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 96 of 104

4751. NeurIPS 2026PRISM: Rethinking Atmospheric Scattering Reconstruction as a Unified Understanding and Restoration Model for Real-world Dehazing
4752. NeurIPS 2026PRISM: Spectral Pruning and Reconstruction for Parameter-Efficient Model Merging of MLLMs
4753. NeurIPS 2026PRO: Enabling Precise and Robust Text Watermark for Open-Source LLMs
4754. NeurIPS 2026ProAlign: Progressive Positional and Prototype-Guided Alignment for Aerial-Ground Person Re-Identification
4755. NeurIPS 2026ProCLIP: Progressive Vision-Language Alignment via LLM-based Embedder
4756. NeurIPS 2026Program-as-Weights: A Programming Paradigm for Fuzzy Functions
4757. NeurIPS 2026Progressive Pseudo-label Self-balancing Towards Unsupervised Vision-Language Models Adaptation
4758. NeurIPS 2026Progressive Signal Calibration for Medical Image Segmentation: Diagnosing and Correcting Structural Misalignment in Training Signals
4759. NeurIPS 2026ProMo3D: Probing Motion Cues in Frozen 3D Foundation Models
4760. NeurIPS 2026Prompt-Conditioned Semantic Bottleneck for Cross-Domain Face Attack Detection
4761. NeurIPS 2026Proprio: Latent Self-Scoring and Inference-Time Refinement for Physically Plausible Video Generation
4762. NeurIPS 2026ProQuant: Progressive Quantization-aware Training for Edge MLLMs
4763. NeurIPS 2026Prototype Topology Consistency for Visible-Infrared Lifelong Person Re-Identification
4764. NeurIPS 2026Provable Joint Decontamination for Benchmarking Multiple Large Language Models
4765. NeurIPS 2026Prysma: Efficient Modality Adaptation for SLO-aware LLM-based Video Question Answering
4766. NeurIPS 2026PSD: Pushing the Pareto Frontier of Diffusion LLMs via Parallel Speculative Decoding
4767. NeurIPS 2026Q-ViK: Question-Guided Visual KV Cache Eviction for Large Vision-Language Models
4768. NeurIPS 2026QB-Highlights: Quality-Guided Budgeted Highlight Detection in Videos with Dense Query-Relevant Moments
4769. NeurIPS 2026QuantDemoire: Quantization with Outlier Aware for Image Demoiréing
4770. NeurIPS 2026Quantifying Centrality for Complex Data
4771. NeurIPS 2026Quasi-Linear ICA for Motor Unit Decomposition during Dynamic Contractions
4772. NeurIPS 2026Query Lower Bounds for Approximating the Top Eigenvector of Asymmetric Matrices
4773. NeurIPS 2026QUTCC: Quantile Uncertainty Training and Conformal Calibration for Imaging Inverse Problems
4774. NeurIPS 2026RADAR: Relative Angular Divergence Across Representations
4775. NeurIPS 2026RADAR: Text-Guided Medical Image Segmentation via Residual Aggregation and Dense Alignment Representations
4776. NeurIPS 2026Radial-Angular Geometry for Reliable Update Diagnosis in Noisy-Label Learning
4777. NeurIPS 2026RADIUM: RadioActive Decay of Image-Underlaid Marks
4778. NeurIPS 2026RadOmni: Advancing Foundation Model for Non-contrast CT with Omni Radiology Knowledge
4779. NeurIPS 2026RamanBench: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Machine Learning on Raman Spectroscopy
4780. NeurIPS 2026RANSAC Scoring Done Right
4781. NeurIPS 2026Rate-Constrained Edge Metadata for Sender–Receiver Generative Video Super-Resolution
4782. NeurIPS 2026Rationale-Guided Policy Optimization: Learning to Reason with Adaptive Rationale Scaffolding
4783. NeurIPS 2026RAVEN-Bench: A Paired EO-IR Video QA Benchmark for Aerial Multimodal Understanding
4784. NeurIPS 2026Re:Cognize - A Framework For Open-Set Comic Character Re-Identification
4785. NeurIPS 2026Reading Attribution from Attention: Evidence Heads as Latent Attribution Mechanisms in LLMs
4786. NeurIPS 2026Reading the Unreadable: Text-Aware Image Super-Resolution Needs Reasoning
4787. NeurIPS 2026Realtime-VLA FLASH: Speculative Inference Framework for Diffusion-based VLAs
4788. NeurIPS 2026Reasoning-based Spatial Prior (RSP): Learning Spatial Priors from Multimodal LLMs for Object Detection
4789. NeurIPS 2026Rebalancing Reference Frame Dominance to Improve Motion in Image-to-Video Models
4790. NeurIPS 2026Rebellious Student: Reversing Teacher Signals for Reasoning Exploration with Self-Distilled RLVR
4791. NeurIPS 2026RECAP: Looking Once Is Not Enough for Vision-Language Reasoning
4792. NeurIPS 2026RECIPE: Procedural Planning via Grounding in Instructional Video
4793. NeurIPS 2026Recon: Reconstruction-Guided Reasoning Synthesis for User Modeling
4794. NeurIPS 2026Recursive Language Models
4795. NeurIPS 2026Reduced Cost Influence Functions for Predict-then-Optimize under Noisy Data
4796. NeurIPS 2026ReefNet: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Fine-Grained Coral Reef Recognition
4797. NeurIPS 2026RefineAny3D: Depth Refinement as Semantic Alignment for Monocular 3D Detection
4798. NeurIPS 2026RefineTok: Scale-Wise Tokenization for Progressive Visual Refinement
4799. NeurIPS 2026Reformulating Neural Operators in $d+1$ Dimensions for Embedding Evolution
4800. NeurIPS 2026ReGen: Agentic Video World Modeling with Synergized Reasoning and Generation

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.