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

3,319 papers, page 1 of 67

1. NeurIPS 2026$\alpha$Depth: Learning Single-Pass Soft Boundary Decomposition for Stereo Conversion
2. NeurIPS 2026$\text{A}^3$-VLA: Automatic Perception-Guided Attention Alignment for Robot Manipulation
3. NeurIPS 2026$\texttt{bispectrum}$: Selective $G$-Bispectra Made Practical
4. NeurIPS 2026$h$-control: Training-Free Camera Control via Block-Conditional Gibbs Refinement
5. NeurIPS 20262D Spatial Reasoning with Adaptive Neural Cellular Automata
6. NeurIPS 20263A-VLA: Abstraction-Aligned Action Learning for Vision-Language Agents in 3D Game Worlds
7. NeurIPS 20263D-PLOT-LLM: Part-Level Object Tokens for 3D Large Language Models
8. NeurIPS 20263DCodeBench: Benchmarking Agentic Procedural 3D Modeling Via Code
9. NeurIPS 20263DSPA: A 3D Semantic Point Autoencoder for Evaluating Video Realism
10. NeurIPS 2026A Benchmark for Omni-Modal Reasoning in Long Videos
11. NeurIPS 2026A Bitter Lesson for Data Filtering
12. NeurIPS 2026A Closer Look at Dynamic Scene Graph Generation in the Era of Multimodal Large Language Models
13. NeurIPS 2026A Composite Activation Function for Learning Stable Binary Representations
14. NeurIPS 2026A Deep Learning Framework for Scalar-on-Function Models
15. NeurIPS 2026A Diagnostic Benchmark for Layered Layout and Template-Variant Reasoning
16. NeurIPS 2026A Dynamic Decomposition Strategy for the MOEA/D With Proven Performance Guarantees
17. NeurIPS 2026A Favorable Regime Between ODE and SDE for Few-Step Diffusion Sampling
18. NeurIPS 2026A Foundational Model System for Datacenter Machine Repairs
19. NeurIPS 2026A General Concept-based Decomposition for Vision–Language Embeddings
20. NeurIPS 2026A Graph Foundation Model for Unified Clustering
21. NeurIPS 2026A Latent World-Action Model with Jointly Aligned Reasoning
22. NeurIPS 2026A Mechanistic Analysis of Looped Reasoning Language Models
23. NeurIPS 2026A Mechanistic Interpretability Study of an Astronomical Foundation Model
24. NeurIPS 2026A Method-Class Divide in Sub-4-Bit Quantization:\\Iterative vs.\ Single-Pass Sensitivity to Data Composition
25. NeurIPS 2026A Multimodal Benchmark for Evaluating Cause-of-Death Inference Using Child Health and Mortality Data
26. NeurIPS 2026A Principled Optimal Transport Framework for Frame Selection in Long Video Understanding
27. NeurIPS 2026A Provably Convergent and Practical Algorithm for Gromov–Wasserstein Optimal Transport
28. NeurIPS 2026A Scalable Measure of Loss Landscape Curvature for Analyzing the Training Dynamics of LLMs
29. NeurIPS 2026A second order regret bound for NormalHedge
30. NeurIPS 2026A Steerable Deep Network for Model-Free Diffusion MRI Registration
31. NeurIPS 2026A systematic evaluation of vision-language models for observational astronomical reasoning tasks
32. NeurIPS 2026A Theoretical Framework for Self-Play Theorem Proving Algorithms
33. NeurIPS 2026A Theory of Training Profit-Optimal LLMs
34. NeurIPS 2026A Unified Image and Video Encoder for Multimodal LLMs
35. NeurIPS 2026A Unified Spectral Theory of Multimodal Losses
36. NeurIPS 2026A Unifying View of Anchoring via Operator-Side Tikhonov Regularization
37. NeurIPS 2026A$^3$Bench: A Benchmark for Compositional Reasoning over Aggressive Interactions in Videos
38. NeurIPS 2026A2Eval: Agentic and Automated Evaluation for Embodied Brain
39. NeurIPS 2026A2I: Adjacency-to-Image Structural Encodings for Graph Learning
40. NeurIPS 2026Achieve Latency-Efficient Temporal-Coding Spiking LLMs via Discretization-Aware Conversion
41. NeurIPS 2026ActionUNet: Improving Robustness of VLA Models with Efficient Multi-scale Fine-tuning
42. NeurIPS 2026ActQuant: Sub-4-bit Action-Guided Quantization for Vision-Language-Action Models
43. NeurIPS 2026AdaCal: Adaptive Calibration for Robust Sparse Attention in Long-Context LLMs
44. NeurIPS 2026AdaCodec: A Predictive Visual Code for Video MLLMs
45. NeurIPS 2026Adapting Vision Transformers to Organoid Imaging
46. NeurIPS 2026Adaptive Gated Simplicial Propagation for Node Classification in Multimodal Graphs
47. NeurIPS 2026Adaptive Internal Readout for Native Multimodal Models
48. NeurIPS 2026Adaptive Mass-Segmented KV Compression for Long-Context Reasoning
49. NeurIPS 2026Adaptive-Margin Masking and Restoration for Balanced Multimodal Learning
50. NeurIPS 2026AdDirector: Anchored Guidance for Generating Camera-Controllable Advertisement Videos

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.