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 99 of 104

4901. NeurIPS 2026SiliconBench: Speed, Memory, and Fidelity for LLM Inference on Apple Silicon
4902. NeurIPS 2026Simple yet Effective Semi-supervised Knowledge Distillation from Vision-Language Models via Dual-Head Optimization
4903. NeurIPS 2026Simplified Reversible Residual Networks
4904. NeurIPS 2026SimVLA: Attributing Gains in VLA Models Through Controlled Ablation
4905. NeurIPS 2026SimWorld Studio: Automatic Environment Generation with Evolving Coding Agent for Embodied Agent Learning
4906. NeurIPS 2026SING-CH: Task-Scale-Agnostic Lifelong Cross-Modal Hashing on Statistical Manifolds
4907. NeurIPS 2026Single-Pass Evidence Measurement for Interpretable and Uncertainty-Aware Multimodal Face Anti-Spoofing
4908. NeurIPS 2026SkillCIR: Intent-Guided Skill Composition for Training-Free Composed Image Retrieval
4909. NeurIPS 2026SkipSR: Faster Super-Resolution with Token Skipping
4910. NeurIPS 2026SLVMBench: Skill Learning from Video Memory
4911. NeurIPS 2026SMMBench: A Benchmark for Source-Distributed Multimodal Agent Memory
4912. NeurIPS 2026sMMC-22M: A Context-Aware Dataset and Benchmark for Single-Cell Spatial Transcriptomics
4913. NeurIPS 2026SOAR: Regression-based LiDAR Relocalization for UAVs
4914. NeurIPS 2026SocialDirector: Training-Free Social Interaction Control for Multi-Person Video Generation
4915. NeurIPS 2026Soft Token Alignment for Cross-Lingual Reasoning
4916. NeurIPS 2026SOLA: A Structured Operator Library for Attention in Pretrained Vision Transformers
4917. NeurIPS 2026SOLE-R1: Video-Language Reasoning as the Sole Reward for On-Robot Reinforcement Learning
4918. NeurIPS 2026Solving Every Step Is Not Enough: Milestone Oracles Reveal a Composition Gap in LLM Math Reasoning
4919. NeurIPS 2026Sophon: A Procedural Diagnostic for Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
4920. NeurIPS 2026SP$^2$ec: Adaptive Self-Speculative Decoding for Vision-Language Models
4921. NeurIPS 2026SP$^3$: Spherical Priors for Plug-and-Play Restoration
4922. NeurIPS 2026SPACE: Unifying Symmetric and Asymmetric Routing Problems for Generalist Neural Solver
4923. NeurIPS 2026SpaG-DiT: Enhancing Spatial Grounding for Diffusion Transformers
4924. NeurIPS 2026Sparse All-Layer Connector for Domain Generalised Semantic Segmentation
4925. NeurIPS 2026Sparse Video Generation Propels Real-World Beyond-the-View Vision-Language Navigation
4926. NeurIPS 2026Spatial Representation Distillation and Knowledge Routing for Vision-Language-Action Models
4927. NeurIPS 2026SpatialClaw: Rethinking Action Interface for Agentic Spatial Reasoning
4928. NeurIPS 2026SpecDrop: Parameter-Free Category-Conditioned Routing for Modular Specialization
4929. NeurIPS 2026Spectral Rank Calibration for Continual LoRA Merging in Multimodal Large Language Models
4930. NeurIPS 2026Spectral Unlearning: Transformer Structure-Preserving Updates for Language Model
4931. NeurIPS 2026SPEXT: A Decoupled Multi-Spectral Foundation Model for Earth Observation and Vision-Language Grounding
4932. NeurIPS 2026SphereVAD: Training-Free Video Anomaly Detection via Geodesic Inference on the Unit Hypersphere
4933. NeurIPS 2026SphMind: Towards Robust, Training-Free VLM-based Spatial Reasoning with a 360 Camera
4934. NeurIPS 2026SPHQuant: Efficient extreme low bit weight quantization for Vision-Language Models
4935. NeurIPS 2026Split Then Select: Moment-Preserving Density Control for Generalized Primitive Splatting
4936. NeurIPS 2026SpRePE: A Spherical Geometry-Aware Position Embedding scheme for Vision Transformers
4937. NeurIPS 2026SR-Prominence: A Crowdsourced Protocol and Dataset Suite for Perceptually-Weighted Super-Resolution Artifact Evaluation
4938. NeurIPS 2026SSR3D-LLM: Structured Spatial Reasoning via Latent Steps for Fine-Grained Grounding in Unified 3D-LLMs
4939. NeurIPS 2026Stability-Aware Self-Training for CLIP under Cross-Modal Anchoring Mismatch
4940. NeurIPS 2026Stable and Scalable Probabilistic Numerical Solvers for Stiff and High-Dimensional ODEs
4941. NeurIPS 2026StableVQ: Practical Guidelines for Stable Vector-Quantized Tokenizer Training
4942. NeurIPS 2026Stage-wise Attention-Guided Region Sequencing for Adversarial Attacks on Large Vision-Language Models
4943. NeurIPS 2026Static-Dynamic Disentanglement for Efficient Multi-Frame Vision-Language-Action Models
4944. NeurIPS 2026Statistical Query Lower Bounds for Smoothed Agnostic Learning
4945. NeurIPS 2026STEER: Route-Aware Adaptive Reasoning for Autonomous Driving
4946. NeurIPS 2026Steering Externalities: Benign Activation Steering Unintentionally Increases Jailbreak Risk for Large Language Models
4947. NeurIPS 2026Steering Fields: Adaptive Vector Fields for Safe Image Generation and Beyond
4948. NeurIPS 2026Steering Frozen LLMs: Adaptive Social Alignment via Online Prompt Routing
4949. NeurIPS 2026Step-by-Step Optimization-like Reasoning in LLMs over Expanding Search Spaces
4950. NeurIPS 2026StereoTales: A Multilingual Framework for Open-Ended Stereotype Discovery in LLMs

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.