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 60 of 62

2951. NeurIPS 2025Training-free Online Video Step Grounding
2952. NeurIPS 2025Training-Free Test-Time Adaptation via Shape and Style Guidance for Vision-Language Models
2953. NeurIPS 2025Trans-EnV: A Framework for Evaluating the Linguistic Robustness of LLMs Against English Varieties
2954. NeurIPS 2025Transferring Linear Features Across Language Models With Model Stitching
2955. NeurIPS 2025Transforming Generic Coder LLMs to Effective Binary Code Embedding Models for Similarity Detection
2956. NeurIPS 2025Transition Matching: Scalable and Flexible Generative Modeling
2957. NeurIPS 2025TRAP: Targeted Redirecting of Agentic Preferences
2958. NeurIPS 2025Tri-MARF: A Tri-Modal Multi-Agent Responsive Framework for Comprehensive 3D Object Annotation
2959. NeurIPS 2025TRIDENT: Tri-Modal Molecular Representation Learning with Taxonomic Annotations and Local Correspondence
2960. NeurIPS 2025Triplets Better Than Pairs: Towards Stable and Effective Self-Play Fine-Tuning for LLMs
2961. NeurIPS 2025TRoVe: Discovering Error-Inducing Static Feature Biases in Temporal Vision-Language Models
2962. NeurIPS 2025Truthful Aggregation of LLMs with an Application to Online Advertising
2963. NeurIPS 2025Two Causally Related Needles in a Video Haystack
2964. NeurIPS 2025Týr-the-Pruner: Structural Pruning LLMs via Global Sparsity Distribution Optimization
2965. NeurIPS 2025UAV-Flow Colosseo: A Real-World Benchmark for Flying-on-a-Word UAV Imitation Learning
2966. NeurIPS 2025UFO: A Unified Approach to Fine-grained Visual Perception via Open-ended Language Interface
2967. NeurIPS 2025UMU-Bench: Closing the Modality Gap in Multimodal Unlearning Evaluation
2968. NeurIPS 2025un$^2$CLIP: Improving CLIP's Visual Detail Capturing Ability via Inverting unCLIP
2969. NeurIPS 2025Unbiased Sliced Wasserstein Kernels for High-Quality Audio Captioning
2970. NeurIPS 2025Uncertainty-quantified Rollout Policy Adaptation for Unlabelled Cross-domain Video Temporal Grounding
2971. NeurIPS 2025Understanding and Rectifying Safety Perception Distortion in VLMs
2972. NeurIPS 2025Understanding the Gain from Data Filtering in Multimodal Contrastive Learning
2973. NeurIPS 2025Uni-MuMER: Unified Multi-Task Fine-Tuning of Vision-Language Model for Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition
2974. NeurIPS 2025UniCTokens: Boosting Personalized Understanding and Generation via Unified Concept Tokens
2975. NeurIPS 2025Unified Reinforcement and Imitation Learning for Vision-Language Models
2976. NeurIPS 2025Unified Transferability Metrics for Time Series Foundation Models
2977. NeurIPS 2025UniGen: Enhanced Training & Test-Time Strategies for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
2978. NeurIPS 2025UniLumos: Fast and Unified Image and Video Relighting with Physics-Plausible Feedback
2979. NeurIPS 2025UniPixel: Unified Object Referring and Segmentation for Pixel-Level Visual Reasoning
2980. NeurIPS 2025UniTok: a Unified Tokenizer for Visual Generation and Understanding
2981. NeurIPS 2025UniTraj: Learning a Universal Trajectory Foundation Model from Billion-Scale Worldwide Traces
2982. NeurIPS 2025Universal Video Temporal Grounding with Generative Multi-modal Large Language Models
2983. NeurIPS 2025Universal Visuo-Tactile Video Understanding for Embodied Interaction
2984. NeurIPS 2025UniViT: Unifying Image and Video Understanding in One Vision Encoder
2985. NeurIPS 2025Unlabeled Data Improves Fine-Grained Image Zero-shot Classification with Multimodal LLMs
2986. NeurIPS 2025Unleashing Foundation Vision Models: Adaptive Transfer for Diverse Data-Limited Scientific Domains
2987. NeurIPS 2025Unleashing the Potential of Multimodal LLMs for Zero-Shot Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding
2988. NeurIPS 2025Unlocking Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning via Process Reward Model
2989. NeurIPS 2025Unsupervised Trajectory Optimization for 3D Registration in Serial Section Electron Microscopy using Neural ODEs
2990. NeurIPS 2025Unveiling Chain of Step Reasoning for Vision-Language Models with Fine-grained Rewards
2991. NeurIPS 2025Unveiling the Compositional Ability Gap in Vision-Language Reasoning Model
2992. NeurIPS 2025URDF-Anything: Constructing Articulated Objects with 3D Multimodal Language Model
2993. NeurIPS 2025UVE: Are MLLMs Unified Evaluators for AI-Generated Videos?
2994. NeurIPS 2025V-CECE: Visual Counterfactual Explanations via Conceptual Edits
2995. NeurIPS 2025V2V: Scaling Event-Based Vision through Efficient Video-to-Voxel Simulation
2996. NeurIPS 2025Vad-R1: Towards Video Anomaly Reasoning via Perception-to-Cognition Chain-of-Thought
2997. NeurIPS 2025VADB: A Large-Scale Video Aesthetic Database with Professional and Multi-Dimensional Annotations
2998. NeurIPS 2025VADTree: Explainable Training-Free Video Anomaly Detection via Hierarchical Granularity-Aware Tree
2999. NeurIPS 2025VAGEN: Reinforcing World Model Reasoning for Multi-Turn VLM Agents
3000. NeurIPS 2025Value-Guided KV Compression for LLMs via Approximated CUR Decomposition

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.