process Reward Model for Multimodal Reasoning
231. NeurIPS 2025DreamVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model Dreamed with Comprehensive World Knowledge
232. NeurIPS 2025DrVD-Bench: Do Vision-Language Models Reason Like Human Doctors in Medical Image Diagnosis?
233. NeurIPS 2025Dual-Stage Value-Guided Inference with Margin-Based Reward Adjustment for Fast and Faithful VLM Captioning
234. NeurIPS 2025DualCnst: Enhancing Zero-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection via Text-Image Consistency in Vision-Language Models
235. NeurIPS 2025DuoGPT: Training-free Dual Sparsity through Activation-aware Pruning in LLMs
236. NeurIPS 2025DyMU: Dynamic Merging and Virtual Unmerging for Efficient Variable-Length VLMs
237. NeurIPS 2025Dynam3D: Dynamic Layered 3D Tokens Empower VLM for Vision-and-Language Navigation
238. NeurIPS 2025Dynamic Shadow Unveils Invisible Semantics for Video Outpainting
239. NeurIPS 2025Dynamical modeling of nonlinear latent factors in multiscale neural activity with real-time inference
240. NeurIPS 2025DynamicVerse: A Physically-Aware Multimodal Framework for 4D World Modeling
241. NeurIPS 2025DynamicVL: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Dynamic City Understanding
242. NeurIPS 2025DynaPipe: Dynamic Layer Redistribution for Efficient Serving of LLMs with Pipeline Parallelism
243. NeurIPS 2025EA3D: Online Open-World 3D Object Extraction from Streaming Videos
244. NeurIPS 2025Each Complexity Deserves a Pruning Policy
245. NeurIPS 2025EAG3R: Event-Augmented 3D Geometry Estimation for Dynamic and Extreme-Lighting Scenes
246. NeurIPS 2025Eagle 2.5: Boosting Long-Context Post-Training for Frontier Vision-Language Models
247. NeurIPS 2025Edit Less, Achieve More: Dynamic Sparse Neuron Masking for Lifelong Knowledge Editing in LLMs
248. NeurIPS 2025Efficient Multimodal Dataset Distillation via Generative Models
249. NeurIPS 2025EfficientVLA: Training-Free Acceleration and Compression for Vision-Language-Action Models
250. NeurIPS 2025EgoBlind: Towards Egocentric Visual Assistance for the Blind

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.