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 86 of 104

4251. NeurIPS 2026Evaluating Spatiotemporal Reasoning of Vision-Language Models in Atari Gameplay
4252. NeurIPS 2026Even Sailors Need Calm Seas: Taming the Geometry of VLMs for Fast Adversarial Fine-Tuning
4253. NeurIPS 2026Event-Grounded Sparse Autoencoders for Vision-Language-Action Policies
4254. NeurIPS 2026EventPrune: Cascaded Event-Assisted Token Pruning for Efficient First-Person Dynamic Spatial Reasoning
4255. NeurIPS 2026Everything at Every Scale: Scale-Invariant Diffusion with Continuous Super-Resolution
4256. NeurIPS 2026EviSAM3: Evidence-Driven SAM3 for Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation
4257. NeurIPS 2026Evo-Depth: A Lightweight Depth-Enhanced Vision-Language-Action Model
4258. NeurIPS 2026EvoDiagram: Agentic Editable Diagram Creation via Design Expertise Evolution
4259. NeurIPS 2026EvoGround: Self-Evolving Video Agents for Video Temporal Grounding
4260. NeurIPS 2026Example-Based Spatial Guidance for Training-Free Concept Erasure in Diffusion Models
4261. NeurIPS 2026Expected Harm: Rethinking Safety Evaluation of (Mis)Aligned LLMs
4262. NeurIPS 2026Explicit Geometric Chain-of-Thought for Vision-Language-Action in Autonomous Driving
4263. NeurIPS 2026Exploiting Textual Semantics for Robust Cross-View Object Correspondence
4264. NeurIPS 2026Exploring the Epipolar Consistency for Light Field Deraining
4265. NeurIPS 2026Exploring the Limits of Compositional Generalization in Vision-Language-Action Manipulation
4266. NeurIPS 2026Exposing Private Corpus Leakage in Multimodal RAG
4267. NeurIPS 2026Extending Pretrained 10-Second ECG Foundation Models to Longer Horizons
4268. NeurIPS 2026Extraneous Cognitive Load in Large Language Models
4269. NeurIPS 2026Eyes on VLM: Benchmarking Gaze Following and Social Gaze Prediction in Vision Language Models
4270. NeurIPS 2026FACETS: Cross-Granularity Vision--Language Modeling for 3D Anomaly Detection
4271. NeurIPS 2026Failing to Falsify: Evaluating and Mitigating Confirmation Bias in Language Models
4272. NeurIPS 2026Failure Profiling and Reachable Trajectory Selection for Reasoning Distillation
4273. NeurIPS 2026FairTune Market: A Fair and Trustworthy Marketplace for Fine-Tuned LLMs via Posted-Price & Proper-Scoring Mechanisms
4274. NeurIPS 2026Faithful Embeddings of Irregular and Asynchronous Data for Online Log-NCDEs
4275. NeurIPS 2026FaithfulFaces: Pose-Faithful Facial Identity Preservation for Text-to-Video Generation
4276. NeurIPS 2026FARE: Forensic Acceptance Region Estimation for Catching Bait-and-Switch Image Generators
4277. NeurIPS 2026Fast and Accurate Probing of In-Training LLMs' Downstream Performances
4278. NeurIPS 2026Fast KVzip: Efficient and Accurate LLM Inference with Gated KV Eviction
4279. NeurIPS 2026Fast-WAM: Do World Action Models Need Test-time Future Imagination?
4280. NeurIPS 2026FASTER: Rethinking Real-Time Flow VLAs
4281. NeurIPS 2026FAUST: Federated Asynchronous Update with Staggered Timescales for Low-Communication Foundation Model Training
4282. NeurIPS 2026FAVLA: A Force-Adaptive Multi-Rate VLA model for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
4283. NeurIPS 2026FedIBS: Federated Vision-Language Adaptation via Intrinsic Bias Selection
4284. NeurIPS 2026Few-Shot Truly Benign DPO Attack for Jailbreaking LLMs
4285. NeurIPS 2026FiedlerPrune: Connectivity-Preserving Cross-Layer Pruning for Large Language Models
4286. NeurIPS 2026Fill the GAP: A Granular Alignment Paradigm for Visual Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models
4287. NeurIPS 2026FiLoRA: Focus-and-Ignore LoRA for Controllable Feature Reliance
4288. NeurIPS 2026FinAl: Fine-grained Alignment for Detail-Preserving Medical Vision-Language Pretraining
4289. NeurIPS 2026FineVLA: Fine-Grained Instruction Alignment for Steerable Vision-Language-Action Policies
4290. NeurIPS 2026FiRe: Fine-grained Multimodal Reasoning for Enhanced Image Generation
4291. NeurIPS 2026FlashRelight: Portrait Video Relighting with Dynamic Lighting
4292. NeurIPS 2026FlatClip: Reusing Image Foundation Models for fMRI Representation Learning via Cortical Flatmaps
4293. NeurIPS 2026FLIP: Fast and Accurate Global Lipschitz Estimation for Large Feedforward Networks
4294. NeurIPS 2026FloatDoor: Platform triggered Backdoors in LLMs
4295. NeurIPS 2026FlowHOI: Flow-based Semantics-Grounded Generation of Hand-Object Interactions for Dexterous Robot Manipulation
4296. NeurIPS 2026FlowR2A: Learning Reward-to-Action Distribution for Multimodal Driving Planning
4297. NeurIPS 2026Flux Attention: Context-Aware Hybrid Attention for Efficient LLMs Inference
4298. NeurIPS 2026FluxFlow: Conservative Flow-Matching for Astronomical Image Super-Resolution
4299. NeurIPS 2026FlyingDrones: A Dataset and Benchmark for Optical Flow Estimation from UAV motion
4300. NeurIPS 2026FOAM: Factored One-sided Adam-Moment for Practical and Scalable SOAP

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.