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

5,190 papers, page 5 of 104

201. CVPR 2026Complet4R Geometric Complete 4D Reconstruction
202. CVPR 2026Compositional Transformation Reasoning for Composed Video Retrieval
203. CVPR 2026Computational Speckle Pattern Interferometry
204. CVPR 2026Computer Vision with a Superpixelation Camera
205. CVPR 2026Concept Regions Matter Benchmarking CLIP with a New Cluster-Importance Approach
206. CVPR 2026Concept-Aware Batch Sampling Improves Language-Image Pretraining
207. CVPR 2026Concept-Guided Fine-Tuning Steering ViTs away from Spurious Correlations to Improve
208. CVPR 2026ConceptPose Training-Free Zero-Shot Object Pose Estimation using Concept Vectors
209. CVPR 2026Condensed Test-Time Adaptation of VLMs for Action Recognition
210. CVPR 2026Conditional Factuality Controlled LLMs with Generalization Certificates via Conformal Sampling
211. CVPR 2026ConeSep Cone-based Robust Noise-Unlearning Compositional Network for Composed Image Retrieval
212. CVPR 2026Conflict-Aware Adaptive Cross-Reconstruction for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
213. CVPR 2026Consensus Entropy Harnessing Multi-VLM Agreement for Self-Verifying and Self-Improving OCR
214. CVPR 2026Consensus vs. Controversy Mapping the Decision Space Where Architectures Diverge
215. CVPR 2026ConsID-Gen View-Consistent and Identity-Preserving Image-to-Video Generation
216. CVPR 2026ConsistCompose Unified Multimodal Layout Control for Image Composition
217. CVPR 2026ConsisVLA-4D Advancing Spatiotemporal Consistency in Efficient 3D-Perception and 4D-Reasoning for
218. CVPR 2026Content-Adaptive Hierarchical Hyperprior for Neural Video Coding
219. CVPR 2026Context-Nav Context-Driven Exploration and Viewpoint-Aware 3D Spatial Reasoning for Instance
220. CVPR 2026Contrastive Cross-Bag Augmentation for Multiple Instance Learning-based Whole Slide Image
221. CVPR 2026Controllable Federated Prompt Learning at Test Time
222. CVPR 2026Convexity-Aware Noise Calibration A Self-Supervised Framework for Noise-Level-Unknown Image Denoising
223. CVPR 2026Convolutional Neural Networks Driven by Content Similarity
224. CVPR 2026COPE Consistent Occlusion and Prompt Enhancement Network for Occluded Person
225. CVPR 2026COPO Causal-Oriented Policy Optimization for Hallucinations of MLLMs
226. CVPR 2026Copy-Transform-Paste Zero-Shot Object-Object Alignment Guided by Vision-Language and Geometric Constraints
227. CVPR 2026COPYLENS Towards Copyrighted Characters Infringement Detection via Copyright-Aware Prompt Learning
228. CVPR 2026CORE Compact Object-centric REpresentations as a New Paradigm for Token
229. CVPR 2026CoRiM Conflict-driven Risk Minimization for Dynamic Multimodal Fusion
230. CVPR 2026Counterfactual VLA Self-Reflective Vision-Language-Action Model with Adaptive Reasoning
231. CVPR 2026Coupled Diffusion Sampling for Training-Free Multi-View Image Editing
232. CVPR 2026CoVFT Context-aware Visual Fine-tuning for Multimodal Large Language Models
233. CVPR 2026CrackSSM Reviving SSMs for Crack Segmentation via Dynamic Scanning
234. CVPR 2026CREval An Automated Interpretable Evaluation for Creative Image Manipulation under
235. CVPR 2026CREward A Type-Specific Creativity Reward Model
236. CVPR 2026CRFT Consistent-Recurrent Feature Flow Transformer for Cross-Modal Image Registration
237. CVPR 2026CRIT Graph-Based Automatic Data Synthesis to Enhance Cross-Modal Multi-Hop Reasoning
238. CVPR 2026Cross from Left to Right Brain Adaptive Text Dreamer for
239. CVPR 2026Cross-Domain Demo-to-Code via Neurosymbolic Counterfactual Reasoning
240. CVPR 2026Cross-Hand Latent Representation for Vision-Language-Action Models
241. CVPR 2026Cross-Modal Attention Calibration for LVLM Hallucination Mitigation
242. CVPR 2026Cross-Modal Emotion Transfer for Emotion Editing in Talking Face Video
243. CVPR 2026Cross-Modal Guided Visual Synthesis for Data-Efficient Multimodal Depression Recognition
244. CVPR 2026Cross-modal Identity Mapping Minimizing Information Loss in Modality Conversion via
245. CVPR 2026CrossHOI-Bench A Unified Benchmark for HOI Evaluation across Vision-Language Models
246. CVPR 2026CrossVL Complexity-Aware Feature Routing and Paired Curriculum for Cross-View Vision-Language
247. CVPR 2026CryoHype Reconstructing a thousand cryo-EM structures with transformer-based hypernetworks
248. CVPR 2026CSF Black-box Fingerprinting via Compositional Semantics for Text-to-Image Models
249. CVPR 2026CURE Curriculum-guided Multi-task Training for Reliable Anatomy Grounded Report Generation
250. CVPR 2026CURVE A Benchmark for Cultural and Multilingual Long Video Reasoning

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.