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 85 of 104

4201. NeurIPS 2026DriveWAM: Video Generative Priors Enable Scalable World-Action Modeling for Autonomous Driving
4202. NeurIPS 2026Driving Video Retrieval for Complex Queries with Structured Grounding
4203. NeurIPS 2026DropKV: Decoupling Residual-Output Perturbation for Near-Optimal KV-Cache Eviction
4204. NeurIPS 2026DRScaffold: Boosting Dense-Scene Reasoning in Lightweight Vision Language Models
4205. NeurIPS 2026Dual Dimensionality for Local and Global Attention
4206. NeurIPS 2026Dual-Space Preconditioning for Variational Inequalities and Root-Finding Problems
4207. NeurIPS 2026DualWorldBench: Can Agents Plan Deliveries across Symbolic and Grounded Worlds?
4208. NeurIPS 2026Dynamic Cross-Modal Prompt Generation for Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning
4209. NeurIPS 2026Dynamic Model Merging Made Slim
4210. NeurIPS 2026Dynamic Regulatory Graph Learning for Histology-to-Spatial Transcriptomics
4211. NeurIPS 2026Dynamic Resolution Routing for Efficient Egocentric Grounding
4212. NeurIPS 2026Dynamics-Aware Sparse Attention for Efficient Autoregressive Video Diffusion
4213. NeurIPS 2026DynamicVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Dynamic Object Manipulation
4214. NeurIPS 2026DynaProto: Dynamic Prototypical Contrast for Temporally Consistent Object-Centric Learning
4215. NeurIPS 2026E0: Expressive Fine-Grained Discrete Action Prediction for Vision-Language-Action Models via Tweedie Discrete Diffusion
4216. NeurIPS 2026EasyLens: A Training-Free Plug-and-Play Subtle-Lesion Representation Amplifier for Medical Vision-Language Models
4217. NeurIPS 2026ECG-Reasoning-Benchmark: A Benchmark for Evaluating Clinical Reasoning Capabilities in ECG Interpretation
4218. NeurIPS 2026EchoXFlow: A Beamspace Echocardiography Dataset for Cardiac Motion, Flow, and Function
4219. NeurIPS 2026Edit-R2: Context-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Turn Image Editing
4220. NeurIPS 2026EditJudge-Bench: Auditing VLM Image-Edit Judges with Synthetic Ground Truth
4221. NeurIPS 2026EDMA: Entropy-Driven Multimodal Answering
4222. NeurIPS 2026EEG-X: Toward Device-Agnostic and Noise-Robust Foundation Models for EEG
4223. NeurIPS 2026Efficient and Robust Physical 3DGS-MPM Simulation via Interior Filling and Text-Physics Optimization
4224. NeurIPS 2026Efficient Image Synthesis with Sphere Latent Encoder
4225. NeurIPS 2026Efficient, Accurate and Stable Gradients for Neural ODEs
4226. NeurIPS 2026EgoBabyVLM: Benchmarking cross-modal learning from naturalistic egocentric video data
4227. NeurIPS 2026EgoStream: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Streaming Episodic Memory in Egocentric Vision
4228. NeurIPS 2026EgoTac: In-the-wild Tactile Prediction from Egocentric Vision
4229. NeurIPS 2026Elastic Representations via Hyperbolic Geometry
4230. NeurIPS 2026ElegantVLA: Learning When to Think for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models
4231. NeurIPS 2026Elephant in the Fridge: Constant-Memory Frame Packing for Long Video Understanding
4232. NeurIPS 2026ELPAC: Endpoint-Anchored Latent Progression with Stage-Varying Multimodal Coordination
4233. NeurIPS 2026EM-NeSy: Expectation Maximization for Neurosymbolic Learning
4234. NeurIPS 2026Embedding Foundation Model Predictions in Discrete-Choice Models with Structural Guarantees
4235. NeurIPS 2026Emergent Biological Capabilities in a Foundation Model for Molecular Interactions
4236. NeurIPS 2026Empirical regularities in subjective decision-making by LLMs
4237. NeurIPS 2026Empowering Time Series Analysis with Large-Scale Multimodal Pretraining
4238. NeurIPS 2026Enabling VLA Action Self-Verification via VLM Token Probability Bucketing
4239. NeurIPS 2026EndoSCOP-V: A Multi-Turn Video Understanding Evaluation Framework for Multimodal Models in Endoscopy Reporting and Clinical Reasoning
4240. NeurIPS 2026Enhancing Gaze Reasoning in Vision Foundation Models for Gaze Following
4241. NeurIPS 2026Enhancing LLMs with Cognitive-Affective Personality Inference for Simulating Human Social-Psychological Behavior
4242. NeurIPS 2026EnvTrap: Revealing the Environment-Only Attack Surface in Embodied AI via Consequence-Blind Action Execution
4243. NeurIPS 2026EpiStream: Utility-Aware Temporal Abstraction for Dense-Action Streams
4244. NeurIPS 2026Escaping Reasoning Basins: Basin-Aware Search for Inference-Time LLM Reasoning
4245. NeurIPS 2026Estimating and Orthogonalizing Unknown Pre-training Gradients for Continual Fine-tuning of Large Language Models
4246. NeurIPS 2026Euler-Mamba: Learning Resolution-Invariant State Evolution on Polar Manifolds for Asymmetric Pansharpening
4247. NeurIPS 2026EVA-Cap: Optimizing Audiovisual Video Captioning via Event-Centric Alignment
4248. NeurIPS 2026EVA: Evidence-seeking Visual Agent for Hallucination-Resistant Multimodal Reasoning
4249. NeurIPS 2026Evaluating Multimodal Narrative Understanding of Popular Hollywood Films
4250. NeurIPS 2026Evaluating Neural Data Tokenizers: A Framework for Assessing Learned Representations of Spiking Activity

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.