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

446 papers, page 9 of 9

401. NeurIPS 2024Video Token Merging for Long Video Understanding
402. NeurIPS 2024VideoGUI: A Benchmark for GUI Automation from Instructional Videos
403. NeurIPS 2024VideoLLM-MoD: Efficient Video-Language Streaming with Mixture-of-Depths Vision Computation
404. NeurIPS 2024ViLCo-Bench: VIdeo Language COntinual learning Benchmark
405. NeurIPS 2024Vision Transformer Neural Architecture Search for Out-of-Distribution Generalization: Benchmark and Insights
406. NeurIPS 2024Vision-Language Models are Strong Noisy Label Detectors
407. NeurIPS 2024Vision-Language Navigation with Energy-Based Policy
408. NeurIPS 2024VisionLLM v2: An End-to-End Generalist Multimodal Large Language Model for Hundreds of Vision-Language Tasks
409. NeurIPS 2024VisMin: Visual Minimal-Change Understanding
410. NeurIPS 2024Visual Anchors Are Strong Information Aggregators For Multimodal Large Language Model
411. NeurIPS 2024Visual Perception by Large Language Model’s Weights
412. NeurIPS 2024Visual Riddles: a Commonsense and World Knowledge Challenge for Large Vision and Language Models
413. NeurIPS 2024Visual Sketchpad: Sketching as a Visual Chain of Thought for Multimodal Language Models
414. NeurIPS 2024Vitron: A Unified Pixel-level Vision LLM for Understanding, Generating, Segmenting, Editing
415. NeurIPS 2024VLG-CBM: Training Concept Bottleneck Models with Vision-Language Guidance
416. NeurIPS 2024VLKEB: A Large Vision-Language Model Knowledge Editing Benchmark
417. NeurIPS 2024VLM Agents Generate Their Own Memories: Distilling Experience into Embodied Programs of Thought
418. NeurIPS 2024VLM4Bio: A Benchmark Dataset to Evaluate Pretrained Vision-Language Models for Trait Discovery from Biological Images
419. NeurIPS 2024VLMimic: Vision Language Models are Visual Imitation Learner for Fine-grained Actions
420. NeurIPS 2024Voila-A: Aligning Vision-Language Models with User's Gaze Attention
421. NeurIPS 2024Vript: A Video Is Worth Thousands of Words
422. NeurIPS 2024VRSBench: A Versatile Vision-Language Benchmark Dataset for Remote Sensing Image Understanding
423. NeurIPS 2024WATT: Weight Average Test Time Adaptation of CLIP
424. NeurIPS 2024Weak-eval-Strong: Evaluating and Eliciting Lateral Thinking of LLMs with Situation Puzzles
425. NeurIPS 2024Web-Scale Visual Entity Recognition: An LLM-Driven Data Approach
426. NeurIPS 2024Web2Code: A Large-scale Webpage-to-Code Dataset and Evaluation Framework for Multimodal LLMs
427. NeurIPS 2024WebUOT-1M: Advancing Deep Underwater Object Tracking with A Million-Scale Benchmark
428. NeurIPS 2024WenMind: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Chinese Classical Literature and Language Arts
429. NeurIPS 2024What Makes CLIP More Robust to Long-Tailed Pre-Training Data? A Controlled Study for Transferable Insights
430. NeurIPS 2024What matters when building vision-language models?
431. NeurIPS 2024What to Say and When to Say it: Live Fitness Coaching as a Testbed for Situated Interaction
432. NeurIPS 2024When LLMs Meet Cunning Texts: A Fallacy Understanding Benchmark for Large Language Models
433. NeurIPS 2024Who Evaluates the Evaluations? Objectively Scoring Text-to-Image Prompt Coherence Metrics with T2IScoreScore (TS2)
434. NeurIPS 2024WhodunitBench: Evaluating Large Multimodal Agents via Murder Mystery Games
435. NeurIPS 2024Why are Visually-Grounded Language Models Bad at Image Classification?
436. NeurIPS 2024WikiDO: A New Benchmark Evaluating Cross-Modal Retrieval for Vision-Language Models
437. NeurIPS 2024WikiDO: Evaluating Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Vision-Language Models in Cross-Modal Retrieval
438. NeurIPS 2024WildGuard: Open One-stop Moderation Tools for Safety Risks, Jailbreaks, and Refusals of LLMs
439. NeurIPS 2024WildPPG: A Real-World PPG Dataset of Long Continuous Recordings
440. NeurIPS 2024WildVision: Evaluating Vision-Language Models in the Wild with Human Preferences
441. NeurIPS 2024Wings: Learning Multimodal LLMs without Text-only Forgetting
442. NeurIPS 2024WONDERBREAD: A Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal Foundation Models on Business Process Management Tasks
443. NeurIPS 2024WorkArena++: Towards Compositional Planning and Reasoning-based Common Knowledge Work Tasks
444. NeurIPS 2024XMask3D: Cross-modal Mask Reasoning for Open Vocabulary 3D Semantic Segmentation
445. NeurIPS 2024Yo'LLaVA: Your Personalized Language and Vision Assistant
446. NeurIPS 2024Zero-shot Generalizable Incremental Learning for Vision-Language Object Detection

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.