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

1,366 papers, page 9 of 28

401. NeurIPS 2026Efficient, Accurate and Stable Gradients for Neural ODEs
402. NeurIPS 2026EgoBabyVLM: Benchmarking cross-modal learning from naturalistic egocentric video data
403. NeurIPS 2026EgoStream: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Streaming Episodic Memory in Egocentric Vision
404. NeurIPS 2026EgoTac: In-the-wild Tactile Prediction from Egocentric Vision
405. NeurIPS 2026Elastic Representations via Hyperbolic Geometry
406. NeurIPS 2026ElegantVLA: Learning When to Think for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models
407. NeurIPS 2026Elephant in the Fridge: Constant-Memory Frame Packing for Long Video Understanding
408. NeurIPS 2026ELPAC: Endpoint-Anchored Latent Progression with Stage-Varying Multimodal Coordination
409. NeurIPS 2026EM-NeSy: Expectation Maximization for Neurosymbolic Learning
410. NeurIPS 2026Embedding Foundation Model Predictions in Discrete-Choice Models with Structural Guarantees
411. NeurIPS 2026Emergent Biological Capabilities in a Foundation Model for Molecular Interactions
412. NeurIPS 2026Empirical regularities in subjective decision-making by LLMs
413. NeurIPS 2026Empowering Time Series Analysis with Large-Scale Multimodal Pretraining
414. NeurIPS 2026Enabling VLA Action Self-Verification via VLM Token Probability Bucketing
415. NeurIPS 2026EndoSCOP-V: A Multi-Turn Video Understanding Evaluation Framework for Multimodal Models in Endoscopy Reporting and Clinical Reasoning
416. NeurIPS 2026Enhancing Gaze Reasoning in Vision Foundation Models for Gaze Following
417. NeurIPS 2026Enhancing LLMs with Cognitive-Affective Personality Inference for Simulating Human Social-Psychological Behavior
418. NeurIPS 2026EnvTrap: Revealing the Environment-Only Attack Surface in Embodied AI via Consequence-Blind Action Execution
419. NeurIPS 2026EpiStream: Utility-Aware Temporal Abstraction for Dense-Action Streams
420. NeurIPS 2026Escaping Reasoning Basins: Basin-Aware Search for Inference-Time LLM Reasoning
421. NeurIPS 2026Estimating and Orthogonalizing Unknown Pre-training Gradients for Continual Fine-tuning of Large Language Models
422. NeurIPS 2026Euler-Mamba: Learning Resolution-Invariant State Evolution on Polar Manifolds for Asymmetric Pansharpening
423. NeurIPS 2026EVA-Cap: Optimizing Audiovisual Video Captioning via Event-Centric Alignment
424. NeurIPS 2026EVA: Evidence-seeking Visual Agent for Hallucination-Resistant Multimodal Reasoning
425. NeurIPS 2026Evaluating Multimodal Narrative Understanding of Popular Hollywood Films
426. NeurIPS 2026Evaluating Neural Data Tokenizers: A Framework for Assessing Learned Representations of Spiking Activity
427. NeurIPS 2026Evaluating Spatiotemporal Reasoning of Vision-Language Models in Atari Gameplay
428. NeurIPS 2026Even Sailors Need Calm Seas: Taming the Geometry of VLMs for Fast Adversarial Fine-Tuning
429. NeurIPS 2026Event-Grounded Sparse Autoencoders for Vision-Language-Action Policies
430. NeurIPS 2026EventPrune: Cascaded Event-Assisted Token Pruning for Efficient First-Person Dynamic Spatial Reasoning
431. NeurIPS 2026Everything at Every Scale: Scale-Invariant Diffusion with Continuous Super-Resolution
432. NeurIPS 2026EviSAM3: Evidence-Driven SAM3 for Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation
433. NeurIPS 2026Evo-Depth: A Lightweight Depth-Enhanced Vision-Language-Action Model
434. NeurIPS 2026EvoDiagram: Agentic Editable Diagram Creation via Design Expertise Evolution
435. NeurIPS 2026EvoGround: Self-Evolving Video Agents for Video Temporal Grounding
436. NeurIPS 2026Example-Based Spatial Guidance for Training-Free Concept Erasure in Diffusion Models
437. NeurIPS 2026Expected Harm: Rethinking Safety Evaluation of (Mis)Aligned LLMs
438. NeurIPS 2026Explicit Geometric Chain-of-Thought for Vision-Language-Action in Autonomous Driving
439. NeurIPS 2026Exploiting Textual Semantics for Robust Cross-View Object Correspondence
440. NeurIPS 2026Exploring the Epipolar Consistency for Light Field Deraining
441. NeurIPS 2026Exploring the Limits of Compositional Generalization in Vision-Language-Action Manipulation
442. NeurIPS 2026Exposing Private Corpus Leakage in Multimodal RAG
443. NeurIPS 2026Extending Pretrained 10-Second ECG Foundation Models to Longer Horizons
444. NeurIPS 2026Extraneous Cognitive Load in Large Language Models
445. NeurIPS 2026Eyes on VLM: Benchmarking Gaze Following and Social Gaze Prediction in Vision Language Models
446. NeurIPS 2026FACETS: Cross-Granularity Vision--Language Modeling for 3D Anomaly Detection
447. NeurIPS 2026Failing to Falsify: Evaluating and Mitigating Confirmation Bias in Language Models
448. NeurIPS 2026Failure Profiling and Reachable Trajectory Selection for Reasoning Distillation
449. NeurIPS 2026FairTune Market: A Fair and Trustworthy Marketplace for Fine-Tuned LLMs via Posted-Price & Proper-Scoring Mechanisms
450. NeurIPS 2026Faithful Embeddings of Irregular and Asynchronous Data for Online Log-NCDEs

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.