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 82 of 104

4051. NeurIPS 2026Channel Mixer: A Pretrainable Tokenizer for Scalable Multi-Channel Vision Transformers
4052. NeurIPS 2026ChanSFormer: A Channel Agnostic Vision Transformer for Multi-Channel Cell Painting Images
4053. NeurIPS 2026Characterizing Universal Object Representations Across Vision Models
4054. NeurIPS 2026ChartArena: A Unified Benchmark with Atomic-Primitive Reasoning for Chart Parsing
4055. NeurIPS 2026Cheap Per-Component Testing for PLS, Stable Under Rotation
4056. NeurIPS 2026ChildPose: Foundation for Children Pose Modeling
4057. NeurIPS 2026CineMME: Benchmarking Fine-Grained Perception and Plot Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models
4058. NeurIPS 2026CIPHERGRID Benchmark: From Multimodal Rule Inference to Sequential Action
4059. NeurIPS 2026CircuitSeer: Mining High-Quality Data by Probing Mathematical Reasoning Circuits in LLMs
4060. NeurIPS 2026Clarification as Supervision: Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language Interfaces
4061. NeurIPS 2026Claudini: Autoresearch Discovers State-of-the-Art Adversarial Attack Algorithms for LLMs
4062. NeurIPS 2026CLeaR: A Unified Framework for Resolving the Leakage–Degradation Dilemma in Style Transfer
4063. NeurIPS 2026Clearer Sight, Fewer Lies: Oriented Pickup Preference Optimization for Multimodal Hallucination Mitigation
4064. NeurIPS 2026CLEF: EEG Foundation Models for Learning Clinical Semantics
4065. NeurIPS 2026Closed-Form Linear-Probe Dataset Distillation for Pre-trained Vision Models
4066. NeurIPS 2026Closing the Indexing-Decoding Gap in Multimodal Generative Retrieval via Prefix Retention Optimization
4067. NeurIPS 2026Closing the Loop with Fixed-Point Self-Attention
4068. NeurIPS 2026ClothTransformer: Unified Latent-Space Transformers for Scalable Cloth Simulation
4069. NeurIPS 2026CM-EVS: Sparse Panoramic RGB-D-Pose Data for Complete Scene Coverage
4070. NeurIPS 2026COCOTree: A Dataset and Benchmark for Open Tree-Structured Visual Decomposition
4071. NeurIPS 2026Code2World: A GUI World Model via Renderable Code Generation
4072. NeurIPS 2026CoDeRNet: Selective Cross-Task Routing under Heterogeneous Supervision for Change Detection and Captioning
4073. NeurIPS 2026CofactVLA: Deconfounding Vision-Language-Action Models via Counterfactual Intervention
4074. NeurIPS 2026COHE: Auditing Non-Transitivity in Sample Difficulty Proxies for Vision Models
4075. NeurIPS 2026Collaborative Reasoning Distillation via Cross-Feedback and Coherent Curation
4076. NeurIPS 2026ColorConceptBench: A Benchmark for Probabilistic Color-Concept Understanding in Text-to-Image Models
4077. NeurIPS 2026Comp$^2$VLM: A Hybrid Framework Combining Quantization and Lossless Compression for Efficient Vision-Language Models
4078. NeurIPS 2026CompJudge: Fine-Grained Comparative Evaluation using Multimodal LLM for Subject-Driven Generation
4079. NeurIPS 2026Complementary Cache Guidance with Gradient Disentanglement for Continuous Test-Time Adaptation
4080. NeurIPS 2026Complementing DINO Features with Image Structure for Part Discovery
4081. NeurIPS 2026Complex Schrödinger Bridges
4082. NeurIPS 2026Compressible Representations: Functional Spines in Deep Neural Networks
4083. NeurIPS 2026Computational Depth Predicts Quantization Sensitivity in Multimodal Models
4084. NeurIPS 2026Compute Efficiency and Serial Runtime Tradeoffs for Stochastic Momentum Methods
4085. NeurIPS 2026Concentrated Gradients Amplify Forgetting: Dominant-direction Projection for Continual Multimodal Learning
4086. NeurIPS 2026Concepts Worth Having: Refining VLM-Guided Concept Bottleneck Models with Minimal Annotations
4087. NeurIPS 2026Concise Reasoning Through the Lens of Lagrangian Optimization
4088. NeurIPS 2026CondenseVLA: Learnable History Condensation for Efficient Multi-Frame VLA
4089. NeurIPS 2026Conditional misalignment: common interventions can hide emergent misalignment behind contextual triggers
4090. NeurIPS 2026Confidence-Calibrated Inference Expansion for Evaluator-Guided Test-Time Reasoning
4091. NeurIPS 2026ConforFlux: Particle-Guided Trunk Repulsion for Diverse Protein Conformations
4092. NeurIPS 2026Conformal Cache: Reliable Proxy-Discrepancy Caching for Fast Generative Inference
4093. NeurIPS 2026ConQuR: Corner Aligned Activation Quantization via Optimized Rotations for LLMs
4094. NeurIPS 2026Consolidating Reasoning with Test-Time Learning
4095. NeurIPS 2026Constrained Decoding for Diffusion Language Models via Efficient Inference over Finite Automata
4096. NeurIPS 2026Context-Aware Autoregressive Image Generation for Emerging Reasoning Properties
4097. NeurIPS 2026Continually Evolving Skill Knowledge in Vision Language Action Model
4098. NeurIPS 2026Continuous Expert Assembly: Instance-Conditioned Low-Rank Residuals for All-in-One Image Restoration
4099. NeurIPS 2026Contractive Restoring Flows: Robust Reasoning Distillation via Orbital Stability
4100. NeurIPS 2026Controllable and Content Based Recommendations

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.