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 98 of 104

4851. NeurIPS 2026SAGE: Semantic-Agnostic Image Embedding for Generalized AI-Generated Image Detection
4852. NeurIPS 2026SALART-VQA: Diagnosing Whether VLMs Understand Salient Artifacts in Generated Images
4853. NeurIPS 2026Saliency-Aware Multi-Route Thinking: Grounding and Reasoning on Vision-Language Agents
4854. NeurIPS 2026Same Concept, Different Directions: Cross-Modal Feature Heterogeneity in Sparse Autoencoders
4855. NeurIPS 2026SAMoR: Motion Modelling for Articulated Objects of Any Skeleton and Topology
4856. NeurIPS 2026Sandboxed Coding Agents are Competitive Omni-modal Task Solvers
4857. NeurIPS 2026SapiensID 2.0: Aligning Human Recognition Foundation Models with Human Perception
4858. NeurIPS 2026SatNav: A Scalable Benchmark for Long-Horizon UAV Vision-Language Navigation from Satellite Imagery
4859. NeurIPS 2026SAVE: Sparsity-Aware Influence Estimation for Vocabulary-Expanded LLMs
4860. NeurIPS 2026Say the Same, Act Differently: Text-Orthogonal Action Subspaces in Reasoning Vision-Language-Action Models
4861. NeurIPS 2026Scalable Minimal-Change Learning for Controllable Image Editing
4862. NeurIPS 2026Scale-Invariant Empirical-Bayes Laplace Approximation for ReLU Networks
4863. NeurIPS 2026ScaleBITS: Scalable Bitwidth Search for Hardware-Aligned Mixed-Precision LLMs
4864. NeurIPS 2026Scaling Causal Reasoning with Increasingly Complex Causal Simulators
4865. NeurIPS 2026Scaling Linear Mode Connectivity and Merging to Billion Parameter Pretrained Transformers
4866. NeurIPS 2026SCDBench: A Benchmark for LLM-Based Smart Contract Decompilers
4867. NeurIPS 2026SceneAligner: 3D-Grounded Floorplan Localization in the Wild
4868. NeurIPS 2026SceneScaffold: Active Scene-State Construction for Unified 3D Scene Understanding
4869. NeurIPS 2026SceneShifter: Training-free Multi-Scene Temporal Control for Audio-driven Human Animation
4870. NeurIPS 2026SCG-HF: Semantic Consistency Grouping for Hierarchical Fusion in Video Emotion Recognition
4871. NeurIPS 2026SchemaPose: RGB-Based Category-Level Pose Estimation with Parametric Category Schema
4872. NeurIPS 2026SciR: A Controllable Benchmark for Scientific Reasoning in LLMs
4873. NeurIPS 2026SCOUT: Planning under Occlusion via Object-Centric World Model Rollouts
4874. NeurIPS 2026SD-LoRA: Training-Time Structural Distillation into LoRA for Few-Shot Vision-Language Adaptation
4875. NeurIPS 2026See it to Place it: Evolving Macro Placements with Vision Language Models
4876. NeurIPS 2026Seeing or Rationalizing? Scene-Evidence-Guided Chain-of-Thought for Faithful 3D Multimodal Reasoning
4877. NeurIPS 2026Seeing the World through Any Eyes
4878. NeurIPS 2026Seeing Together: Multi-Robot Cooperative Egocentric Spatial Reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Models
4879. NeurIPS 2026SEGA: Spectral-Energy Guided Attention for Resolution Extrapolation in Diffusion Transformers
4880. NeurIPS 2026Segment and Select: Vision-Language Segmentation in 3D Scenarios
4881. NeurIPS 2026Selection, Not Fusion: Radar-Modulated State Space Models for Radar-Camera Depth Estimation
4882. NeurIPS 2026Selective Answering for Medical VQA via Parallel Independent Claim Verification
4883. NeurIPS 2026Selective Disk Bispectrum: A Complete and Rotation Invariant Image Descriptor
4884. NeurIPS 2026Self-Calibrated GUI Reward Model via Inverse Dynamic Modeling
4885. NeurIPS 2026Self-Rewarded Multimodal Coherent Reasoning Across Diverse Visual Domains
4886. NeurIPS 2026SelfCritic-VLA: Language as Intrinsic Critic for Vision Language Action Models in Autonomous Driving
4887. NeurIPS 2026Semantic Consistency of Vision Tokens: A Vision-Centric Perspective on Multimodal Large Language Models
4888. NeurIPS 2026Semantic Freedom Bottleneck for Domain-Generalized Multimodal Face Anti-Spoofing
4889. NeurIPS 2026SemanticDialect: Semantic-Aware Mixed-Format Quantization for Video Diffusion Transformers
4890. NeurIPS 2026SemMSA: Latent Semantic-Aided Robust Multimodal Sentiment Analysis with Incomplete Data
4891. NeurIPS 2026Senses Wide Shut: A Representation-Action Gap in Omnimodal LLMs
4892. NeurIPS 2026SeoulMMOD: A Large-Scale Multimodal Origin-Destination Flow Benchmark
4893. NeurIPS 2026SetCon: Towards Open-Ended Referring Segmentation via Set-Level Concept Prediction
4894. NeurIPS 2026SF-DST: Adapting Vision-Language Models for Anomaly Detection via Asymmetric Modulation and A-LoRA
4895. NeurIPS 2026SH$^2$: A Mathematician-Curated benchmark for Assessing Research-level Math Capabilities of LLMs
4896. NeurIPS 2026Shared-Noise Mechanisms for Verifiable Differentially Private Counting
4897. NeurIPS 2026SIEVES: Selective Prediction Generalizes through Visual Evidence Scoring
4898. NeurIPS 2026SIGMA: Semantic-Difference Instruction-Grounding Mask Annotator for Text-Driven Image Manipulation Localization
4899. NeurIPS 2026Signed-Permutation Coordinate Transport for RMSNorm Transformers
4900. NeurIPS 2026SiliciclasticReservoirs: A Million-Reservoir Dataset and Flow-Matching Foundation Model for 3D Siliciclastic Reservoir 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.