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 79 of 104

3901. NeurIPS 2026AmbiguousWorld: Benchmarking and Resolving Ambiguous Instructions in Video World Models
3902. NeurIPS 2026An Efficient Cross-modal Feature Reconstruction Model for Multimodal Multi-class Anomaly Detection
3903. NeurIPS 2026An Open-Source Training Dataset for Foundation Models for Black-box Optimization
3904. NeurIPS 2026Anatomy-Activated Mixture-of-Experts for 3D Medical Vision-Language Pre-training
3905. NeurIPS 2026Anatomy-aware Spatio-Temporal Modeling for Echocardiography Segmentation
3906. NeurIPS 2026AnchorRep: Defending LLMs Against Cross-Model Adversarial Transfer via Representation Repulsion
3907. NeurIPS 2026Angular Networks: Low-Bit Learning from Randomized Similarity Estimators
3908. NeurIPS 2026Animation2Code: Evaluating Temporal Visual Reasoning in Video-to-Code Generation
3909. NeurIPS 2026Anti-Self-Distillation for Reasoning RL via Pointwise Mutual Information
3910. NeurIPS 2026APIVOT: Adaptive Planning with Interleaved Vision-Language Thoughts
3911. NeurIPS 2026Apple-$\pi$: Benchmarking Thinking with Video Towards Law-Grounded Physical Intelligence
3912. NeurIPS 2026Approaching Effective Merging in Model Embedding Space
3913. NeurIPS 2026Approximate Bayesian inference with exchangeable distributions for neurosymbolic AI
3914. NeurIPS 2026Approximation Algorithms for GPU Pricing under Finite Capacity
3915. NeurIPS 2026Are Multimodal Benchmarks Really Useful? Item-Level Multimodal Benchmark Diagnosis via Structure-Response Co-Calibration
3916. NeurIPS 2026Are Text-to-Image Models Inductivist Turkeys? A Counterfactual Benchmark for Causal Reasoning
3917. NeurIPS 2026Are We Making Progress in Multimodal Domain Generalization? A Comprehensive Benchmark Study
3918. NeurIPS 2026Arena-T2I Hard: Benchmarking and Improving Faithfulness with Dependency-Aware Checklist Rewards
3919. NeurIPS 2026Argus: A Cross-Regime Benchmark for the Transferability of Uncertainty Quantification in Computer-Use Agents
3920. NeurIPS 2026ARK: A Dual-Axis Multimodal Retrieval Benchmark along Reasoning and Knowledge
3921. NeurIPS 2026As the Story Unfolds: Watching a Film and Identifying Characters as a Human Does
3922. NeurIPS 2026ASAP: Assembly-Source Aligned Pseudocode Refinement For Binary Decompilation
3923. NeurIPS 2026ASAP: Attention Sink Anchored Pruning
3924. NeurIPS 2026ASTRA: ADMM-Accelerated Topology Reconfiguration for Dynamic Satellite Constellations
3925. NeurIPS 2026ASVQ: What Reparameterization Is Just Enough for Efficient Codebook Learning?
3926. NeurIPS 2026AsymHP: Load-Balanced Sparse Attention for Video Diffusion Transformers
3927. NeurIPS 2026Asymptotically Log-Optimal Bayes-Assisted Confidence Sequences for Bounded Means
3928. NeurIPS 2026Attending on Attention ($A^2$): Smaller Self-Supervised ViTs Localize Better Than Larger Ones
3929. NeurIPS 2026Attention Alignment Between Humans and Vision-Language Models
3930. NeurIPS 2026Attention Heads are Complementary Visual Units: Mitigating Hallucinations in LVLMs via Adaptive Visual Cues Focusing
3931. NeurIPS 2026Attention Transfer Is Not Universally Effective for Vision Transformers
3932. NeurIPS 2026Attention-based PCA
3933. NeurIPS 2026Attention-based Routing for Interpretable Multimodal Brain Encoding
3934. NeurIPS 2026Audible World Models: Spatially Aware Sound Generation for 3D Worlds
3935. NeurIPS 2026Auditing Attention Head Masking for Out-of-Distribution Detection: Cross-Architecture Wins, Failures, and Polarity Inversions
3936. NeurIPS 2026Auditing Capsule Vision 2024: Within-Split Train-to-Validation Re-Exposure and a Kvasir-Channel Sensitivity Diagnostic
3937. NeurIPS 2026Auditing Sabotage Bench: A Benchmark for Detecting and Fixing Research Sabotage in ML Codebases
3938. NeurIPS 2026Auteur: Language-Driven Cinematographic Framing for Human-Centric Video Generation
3939. NeurIPS 2026Auto-Rubric as Reward: From Implicit Preference to Explicit Generative Criteria
3940. NeurIPS 2026Automatically Refining Coding Rules for AI Coding Agents
3941. NeurIPS 2026Automotive-ENV: Benchmarking Multimodal Models in Automotive Cockpit Environments
3942. NeurIPS 2026Auxiliary Clues Aware’s Geometry Problem Solving
3943. NeurIPS 2026AVI-HT: Adaptive Vision-IMU Fusion for 3D Hand Tracking
3944. NeurIPS 2026AVIS: Adaptive Test-Time Scaling for Vision–Language Models
3945. NeurIPS 2026AVOC: Enhancing Hour-Level Audio-Video Understanding in Omni-Modal LLMs via Retrieval-Inspired Token Compression
3946. NeurIPS 2026BabyTheorist: A Benchmark for Learning to Theorize the World from Observation Alone
3947. NeurIPS 2026Backdoor Purification for LoRA-Tuned LLMs via Null-Space Projection
3948. NeurIPS 2026BAPM: Boundary-Aware Prompt Mining for Training-Free Few-Shot Medical Image Segmentation
3949. NeurIPS 2026Barycentric Guidance: Turning Foundation Image Editors into Continuous Affective Controllers
3950. NeurIPS 2026BasicLT: Basic-Level Abstraction and Selective Differentiation for Long-Tailed 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.