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

2,676 papers, page 10 of 54

451. ICLR 2026GIT-BO: High-Dimensional Bayesian Optimization with Tabular Foundation Models
452. ICLR 2026Glance for Context: Learning When to Leverage LLMs for Node-Aware GNN-LLM Fusion
453. ICLR 2026Global-Recent Semantic Reasoning on Dynamic Text-Attributed Graphs with Large Language Models
454. ICLR 2026GneissWeb: Preparing High Quality Data for LLMs at Scale
455. ICLR 2026GNN-as-Judge: Unleashing the Power of LLMs for Graph Few-shot Semi-supervised Learning with GNN Feedback
456. ICLR 2026Go Beyond Earth: Understanding Human Actions and Scenes in Microgravity Environments
457. ICLR 2026GoT-R1: Unleashing Reasoning Capability of Autoregressive Visual Generation with Reinforcement Learning
458. ICLR 2026GPG: A Simple and Strong Reinforcement Learning Baseline for Model Reasoning
459. ICLR 2026GPT4Scene: Understand 3D Scenes from Videos with Vision-Language Models
460. ICLR 2026GPTailor: Large Language Model Pruning Through Layer Cutting and Stitching
461. ICLR 2026GradPruner: Gradient-guided Layer Pruning Enabling Efficient Fine-Tuning and Inference for LLMs
462. ICLR 2026GRAM-DTI: Adaptive Multimodal Representation Learning for Drug–Target Interaction Prediction
463. ICLR 2026GranViT: A Fine-Grained Vision Model With Autoregressive Perception For MLLMs
464. ICLR 2026Graph Signal Processing Meets Mamba2: Adaptive Filter Bank via Delta Modulation
465. ICLR 2026Graph Tokenization for Bridging Graphs and Transformers
466. ICLR 2026GraphShield: Graph-Theoretic Modeling of Network-Level Dynamics for Robust Jailbreak Detection
467. ICLR 2026Grasp Any Region: Prompting MLLM to Understand the Dense World
468. ICLR 2026Ground Slow, Move Fast: A Dual-System Foundation Model for Generalizable Vision-Language Navigation
469. ICLR 2026Grounding Generative Planners in Verifiable Logic: A Hybrid Architecture for Trustworthy Embodied AI
470. ICLR 2026Grounding or Guessing? Visual Signals for Detecting Hallucinations in Sign Language Translation
471. ICLR 2026Grounding-IQA: Grounding Multimodal Language Model for Image Quality Assessment
472. ICLR 2026GTA1: GUI Test-time Scaling Agent
473. ICLR 2026GTool: Graph Enhanced Tool Planning with Large Language Model
474. ICLR 2026GTR-Bench: Evaluating Geo-Temporal Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
475. ICLR 2026GuardAlign: Robust Safety Alignment in Multimodal Large Language Models
476. ICLR 2026GUI-Shift: Enhancing VLM-Based GUI Agents through Self-supervised Reinforcement Learning
477. ICLR 2026Guided Query Refinement: Multimodal Hybrid Retrieval with Test-Time Optimization
478. ICLR 2026Guided Speculative Inference for Efficient Test-Time Alignment of LLMs
479. ICLR 2026GuidedSampling: Steering LLMs Towards Diverse Candidate Solutions at Inference-Time
480. ICLR 2026Guiding Mixture-of-Experts with Temporal Multimodal Interactions
481. ICLR 2026Hallucination Begins Where Saliency Drops
482. ICLR 2026Hallucination Reduction with CASAL: Contrastive Activation Steering for Amortized Learning
483. ICLR 2026Hallucination-aware Intermediate Representation Editing in Large Vision-Lanugage Models
484. ICLR 2026HalluGuard: Demystifying Data-Driven and Reasoning-Driven Hallucinations in LLMs
485. ICLR 2026HAMLET: Switch Your Vision-Language-Action Model into a History-Aware Policy
486. ICLR 2026Harnessing Hyperbolic Geometry for Harmful Prompt Detection and Sanitization
487. ICLR 2026Harnessing Temporal Databases for Systematic Evaluation of Factual Time-Sensitive Question-Answering in LLMs
488. ICLR 2026HARP: Hallucination Detection via Reasoning Subspace Projection
489. ICLR 2026HBO: Hierarchical Balancing Optimization for Fine-Tuning Large Language Models
490. ICLR 2026HEIST: A Graph Foundation Model for Spatial Transcriptomics and Proteomics Data
491. ICLR 2026Hessian-Enhanced Token Attribution (HETA): Interpreting Autoregressive LLMs
492. ICLR 2026Hey, That's My Model! Introducing Chain & Hash, An LLM Fingerprinting Technique
493. ICLR 2026HFSTI-Net: Hierarchical Frequency-spatial-temporal Interactions for Video Polyp Segmentation
494. ICLR 2026HGNet: Scalable Foundation Model for Automated Knowledge Graph Generation from Scientific Literature
495. ICLR 2026HiddenEcho: Mitigating Noise Amplification in Differentially Private LLMs with Hidden-State Correction
496. ICLR 2026HiDivDrop: Vision Token Reduction in MLLMs via Late Injection and Differentiable Top-K
497. ICLR 2026Hierarchy Decoding: A Training-free Parallel Decoding Strategy for Diffusion Large Language Models
498. ICLR 2026HierLoc: Hyperbolic Entity Embeddings for Hierarchical Visual Geolocation
499. ICLR 2026High Accuracy, Less Talk (HALT): Reliable LLMs through Capability-Aligned Finetuning
500. ICLR 2026Highly Efficient and Effective LLMs with Multi-Boolean Architectures

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.