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

3,075 papers, page 8 of 62

351. CVPR 2025Image Reconstruction from Readout-Multiplexed Single-Photon Detector Arrays
352. CVPR 2025ImagineFSL: Self-Supervised Pretraining Matters on Imagined Base Set for VLM-based Few-shot Learning
353. CVPR 2025Img-Diff: Contrastive Data Synthesis for Multimodal Large Language Models
354. CVPR 2025Immune: Improving Safety Against Jailbreaks in Multi-modal LLMs via Inference-Time Alignment
355. CVPR 2025Improving Adversarial Transferability on Vision Transformers via Forward Propagation Refinement
356. CVPR 2025Improving Personalized Search with Regularized Low-Rank Parameter Updates
357. CVPR 2025Improving Visual and Downstream Performance of Low-Light Enhancer with Vision Foundation Models Collaboration
358. CVPR 2025ImViD: Immersive Volumetric Videos for Enhanced VR Engagement
359. CVPR 2025Incorporating Dense Knowledge Alignment into Unified Multimodal Representation Models
360. CVPR 2025Insight-V: Exploring Long-Chain Visual Reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Models
361. CVPR 2025InsightEdit: Towards Better Instruction Following for Image Editing
362. CVPR 2025Instruction-based Image Manipulation by Watching How Things Move
363. CVPR 2025Interactive Medical Image Analysis with Concept-based Similarity Reasoning
364. CVPR 2025InteractVLM: 3D Interaction Reasoning from 2D Foundational Models
365. CVPR 2025Interleaved-Modal Chain-of-Thought
366. CVPR 2025Interpretable Image Classification via Non-parametric Part Prototype Learning
367. CVPR 2025Inversion Circle Interpolation: Diffusion-based Image Augmentation for Data-scarce Classification
368. CVPR 2025Is `Right' Right? Enhancing Object Orientation Understanding in Multimodal Large Language Models through Egocentric Instruction Tuning
369. CVPR 2025Is Your World Simulator a Good Story Presenter? A Consecutive Events-Based Benchmark for Future Long Video Generation
370. CVPR 2025It's a (Blind) Match! Towards Vision-Language Correspondence without Parallel Data
371. CVPR 2025Iterative Predictor-Critic Code Decoding for Real-World Image Dehazing
372. CVPR 2025IterIS: Iterative Inference-Solving Alignment for LoRA Merging
373. CVPR 2025Janus: Decoupling Visual Encoding for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
374. CVPR 2025JanusFlow: Harmonizing Autoregression and Rectified Flow for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
375. CVPR 2025JarvisIR: Elevating Autonomous Driving Perception with Intelligent Image Restoration
376. CVPR 2025Joint Scheduling of Causal Prompts and Tasks for Multi-Task Learning
377. CVPR 2025Joint Vision-Language Social Bias Removal for CLIP
378. CVPR 2025Just Dance with pi! A Poly-modal Inductor for Weakly-supervised Video Anomaly Detection
379. CVPR 2025K-Sort Arena: Efficient and Reliable Benchmarking for Generative Models via K-wise Human Preferences
380. CVPR 2025Keyframe-Guided Creative Video Inpainting
381. CVPR 2025Knowledge-Aligned Counterfactual-Enhancement Diffusion Perception for Unsupervised Cross-Domain Visual Emotion Recognition
382. CVPR 2025L-SWAG: Layer-Sample Wise Activation with Gradients Information for Zero-Shot NAS on Vision Transformers
383. CVPR 2025LamRA: Large Multimodal Model as Your Advanced Retrieval Assistant
384. CVPR 2025Language-Assisted Debiasing and Smoothing for Foundation Model-Based Semi-Supervised Learning
385. CVPR 2025Language-Guided Image Tokenization for Generation
386. CVPR 2025Language-Guided Salient Object Ranking
387. CVPR 2025LaVin-DiT: Large Vision Diffusion Transformer
388. CVPR 2025LayoutVLM: Differentiable Optimization of 3D Layout via Vision-Language Models
389. CVPR 2025LC-Mamba: Local and Continuous Mamba with Shifted Windows for Frame Interpolation
390. CVPR 2025Learning Audio-guided Video Representation with Gated Attention for Video-Text Retrieval
391. CVPR 2025Learning Extremely High Density Crowds as Active Matters
392. CVPR 2025Learning Occlusion-Robust Vision Transformers for Real-Time UAV Tracking
393. CVPR 2025Learning Phase Distortion with Selective State Space Models for Video Turbulence Mitigation
394. CVPR 2025Learning Physics From Video: Unsupervised Physical Parameter Estimation for Continuous Dynamical Systems
395. CVPR 2025Learning with Noisy Triplet Correspondence for Composed Image Retrieval
396. CVPR 2025Let Humanoids Hike! Integrative Skill Development on Complex Trails
397. CVPR 2025Let Samples Speak: Mitigating Spurious Correlation by Exploiting the Clusterness of Samples
398. CVPR 2025Libra-Merging: Importance-redundancy and Pruning-merging Trade-off for Acceleration Plug-in in Large Vision-Language Model
399. CVPR 2025LibraGrad: Balancing Gradient Flow for Universally Better Vision Transformer Attributions
400. CVPR 2025Lifelong Knowledge Editing for Vision Language Models with Low-Rank Mixture-of-Experts

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.