Large Language Models and Beyond: Multimodal and Agentic Intelligence
A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893). This special issue belongs to the section "Evolutionary Algorithms and Machine Learning".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 204
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce a forthcoming Special Issue, ‘Large Language Models and Beyond: Multimodal and Agentic Intelligence’, which focuses on one of the most rapidly evolving and influential directions in artificial intelligence research.
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have significantly reshaped the foundations of AI by enabling it to perform better in relation to the areas of language understanding, reasoning, dialogue, code generation, and knowledge-based problem solving. Building upon these capabilities, the research frontier has quickly expanded beyond text-only intelligence toward multimodal AI systems that can process, align, and reason across text, images, audio, video, and other heterogeneous data sources. Such progress is driving important innovations in machine perception, human–computer interaction, decision support, and real-world intelligent applications.
At the same time, agentic AI, particularly systems built upon or coordinated by LLMs, has emerged as a promising paradigm for autonomous task planning, tool use, interactive reasoning, memory integration, and multi-step problem solving. These agentic systems are increasingly being explored in domains such as robotics, scientific discovery, healthcare, education, manufacturing, digital assistants, and smart environments. Despite the remarkable progress, many important challenges remain unresolved, including models’ reliability, explainability, efficiency, safety, adaptability, evaluation protocols, and the integration of multimodal perception with autonomous action.
This Special Issue aims to provide a timely forum for high-quality contributions addressing the theories, methods, systems, and applications related to LLMs, multimodal intelligence, and agentic AI. We welcome original research articles, application studies, and review papers on topics including, but not limited to, multimodal foundation models, vision–language systems, multimodal reasoning and generation, LLM-based autonomous agents, tool-augmented intelligence, multi-agent collaboration, embodied AI, trustworthy and explainable AI, efficient fine-tuning and deployment, and domain-specific applications with broad impact.
This Special Issue is an exciting opportunity to bring together recent advances that extend AI beyond conventional language modelling toward more interactive, perceptive, and autonomous intelligence. We warmly invite researchers and practitioners to submit their manuscripts and to contribute to shaping the next generation of multimodal and agentic AI systems.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Chen-Kuo Chiang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- large language models
- multimodal intelligence
- agentic AI
- LLM-based agents
- vision–language models
- multimodal reasoning
- autonomous agents
- tool-augmented AI
- multi-agent systems
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