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 84 of 104

4151. NeurIPS 2026Despa: Resolving Spatial Collapse in VLMs via Depth-Grounded Geometry
4152. NeurIPS 2026Detect Anything in Graphic Design: Element-Level Rewards for Autoregressive Detection
4153. NeurIPS 2026Detect What You Need: Chain-of-Causal Reasoning for 3D Intent Grounding
4154. NeurIPS 2026DetectViT: Test-time Backdoor Detection for Vision Transformers via Inter-Head Attention Discrepancy
4155. NeurIPS 2026Diagnosing and Correcting Bias in MLLM for Long Video Understanding
4156. NeurIPS 2026Diagnosing and Repairing Visual Collapse in Compact Medical Multimodal LLMs
4157. NeurIPS 2026Diff-Kalman: Difference-Driven Learning for Structure-Preserving Kalman Filtering
4158. NeurIPS 2026DifFRACT: Diffusion Feature Reconstruction and Attribution for Circuit Tracing
4159. NeurIPS 2026Diffusion Fine-Tuning: Iterative Refinement for Advanced Grounding with Diffusion Large Language Models
4160. NeurIPS 2026Diffusion Meta-Prompting and Steering for Generalizable Foundation Model Adaptation
4161. NeurIPS 2026Diffusion Thinking for Fast Long-Form Spatial Reasoning in Vision--Language Models
4162. NeurIPS 2026Diffusion-DRF: Free, Rich, and Differentiable Reward for Video Diffusion Fine-Tuning
4163. NeurIPS 2026DiM$^3$: Bridging Multilingual and Multimodal Models via Direction- and Magnitude-Aware Merging
4164. NeurIPS 2026Direct Product Flow Matching: Decoupling Radial and Angular Dynamics for Few-Shot Adaptation
4165. NeurIPS 2026Directional Confusions Reveal Divergent Inductive Biases Through Rate-Distortion Geometry in Human and Machine Vision
4166. NeurIPS 2026DiRotQ: Rotation-Aware Quantization for 4-bit Diffusion Transformers
4167. NeurIPS 2026DISCOVER: Online Variance-Guided Data Discovery for Budgeted Multimodal GRPO
4168. NeurIPS 2026Discovering Unseen Degradations to Adapt Open-World Image Restoration
4169. NeurIPS 2026Disentangled Multimodal Learning for Scalable Dynamic IR-Drop Analysis
4170. NeurIPS 2026Disentangling Homophilic and Heterophilic Patterns for Multi-Domain Graph Foundation Models
4171. NeurIPS 2026Disentangling Where and When: Factored Spatio-Temporal Explanations for Video Action Recognition
4172. NeurIPS 2026Distill to Think, Foresee to Act: Cognitive-Physical Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving
4173. NeurIPS 2026Distilling What Matters: Confidence-Aware Selective Distillation for Large Language Models
4174. NeurIPS 2026Diverse Representative Rashomon Sets for Sparse Generalized Additive Models
4175. NeurIPS 2026Diving-R1: Empowering Multimodal LLMs with Traceable Progressive Reasoning for Interpretable Diving Action Quality Assessment
4176. NeurIPS 2026DMax: Aggressive Parallel Decoding for dLLMs
4177. NeurIPS 2026Do Composed Image Retrieval Benchmarks Require Multimodal Composition?
4178. NeurIPS 2026Do LLMs Bind Episodes? Probing Cross-Episode Parametric Retrieval Through Shared Cues
4179. NeurIPS 2026Do LLMs Feel Social Pressure? Locating and Steering Social Desirability Bias in LLMs
4180. NeurIPS 2026Do More Modalities Always Help? A Geometric Perspective on Missing-Modality Robustness
4181. NeurIPS 2026Do multimodal models imagine electric sheep?
4182. NeurIPS 2026Do Reasoning LLMs Refuse What They Infer in Long Contexts?
4183. NeurIPS 2026Do Robust LVLMs Hallucinate More? Uncovering Robustness-Induced Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models
4184. NeurIPS 2026Do You CARE to Generalize? Extracting Robust Concept Directions from LLMs
4185. NeurIPS 2026DocScope: Benchmarking Verifiable Reasoning for Trustworthy Long-Document Understanding
4186. NeurIPS 2026Dodge-It: Learning Collision-Aware VLA Models for Robotic Manipulation
4187. NeurIPS 2026Does Mixed Label Imbalance Matter to Minority Collapse in Imbalanced Learning?
4188. NeurIPS 2026Does Your Large Language Model Have An Intuitive Sense of The Difficulty of A Question?
4189. NeurIPS 2026Dominant-Layer ZO: A Single Layer Dominates Zeroth-Order Fine-Tuning of LLMs
4190. NeurIPS 2026Doomed to Re-Annotate, Forever: The ImageNet Story
4191. NeurIPS 2026DPA: Decentralized Primal Averaging with Quasi-Global Momentum for Highly Heterogeneous Data
4192. NeurIPS 2026DPrivBench: Benchmarking LLMs' Reasoning for Differential Privacy
4193. NeurIPS 2026Drag as Evidence: Motion-Grounded Latent Recomposition for Drag-Based Editing
4194. NeurIPS 2026DRAGON : A Benchmark for Evidence-Grounded Visual Reasoning over Diagrams
4195. NeurIPS 2026Drift-Aware Multimodal User Representation Learning via Multi-Scale Temporal Modeling and Sparse Mixture-of-Experts
4196. NeurIPS 2026DRILL: Training World Models to Improve Policies, Not Predict Pixels
4197. NeurIPS 2026DriveDreamer-Policy: A Geometry-Grounded World-Action Model for Unified Generation and Planning
4198. NeurIPS 2026DriveMind: Mind-Evolving Belief Tracking for Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving
4199. NeurIPS 2026DriveSpatial: A Benchmark for Spatiotemporal Intelligence in VLMs for Autonomous Driving
4200. NeurIPS 2026DriveStreamBench: Evaluating User-Conditioned Watch-and-Notify in Streaming Driving Video

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.