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 91 of 104

4501. NeurIPS 2026Less Language, More Latents: Annotation-Efficient VLAs for Driving
4502. NeurIPS 2026LESSViT: Robust Hyperspectral Representation Learning under Spectral Configuration Shift
4503. NeurIPS 2026Leveraging Latent Visual Reasoning in Silence
4504. NeurIPS 2026Leveraging unlabelled data for generalizable neural population decoding
4505. NeurIPS 2026Liars' Bench: Evaluating Lie Detectors for Language Models
4506. NeurIPS 2026LifeStream: Token Life-Cycle Modeling for Training-Free Online Video Understanding
4507. NeurIPS 2026LiFT: Lifted Inter-slice Feature Trajectories for 3D Image Generation from 2D Generators
4508. NeurIPS 2026LiFT: Likelihood-Free Tree-Structured Policy Optimization for Flow-Based VLAs
4509. NeurIPS 2026Linguistic Trajectory Encoding for Efficient Long-Horizon Spatial Memory in Embodied Agents
4510. NeurIPS 2026Listening to the Retriever: Perturbation-Sensitive Question Selection for Interactive Person Retrieval
4511. NeurIPS 2026LithoBench: Benchmarking Large Multimodal Models for Remote-Sensing Lithology Interpretation
4512. NeurIPS 2026LLM-AutoSciLab: Closed-Loop Scientific Law Discovery via Active Experimentation with LLMs
4513. NeurIPS 2026LLMs Keep Thinking When Told Not To
4514. NeurIPS 2026LLMs Optimizing LLMs: Automated MegaKernel Generation for Inference Acceleration
4515. NeurIPS 2026Locating and Repairing Domain Shift in VLM Trajectory Planning
4516. NeurIPS 2026Log-Averaged Mirror Prox for Fast, Large-Scale Optimal Transport in Linear Space
4517. NeurIPS 2026LogT: Logically Think with Images for Visual Search
4518. NeurIPS 2026LoMo: Local Modality Substitution for Deeper Vision-Language Fusion
4519. NeurIPS 2026Long-term Embodied Visual Tracking with Lightweight Vision-Language-Action Models
4520. NeurIPS 2026LongSCOP: Semantically Consistent Long Video Outpainting
4521. NeurIPS 2026Look Before You Leap: Self-Evolving Clinical Reasoning with Psychometric Preference Optimization for Radiology Report Generation
4522. NeurIPS 2026Look Before You Reason: Implicit Visual Thinking for Efficient Multimodal Reasoning
4523. NeurIPS 2026Lookalike3D: Seeing Double in 3D
4524. NeurIPS 2026LookWhen? Fast Video Recognition by Learning When, Where, and What to Compute
4525. NeurIPS 2026LoopPrune: Evolutionary Module Selection with Iterative Execution for Efficient Large Language Model Compression
4526. NeurIPS 2026Lost on Campus: Evaluating Embodied Spatial Reasoning of Vision-Language Models in the Wild
4527. NeurIPS 2026LPG: Balancing Efficiency and Policy Reasoning in Latent Policy Guardrails
4528. NeurIPS 2026LSVD: Loss-Aware Low-Rank Approximation for Efficient Low-Precision Vision-Language Models
4529. NeurIPS 2026M-plicits: Neural Implicit Surfaces via Nested Multiscale Residuals
4530. NeurIPS 2026M*: A Modular, Extensible, Serving System for Multimodal Models
4531. NeurIPS 2026M3-HNTM: Hyperspherical Multimodal Topic Modeling with Symbolic and Contextual Evidence
4532. NeurIPS 2026Machine Unlearning in Diffusion LLMs
4533. NeurIPS 2026Magnifying What Matters: Attention-Guided Adaptive Rendering for Visual Text Comprehension
4534. NeurIPS 2026MammoGPS: A Benchmark for Visual Grounding, Perception, and Spatial Reasoning in Mammography
4535. NeurIPS 2026Manifold Embedding of Deep Image Features for Image Matching via Neural Adjoint Maps
4536. NeurIPS 2026Manifold Prior Guided Deep Unfolding for Hyperspectral Image Reconstruction
4537. NeurIPS 2026MARBLE: an Agent Benchmark for Spatial Reasoning and Visual Abstraction
4538. NeurIPS 2026MARS: Harmonizing Multimodal Convergence via Adaptive Rank Search
4539. NeurIPS 2026Masked Diffusion Vision-Language Models for Temporal Action Localization
4540. NeurIPS 2026MatCurvs: Article Real-Coordinate Curve Extraction for Agent-Ready Materials Reasoning
4541. NeurIPS 2026MaxSketch: Robust Distinct Counting in Streams via Random Projections
4542. NeurIPS 2026MCM-DM: Towards Better Spatio-Temporal Event Representation Learning via Discrete Morse Theory
4543. NeurIPS 2026MDMR-Bench: A Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Multi-Reference Image Generation
4544. NeurIPS 2026Mean-Field Parallel Decoding for Discrete Diffusion Language Models
4545. NeurIPS 2026Measuring Layer-wise Intrinsic Dimensionality of FFNs in LLMs via PCA
4546. NeurIPS 2026MedFlowBench: Auditing Medical Agents in Full-Study Workflows
4547. NeurIPS 2026Medical LLMs as Medical World Models: Unified Policy-Dynamics Learning with Test-Time Search
4548. NeurIPS 2026MedVIGOR: Visual Evidence Internalization for Observation-Driven Reasoning in Medical VLMs
4549. NeurIPS 2026MedZERO: Self-Evolving Agents for Open-Ended Medical Reasoning Through Controlled Knowledge Accumulation
4550. NeurIPS 2026MegaStyle: Constructing Diverse and Scalable Style Dataset via Consistent Text-to-Image Style Mapping

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.