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 80 of 104

3951. NeurIPS 2026Batch-Conditioned Semantic Anchors for Robust Transductive Adaptation of Vision--Language Models
3952. NeurIPS 2026Baton: Explicit Semantic Blueprints for Joint Video-Audio Generation
3953. NeurIPS 2026BBOWP-Bench: Evaluating LLMs on Black-Box Optimization Word Problems
3954. NeurIPS 2026BEAKER: An Expert-Curated Benchmark for Embodied Brains in Self-Driving Chemical Laboratories
3955. NeurIPS 2026Before It Fades: Reinforcing Temporal Representations at Inference Time in VideoLLMs
3956. NeurIPS 2026Before Words, Beyond Speech: Evaluating Nonverbal Social Reasoning in Early Childhood
3957. NeurIPS 2026Behavior Pack Optimization for Video MLLM Post-Training
3958. NeurIPS 2026Behavioral Geometric Supervision Aligns Video Foundation Models with Human Social Perception
3959. NeurIPS 2026Benchmark for Assessing Olfactory Perception of Large Language Models
3960. NeurIPS 2026Benchmark Recovery Does Not Certify a Frozen Tool-Trigger Contract After Quantization
3961. NeurIPS 2026Benchmark Shadows: How Data Regimes Shape Parameter Footprints and Generalization
3962. NeurIPS 2026Benchmarking and Improving Monitors for Out-Of-Distribution Alignment Failure in LLMs
3963. NeurIPS 2026Benchmarking Compositional Generalisation for Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials
3964. NeurIPS 2026Benchmarking Fine-Grained Spatio-Temporal Awareness in Embodied Brain Models
3965. NeurIPS 2026Benchmarking Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning with Explicit Visual Dependency
3966. NeurIPS 2026Benchmarking Optimizers for Large Language Model Pretraining
3967. NeurIPS 2026Benchmarking Risk Attitudes of LLMs
3968. NeurIPS 2026BESS-Bench: Benchmarking Spectral Representations for Be-Star Variability
3969. NeurIPS 2026Better Language Models Require Better Domain-Specific Inductive Biases
3970. NeurIPS 2026Beyond [SEG] Tokens: Training-Free Video Reasoning Segmentation via Counterfactual Inference and Contrastive Concept
3971. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Adjacent Layers: Graph-Guided Layer Fusion for Compressing Large Language Models
3972. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Appearance Shifts: Task-Semantic Action Calibration for VLA Models
3973. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Bag-of-Words: Diagnosing Compositional Binding Failures in Vision-Language Models
3974. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Bit Matching: Orthogonal Watermarks for Collusion-Resistant Image Fingerprinting
3975. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Chamfer Distance: Granular Order-aware Evaluation Metric For Online Mapping
3976. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Data Scaling: Representation-Centric Pre-training for Vision-Language-Action Models
3977. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Encoder Accumulation: Measuring Encoder Roles in Multi-Encoder VLMs
3978. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Family Labels: A Taxonomic Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Prior for Avian 3D Shape Recovery
3979. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Flat Frames: Hierarchical Graph Reasoning for Long Video Understanding
3980. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Flat Gossip: Tiered Gossip Learning for Scalable Collaborative AI
3981. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Global Alignment: Structured Compositional Reasoning for Vision-Language Models
3982. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Ground Truth: Evaluating Non-Verifiable Reasoning in LLMs through Moral Robustness
3983. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Interpretability: When, Why, and How Sparse Autoencoders Enable Label-Free Visual Steering
3984. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Langevin: Sampling Multimodal Densities using the Witten Laplacian on 1-forms
3985. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Modality Fusion: Deep Ensembles for Multimodal Classification
3986. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Pairwise Supervision: Spectral Characteristic Matching for Data-Efficient Multimodal Alignment
3987. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Parameter Arithmetic: Sparse Complementary Fusion for Distribution-Aware Model Merging
3988. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Raw Context Transfer: Representation-based Federated Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3989. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Real or Fake: A Dual-Channel Authenticity and Reasoning Protocol for Photographic Assessment
3990. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Scalar Distances: Semantic Attribute Gradients from Frozen MLLMs for Visual Embeddings
3991. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Single Expert: Harmonizing Diverse Visual Priors in MLLMs for Spatial Understanding
3992. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Sparse Captions: Aligning Slide-Level Text and Patch-Level Vision in Pathology
3993. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Spatial and Temporal Priors: A Generalizable Approach for Dense Correspondence Matching
3994. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Stabilization: Dual-EMA Teachers for Global–Local Semantic Learning in Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
3995. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Unidirectional: Unsupervised Trajectory Learning for Omnidirectional Controllable Underwater Image Enhancement
3996. NeurIPS 2026Beyond What Seems Necessary: Hidden Gains from Scaling Training-Time Reasoning Length under Outcome Supervision
3997. NeurIPS 2026BIAS-ID: A Framework for Analyzing Transformation Biases in AI-Generated Image Detectors
3998. NeurIPS 2026Bidirectional Sparse Attention for Faster Video Diffusion Training
3999. NeurIPS 2026BigCell: Generating Gigapixel Whole-Slide Images
4000. NeurIPS 2026Biomedical Acquisition-induced Style Shifts as Mixture Shifts: Style-aware Mixture-of-Experts Multimodal Prompt Learning

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.