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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3151. NeurIPS 2023Memory-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Compressed Large Language Models via sub-4-bit Integer Quantization
3152. NeurIPS 2023Meta-Adapter: An Online Few-shot Learner for Vision-Language Model
3153. NeurIPS 2023MG-ViT: A Multi-Granularity Method for Compact and Efficient Vision Transformers
3154. NeurIPS 2023Mitigating Test-Time Bias for Fair Image Retrieval
3155. NeurIPS 2023MoCa: Measuring Human-Language Model Alignment on Causal and Moral Judgment Tasks
3156. NeurIPS 2023Module-wise Adaptive Distillation for Multimodality Foundation Models
3157. NeurIPS 2023MosaicBERT: A Bidirectional Encoder Optimized for Fast Pretraining
3158. NeurIPS 2023Mr. HiSum: A Large-scale Dataset for Video Highlight Detection and Summarization
3159. NeurIPS 2023MultiFusion: Fusing Pre-Trained Models for Multi-Lingual, Multi-Modal Image Generation
3160. NeurIPS 2023Multimodal C4: An Open, Billion-scale Corpus of Images Interleaved with Text
3161. NeurIPS 2023Multimodal Clinical Benchmark for Emergency Care (MC-BEC): A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Foundation Models in Emergency Medicine
3162. NeurIPS 2023Multimodal Deep Learning Model Unveils Behavioral Dynamics of V1 Activity in Freely Moving Mice
3163. NeurIPS 2023MultiVENT: Multilingual Videos of Events and Aligned Natural Text
3164. NeurIPS 2023NIS3D: A Completely Annotated Benchmark for Dense 3D Nuclei Image Segmentation
3165. NeurIPS 2023Not All Neuro-Symbolic Concepts Are Created Equal: Analysis and Mitigation of Reasoning Shortcuts
3166. NeurIPS 2023NurViD: A Large Expert-Level Video Database for Nursing Procedure Activity Understanding
3167. NeurIPS 2023OBELICS: An Open Web-Scale Filtered Dataset of Interleaved Image-Text Documents
3168. NeurIPS 2023Object-Centric Learning for Real-World Videos by Predicting Temporal Feature Similarities
3169. NeurIPS 2023On Evaluating Adversarial Robustness of Large Vision-Language Models
3170. NeurIPS 2023On the choice of Perception Loss Function for Learned Video Compression
3171. NeurIPS 2023On the Need for a Language Describing Distribution Shifts: Illustrations on Tabular Datasets
3172. NeurIPS 2023On the Planning Abilities of Large Language Models - A Critical Investigation
3173. NeurIPS 2023On the Powerfulness of Textual Outlier Exposure for Visual OoD Detection
3174. NeurIPS 2023On-the-Fly Adapting Code Summarization on Trainable Cost-Effective Language Models
3175. NeurIPS 2023OpenDataVal: a Unified Benchmark for Data Valuation
3176. NeurIPS 2023OpenShape: Scaling Up 3D Shape Representation Towards Open-World Understanding
3177. NeurIPS 2023Operation-Level Early Stopping for Robustifying Differentiable NAS
3178. NeurIPS 2023Optimal approximation using complex-valued neural networks
3179. NeurIPS 2023Optimal Learners for Realizable Regression: PAC Learning and Online Learning
3180. NeurIPS 2023Order Matters in the Presence of Dataset Imbalance for Multilingual Learning
3181. NeurIPS 2023PaintSeg: Painting Pixels for Training-free Segmentation
3182. NeurIPS 2023PanoGen: Text-Conditioned Panoramic Environment Generation for Vision-and-Language Navigation
3183. NeurIPS 2023Parameter and Computation Efficient Transfer Learning for Vision-Language Pre-trained Models
3184. NeurIPS 2023Parameter-efficient Tuning of Large-scale Multimodal Foundation Model
3185. NeurIPS 2023Paraphrasing evades detectors of AI-generated text, but retrieval is an effective defense
3186. NeurIPS 2023Parsel🐍: Algorithmic Reasoning with Language Models by Composing Decompositions
3187. NeurIPS 2023Parts of Speech–Grounded Subspaces in Vision-Language Models
3188. NeurIPS 2023Patch n’ Pack: NaViT, a Vision Transformer for any Aspect Ratio and Resolution
3189. NeurIPS 2023Paxion: Patching Action Knowledge in Video-Language Foundation Models
3190. NeurIPS 2023Perception Test: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Multimodal Video Models
3191. NeurIPS 2023Personalized Dictionary Learning for Heterogeneous Datasets
3192. NeurIPS 2023PIXIU: A Comprehensive Benchmark, Instruction Dataset and Large Language Model for Finance
3193. NeurIPS 2023PlanBench: An Extensible Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models on Planning and Reasoning about Change
3194. NeurIPS 2023POP-3D: Open-Vocabulary 3D Occupancy Prediction from Images
3195. NeurIPS 2023Post Hoc Explanations of Language Models Can Improve Language Models
3196. NeurIPS 2023Precise asymptotic generalization for multiclass classification with overparameterized linear models
3197. NeurIPS 2023Preference-grounded Token-level Guidance for Language Model Fine-tuning
3198. NeurIPS 2023Principled Weight Initialisation for Input-Convex Neural Networks
3199. NeurIPS 2023ProBio: A Protocol-guided Multimodal Dataset for Molecular Biology Lab
3200. NeurIPS 2023Prompt Pre-Training with Twenty-Thousand Classes for Open-Vocabulary Visual Recognition

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.