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 88 of 104

4351. NeurIPS 2026GeoDial: A Multimodal Dialog Tutoring Dataset for Geometry Problem-Solving with Visual Tutor Turns
4352. NeurIPS 2026GeoMamba: Geometry-Aware State Space Modeling for Image Restoration
4353. NeurIPS 2026Geometric Latent Reasoning Induces Shorter Generations in LLMs
4354. NeurIPS 2026Geometry is an Operator: Lie-Algebraic Space Routing for View-Robust 3D MLLMs
4355. NeurIPS 2026Geometry-Aware Zeroth-Order Optimization for Fine-Tuning Quantized LLMs
4356. NeurIPS 2026Geometry-Calibrated Conformal Abstention for Language Models
4357. NeurIPS 2026GeoRouter: Dynamic Paradigm Routing for Worldwide Image Geolocalization
4358. NeurIPS 2026GeoSym127K: Scalable Symbolically-verifiable Synthesis for Multimodal Geometric Reasoning
4359. NeurIPS 2026Ghosted Layers: Unconstrained Activation Alignment for Recovering Layer-Pruned LLMs
4360. NeurIPS 2026GIVLA: Deep Geometry Internalization for A Lightweight VLA via Geometry Instruction and Gradient-Informed Training
4361. NeurIPS 2026Glance Before You Tell: Anomaly-Guided 3D Radiology Report Generation with Heat-Conduction Slice Encoders
4362. NeurIPS 2026GLINT: Sparsely Gated Vision-Language Alignment for Fine-Grained Radiology Representations
4363. NeurIPS 2026GlucoFM: A Dual-Stream Foundation Model for Continuous Glucose Monitoring
4364. NeurIPS 2026Going Down Memory Lane: Scaling Tokens for Video Stream Understanding with Dynamic KV-Cache Memory
4365. NeurIPS 2026GOLD PANNING: Strategic Context Shuffling for Needle-in-Haystack Reasoning
4366. NeurIPS 2026GPT-Image-Edit-1M: An Auditable Million-Scale Dataset for Instruction-Guided Image Editing
4367. NeurIPS 2026Greedy Alignment Principle for Optimizer Selection
4368. NeurIPS 2026GReFEM: Multimodal LLMs as Zero-Shot Semantic Assistants for Physics-Guided 3D Mesh Refinement
4369. NeurIPS 2026GridProbe: Posterior-Probing for Adaptive Test-Time Compute in Long-Video VLMs
4370. NeurIPS 2026Grounding 3D Affordance from Human-Object-Interaction Videos via Multimodal Large Language Model
4371. NeurIPS 2026Grounding Multimodal Reasoning with Evidence-Ablated Negatives
4372. NeurIPS 2026GSQ: Highly-Accurate Low-Precision Scalar Quantization for LLMs via Gumbel-Softmax Sampling
4373. NeurIPS 2026GT-Free OCR Metrics: A Reference-Free Evaluation Framework for Document OCR Systems
4374. NeurIPS 2026Guiding Data Allocation for Robust Subpopulation Generalization
4375. NeurIPS 2026H2G: Hierarchy-Aware Hyperbolic Grouping for 3D Scenes
4376. NeurIPS 2026Hallucination as Commitment Failure: Larger LLMs Misfire Despite Knowing the Answer
4377. NeurIPS 2026HalluciText: Mitigating Text Hallucinations in Diffusion-Based Image Restoration
4378. NeurIPS 2026HandEdit: A Unified Benchmark for Egocentric Human-to-Robot Dexterous Hand Image Editing
4379. NeurIPS 2026HandXFM: Semantic-Structural Distillation for Hand Radiograph Foundation Models
4380. NeurIPS 2026HAPACT: A Benchmark For Human-Centric Physical Impact Localization in Movies
4381. NeurIPS 2026Harder the Task, Sparser the Representation: Sparsity as a Learning Signature of Capability in LLMs
4382. NeurIPS 2026Harmonic Torsional Diffusion for Flexible Protein-Ligand Docking
4383. NeurIPS 2026Harnessing Image Diffusion Prior for Photo-Realistic Video Restoration
4384. NeurIPS 2026Harnessing Textual Refusal Directions for Multimodal Safety
4385. NeurIPS 2026Hear, Localize, and Reason: Spatially Aware Scene Understanding for Audio-visual LLMs
4386. NeurIPS 2026HearSayBench: Can LLMs Navigate from Abstract Human Rights to Lived Lives?
4387. NeurIPS 2026HEED: Density-Weighted Residual Alignment for Hybrid Vision-Language Model Distillation
4388. NeurIPS 2026HelpBench: Assessing the Ability of LLMs to Provide Privacy, Safety, and Security Advice
4389. NeurIPS 2026HESTIA: A Hessian-Guided Differentiable Quantization-Aware Training Framework for Extremely Low-Bit LLMs
4390. NeurIPS 2026Heterogeneous Parallelism for Multimodal Large Language Model Training
4391. NeurIPS 2026Hidden Forgetting in Continual Multimodal Learning: When Accuracy Survives but Grounding Fails
4392. NeurIPS 2026Hide to See: Reasoning-prefix Masking for Visual-anchored Thinking in VLM Distillation
4393. NeurIPS 2026Hide-and-Seek in Trajectories: Discovering Failure Signals for VLA Runtime Monitoring
4394. NeurIPS 2026Hider–Seeker Self-Play: Geometry-Verifiable Process Rewards for Long-Horizon Visual Search
4395. NeurIPS 2026Hierarchical Adaptive Frame Sampling For Video Understanding
4396. NeurIPS 2026Hierarchical Cross-Class Part Alignment for Prototypical Part Networks via Hyperbolic Entailment
4397. NeurIPS 2026Hierarchical Semantic Tree Anchoring for CLIP-Based Class-Incremental Learning
4398. NeurIPS 2026HIFC-IQA: Train-Free Cross-Domain Image Quality Assessment via Dual-Process Cognition
4399. NeurIPS 2026HiFloat4 Format for Language Model Pre-training on Ascend NPUs
4400. NeurIPS 2026HiLoc: A Hierarchical Representation Method for Spatial Localization in Multimodal Large Language Models

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.