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. NeurIPS 2024Propensity Score Alignment of Unpaired Multimodal Data
302. NeurIPS 2024Prune and Repaint: Content-Aware Image Retargeting for any Ratio
303. NeurIPS 2024Q-VLM: Post-training Quantization for Large Vision-Language Models
304. NeurIPS 2024QBB: Quantization with Binary Bases for LLMs
305. NeurIPS 2024QUEST: Quadruple Multimodal Contrastive Learning with Constraints and Self-Penalization
306. NeurIPS 2024RaVL: Discovering and Mitigating Spurious Correlations in Fine-Tuned Vision-Language Models
307. NeurIPS 2024Recognize Any Regions
308. NeurIPS 2024Referring Human Pose and Mask Estimation In the Wild
309. NeurIPS 2024Relationship Prompt Learning is Enough for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
310. NeurIPS 2024ReMI: A Dataset for Reasoning with Multiple Images
311. NeurIPS 2024Renovating Names in Open-Vocabulary Segmentation Benchmarks
312. NeurIPS 2024RepLiQA: A Question-Answering Dataset for Benchmarking LLMs on Unseen Reference Content
313. NeurIPS 2024RestoreAgent: Autonomous Image Restoration Agent via Multimodal Large Language Models
314. NeurIPS 2024Rethinking Misalignment in Vision-Language Model Adaptation from a Causal Perspective
315. NeurIPS 2024Revisiting Few-Shot Object Detection with Vision-Language Models
316. NeurIPS 2024Revisiting the Integration of Convolution and Attention for Vision Backbone
317. NeurIPS 2024ReXTime: A Benchmark Suite for Reasoning-Across-Time in Videos
318. NeurIPS 2024RoboMamba: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model for Robotic Reasoning and Manipulation
319. NeurIPS 2024Robust Sleep Staging over Incomplete Multimodal Physiological Signals via Contrastive Imagination
320. NeurIPS 2024RSA: Resolving Scale Ambiguities in Monocular Depth Estimators through Language Descriptions
321. NeurIPS 2024Scene Graph Generation with Role-Playing Large Language Models
322. NeurIPS 2024SciFIBench: Benchmarking Large Multimodal Models for Scientific Figure Interpretation
323. NeurIPS 2024SciInstruct: a Self-Reflective Instruction Annotated Dataset for Training Scientific Language Models
324. NeurIPS 2024SeafloorAI: A Large-scale Vision-Language Dataset for Seafloor Geological Survey
325. NeurIPS 2024SearchLVLMs: A Plug-and-Play Framework for Augmenting Large Vision-Language Models by Searching Up-to-Date Internet Knowledge
326. NeurIPS 2024Seeing Beyond the Crop: Using Language Priors for Out-of-Bounding Box Keypoint Prediction
327. NeurIPS 2024Seeing the Image: Prioritizing Visual Correlation by Contrastive Alignment
328. NeurIPS 2024SegVol: Universal and Interactive Volumetric Medical Image Segmentation
329. NeurIPS 2024SELECT: A Large-Scale Benchmark of Data Curation Strategies for Image Classification
330. NeurIPS 2024SelectIT: Selective Instruction Tuning for LLMs via Uncertainty-Aware Self-Reflection
331. NeurIPS 2024Self-Calibrated Tuning of Vision-Language Models for Out-of-Distribution Detection
332. NeurIPS 2024SeTAR: Out-of-Distribution Detection with Selective Low-Rank Approximation
333. NeurIPS 2024Shadowcast: Stealthy Data Poisoning Attacks Against Vision-Language Models
334. NeurIPS 2024SHDocs: A dataset, benchmark, and method to efficiently generate high-quality, real-world specular highlight data with near-perfect alignment
335. NeurIPS 2024Shopping MMLU: A Massive Multi-Task Online Shopping Benchmark for Large Language Models
336. NeurIPS 2024Single Image Unlearning: Efficient Machine Unlearning in Multimodal Large Language Models
337. NeurIPS 2024SIRIUS : Contexual Sparisty with Correction for Efficient LLMs
338. NeurIPS 2024Slice-100K: A Multimodal Dataset for Extrusion-based 3D Printing
339. NeurIPS 2024Slot-VLM: Object-Event Slots for Video-Language Modeling
340. NeurIPS 2024SocialGPT: Prompting LLMs for Social Relation Reasoning via Greedy Segment Optimization
341. NeurIPS 2024SpatialPIN: Enhancing Spatial Reasoning Capabilities of Vision-Language Models through Prompting and Interacting 3D Priors
342. NeurIPS 2024SpatialRGPT: Grounded Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
343. NeurIPS 2024SpeechForensics: Audio-Visual Speech Representation Learning for Face Forgery Detection
344. NeurIPS 2024Spider2-V: How Far Are Multimodal Agents From Automating Data Science and Engineering Workflows?
345. NeurIPS 2024SPIQA: A Dataset for Multimodal Question Answering on Scientific Papers
346. NeurIPS 2024Splatter a Video: Video Gaussian Representation for Versatile Processing
347. NeurIPS 2024SR-CACO-2: A Dataset for Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy Image Super-Resolution
348. NeurIPS 2024Stabilizing Zero-Shot Prediction: A Novel Antidote to Forgetting in Continual Vision-Language Tasks
349. NeurIPS 2024StackEval: Benchmarking LLMs in Coding Assistance
350. NeurIPS 2024STimage-1K4M: A histopathology image-gene expression dataset for spatial transcriptomics

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.