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 81 of 104

4001. NeurIPS 2026BitDance: Scaling Autoregressive Generative Models with Binary Tokens
4002. NeurIPS 2026Black-Box Followers, White-Box Leaders: Partial Zeroth-Order Methods for MPECs
4003. NeurIPS 2026BLEND: Balancing Personalization vs. Generalization in Federated Vision–Language Models
4004. NeurIPS 2026BlendCast: Teaching Vision-Language Model to Anticipate Member Skill in Weather Ensembles
4005. NeurIPS 2026BoardGameArena: A Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Strategic Reasoning of LLMs in Board Games
4006. NeurIPS 2026BOOST: Power-Optimal Strong-FWER Testing for Block-Structured Multiplicity
4007. NeurIPS 2026Boosting Brain-to-Image Decoding with TRIBE v2 Data Augmentation
4008. NeurIPS 2026Boosting Inference with Guided Reasoning: Stochastic Exploration for Recursive Models
4009. NeurIPS 2026Bound-Conditioned Latent Inference for Progressive Image Compression
4010. NeurIPS 2026Bounding Global and Local Compression Error of Signal Parameterizations
4011. NeurIPS 2026BoxTuning: Object-Aware Visual Prompting for Multimodal Model Fine-Tuning
4012. NeurIPS 2026Brain-OF: An Omnifunctional Foundation Model for fMRI, EEG and MEG
4013. NeurIPS 2026BrainEM: A Large-Scale and Diverse Benchmark for EM Neuron Segmentation in Connectomics
4014. NeurIPS 2026BrainVista: Modeling Naturalistic Brain Dynamics as Multimodal Next-Token Prediction
4015. NeurIPS 2026BrainWorld: A Structural-Prior-Conditioned Generative Model for Whole-Brain 4D fMRI Dynamics
4016. NeurIPS 2026Brenier Meets Adversarial Training: Optimal Transport Geometry for Robust Learning
4017. NeurIPS 2026Bridging 1D, 2D, and 3D with Any-to-Any Multimodal Modeling
4018. NeurIPS 2026Bridging CLIP with DINO: Cross-Modal Information Maximization for Online Test-Time Adaptation
4019. NeurIPS 2026Bridging Image Restoration and Recognition via Causal Mediated Unrolling
4020. NeurIPS 2026Bridging Modalities, Spanning Time: Structured Memory for Ultra-Long Agentic Video Reasoning
4021. NeurIPS 2026Bridging Structure and Language: Graph-Based Visual Reasoning for Autonomous Road Understanding
4022. NeurIPS 2026Bridging the Gap: Position-Independent Cache Reuse for Hybrid SSM-Attention Architectures
4023. NeurIPS 2026BusterX: MLLM-Powered AI-Generated Video Forgery Detection and Explanation
4024. NeurIPS 2026C2FT: Enhancing Fine-Grained Perception in MLLMs via Confuse-then-Contrast Fine-Tuning
4025. NeurIPS 2026C3H: Compression-to-Consensus Criteria Hijacking in Multimodal LLM Recommender Systems
4026. NeurIPS 2026CA-Judge: Teach Large Models to Judge Anomalies via Comparison for Video Anomaly Detection
4027. NeurIPS 2026CaC: Advancing Video Reward Models via Hierarchical Spatiotemporal Concentrating
4028. NeurIPS 2026CAIRN: Cross-Room 3D Scene Understanding with Topology-Aware Large Multimodal Models
4029. NeurIPS 2026CAM: Question Answering on Entity-Centric Videos with Continuous Extraction and Adaptive Querying
4030. NeurIPS 2026Can an LLM Reason Like a Lawyer? Benchmarking the ability of LLMs to map the facts of a case to the elements of the applicable legal rule
4031. NeurIPS 2026Can Linguistic Reasoning Vectors Enhance Multimodal Reasoning Ability?
4032. NeurIPS 2026Can Pixels Alone Reveal Image Origin? Minimax Limits and Learnable Interfaces for Passive Provenance
4033. NeurIPS 2026Can the Parts Fool the Test? Counterfactual Pairing Cycles for Relational OOD
4034. NeurIPS 2026Can VLMs Reason When to Stop for Human Safety?
4035. NeurIPS 2026Can We Model the Artifacts Explicitly? Disentangle Artifacts via Pairwise Edit Relations for Image Manipulation Localization
4036. NeurIPS 2026CanViT: Toward Active-Vision Foundation Models
4037. NeurIPS 2026CARVE: Counterfactual Video Editing for Auditing and Hardening Video Detectors
4038. NeurIPS 2026Casper: A Projection-Based Neurosymbolic Layer for Scalable & Guaranteed Constraint Satisfaction
4039. NeurIPS 2026Catch-Only-One: Non-Transferable Examples for Model-Specific Authorization
4040. NeurIPS 2026CATS: Acceptance-Oriented Critical Token Adaptive Selection for Multimodal Speculative Decoding
4041. NeurIPS 2026Causal Benchmarks for Multimodal AI Should Measure Categorical Difference, Not Capability Gap
4042. NeurIPS 2026Causal-VLM: Dense Causal Captioning in Videos
4043. NeurIPS 2026CausalDriveBench: Evaluating Causal Reasoning in Vision-Language-Action Models for Autonomous Driving
4044. NeurIPS 2026CAVE: A Structured Credit Assignment Approach for Fragmented Visual Evidence Reasoning
4045. NeurIPS 2026CCDiff: Inverse Canonical Correlation Analysis for Discovering Visual Differences in Natural Language
4046. NeurIPS 2026CECAR: Cache & Expert Co-Aware Routing Accelerates On-Device Inference of MoE LLMs
4047. NeurIPS 2026CellularS2-Bench: A Staged, Evidence-Grounded Benchmark for Cellular Network Security Reasoning
4048. NeurIPS 2026Certification from Examples is Hard for Circuits and Transformers under Minimal Overparametrization
4049. NeurIPS 2026Chain-of-Correction: Progress-Aware Policy Steering via Anchor-Grounded Predictive Reasoning
4050. NeurIPS 2026ChainSpace: A Chained-Reasoning Paradigm for Spatial Intelligence

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.