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 92 of 104

4551. NeurIPS 2026MEME: Lightweight Hierarchical Mixture-of-Experts for Unified Affective Computing
4552. NeurIPS 2026MEMEVO: A Memory-Evolved Video Agent for Long Video Understanding
4553. NeurIPS 2026Memory Inception: Latent-Space KV Cache Manipulation for Steering LLMs
4554. NeurIPS 2026Memory-Driven Contrastive Embedding Enhancement for Fine-Grained Open-Set Semi-Supervised Learning
4555. NeurIPS 2026MemoryFusion: Cross-Temporal Memory Learning for Multimodal Video Fusion
4556. NeurIPS 2026MemPilot: Learning Transferable Latent Memory Mechanisms for LLM Reasoning
4557. NeurIPS 2026MENDR: Manifold-Embedded Neural Data Representations for Channel-Agnostic EEG Foundation Modeling
4558. NeurIPS 2026Mental Imagery That Matters: Curing Latent Collapse in Multimodal Reasoning
4559. NeurIPS 2026Meta Inverse Prompting for Video Generative Models
4560. NeurIPS 2026MetaLoop: Benchmarking the Full Metacognitive Loop in LLMs
4561. NeurIPS 2026MICE: Multi-animal Interaction Context Encoder — A Hierarchical Foundation Model for Mouse Behavior
4562. NeurIPS 2026MicroWorld: Empowering Multimodal Large Language Models to Bridge the Microscopic Domain Gap with Multimodal Attribute Graph
4563. NeurIPS 2026MID: Mask-Image Distributional Divergence for Evaluating Medical Image Segmentation
4564. NeurIPS 2026MILES: Modular Instruction Memory with Learnable Selection for Self-Improving LLM Reasoning
4565. NeurIPS 2026Mimicking the Physicist's Eye: A VLM-centric Approach for Physics Formula Discovery
4566. NeurIPS 2026Mind the Gap: Dataset and Fine-grained Evaluation for Inline Audio Descriptions
4567. NeurIPS 2026Mind the Heads: Topological Representation Alignment for Multimodal LLMs
4568. NeurIPS 2026MindAlign: Bridging EEG, Vision, and Language for Zero-Shot Visual Decoding
4569. NeurIPS 2026MindGames:A Multi-Agent Benchmark and Trajectory Dataset for Evaluating Social and Strategic Reasoning in LLMs
4570. NeurIPS 2026MindLoom: Composing Thought Modes for Frontier-Level Reasoning Data Synthesis
4571. NeurIPS 2026Mini Amusement Parks (MAPs): A Testbed for Modelling Business Decisions
4572. NeurIPS 2026MIRA: Reinforcing Multimodal Reasoning via Deceptive Contextual Augmentation
4573. NeurIPS 2026MIRAGE: Adaptive Multimodal Gating for Whole-Brain fMRI Encoding
4574. NeurIPS 2026MIRAGE: Duality-Inspired MILP Augmentation for Representation Learning
4575. NeurIPS 2026Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Can VLM Agents Tell Who They Are at All?
4576. NeurIPS 2026MIRROR: Manifold Ideal Reference ReconstructOR for AI-Generated Image Detection
4577. NeurIPS 2026Mission Impossible: Diagnosing and Fixing Non-Operative Instruction Following in Image Editing
4578. NeurIPS 2026Mitigating Asymmetric Boundary Encroachment in Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models
4579. NeurIPS 2026MITO: A Millimeter-Wave Dataset and Simulator for Non-Line-of-Sight Perception
4580. NeurIPS 2026MixForensics: Blend Before You Encode for Generalizable AI-Generated Video Detection
4581. NeurIPS 2026MixRoute: Rethinking Single-Distribution Training for Generalizable Neural Routing
4582. NeurIPS 2026Mixture of Layers: Dynamic Layer Routing for Visual Reasoning
4583. NeurIPS 2026Mixture of Probes: Learning with Privileged Modalities in Multimodal LLMs Through Probing
4584. NeurIPS 2026Mixture-of-Hierarchical Experts: Optimized Mamba Architecture for Vision Diffusion
4585. NeurIPS 2026ML-assisted Randomization Tests for A/B Experiments
4586. NeurIPS 2026MLLMEraser: Achieving Test-Time Unlearning in Multimodal Large Language Models through Activation Steering
4587. NeurIPS 2026MM-DyGraph: A Dataset, Benchmark, and Model for Multimodal Dynamic Graphs
4588. NeurIPS 2026MM-OptBench: A Solver-Grounded Benchmark for Multimodal Optimization Modeling
4589. NeurIPS 2026MM-SCALE: Evaluating Evidence-Grounded Moral Judgment in Vision-Language Models
4590. NeurIPS 2026MMA-SafetyBench: A Benchmark for Multimodal Agent Safety Evaluation
4591. NeurIPS 2026MMFineReason: Closing the Multimodal Reasoning Gap via Open Data-Centric Methods
4592. NeurIPS 2026mmLIP: mmWave Radar-Language Interactive Pretraining via Point Confidence
4593. NeurIPS 2026MMTA: Benchmarking Multimodal Temporal Analysis with Time Series, Text, and Vision
4594. NeurIPS 2026Modality-Aware Expert Pruning for MoE-Based Multimodal Large Language Models
4595. NeurIPS 2026Model Distribution-Aware Multimodal Dataset Distillation
4596. NeurIPS 2026ModelLens: Finding the Best for Your Task from Myriads of Models
4597. NeurIPS 2026MoEZip: Routing-Aware KV Cache Compression for Sparse Mixture-of-Experts LLMs
4598. NeurIPS 2026MONET: A Massive, Open, Non-redundant and Enriched Text-to-image dataset
4599. NeurIPS 2026More Than Meets the Eye? Uncovering the Reasoning-Planning Disconnect in Training Vision-Language Driving Models
4600. NeurIPS 2026MoRe-DVC: Motion Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Detailed Video Captioning

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.