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 57 of 62

2801. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Laws for Robust Comparison of Open Foundation Language-Vision Models and Datasets
2802. NeurIPS 2025Scaling RL to Long Videos
2803. NeurIPS 2025SCAN: Self-Denoising Monte Carlo Annotation for Robust Process Reward Learning
2804. NeurIPS 2025SceneDecorator: Towards Scene-Oriented Story Generation with Scene Planning and Scene Consistency
2805. NeurIPS 2025SceneForge: Enhancing 3D-text alignment with Structured Scene Compositions
2806. NeurIPS 2025scGeneScope: A Treatment-Matched Single Cell Imaging and Transcriptomics Dataset and Benchmark for Treatment Response Modeling
2807. NeurIPS 2025Scientists' First Exam: Probing Cognitive Abilities of MLLM via Perception, Understanding, and Reasoning
2808. NeurIPS 2025SCOPE: Saliency-Coverage Oriented Token Pruning for Efficient Multimodel LLMs
2809. NeurIPS 2025scPilot: Large Language Model Reasoning Toward Automated Single-Cell Analysis and Discovery
2810. NeurIPS 2025scSplit: Bringing Severity Cognizance to Image Decomposition in Fluorescence Microscopy
2811. NeurIPS 2025SD-VLM: Spatial Measuring and Understanding with Depth-Encoded Vision-Language Models
2812. NeurIPS 2025SECODEPLT: A Unified Benchmark for Evaluating the Security Risks and Capabilities of Code GenAI
2813. NeurIPS 2025Securing the Language of Life: Inheritable Watermarks from DNA Language Models to Proteins
2814. NeurIPS 2025See&Trek: Training-Free Spatial Prompting for Multimodal Large Language Model
2815. NeurIPS 2025Seeing Sound, Hearing Sight: Uncovering Modality Bias and Conflict of AI models in Sound Localization
2816. NeurIPS 2025Seeing the Arrow of Time in Large Multimodal Models
2817. NeurIPS 2025Seeking and Updating with Live Visual Knowledge
2818. NeurIPS 2025SeePhys: Does Seeing Help Thinking? – Benchmarking Vision-Based Physics Reasoning
2819. NeurIPS 2025Self-alignment of Large Video Language Models with Refined Regularized Preference Optimization
2820. NeurIPS 2025Self-Evolving Pseudo-Rehearsal for Catastrophic Forgetting with Task Similarity in LLMs
2821. NeurIPS 2025Self-Guided Hierarchical Exploration for Generalist Foundation Model Web Agents
2822. NeurIPS 2025Selftok-Zero: Reinforcement Learning for Visual Generation via Discrete and Autoregressive Visual Tokens
2823. NeurIPS 2025Semi-off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language Slow-Thinking Reasoning
2824. NeurIPS 2025SensorLM: Learning the Language of Wearable Sensors
2825. NeurIPS 2025SentinelKilnDB: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for OBB Brick Kiln Detection in South Asia Using Satellite Imagery
2826. NeurIPS 2025Set-LLM: A Permutation-Invariant LLM
2827. NeurIPS 2025ShapeLLM-Omni: A Native Multimodal LLM for 3D Generation and Understanding
2828. NeurIPS 2025SharpZO: Hybrid Sharpness-Aware Vision Language Model Prompt Tuning via Forward-Only Passes
2829. NeurIPS 2025Sherlock: Self-Correcting Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
2830. NeurIPS 2025SHF: Symmetrical Hierarchical Forest with Pretrained Vision Transformer Encoder for High-Resolution Medical Segmentation
2831. NeurIPS 2025ShotBench: Expert-Level Cinematic Understanding in Vision-Language Models
2832. NeurIPS 2025Show-o2: Improved Native Unified Multimodal Models
2833. NeurIPS 2025Sim-LLM: Optimizing LLM Inference at the Edge through Inter-Task KV Reuse
2834. NeurIPS 2025Simple and Optimal Sublinear Algorithms for Mean Estimation
2835. NeurIPS 2025SimWorld: An Open-ended Simulator for Agents in Physical and Social Worlds
2836. NeurIPS 2025Single GPU Task Adaptation of Pathology Foundation Models for Whole Slide Image Analysis
2837. NeurIPS 2025Single-pass Adaptive Image Tokenization for Minimum Program Search
2838. NeurIPS 2025Sinusoidal Initialization, Time for a New Start
2839. NeurIPS 2025Situat3DChange: Situated 3D Change Understanding Dataset for Multimodal Large Language Model
2840. NeurIPS 2025SketchMind: A Multi-Agent Cognitive Framework for Assessing Student-Drawn Scientific Sketches
2841. NeurIPS 2025Small Batch Size Training for Language Models: When Vanilla SGD Works, and Why Gradient Accumulation is Wasteful
2842. NeurIPS 2025SMMILE: An expert-driven benchmark for multimodal medical in-context learning
2843. NeurIPS 2025SmokeViz: A Large-Scale Satellite Dataset for Wildfire Smoke Detection and Segmentation
2844. NeurIPS 2025Smooth Regularization for Efficient Video Recognition
2845. NeurIPS 2025SoFar: Language-Grounded Orientation Bridges Spatial Reasoning and Object Manipulation
2846. NeurIPS 2025SolidGeo: Measuring Multimodal Spatial Math Reasoning in Solid Geometry
2847. NeurIPS 2025SoMi-ToM: Evaluating Multi-Perspective Theory of Mind in Embodied Social Interactions
2848. NeurIPS 2025SoTA with Less: MCTS-Guided Sample Selection for Data-Efficient Visual Reasoning Self-Improvement
2849. NeurIPS 2025SpaceServe: Spatial Multiplexing of Complementary Encoders and Decoders for Multimodal LLMs
2850. NeurIPS 2025Sparse Autoencoders Learn Monosemantic Features in 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.