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

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401. CVPR 2026FAPE-IR Frequency-Aware Planning and Execution Framework for All-in-One Image Restoration
402. CVPR 2026Fast Markov Random Field Optimisation for Topologically Noisy 3D Shape
403. CVPR 2026Fast Reasoning Segmentation for Images and Videos
404. CVPR 2026Fast-ThinkAct Efficient Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Verbalizable Latent Planning
405. CVPR 2026FAVE A Structured Benchmark for Fine-Grained Audio-Visual Temporal Evaluation in
406. CVPR 2026FB-CLIP Fine-Grained Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection with Foreground-Background Disentanglement
407. CVPR 2026FEAST Fully Connected Expressive Attention for Spatial Transcriptomics
408. CVPR 2026Featurising Pixels from Dynamic 3D Scenes with Linear In-Context Learners
409. CVPR 2026FedAFD Multimodal Federated Learning via Adversarial Fusion and Distillation
410. CVPR 2026FedMPT Federated Multi-Label Prompt Tuning of Vision-Language Models
411. CVPR 2026Few-Shot Incremental 3D Object Detection in Dynamic Indoor Environments
412. CVPR 2026FFP-300K Scaling First-Frame Propagation for Generalizable Video Editing
413. CVPR 2026Fighting Hallucinations with Counterfactuals Diffusion-Guided Perturbations for LVLM Hallucination Suppression
414. CVPR 2026Fine-grained Image Aesthetic Assessment Learning Discriminative Scores from Relative Ranks
415. CVPR 2026Fine-Grained Multi Image Object Hallucination Benchmark
416. CVPR 2026Fine-Grained Post-Training Quantization for Large Vision Language Models with Quantization-Aware
417. CVPR 2026FireScope Wildfire Risk Raster Prediction With a Chain-of-Thought Oracle
418. CVPR 2026First Frame Is the Place to Go for Video Content
419. CVPR 2026First Logit Boosting Visual Grounding Method to Mitigate Object Hallucination
420. CVPR 2026FLARE A Failure-Aware Framework for Autonomous Correction and Recovery in
421. CVPR 2026Flat-Pack Bench Evaluating Spatio-Temporal Understanding in Large Vision-Language Models through
422. CVPR 2026FlexTraj Image-to-Video Generation with Flexible Point Trajectory Control
423. CVPR 2026FlowComposer Composable Flows for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
424. CVPR 2026FlowHijack A Dynamics-Aware Backdoor Attack on Flow-Matching Vision-Language-Action Models
425. CVPR 2026FlowMotion Training-Free Flow Guidance for Video Motion Transfer
426. CVPR 2026FlowPortal Residual-Corrected Flow for Training-Free Video Relighting and Background Replacement
427. CVPR 2026FluoCLIP Stain-Aware Focus Quality Assessment in Fluorescence Microscopy
428. CVPR 2026FluxMem Adaptive Hierarchical Memory for Streaming Video Understanding
429. CVPR 2026FM-Steer Enhance Generalist Policies with Value-Guided Cascaded Denoising
430. CVPR 2026fMRI-LM Towards a Universal Foundation Model for Language-Aligned fMRI Understanding
431. CVPR 2026Focus Dont Prune Identifying Instruction-Relevant Regions for Information-Rich Image Understanding
432. CVPR 2026Focus-to-Perceive Representation Learning A Cognition-Inspired Hierarchical Framework for Endoscopic Video
433. CVPR 2026FocusUI Efficient UI Grounding via Position-Preserving Visual Token Selection
434. CVPR 2026ForceVLA2 Unleashing Hybrid Force-Position Control with Force Awareness for Contact-Rich
435. CVPR 2026ForeAct Steering Your VLA with Efficient Visual Foresight Planning
436. CVPR 2026Forging a Dynamic Memory Retrieval-Guided Continual Learning for Generalist Medical
437. CVPR 2026FoSS Modeling Long-Range Dependencies and Multimodal Uncertainty in Trajectory Prediction
438. CVPR 2026Foundation Encoders Are All You Need for Preference-Aware Personalization
439. CVPR 2026Foundation Model Priors Enhance Object Focus in Feature Space for
440. CVPR 2026FoundIR-v2 Optimizing Pre-Training Data Mixtures for Image Restoration Foundation Model
441. CVPR 2026Foundry Distilling 3D Foundation Models for the Edge
442. CVPR 2026FPS-Bench A Benchmark for High Frame-Rate Video Understanding
443. CVPR 2026Frame2Freq Spectral Adapters for Fine-Grained Video Understanding
444. CVPR 2026Franca Nested Matryoshka Clustering for Scalable Visual Representation Learning
445. CVPR 2026Free-Grained Hierarchical Visual Recognition
446. CVPR 2026FreqEdit Preserving High-Frequency Features for Robust Multi-Turn Image Editing
447. CVPR 2026From 3D Pose to Prose Biomechanics-Grounded Vision-Language Coaching
448. CVPR 2026From Attraction to Equilibrium Physics-Inspired Semantic Gravitons for Zero-Shot Anomaly
449. CVPR 2026From Corners to Fiducial Tags Revisiting Checkerboard Calibration for Event
450. CVPR 2026From Failure to Feedback Group Revision Unlocks Hard Cases in

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.