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

5,190 papers, page 78 of 104

3851. NeurIPS 2026A Provably Convergent and Practical Algorithm for Gromov–Wasserstein Optimal Transport
3852. NeurIPS 2026A Scalable Measure of Loss Landscape Curvature for Analyzing the Training Dynamics of LLMs
3853. NeurIPS 2026A second order regret bound for NormalHedge
3854. NeurIPS 2026A Steerable Deep Network for Model-Free Diffusion MRI Registration
3855. NeurIPS 2026A systematic evaluation of vision-language models for observational astronomical reasoning tasks
3856. NeurIPS 2026A Theoretical Framework for Self-Play Theorem Proving Algorithms
3857. NeurIPS 2026A Theory of Training Profit-Optimal LLMs
3858. NeurIPS 2026A Unified Image and Video Encoder for Multimodal LLMs
3859. NeurIPS 2026A Unified Spectral Theory of Multimodal Losses
3860. NeurIPS 2026A Unifying View of Anchoring via Operator-Side Tikhonov Regularization
3861. NeurIPS 2026A$^3$Bench: A Benchmark for Compositional Reasoning over Aggressive Interactions in Videos
3862. NeurIPS 2026A2Eval: Agentic and Automated Evaluation for Embodied Brain
3863. NeurIPS 2026A2I: Adjacency-to-Image Structural Encodings for Graph Learning
3864. NeurIPS 2026Achieve Latency-Efficient Temporal-Coding Spiking LLMs via Discretization-Aware Conversion
3865. NeurIPS 2026ActionUNet: Improving Robustness of VLA Models with Efficient Multi-scale Fine-tuning
3866. NeurIPS 2026ActQuant: Sub-4-bit Action-Guided Quantization for Vision-Language-Action Models
3867. NeurIPS 2026AdaCal: Adaptive Calibration for Robust Sparse Attention in Long-Context LLMs
3868. NeurIPS 2026AdaCodec: A Predictive Visual Code for Video MLLMs
3869. NeurIPS 2026Adapting Vision Transformers to Organoid Imaging
3870. NeurIPS 2026Adaptive Gated Simplicial Propagation for Node Classification in Multimodal Graphs
3871. NeurIPS 2026Adaptive Internal Readout for Native Multimodal Models
3872. NeurIPS 2026Adaptive Mass-Segmented KV Compression for Long-Context Reasoning
3873. NeurIPS 2026Adaptive-Margin Masking and Restoration for Balanced Multimodal Learning
3874. NeurIPS 2026AdDirector: Anchored Guidance for Generating Camera-Controllable Advertisement Videos
3875. NeurIPS 2026AdShot: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Video Advertisement Clipping
3876. NeurIPS 2026Advancing Affordance-Grounded Creative Tool Use in Large Multimodal Models
3877. NeurIPS 2026Advancing Narrative Long Video Generation via Training-Free Identity-Aware Memory
3878. NeurIPS 2026AeroMosaic:Transport-Aware Multimodal Evidence Fusion for Atmospheric Pollution Risk Inference
3879. NeurIPS 2026AesGI-Bench: Benchmarking and Evaluating the Aesthetic Quality of AI-Generated Images via Large Multimodal Models
3880. NeurIPS 2026Affine-Image Propagation for Tight and Scalable $\ell_{2}$ Neural Network Verification
3881. NeurIPS 2026AffordSim: A Scalable Data Generator and Benchmark for Affordance-Aware Robotic Manipulation
3882. NeurIPS 2026Agent Explorative Policy Optimization for Agentic Multimodal Reasoning
3883. NeurIPS 2026Agentick: A Unified Benchmark for General Sequential Decision-Making Agents
3884. NeurIPS 2026AgenticVBench: Can AI Agents Complete Real-World Video Production Tasks?
3885. NeurIPS 2026Agents as Neuro-Symbolic Reasoners: Path Feasibility Reasoning for Precise Static Bug Detection
3886. NeurIPS 2026AgentVista: Evaluating Multimodal Agent in Ultra-Challenging Realistic Visual Scenarios
3887. NeurIPS 2026Agree to Disagree: Multimodal Autonomous Negotiation and Calibration for Entity Representation Learning
3888. NeurIPS 2026AgroOmni: A Large-Scale Multi-view Agricultural Dataset for Cross-Scale Multimodal Reasoning
3889. NeurIPS 2026AIM: Adaptive Interaction in Multi-Agent Debate for Multimodal LLM Inference
3890. NeurIPS 2026AIR: Rethinking Image-Text Offset Alignment in Multimodal Contrastive Representation Space
3891. NeurIPS 2026AirIAD: Agentic Iterative Reasoning for Industrial Anomaly Detection
3892. NeurIPS 2026ALAM: Algebraically Consistent Latent Transitions for Vision-Language-Action Models
3893. NeurIPS 2026Algorithm for Contextual Queueing Bandits with Rate-Optimal Queue Length Regret
3894. NeurIPS 2026Aligning Forest and Trees in Images & Long Captions for Visually Grounded Understanding
3895. NeurIPS 2026Aligning LLMs Toward Multi-Turn Conversational Outcomes Using Iterative RLHF
3896. NeurIPS 2026Aligning LLMs with Biomedical Knowledge using Balanced Fine-Tuning
3897. NeurIPS 2026Allocentric Perceiver: Disentangling Allocentric Reasoning from Egocentric Visual Priors via Frame Instantiation
3898. NeurIPS 2026ALTER: An Allen's Algebra-Based Evaluation Framework for Temporal Reasoning of LLMs
3899. NeurIPS 2026AMARIS: Merging Generalist and Specialist LLMs via Adaptive Subspace Inheritance
3900. NeurIPS 2026AmbientFM: A Foundation Model for Ambient Sensing

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.