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 83 of 104

4101. NeurIPS 2026Controllable Multi-label Video Safety Detection via Adaptive Tversky Policy Optimization
4102. NeurIPS 2026Controlling for Omitted Variable Bias in Deep Neural Networks
4103. NeurIPS 2026CoPE-VideoLM: Leveraging Codec Primitives For Efficient Video Language Modelling
4104. NeurIPS 2026CORAL: A Benchmark for Structure-aware and Brain-wide Neuron Reconstruction in Light Microscopy
4105. NeurIPS 2026CoRDS: Coreset-Based Representative and Diverse Selection for Streaming Video Understanding
4106. NeurIPS 2026CoRE-RL: Co-evolving Reasoning Trajectories and Evidence Subgraphs with Learned Evidence Projection
4107. NeurIPS 2026Coresets for Clustering Using Noisy Comparisons and Few Distance Queries
4108. NeurIPS 2026Correpondence Alignment For Improved Virtual Try-On
4109. NeurIPS 2026Correspondence Pruning by Iterative Structural Rectification
4110. NeurIPS 2026CoScan: Multi-Scale Content-Adaptive Space-Filling Scans for Causal State-Space Image Restoration
4111. NeurIPS 2026Counterfactual Instruction Grounding for Vision-Language-Action Models
4112. NeurIPS 2026Counting without Scale: Scale-Consistent Error Correction for Crowd Counting
4113. NeurIPS 2026Coverage-Based Calibration for Post-Training Quantization via Weighted Maximum Coverage over Outlier Channels
4114. NeurIPS 2026CoWorld-VLA: Thinking in a Multi-Expert World Model for Autonomous Driving
4115. NeurIPS 2026Cracks in the Foundation: A Civil Infrastructure Dataset to Challenge Vision Foundation Models
4116. NeurIPS 2026CRAFT: Causal Responsibility and Failure Tracing in Medical Vision Language Models
4117. NeurIPS 2026CRAFT: Counterfactual-to-Interactive Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Driving Policies
4118. NeurIPS 2026CrafterDojo: A Suite of Foundation Models for Building Open-Ended Embodied Agents in Crafter
4119. NeurIPS 2026CRANE: Constrained Reasoning Injection for Code Agents via Nullspace Editing
4120. NeurIPS 2026Cross-Channel Agreement Beats Consensus: Compositional Verification for Geometry Reasoning
4121. NeurIPS 2026Cross-Distribution Generalization in Longitudinal Behavioral Data Through Frozen Coherence Constraints
4122. NeurIPS 2026Cross-Layer Evolution Graph Learning for Fine-grained VLM Hallucination Detection
4123. NeurIPS 2026Cross-Modal Prior-Guided Training with Visual Foundation Models for Unsupervised LiDAR Point Cloud Registration
4124. NeurIPS 2026Cross-Model Transfer Attacks against Large Vision-Language Models via Model Diversity Enrichment and Stochastic Parameter Sampling
4125. NeurIPS 2026CrossID: Cross-Supervised Spatio-Temporal Gated Fusion for Personalized Portrait Generation
4126. NeurIPS 2026CryptanalysisBench: Can LLMs do cryptanalysis?
4127. NeurIPS 2026CSBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Project-Level System Construction in Computer Science
4128. NeurIPS 2026CSI-TextBench: A Dataset and Benchmark for Language-Grounded Ambient Sensing Perception
4129. NeurIPS 2026CTM-AI: A Blueprint for General AI Inspired by a Model of Consciousness
4130. NeurIPS 2026CURE: Visual Reprogramming of Vision-Language Models under Limited Supervision
4131. NeurIPS 2026Curvature Beyond Positivity: Greedy Guarantees for Arbitrary Submodular Functions
4132. NeurIPS 2026CurveBench: A Benchmark for Exact Topological Reasoning over Nested Jordan Curves
4133. NeurIPS 2026D-OPSD: On-Policy Self-Distillation for Continuously Tuning Step-Distilled Diffusion Models
4134. NeurIPS 2026D-VLA: A High-Concurrency Distributed Asynchronous RL Framework for Vision-Language-Action Models
4135. NeurIPS 2026D$^2$Quant: Accurate Low-bit Post-Training Weight Quantization for LLMs
4136. NeurIPS 2026DAG-Biased Graph Learning for Multimodal Survival on EHR
4137. NeurIPS 2026DAGA: Dynamic Attention-Guided Adaptation for Self-Supervised Vision Transformers
4138. NeurIPS 2026DARE: Dual-Level Adversarial Learning with Domain-Aware Regularization for Whole Slide Image Classification
4139. NeurIPS 2026DataComp-VLM: Improved open datasets for Vision-Language Models
4140. NeurIPS 2026DataFlex: A Unified Benchmark and Evaluation Platform for Data-Centric Training of Large Language Models
4141. NeurIPS 2026DAWN: Dependency-Aware Fast Inference for Diffusion LLMs
4142. NeurIPS 2026Debiased DPO for Diffusion Models
4143. NeurIPS 2026Decoupled Mode Connectivity for Base-to-Novel Generalization in Vision-Language Models
4144. NeurIPS 2026Decoupled Prototype Contrastive Alignment Hashing for Cross-Modal Retrieval
4145. NeurIPS 2026Deep Barycentric Regression for Optimal Transport Map Estimation and its Statistical Optimality
4146. NeurIPS 2026DEFT: Disentanglement-Enhanced Fine-Tuning for EEG Foundation Models
4147. NeurIPS 2026DegBins: Degradation-Driven Binning for Depth Super-Resolution
4148. NeurIPS 2026Delta-Adapter: Scalable Exemplar-Based Image Editing with Single-Pair Supervision
4149. NeurIPS 2026DeltaPrompts: Escaping the Zero-Delta Trap in Multimodal Distillation
4150. NeurIPS 2026DELTAVID: Enhancing Fine-Grained Spatiotemporal Perception with Cross-Video Differences

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.