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 87 of 104

4301. NeurIPS 2026Focus Matters: Attention-Value Dynamics for Hallucination Mitigation in Vision-Language Models
4302. NeurIPS 2026Focus, Align, and Diffuse: Time-Series-Aware Keyframe Diffusion for Cardiac Dynamic Synthesis from Sparse Observations
4303. NeurIPS 2026FOCUS: Benchmarking Retinal Model Generalization from Foundation Vision Encoders to Multimodal LLMs
4304. NeurIPS 2026Focused Forcing: Content-Aware Per-Frame KV Selection for Efficient Autoregressive Video Diffusion
4305. NeurIPS 2026FocusVLA: Hijacking Attention to Break Visual Token Pruning in Vision-Language-Action Models
4306. NeurIPS 2026FoldAbS: Repurposing the Protein Folding Model as a Foundation Encoder for Antibody Screening
4307. NeurIPS 2026Forced Deferral: Manipulating Routing Decisions in Multimodal LLM Cascades
4308. NeurIPS 2026ForceFlow: Learning to Feel and Act via Contact-Driven Flow Matching
4309. NeurIPS 2026ForesightFlow: Self-Guided Flow Matching for Improving Vision-Language-Action Models
4310. NeurIPS 2026Forgery Evidence Peaks Mid-Stack: Forensic Evidence Relay for Multimodal Forgery Detection
4311. NeurIPS 2026Found in Conversation: LLMs Teach Themselves to Close the Multi-Turn Gap
4312. NeurIPS 2026FoundSurface: Feedforward Ray-Based 3D Scene Surface Reconstruction from Unposed Images
4313. NeurIPS 2026Fourier Contour Learning for Efficient and Traceable Cardiac MRI Quantification
4314. NeurIPS 2026Fractal-G: Topology-Aware Heterogeneous Graphs for Medical Image Segmentation
4315. NeurIPS 2026FrameRouter: Frame Budget Routing for Long-Video Understanding on Video-MME-v2 and Beyond
4316. NeurIPS 2026FrameSelect: A Unified Library for Video Frame Selection and Evaluation
4317. NeurIPS 2026FreeAct: Demonstration-Free Robot Adaptation via Action-Grounded Generated Videos
4318. NeurIPS 2026Freeing the Law with LOCUS: A Local Ordinance Corpus for the United States
4319. NeurIPS 2026Frequency‑Aware Flow Matching for Continuous and Consistent Robotic Action Generation
4320. NeurIPS 2026From Denoising to Refining: A Corrective Framework for Vision-Language Diffusion Model
4321. NeurIPS 2026From Detection to Understanding — A Multi-Task Dataset for Traffic Anomaly Reasoning
4322. NeurIPS 2026From Facts to Personas: Interpretable Role Unlearning in LLMs via Mixture-of-Experts
4323. NeurIPS 2026From Failure Taxonomy to Intervention: A Diagnostic Methodology for Industry-Scale AVLM in Video and Live-Streaming Platform Moderation
4324. NeurIPS 2026From Finding to Linking: Benchmarking and Advancing Cross-Long-Video Reasoning for Multimodal LLMs
4325. NeurIPS 2026From Heartbeat to Cardiochoreography: A Mechanics Foundation Model for Individualized 4D Cardiac Motion Generation Conditioned on Electrophysiology
4326. NeurIPS 2026From Label Priors to Task Evidence: Long-Video Frame Selection via Bayesian GRPO
4327. NeurIPS 2026From Matrix Inversion to Constraints: Provably Tighter Confidence Regions for Importance Weights in Label Shift
4328. NeurIPS 2026From Outcome to Representation: Tracing Reasoning Mechanisms through Integrated Policy Gradient
4329. NeurIPS 2026From Perception to Punchline: Empowering VLM with the Art of In-the-wild Memes
4330. NeurIPS 2026From Seeing to Foreseeing: Unleashing LVLM Thinking in Dynamic Latent Space
4331. NeurIPS 2026From Senses to Decisions: The Information Flow of Auditory and Visual Perception in Multimodal LLMs
4332. NeurIPS 2026From Squeezing to Grounding: Visual Guided DPO for Multimodal Hallucination Mitigation
4333. NeurIPS 2026From Views to Worlds: Active Exploration over 3D Worlds for Vision-Language Models
4334. NeurIPS 2026From Weeks to Hours: Fast and Principled SFT Curation for LLM
4335. NeurIPS 2026FrontierOR: Benchmarking LLMs' Capacity for Efficient Algorithm Design in Large-Scale Optimization
4336. NeurIPS 2026FuRA: Full-Rank Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning with Spectral Preconditioning
4337. NeurIPS 2026Fusion or Confusion? Multimodal Complexity Is Not All You Need
4338. NeurIPS 2026FusionAudit: Pathway-Conditioned Robustness Auditing for Native Multimodal Models
4339. NeurIPS 2026FUTON: Fourier Tensor Network for Implicit Neural Representations
4340. NeurIPS 2026G$^2$TR: Generation-Guided Visual Token Reduction for Separate-Encoder Unified Multimodal Models
4341. NeurIPS 2026GEAR-Align: Grounding-Evidence-Aware Gradient Routing for Multimodal Alignment
4342. NeurIPS 2026GEAR: A GPU-Accelerated Global Solver for Nonlinear Programs via Linear Bound Propagation
4343. NeurIPS 2026GeLVR: Geometry-Consistent Latent Visual Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs
4344. NeurIPS 2026Generalized Influence Functions for Better Model Change Estimates
4345. NeurIPS 2026Generating the Wild: Individual-Consistent Image-to-Video Generation for Wildlife
4346. NeurIPS 2026Generation-for-Understanding with Structured Action Scripts for Embodied Multimodal Learning
4347. NeurIPS 2026Generative Control as Optimization: Time Unconditional Flow Matching for Adaptive and Robust Robotic Control
4348. NeurIPS 2026Generative Scenario Rollouts for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
4349. NeurIPS 2026GenRecon: Bridging Generative Priors for Multi-View 3D Scene Reconstruction
4350. NeurIPS 2026GenScale: A Benchmark for Relative Object Scale in Image Generation and Editing

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.