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

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351. CVPR 2026EffectMaker Unifying Reasoning and Generation for Customized Visual Effect Creation
352. CVPR 2026Efficiency Follows Global-Local Decoupling
353. CVPR 2026Efficient Encoder-Free Fourier-based 3D Large Multimodal Model
354. CVPR 2026Efficient Real-Time Raw-to-Raw Denoising for Extreme Low-Light Ultra HD Video
355. CVPR 2026EG-3DVG Expression and Geometry Aware Grounding Decoder for 3D Visual
356. CVPR 2026Ego Embedding-Guided Personalization of Vision-Language Models
357. CVPR 2026Ego-1K - A Large-Scale Multiview Video Dataset for Egocentric Vision
358. CVPR 2026Ego-Grounding for Personalized Question-Answering in Egocentric Videos
359. CVPR 2026EgoEdit Dataset Real-Time Streaming Model and Benchmark for Egocentric Video
360. CVPR 2026EgoProx Evaluating MLLMs on Egocentric 3D Proximity Reasoning Across a
361. CVPR 2026EgoRoC Towards Egocentric Robotic Control via Task-Agnostic Visual Alignment
362. CVPR 2026EgoSound Benchmarking Sound Understanding in Egocentric Videos
363. CVPR 2026ElasticFormer Detecting Objects in HRW Shots via Elastic Computing Vision
364. CVPR 2026ELVIS Enhance Low-Light for Video Instance Segmentation in the Dark
365. CVPR 2026EMAD Evidence-Centric Grounded Multimodal Diagnosis for Alzheimers Disease
366. CVPR 2026EMMA Extracting Multiple physical parameters from Multimodal Data
367. CVPR 2026EMO-R3 Reflective Reinforcement Learning for Emotional Reasoning in Multimodal Large
368. CVPR 2026EmoStyle Emotion-Driven Image Stylization
369. CVPR 2026EMR-Diff Edge-aware Multimodal Residual Diffusion Model for Hyperspectral Image Super-resolution
370. CVPR 2026ENC-Bench A Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models in
371. CVPR 2026Enhance-then-Balance Modality Collaboration for Robust Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
372. CVPR 2026Enhancing Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models via Dynamic Prefix Weighting
373. CVPR 2026Enhancing Descriptive Captions with Visual Attributes for Multimodal Perception
374. CVPR 2026Enhancing Part-Level Point Grounding for Any Open-Source MLLMs
375. CVPR 2026Enhancing Video Vision Language Model with Hippocampal Sensing
376. CVPR 2026Envision Attend Then Respond Counterfactual Hallucination Mitigation in Large Vision-Language
377. CVPR 2026EthoCLIP Ontology-Enhanced Video-Language Pretraining for Animal Behavior Understanding
378. CVPR 2026EventDrive Event Cameras for Vision-Language Driving Intelligence
379. CVPR 2026Every Error has Its Magnitude Asymmetric Mistake Severity Training for
380. CVPR 2026Evidential Transformation Network Turning Pretrained Models into Evidential Models for
381. CVPR 2026EVLF Early Vision-Language Fusion for Generative Dataset Distillation
382. CVPR 2026Evo-1 Lightweight Vision-Language-Action Model with Preserved Semantic Alignment
383. CVPR 2026Evo-Retriever LLM-Guided Curriculum Evolution with Viewpoint-Pathway Collaboration for Multimodal Document
384. CVPR 2026EvoComp Learning Visual Token Compression for Multimodal Large Language Models
385. CVPR 2026Evolutionary Multimodal Reasoning via Hierarchical Semantic Representation for Intent Recognition
386. CVPR 2026EXOTIC External Vision-driven Incomplete Multi-view Classification
387. CVPR 2026Expanding Spatial and Temporal Context for Robotic Imitation Learning With
388. CVPR 2026Experience Transfer for Multimodal LLM Agents in Minecraft Game
389. CVPR 2026Explaining CLIP Zero-shot Predictions Through Concepts
390. CVPR 2026Explore with Long-term Memory A Benchmark and Multimodal LLM-based Reinforcement
391. CVPR 2026Exploring Spatiotemporal Feature Propagation for Video-Level Compressive Spectral Reconstruction Dataset
392. CVPR 2026Exploring Visual Pretraining for Learning Language Intelligence
393. CVPR 2026Exposing and Evaluating Hallucinations for GUI Grounding
394. CVPR 2026Extending Embodied Question Answering from Perception to Decision
395. CVPR 2026ExtrinSplat Decoupling Geometry and Semantics for Open-Vocabulary Understanding in 3D
396. CVPR 2026F2-Assist Multi-Phase Fetal Growth Forecast and Report Generation from Ultrasound
397. CVPR 2026Face-Guided Sentiment Boundary Enhancement for Weakly-Supervised Temporal Sentiment Localization
398. CVPR 2026FairLLaVA Fairness-Aware Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Large Vision-Language Assistants
399. CVPR 2026FALCON False-Negative Aware Learning of Contrastive Negatives in Vision-Language Alignment
400. CVPR 2026FantasyVLN Unified Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Vision-and-Language Navigation

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.