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 95 of 104

4701. NeurIPS 2026Patch4Patch: Restoring Structural Connectivity in Patch-based Vision Encoders
4702. NeurIPS 2026PatchKV: Weight Space Compensation of KV Cache
4703. NeurIPS 2026PathView-Bench: Can Multimodal Large Language Models Achieve Fine-grained Multiscale Understanding of Pathology Images?
4704. NeurIPS 2026Pathways of Visual Information Flow in Vision-Language Models
4705. NeurIPS 2026PAVE: Prefill-Conditioned Activation Editing for Hallucination Mitigation in LVLMs
4706. NeurIPS 2026PCDFusion: Proposal-Context-Detail Bayesian Rendering for Infrared-Visible Image Fusion
4707. NeurIPS 2026PCFBench: How Far Can Large Vision-Language Models Go in Physics-aware Photonic Inverse Design?
4708. NeurIPS 2026Perceive-then-Plan: Layout-as-Policy for Monocular 3D Scene Layout Estimation
4709. NeurIPS 2026Perceive, Interact, Reason: Building Tool-Augmented Visual Agents for Spatial Reasoning
4710. NeurIPS 2026Personal Visual Memory from Explicit and Implicit Evidence
4711. NeurIPS 2026Perturb, Repair, Verify: Self-Play Vision-Language Verifiers for Compositional Understanding
4712. NeurIPS 2026PerturbReason: A Knowledge-Grounded Benchmark and Framework for Cell-State–Conditioned Mechanistic Reasoning of Perturbation Effects
4713. NeurIPS 2026PGGT-Loc: Primitive-Grounded Geometry Transformer for Feed-Forward Camera Localization
4714. NeurIPS 2026Phase-Adaptive Fusion: Spatio-Temporal Modulation for VLA Models
4715. NeurIPS 2026PHOEBI: An Open-World Benchmark for Multi-Label Bacterial Identification in Phase-Contrast Microscopy
4716. NeurIPS 2026PhyProbe: Rethinking Physical Consistency Evaluation in Generated Videos
4717. NeurIPS 2026PhysDNet: Physics-Driven Gradient Amplification for Real-Time Image Dehazing
4718. NeurIPS 2026PhysElite: How Far Are LLMs from Solving Olympiad-Level Physics Problems?
4719. NeurIPS 2026PhysGraphNet: Physical-State Scene Graphs via Latent Graph Reasoning and Counterfactual Supervision
4720. NeurIPS 2026PhysVista: Benchmarking Physical Intelligence in VLMs via a Perception-Reasoning-Assessment Loop
4721. NeurIPS 2026PickMoment: Continuous-Time Single-Image-to-Video via Learning Deblurring and Blur-to-Video
4722. NeurIPS 2026PipeFSDP: Efficient Pipeline Parallel under Fully Sharded Data Parallel for Large Language Model Training
4723. NeurIPS 2026PIS: Pose-Interpolation Smoothness for Skinning Weight Refinement
4724. NeurIPS 2026PIU-CR: Physics-Informed Deep Unfolding Network with SAR-Optical Image Fusion for Cloud Removal
4725. NeurIPS 2026PixelDense: Dense Prediction as Representation Alignment for Pixel Diffusion
4726. NeurIPS 2026PixelPonder: Dynamic Patch Adaptation for Enhanced Multi-Conditional Text-to-Image Generation
4727. NeurIPS 2026PixFoundation 2.0: Do Video Multi-Modal LLMs Use Motion in Visual Grounding?
4728. NeurIPS 2026PLACE: Patch-Level Agnostic Concept Extraction
4729. NeurIPS 2026Plausibility Is Not Prediction: Contrastive Evidence for LLM-Based Cellular Perturbation Reasoning
4730. NeurIPS 2026PM1: A Multimodal Foundation Model for Genomes, Phenotypes, and Images at Biobank Scale
4731. NeurIPS 2026Poisoning Attacks on LLMs Require a Near-constant Number of Poison Samples
4732. NeurIPS 2026Polar Transformers: $SO(2)^K$-Equivariant Angular Attention for Cryo-EM Image-Set Processing
4733. NeurIPS 2026PolarScale: A Physics-Grounded Benchmark for Radiometrically Consistent RGB-to-Stokes Estimation
4734. NeurIPS 2026Polestar: Drift-Aware Cache Calibration and Token Commitment for Efficient Inference of Diffusion LLMs
4735. NeurIPS 2026PolyVision: Conditional Visual Scaling Via Dynamic Expert Routing For Vision-Centric MLLMs
4736. NeurIPS 2026Pose6DAug: Physically Plausible Multi-View Object Swapping for Robot Data Augmentation
4737. NeurIPS 2026Positional LSH: Binary Block Matrix Approximation for Attention with Linear Biases
4738. NeurIPS 2026Positive-Unlabeled Preference Optimization For Chest X-ray Report Generation
4739. NeurIPS 2026Post-hoc Selective Classification for Reliable Synthetic Image Detection
4740. NeurIPS 2026Post-Training Quantization with Gradient-Projected Fisher Approximation for Vision Transformers
4741. NeurIPS 2026POST: Progressive Object-Slot Tokenization for Multimodal Large Language Models
4742. NeurIPS 2026Posterior Contraction Rates for sparse Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks in Anisotropic Besov Spaces
4743. NeurIPS 2026Predicting Quantization Price for Selecting PTQ Configurations Before Deployment
4744. NeurIPS 2026Prefix-Tuning for Arbitrary Output Sequences on Pretrained Transformers
4745. NeurIPS 2026Principia: Relational Physics Tests for Video Models
4746. NeurIPS 2026Prior Text-Informed Gate Attention Framework for Multimodal Psychiatric Disorder Diagnosis
4747. NeurIPS 2026PriorVLA: Prior-Preserving Adaptation for Vision-Language-Action Models
4748. NeurIPS 2026Prism Attention: Proposal-Refined Index Sharing Mechanism for Efficient LLMs Inference
4749. NeurIPS 2026PRISM: Primitive Routing via In-context Skill Mixing for Lifelong VLA
4750. NeurIPS 2026PriSM: Prior-guided Shared-basis Mixture Personalization for LLMs under Sparse User Histories

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.