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

1,074 papers, page 7 of 22

301. NeurIPS 2025FEEDBACK FRICTION: LLMs Struggle to Fully Incorporate External Feedback
302. NeurIPS 2025Few-Shot Knowledge Distillation of LLMs With Counterfactual Explanations
303. NeurIPS 2025Few-Shot Learning from Gigapixel Images via Hierarchical Vision-Language Alignment and Modeling
304. NeurIPS 2025FGBench: A Dataset and Benchmark for Molecular Property Reasoning at Functional Group-Level in Large Language Models
305. NeurIPS 2025FHGS: Feature-Homogenized Gaussian Splatting
306. NeurIPS 2025Filter Like You Test: Data-Driven Data Filtering for CLIP Pretraining
307. NeurIPS 2025Fine-Grained Preference Optimization Improves Spatial Reasoning in VLMs
308. NeurIPS 2025FineGRAIN: Evaluating Failure Modes of Text-to-Image Models with Vision Language Model Judges
309. NeurIPS 2025FineRS: Fine-grained Reasoning and Segmentation of Small Objects with Reinforcement Learning
310. NeurIPS 2025FIPER: Factorized Features for Robust Image Super-Resolution and Compression
311. NeurIPS 2025Fira: Can We Achieve Full-rank Training of LLMs Under Low-rank Constraint?
312. NeurIPS 2025Fire360: A Benchmark for Robust Perception and Episodic Memory in Degraded 360° Firefighting Video
313. NeurIPS 2025Fit the Distribution: Cross-Image/Prompt Adversarial Attacks on Multimodal Large Language Models
314. NeurIPS 2025Flex-Judge: Text-Only Reasoning Unleashes Zero-Shot Multimodal Evaluators
315. NeurIPS 2025FlexAC: Towards Flexible Control of Associative Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models
316. NeurIPS 2025Flexible Realignment of Language Models
317. NeurIPS 2025FLiP: Towards Comprehensive and Reliable Evaluation of Federated Prompt Learning
318. NeurIPS 2025FlowCut: Rethinking Redundancy via Information Flow for Efficient Vision-Language Models
319. NeurIPS 2025FlowPrune: Accelerating Attention Flow Calculation by Pruning Flow Network
320. NeurIPS 2025FlySearch: Exploring how vision-language models explore
321. NeurIPS 2025Focus-Then-Reuse: Fast Adaptation in Visual Perturbation Environments
322. NeurIPS 2025FOCUS: Internal MLLM Representations for Efficient Fine-Grained Visual Question Answering
323. NeurIPS 2025FOCUS: Unified Vision-Language Modeling for Interactive Editing Driven by Referential Segmentation
324. NeurIPS 2025ForceVLA: Enhancing VLA Models with a Force-aware MoE for Contact-rich Manipulation
325. NeurIPS 2025ForensicHub: A Unified Benchmark & Codebase for All-Domain Fake Image Detection and Localization
326. NeurIPS 2025ForgerySleuth: Empowering Multimodal Large Language Models for Image Manipulation Detection
327. NeurIPS 2025Foundation Cures Personalization: Improving Personalized Models’ Prompt Consistency via Hidden Foundation Knowledge
328. NeurIPS 2025Foundation Models for Scientific Discovery: From Paradigm Enhancement to Paradigm Transition
329. NeurIPS 2025Foundations of Top-$k$ Decoding for Language Models
330. NeurIPS 2025Fourier Analysis Network
331. NeurIPS 2025FRBNet: Revisiting Low-Light Vision through Frequency-Domain Radial Basis Network
332. NeurIPS 2025FreqPolicy: Efficient Flow-based Visuomotor Policy via Frequency Consistency
333. NeurIPS 2025Frequency-Aware Token Reduction for Efficient Vision Transformer
334. NeurIPS 2025From Flat to Hierarchical: Extracting Sparse Representations with Matching Pursuit
335. NeurIPS 2025From Flatland to Space: Teaching Vision-Language Models to Perceive and Reason in 3D
336. NeurIPS 2025From Human Attention to Diagnosis: Semantic Patch-Level Integration of Vision-Language Models in Medical Imaging
337. NeurIPS 2025From Indicators to Insights: Diversity-Optimized for Medical Series-Text Decoding via LLMs
338. NeurIPS 2025From Objects to Anywhere: A Holistic Benchmark for Multi-level Visual Grounding in 3D Scenes
339. NeurIPS 2025From Play to Replay: Composed Video Retrieval for Temporally Fine-Grained Videos
340. NeurIPS 2025From Pose to Muscle: Multimodal Learning for Piano Hand Muscle Electromyography
341. NeurIPS 2025From Sequence to Structure: Uncovering Substructure Reasoning in Transformers
342. NeurIPS 2025FUDOKI: Discrete Flow-based Unified Understanding and Generation via Kinetic-Optimal Velocities
343. NeurIPS 2025GAM-Agent: Game-Theoretic and Uncertainty-Aware Collaboration for Complex Visual Reasoning
344. NeurIPS 2025GASP: Efficient Black-Box Generation of Adversarial Suffixes for Jailbreaking LLMs
345. NeurIPS 2025Gate to the Vessel: Residual Experts Restore What SAM Overlooks
346. NeurIPS 2025Gatekeeper: Improving Model Cascades Through Confidence Tuning
347. NeurIPS 2025GauSAM: Contour‑Guided 2D Gaussian Fields for Multi‑Scale Medical Image Segmentation with Segment Anything
348. NeurIPS 2025Gaze-VLM: Bridging Gaze and VLMs through Attention Regularization for Egocentric Understanding
349. NeurIPS 2025GEM: Empowering MLLM for Grounded ECG Understanding with Time Series and Images
350. NeurIPS 2025Generalization Bounds for Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) and Enhanced KANs with Lower Lipschitz Complexity

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.