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

1,366 papers, page 5 of 28

201. NeurIPS 2026C3H: Compression-to-Consensus Criteria Hijacking in Multimodal LLM Recommender Systems
202. NeurIPS 2026CA-Judge: Teach Large Models to Judge Anomalies via Comparison for Video Anomaly Detection
203. NeurIPS 2026CaC: Advancing Video Reward Models via Hierarchical Spatiotemporal Concentrating
204. NeurIPS 2026CAIRN: Cross-Room 3D Scene Understanding with Topology-Aware Large Multimodal Models
205. NeurIPS 2026CAM: Question Answering on Entity-Centric Videos with Continuous Extraction and Adaptive Querying
206. NeurIPS 2026Can an LLM Reason Like a Lawyer? Benchmarking the ability of LLMs to map the facts of a case to the elements of the applicable legal rule
207. NeurIPS 2026Can Linguistic Reasoning Vectors Enhance Multimodal Reasoning Ability?
208. NeurIPS 2026Can Pixels Alone Reveal Image Origin? Minimax Limits and Learnable Interfaces for Passive Provenance
209. NeurIPS 2026Can the Parts Fool the Test? Counterfactual Pairing Cycles for Relational OOD
210. NeurIPS 2026Can VLMs Reason When to Stop for Human Safety?
211. NeurIPS 2026Can We Model the Artifacts Explicitly? Disentangle Artifacts via Pairwise Edit Relations for Image Manipulation Localization
212. NeurIPS 2026CanViT: Toward Active-Vision Foundation Models
213. NeurIPS 2026CARVE: Counterfactual Video Editing for Auditing and Hardening Video Detectors
214. NeurIPS 2026Casper: A Projection-Based Neurosymbolic Layer for Scalable & Guaranteed Constraint Satisfaction
215. NeurIPS 2026Catch-Only-One: Non-Transferable Examples for Model-Specific Authorization
216. NeurIPS 2026CATS: Acceptance-Oriented Critical Token Adaptive Selection for Multimodal Speculative Decoding
217. NeurIPS 2026Causal Benchmarks for Multimodal AI Should Measure Categorical Difference, Not Capability Gap
218. NeurIPS 2026Causal-VLM: Dense Causal Captioning in Videos
219. NeurIPS 2026CausalDriveBench: Evaluating Causal Reasoning in Vision-Language-Action Models for Autonomous Driving
220. NeurIPS 2026CAVE: A Structured Credit Assignment Approach for Fragmented Visual Evidence Reasoning
221. NeurIPS 2026CCDiff: Inverse Canonical Correlation Analysis for Discovering Visual Differences in Natural Language
222. NeurIPS 2026CECAR: Cache & Expert Co-Aware Routing Accelerates On-Device Inference of MoE LLMs
223. NeurIPS 2026CellularS2-Bench: A Staged, Evidence-Grounded Benchmark for Cellular Network Security Reasoning
224. NeurIPS 2026Certification from Examples is Hard for Circuits and Transformers under Minimal Overparametrization
225. NeurIPS 2026Chain-of-Correction: Progress-Aware Policy Steering via Anchor-Grounded Predictive Reasoning
226. NeurIPS 2026ChainSpace: A Chained-Reasoning Paradigm for Spatial Intelligence
227. NeurIPS 2026Channel Mixer: A Pretrainable Tokenizer for Scalable Multi-Channel Vision Transformers
228. NeurIPS 2026ChanSFormer: A Channel Agnostic Vision Transformer for Multi-Channel Cell Painting Images
229. NeurIPS 2026Characterizing Universal Object Representations Across Vision Models
230. NeurIPS 2026ChartArena: A Unified Benchmark with Atomic-Primitive Reasoning for Chart Parsing
231. NeurIPS 2026Cheap Per-Component Testing for PLS, Stable Under Rotation
232. NeurIPS 2026ChildPose: Foundation for Children Pose Modeling
233. NeurIPS 2026CineMME: Benchmarking Fine-Grained Perception and Plot Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models
234. NeurIPS 2026CIPHERGRID Benchmark: From Multimodal Rule Inference to Sequential Action
235. NeurIPS 2026CircuitSeer: Mining High-Quality Data by Probing Mathematical Reasoning Circuits in LLMs
236. NeurIPS 2026Clarification as Supervision: Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language Interfaces
237. NeurIPS 2026Claudini: Autoresearch Discovers State-of-the-Art Adversarial Attack Algorithms for LLMs
238. NeurIPS 2026CLeaR: A Unified Framework for Resolving the Leakage–Degradation Dilemma in Style Transfer
239. NeurIPS 2026Clearer Sight, Fewer Lies: Oriented Pickup Preference Optimization for Multimodal Hallucination Mitigation
240. NeurIPS 2026CLEF: EEG Foundation Models for Learning Clinical Semantics
241. NeurIPS 2026Closed-Form Linear-Probe Dataset Distillation for Pre-trained Vision Models
242. NeurIPS 2026Closing the Indexing-Decoding Gap in Multimodal Generative Retrieval via Prefix Retention Optimization
243. NeurIPS 2026Closing the Loop with Fixed-Point Self-Attention
244. NeurIPS 2026ClothTransformer: Unified Latent-Space Transformers for Scalable Cloth Simulation
245. NeurIPS 2026CM-EVS: Sparse Panoramic RGB-D-Pose Data for Complete Scene Coverage
246. NeurIPS 2026COCOTree: A Dataset and Benchmark for Open Tree-Structured Visual Decomposition
247. NeurIPS 2026Code2World: A GUI World Model via Renderable Code Generation
248. NeurIPS 2026CoDeRNet: Selective Cross-Task Routing under Heterogeneous Supervision for Change Detection and Captioning
249. NeurIPS 2026CofactVLA: Deconfounding Vision-Language-Action Models via Counterfactual Intervention
250. NeurIPS 2026COHE: Auditing Non-Transitivity in Sample Difficulty Proxies for Vision 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.