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

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451. ICLR 2025MMFakeBench: A Mixed-Source Multimodal Misinformation Detection Benchmark for LVLMs
452. ICLR 2025MMIE: Massive Multimodal Interleaved Comprehension Benchmark for Large Vision-Language Models
453. ICLR 2025MMIU: Multimodal Multi-image Understanding for Evaluating Large Vision-Language Models
454. ICLR 2025MMKE-Bench: A Multimodal Editing Benchmark for Diverse Visual Knowledge
455. ICLR 2025MMQA: Evaluating LLMs with Multi-Table Multi-Hop Complex Questions
456. ICLR 2025MMR: A Large-scale Benchmark Dataset for Multi-target and Multi-granularity Reasoning Segmentation
457. ICLR 2025MMRole: A Comprehensive Framework for Developing and Evaluating Multimodal Role-Playing Agents
458. ICLR 2025MMSearch: Unveiling the Potential of Large Models as Multi-modal Search Engines
459. ICLR 2025Modality-Specialized Synergizers for Interleaved Vision-Language Generalists
460. ICLR 2025MoDeGPT: Modular Decomposition for Large Language Model Compression
461. ICLR 2025Model Equality Testing: Which Model is this API Serving?
462. ICLR 2025Modeling Fine-Grained Hand-Object Dynamics for Egocentric Video Representation Learning
463. ICLR 2025Modeling Future Conversation Turns to Teach LLMs to Ask Clarifying Questions
464. ICLR 2025Montessori-Instruct: Generate Influential Training Data Tailored for Student Learning
465. ICLR 2025Morphing Tokens Draw Strong Masked Image Models
466. ICLR 2025Motion-Agent: A Conversational Framework for Human Motion Generation with LLMs
467. ICLR 2025MotionClone: Training-Free Motion Cloning for Controllable Video Generation
468. ICLR 2025mPLUG-Owl3: Towards Long Image-Sequence Understanding in Multi-Modal Large Language Models
469. ICLR 2025MR-GSM8K: A Meta-Reasoning Benchmark for Large Language Model Evaluation
470. ICLR 2025MRAG-Bench: Vision-Centric Evaluation for Retrieval-Augmented Multimodal Models
471. ICLR 2025Mufu: Multilingual Fused Learning for Low-Resource Translation with LLM
472. ICLR 2025MuirBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Robust Multi-image Understanding
473. ICLR 2025Multi-Draft Speculative Sampling: Canonical Decomposition and Theoretical Limits
474. ICLR 2025Multi-Label Test-Time Adaptation with Bound Entropy Minimization
475. ICLR 2025Multi-modal Agent Tuning: Building a VLM-Driven Agent for Efficient Tool Usage
476. ICLR 2025Multi-modal brain encoding models for multi-modal stimuli
477. ICLR 2025Multi-Reward as Condition for Instruction-based Image Editing
478. ICLR 2025Multi-Task Corrupted Prediction for Learning Robust Audio-Visual Speech Representation
479. ICLR 2025Multimodal Large Language Models for Inverse Molecular Design with Retrosynthetic Planning
480. ICLR 2025Multimodal Lego: Model Merging and Fine-Tuning Across Topologies and Modalities in Biomedicine
481. ICLR 2025Multimodal Quantitative Language for Generative Recommendation
482. ICLR 2025Multimodal Situational Safety
483. ICLR 2025Multimodal Unsupervised Domain Generalization by Retrieving Across the Modality Gap
484. ICLR 2025Multiview Equivariance Improves 3D Correspondence Understanding with Minimal Feature Finetuning
485. ICLR 2025MuPT: A Generative Symbolic Music Pretrained Transformer
486. ICLR 2025Mutual Effort for Efficiency: A Similarity-based Token Pruning for Vision Transformers in Self-Supervised Learning
487. ICLR 2025Mutual Reasoning Makes Smaller LLMs Stronger Problem-Solver
488. ICLR 2025Narrowing Information Bottleneck Theory for Multimodal Image-Text Representations Interpretability
489. ICLR 2025Natural Language Inference Improves Compositionality in Vision-Language Models
490. ICLR 2025NatureLM-audio: an Audio-Language Foundation Model for Bioacoustics
491. ICLR 2025Navigating the Digital World as Humans Do: Universal Visual Grounding for GUI Agents
492. ICLR 2025Near, far: Patch-ordering enhances vision foundation models' scene understanding
493. ICLR 2025Needle In A Video Haystack: A Scalable Synthetic Evaluator for Video MLLMs
494. ICLR 2025Needle Threading: Can LLMs Follow Threads Through Near-Million-Scale Haystacks?
495. ICLR 2025NeRAF: 3D Scene Infused Neural Radiance and Acoustic Fields
496. ICLR 2025NeSyC: A Neuro-symbolic Continual Learner For Complex Embodied Tasks In Open Domains
497. ICLR 2025Neural Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization via Graph-Image Multimodal Fusion
498. ICLR 2025Neural ODE Transformers: Analyzing Internal Dynamics and Adaptive Fine-tuning
499. ICLR 2025Neural Wave Equation for Irregularly Sampled Sequence Data
500. ICLR 2025Neuron based Personality Trait Induction in Large Language Models

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.