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 8 of 22

351. NeurIPS 2025Generalization or Hallucination? Understanding Out-of-Context Reasoning in Transformers
352. NeurIPS 2025Generalized Contrastive Learning for Universal Multimodal Retrieval
353. NeurIPS 2025Generalized Linear Mode Connectivity for Transformers
354. NeurIPS 2025Generalizing Single-Frame Supervision to Event-Level Understanding for Video Anomaly Detection
355. NeurIPS 2025Generate, but Verify: Reducing Hallucination in Vision-Language Models with Retrospective Resampling
356. NeurIPS 2025Genesis: Multimodal Driving Scene Generation with Spatio-Temporal and Cross-Modal Consistency
357. NeurIPS 2025GenIR: Generative Visual Feedback for Mental Image Retrieval
358. NeurIPS 2025GenSpace: Benchmarking Spatially-Aware Image Generation
359. NeurIPS 2025GeoLink: Empowering Remote Sensing Foundation Model with OpenStreetMap Data
360. NeurIPS 2025GeoLLaVA-8K: Scaling Remote-Sensing Multimodal Large Language Models to 8K Resolution
361. NeurIPS 2025GeoRanker: Distance-Aware Ranking for Worldwide Image Geolocalization
362. NeurIPS 2025Glance2Gaze: Efficient Vision-Language Models from Glance Fusion to Gaze Compression
363. NeurIPS 2025Global Minimizers of Sigmoid Contrastive Loss
364. NeurIPS 2025GLSim: Detecting Object Hallucinations in LVLMs via Global-Local Similarity
365. NeurIPS 2025GoalLadder: Incremental Goal Discovery with Vision-Language Models
366. NeurIPS 2025Gompertz Linear Units: Leveraging Asymmetry for Enhanced Learning Dynamics
367. NeurIPS 2025GPLQ: A General, Practical, and Lightning QAT Method for Vision Transformers
368. NeurIPS 2025GPSToken: Gaussian Parameterized Spatially-adaptive Tokenization for Image Representation and Generation
369. NeurIPS 2025GradMetaNet: An Equivariant Architecture for Learning on Gradients
370. NeurIPS 2025Grammars of Formal Uncertainty: When to Trust LLMs in Automated Reasoning Tasks
371. NeurIPS 2025GRAVER: Generative Graph Vocabularies for Robust Graph Foundation Models Fine-tuning
372. NeurIPS 2025GRE Suite: Geo-localization Inference via Fine-Tuned Vision-Language Models and Enhanced Reasoning Chains
373. NeurIPS 2025GRIFFIN: Effective Token Alignment for Faster Speculative Decoding
374. NeurIPS 2025GRIT: Teaching MLLMs to Think with Images
375. NeurIPS 2025Grounded Reinforcement Learning for Visual Reasoning
376. NeurIPS 2025Grounding Language with Vision: A Conditional Mutual Information Calibrated Decoding Strategy for Reducing Hallucinations in LVLMs
377. NeurIPS 2025GuardReasoner-VL: Safeguarding VLMs via Reinforced Reasoning
378. NeurIPS 2025GUI-Actor: Coordinate-Free Visual Grounding for GUI Agents
379. NeurIPS 2025GUI-Reflection: Empowering Multimodal GUI Models with Self-Reflection Behavior
380. NeurIPS 2025GUI-Rise: Structured Reasoning and History Summarization for GUI Navigation
381. NeurIPS 2025GUIDED: Granular Understanding via Identification, Detection, and Discrimination for Fine-Grained Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
382. NeurIPS 2025Guiding Cross-Modal Representations with MLLM Priors via Preference Alignment
383. NeurIPS 2025Hallucination at a Glance: Controlled Visual Edits and Fine-Grained Multimodal Learning
384. NeurIPS 2025HALO: Hadamard-Assisted Lower-Precision Optimization for LLMs
385. NeurIPS 2025Hawaii: Hierarchical Visual Knowledge Transfer for Efficient Vision-Language Models
386. NeurIPS 2025HBLLM: Wavelet-Enhanced High-Fidelity 1-Bit Quantization for LLMs
387. NeurIPS 2025Head Pursuit: Probing Attention Specialization in Multimodal Transformers
388. NeurIPS 2025HermesFlow: Seamlessly Closing the Gap in Multimodal Understanding and Generation
389. NeurIPS 2025Hierarchical Information Aggregation for Incomplete Multimodal Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis
390. NeurIPS 2025Hierarchical Semantic-Augmented Navigation: Optimal Transport and Graph-Driven Reasoning for Vision-Language Navigation
391. NeurIPS 2025Highlighting What Matters: Promptable Embeddings for Attribute-Focused Image Retrieval
392. NeurIPS 2025HMVLM:Human Motion-Vision-Language Model via MoE LoRA
393. NeurIPS 2025HoliTom: Holistic Token Merging for Fast Video Large Language Models
394. NeurIPS 2025HoloLLM: Multisensory Foundation Model for Language-Grounded Human Sensing and Reasoning
395. NeurIPS 2025Homogeneous Keys, Heterogeneous Values: Exploiting Local KV Cache Asymmetry for Long-Context LLMs
396. NeurIPS 2025HopaDIFF: Holistic-Partial Aware Fourier Conditioned Diffusion for Referring Human Action Segmentation in Multi-Person Scenarios
397. NeurIPS 2025HoPE: Hybrid of Position Embedding for Long Context Vision-Language Models
398. NeurIPS 2025How do Transformers Learn Implicit Reasoning?
399. NeurIPS 2025How to Auto-optimize Prompts for Domain Tasks? Adaptive Prompting and Reasoning through Evolutionary Domain Knowledge Adaptation
400. NeurIPS 2025HQA-VLAttack: Towards High Quality Adversarial Attack on Vision-Language Pre-Trained Models

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.