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 93 of 104

4601. NeurIPS 2026MorphoHELM: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Representations for Microscopy-Based Morphology Assays
4602. NeurIPS 2026MOSAIC: Concept Bottlenecks via Text-Anchored Optimal Transport
4603. NeurIPS 2026Motion Cues from Image-based Point Tracking for LiDAR Scene Flow Estimation
4604. NeurIPS 2026MotionCFG: Boosting Motion Dynamics via Semantic Motion Sharpening
4605. NeurIPS 2026MotionHalluc: Diagnosing Kinematic Hallucinations in Fine-Grained Motion Reasoning
4606. NeurIPS 2026MSAlign: Aligning Molecular and Mass Spectra Foundation Models for Metabolite Identification
4607. NeurIPS 2026MulTaBench: Benchmarking Multimodal Tabular Learning with Text and Image
4608. NeurIPS 2026Multidimensional Observer Model and Perceptual Dimensions of Human Image Quality Assessment
4609. NeurIPS 2026Multimodal Context-Aware Human Motion Generation with Language, Vision, and Object
4610. NeurIPS 2026Multimodal Foundation Agents Should Use Brain Data as Privileged Supervision
4611. NeurIPS 2026Multimodal LLMs Outperform Pathology Foundation Models in Cross-Domain Histological Similarity
4612. NeurIPS 2026MultiSTEVE-1s: A Model Zoo and Interpretability Suite for Instruction-Following Vision Agents
4613. NeurIPS 2026MUNI: Multimodal Unified Latent Diffusion for Coherent Any-to-Any Generation
4614. NeurIPS 2026Muon Does Not Converge on Convex Lipschitz Functions
4615. NeurIPS 2026MUST: Stage-Adaptive Stability Control for Test-Time Scaling in Multimodal Reasoning
4616. NeurIPS 2026MUX: Continuous Reasoning via Multiplexed Tokens
4617. NeurIPS 2026NavOCR: A Dataset Generator for Navigation-Relevant Text Detection in Mobile Robots
4618. NeurIPS 2026Nearly Optimal Attention Coresets
4619. NeurIPS 2026Nearly Optimal Bounds for Orthogonal Trace-Sum Maximization
4620. NeurIPS 2026Necessary but Not Sufficient: Spectral Tests for Value-Linear Attention Surrogates
4621. NeurIPS 2026NestedVLA: Learning to Consolidate and Generate Skills for Vision-Language-Action Model
4622. NeurIPS 2026Neural Bayesian Filtering
4623. NeurIPS 2026Neural Dual Bounds: Valid-by-Construction JGLP Warm-Starts for MAP and Constrained MAP
4624. NeurIPS 2026Neural Expansion: A Unified Mechanism for How Deep Neural Network Generalize
4625. NeurIPS 2026Neural Spectral Capacity: An Architectural Quantity from Network Specification Alone
4626. NeurIPS 2026Neuro-KE: Knowledge-Guided Interfaces for Semantically Grounded EEG Foundation Models
4627. NeurIPS 2026NeuroAtlas: Benchmarking Foundation Models for Clinical EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
4628. NeurIPS 2026Neuron Populations Exhibit Divergent Selectivity with Scale
4629. NeurIPS 2026NeuroNTP - A Generalizable Multimodal Foundation Model for Epilepsy
4630. NeurIPS 2026Never Stop Learning: Test-Time Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models
4631. NeurIPS 2026No Free Alignment: Observability-Aware Alignment for Multimodal Heterogeneous Learning
4632. NeurIPS 2026No One Knows the State-of-the-Art in Geospatial Foundation Models
4633. NeurIPS 2026Non-Colliding Biometric Identities for Digital Entities: Geometry, Capacity, and Million-Scale Virtual Identity Provisioning
4634. NeurIPS 2026Nonlinear Direct Feedback Alignment for Scalable Backpropagation-Free Training
4635. NeurIPS 2026Nonparametric Distribution Matching for Self-Supervised Whole-Slide Image Condensation
4636. NeurIPS 2026Normative Networks for Source Separation via Local Plasticity and Dendritic Computation
4637. NeurIPS 2026Not All Layers Are Equal in Image-to-Video Transfer
4638. NeurIPS 2026Not Another Text Benchmark: Putting the “Visual" Back in Visual Question Answering for Large Video Models
4639. NeurIPS 2026Not Every Image Teaches Vision: Visual-Necessity-Gated Continual Learning for Multimodal Large Language Models
4640. NeurIPS 2026Not Suppressing or Purifying: Backdoor Containment via Expert Quarantine and Shutdown in LLMs
4641. NeurIPS 2026NoTVLA: Semantics-Preserving Robot Adaptation via Narrative Action Interfaces
4642. NeurIPS 2026NP-LoRA: Null Space Projection for Subject-Style LoRA Fusion
4643. NeurIPS 2026NPCBench: A Clinical Apprenticeship Benchmark for Guideline-Constrained Care-Pathway Reasoning in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
4644. NeurIPS 2026NS-VLA: Towards Neuro-Symbolic Vision-Language-Action Models
4645. NeurIPS 2026Nüwa.RNA: An RNA Foundation Model for Unified Representation with Deep Structure Infusion
4646. NeurIPS 2026OATS: Online Data Augmentation for Time Series Foundation Models
4647. NeurIPS 2026Object Hallucination Mitigation in Large Vision-Language Models via Self-Vision Dual Masking and Uncertainty-Triggered Assembly
4648. NeurIPS 2026OBJECT-UNI: A Unified Model for Object-Centric Spatial Understanding and Controllable Generation
4649. NeurIPS 2026OCTOPUS: Optimized KV Cache for Transformers via Octahedral Parametrization Under optimal Squared error quantization
4650. NeurIPS 2026OGPO: Offline Goal-conditioned Policy Optimization for Recoverable Vision-Language-Action Models

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.