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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301. CVPR 2026Distributed Image Compression with Multimodal Side Information at Extremely Low
302. CVPR 2026Distribution-Aligned Multimodal Fusion for Robust Object Detection
303. CVPR 2026Divide then Ground Adapting Frame Selection to Query Types for
304. CVPR 2026Do Vision-Language Models Leak What They Learn Adaptive Token-Weighted Model
305. CVPR 2026Do Vision-Language Models Measure Up Benchmarking Visual Measurement Reading with
306. CVPR 2026Do VLMs Perceive or Recall Probing Visual Perception vs. Memory
307. CVPR 2026Do You See What I Am Pointing At Gesture-Based Egocentric
308. CVPR 2026DocPrune Efficient Document Question Answering via Background Question and Comprehension-aware
309. CVPR 2026Does YOLO Really Need to See Every Training Image in
310. CVPR 2026Downscaling Intelligence Exploring Perception and Reasoning Bottlenecks in Small Multimodal
311. CVPR 2026DPL Decoupled Prototype Learning for Enhancing Robustness of Vision-Language Transformers
312. CVPR 2026Dr. Seg Revisiting GRPO Training for Visual Large Language Models
313. CVPR 2026DreamOmni2 Multimodal Instruction-based Generation and Editing
314. CVPR 2026DreamStyle A Unified Framework for Video Stylization
315. CVPR 2026Drive My Way Preference Alignment of Vision-Language-Action Model for Personalized
316. CVPR 2026DriveCombo Benchmarking Compositional Traffic Rule Reasoning in Autonomous Driving
317. CVPR 2026DriveMoE Mixture-of-Experts for Vision-Language-Action Model in End-to-End Autonomous Driving
318. CVPR 2026DrivePI Spatial-aware 4D MLLM for Unified Autonomous Driving Understanding Perception
319. CVPR 2026DrivePTS A Progressive Learning Framework with Textual and Structural Enhancement
320. CVPR 2026DRM Diffusion-based Reward Model With Step-wise Guidance
321. CVPR 2026DSCA Dynamic Subspace Concept Alignment for Lifelong VLM Editing
322. CVPR 2026DSO Direct Steering Optimization for Bias Mitigation
323. CVPR 2026Dual-Level Hypergraph Generation for Addressing Feature Scarcity in Whole-Slide Image
324. CVPR 2026DualMirage Hunting Stealthy Multimodal LLM Agents via CAPTCHAs with Contour
325. CVPR 2026DUET-VLM Dual stage Unified Efficient Token reduction for VLM Training
326. CVPR 2026DuetSVG Unified Multimodal SVG Generation with Internal Visual Guidance
327. CVPR 2026DuoGen Towards Autonomous Interleaved Multimodal Generation
328. CVPR 2026DVAR Dynamic Visual Autoregressive Modeling for Image Super-Resolution
329. CVPR 2026DyFCLT Dynamic Frequency-Decoupled Cross-Modal Learning Transformer for Multimodal Tiny Object
330. CVPR 2026Dynamic Exposure Burst Image Restoration
331. CVPR 2026Dynamic Logits Adjustment and Exploration for Test-Time Adaptation in Vision
332. CVPR 2026Dynamic Token Reweighting for Robust Vision-Language Models
333. CVPR 2026DynamicGTR Leveraging Graph Topology Representation Preferences to Boost VLM Capabilities
334. CVPR 2026Dynamics Language-Based Representation for Inferring Rigid-Body Dynamics From Videos
335. CVPR 2026Dynamics-Aware Preference Optimization for Vision-Language Models
336. CVPR 2026DynamicsBoost Dynamic Plausible Video Generation via Annotation-Free Continuation Preference Optimization
337. CVPR 2026E3AD An Emotion-Aware Vision-Language-Action Model for Human-Centric End-to-End Autonomous Driving
338. CVPR 2026EagleNet Energy-Aware Fine-Grained Relationship Learning Network for Text-Video Retrieval
339. CVPR 2026EagleVision A Dual-Stage Framework with BEV-grounding-based Chain-of-Thought for Spatial Intelligence
340. CVPR 2026EarlyTom Early Token Compression Completes Fast Video Understanding
341. CVPR 2026Easy2Hard From Partially to Fully Unmatched Modalities as Negative Samples
342. CVPR 2026Echoes of Ownership Adversarial-Guided Dual Injection for Copyright Protection in
343. CVPR 2026EchoPOSE 6D Pose Estimation of Sparse Echocardiograms for Left-Ventricular 3D
344. CVPR 2026EcoAlign An Economically Rational Framework for Efficient LVLM Alignment
345. CVPR 2026Edge-RecViT Efficient Vision Transformer via Semantic-Refined Dynamic Recursion
346. CVPR 2026EditCtrl Disentangled Local and Global Control for Real-Time Generative Video
347. CVPR 2026EduDiag A Benchmark for Educational Diagnostic Reasoning with Error Tracing
348. CVPR 2026EE-RL Vision Language Guided Reinforcement Learning with Explorer and Expert
349. CVPR 2026EEGiT Teaching Vision Transformers to Understand the EEG signal
350. CVPR 2026EffectErase Joint Video Object Removal and Insertion for High-Quality Effect

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.