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

446 papers, page 1 of 9

1. NeurIPS 2024$E^3$: Exploring Embodied Emotion Through A Large-Scale Egocentric Video Dataset
2. NeurIPS 20243DCoMPaT200: Language Grounded Large-Scale 3D Vision Dataset for Compositional Recognition
3. NeurIPS 20244M-21: An Any-to-Any Vision Model for Tens of Tasks and Modalities
4. NeurIPS 2024A Benchmark Suite for Systematically Evaluating Reasoning Shortcuts
5. NeurIPS 2024A Careful Examination of Large Language Model Performance on Grade School Arithmetic
6. NeurIPS 2024A Concept-Based Explainability Framework for Large Multimodal Models
7. NeurIPS 2024A General Protocol to Probe Large Vision Models for 3D Physical Understanding
8. NeurIPS 2024A Hitchhiker's Guide to Fine-Grained Face Forgery Detection Using Common Sense Reasoning
9. NeurIPS 2024A Neuro-Symbolic Benchmark Suite for Concept Quality and Reasoning Shortcuts
10. NeurIPS 2024A Novel Benchmark for Decision-Making in Uncertain and Competitive Games
11. NeurIPS 2024A Practitioner's Guide to Real-World Continual Multimodal Pretraining
12. NeurIPS 2024A StrongREJECT for Empty Jailbreaks
13. NeurIPS 2024A Unified Debiasing Approach for Vision-Language Models across Modalities and Tasks
14. NeurIPS 2024A Versatile Diffusion Transformer with Mixture of Noise Levels for Audiovisual Generation
15. NeurIPS 2024Accelerating Pre-training of Multimodal LLMs via Chain-of-Sight
16. NeurIPS 2024AdaNeg: Adaptive Negative Proxy Guided OOD Detection with Vision-Language Models
17. NeurIPS 2024Adaptive Image Quality Assessment via Teaching Large Multimodal Model to Compare
18. NeurIPS 2024Advancing Cross-domain Discriminability in Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models
19. NeurIPS 2024Aggregate-and-Adapt Natural Language Prompts for Downstream Generalization of CLIP
20. NeurIPS 2024Aligning Audio-Visual Joint Representations with an Agentic Workflow
21. NeurIPS 2024Aligning Vision Models with Human Aesthetics in Retrieval: Benchmarks and Algorithms
22. NeurIPS 2024All-in-One Image Coding for Joint Human-Machine Vision with Multi-Path Aggregation
23. NeurIPS 2024Alleviating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models through Hallucination-Induced Optimization
24. NeurIPS 2024AMBROSIA: A Benchmark for Parsing Ambiguous Questions into Database Queries
25. NeurIPS 2024An eye for an ear: zero-shot audio description leveraging an image captioner with audio-visual token distribution matching
26. NeurIPS 2024Analytically deriving Partial Information Decomposition for affine systems of stable and convolution-closed distributions
27. NeurIPS 2024Animal-Bench: Benchmarking Multimodal Video Models for Animal-centric Video Understanding
28. NeurIPS 2024Are Large Language Models Good Statisticians?
29. NeurIPS 2024Are We on the Right Way for Evaluating Large Vision-Language Models?
30. NeurIPS 2024ART: Automatic Red-teaming for Text-to-Image Models to Protect Benign Users
31. NeurIPS 2024Artemis: Towards Referential Understanding in Complex Videos
32. NeurIPS 2024Ask, Attend, Attack: An Effective Decision-Based Black-Box Targeted Attack for Image-to-Text Models
33. NeurIPS 2024Automated Multi-level Preference for MLLMs
34. NeurIPS 2024Automating Dataset Updates Towards Reliable and Timely Evaluation of Large Language Models
35. NeurIPS 2024AWT: Transferring Vision-Language Models via Augmentation, Weighting, and Transportation
36. NeurIPS 2024Bag of Tricks: Benchmarking of Jailbreak Attacks on LLMs
37. NeurIPS 2024Bayesian-guided Label Mapping for Visual Reprogramming
38. NeurIPS 2024Benchmarking LLMs via Uncertainty Quantification
39. NeurIPS 2024Benchmarking Trustworthiness of Multimodal Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Study
40. NeurIPS 2024BenchX: A Unified Benchmark Framework for Medical Vision-Language Pretraining on Chest X-Rays
41. NeurIPS 2024BendVLM: Test-Time Debiasing of Vision-Language Embeddings
42. NeurIPS 2024Beyond Accuracy: Ensuring Correct Predictions With Correct Rationales
43. NeurIPS 2024Beyond Concept Bottleneck Models: How to Make Black Boxes Intervenable?
44. NeurIPS 2024Biologically Inspired Learning Model for Instructed Vision
45. NeurIPS 2024Biomedical Visual Instruction Tuning with Clinician Preference Alignment
46. NeurIPS 2024BIOSCAN-5M: A Multimodal Dataset for Insect Biodiversity
47. NeurIPS 2024BioTrove: A Large Curated Image Dataset Enabling AI for Biodiversity
48. NeurIPS 2024BiVLC: Extending Vision-Language Compositionality Evaluation with Text-to-Image Retrieval
49. NeurIPS 2024Black-Box Forgetting
50. NeurIPS 2024BLEnD: A Benchmark for LLMs on Everyday Knowledge in Diverse Cultures and Languages

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.