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

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251. CVPR 2026Cut to the Chase Training-free Multimodal Summarization via Chain-of-Events
252. CVPR 2026CVA Context-aware Video-text Alignment for Video Temporal Grounding
253. CVPR 2026CycleManip Enabling Cycle-based Manipulation via Effective History Perception and Understanding
254. CVPR 2026D-Convexity A Unified Differentiable Convex Shape Prior via Quasi-Concavity for
255. CVPR 2026D2T2 - Multimodal Automated Planning for Brachytherapy
256. CVPR 2026D3D-VLP Dynamic 3D Vision-Language-Planning Model for Embodied Grounding and Navigation
257. CVPR 2026D3FER Dual Channel and Dual Branch Network for Robust Facial
258. CVPR 2026DAGE Dual-Stream Architecture for Efficient and Fine-Grained Geometry Estimation
259. CVPR 2026DARC Dual Adjustment Reasoning with Counterfactuals for Trustworthy Chest X-ray
260. CVPR 2026DarkAct A RGB-Thermal Dataset and Fusion Framework for Multimodal Low-Light
261. CVPR 2026Dataset Distillation by Influence Matching
262. CVPR 2026DBMSolver A Training-free Diffusion Bridge Sampler for High-Quality Image-to-Image Translation
263. CVPR 2026DC-Merge Improving Model Merging with Directional Consistency
264. CVPR 2026DCoAR Deep Concept Injection into Unified Autoregressive Models for Personalized
265. CVPR 2026DeAR Fine-Grained VLM Adaptation by Decomposing Attention Head Roles
266. CVPR 2026Decouple to Generalize Context-First Self-Evolving Learning for Data-Scarce Vision-Language Reasoning
267. CVPR 2026Decoupling Defense Strategies for Robust Image Watermarking
268. CVPR 2026Decoupling Vision and Language Codebook Anchored Visual Adaptation
269. CVPR 2026DecoVLN Decoupling Observation Reasoning and Correction for Vision-and-Language Navigation
270. CVPR 2026DeepAlign Mitigating Modality Conflict through Modality-Specific Alignment
271. CVPR 2026Deeper Thought Weaker Aim Understanding and Mitigating Perceptual Impairment during
272. CVPR 2026DeepScan A Training-Free Framework for Visually Grounded Reasoning in Large
273. CVPR 2026Dejavu Towards Experience Feedback Learning for Embodied Intelligence
274. CVPR 2026Delta Rectified Flow Sampling for Text-to-Image Editing
275. CVPR 2026Delving Aleatoric Uncertainty in Medical Image Segmentation via Vision Foundation
276. CVPR 2026Demo2Tutorial From Human Experience to Multimodal Software Tutorials
277. CVPR 2026DemoFunGrasp Universal Dexterous Functional Grasping via Demonstration-Editing Reinforcement Learning
278. CVPR 2026DENALI A Dataset Enabling Non-Line-of-Sight Spatial Reasoning with Low-Cost LiDARs
279. CVPR 2026Denoising Fast and Slow Difficulty-Aware Adaptive Sampling for Image Generation
280. CVPR 2026Depth Any Panoramas A Foundation Model for Panoramic Depth Estimation
281. CVPR 2026Depth Hypothesis Guided Iterative Refinement for Event-Image Monocular Depth Estimation
282. CVPR 2026DeRVOS Decoupling Consistent Trajectory Generation and Multimodal Understanding for Referring
283. CVPR 2026Describe Anything Anywhere At Any Moment
284. CVPR 2026Designing to Forget Deep Semi-parametric Models for Unlearning
285. CVPR 2026DETACH Decomposed Spatio-Temporal Alignment for Exocentric Video and Ambient
286. CVPR 2026DetectSCI Toward Object-Guided ROI Reconstruction for High-Resolution Video Snapshot Compressive
287. CVPR 2026DEVA Fine-tuning Multimodal Large Language Models for Visual Perception Tasks
288. CVPR 2026DextER Language-driven Dexterous Grasp Generation with Embodied Reasoning
289. CVPR 2026Diagnose Correct and Learn from Manipulation Failures via Visual Symbols
290. CVPR 2026Diagnosing and Repairing Unsafe Channels in Vision-Language Models via Causal
291. CVPR 2026Diagram2Structure Unlocking LLMs Diagram Comprehension through DiagramDiff a Framework for
292. CVPR 2026Dictionary-Aligned Concept Control for Safeguarding Multimodal LLMs
293. CVPR 2026Differentiable Vector Quantization for Rate-Distortion Optimization of Generative Image Compression
294. CVPR 2026Diffusion Guided Chain-of-Vision for Large Autoregressive Vision Models
295. CVPR 2026DiG Differential Grounding for Enhancing Fine-Grained Perception in Multimodal Large
296. CVPR 2026DiGraphHal-Bench Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models on Complex Directed Graphs
297. CVPR 2026DINO Eats CLIP Adapting Beyond Knowns for Open-set 3D Object
298. CVPR 2026Direct Segmentation without Logits Optimization for Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
299. CVPR 2026Disentangle-then-Align Non-Iterative Hybrid Multimodal Image Registration via Cross-Scale Feature Disentanglement
300. CVPR 2026Disentangled Textual Priors for Diffusion-based Image Super-Resolution

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.