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

816 papers, page 11 of 17

501. ICLR 2025Neuron-based Multifractal Analysis of Neuron Interaction Dynamics in Large Models
502. ICLR 2025nGPT: Normalized Transformer with Representation Learning on the Hypersphere
503. ICLR 2025NL-Eye: Abductive NLI For Images
504. ICLR 2025No Need to Talk: Asynchronous Mixture of Language Models
505. ICLR 2025Noisy Test-Time Adaptation in Vision-Language Models
506. ICLR 2025Non-myopic Generation of Language Models for Reasoning and Planning
507. ICLR 2025Not All Heads Matter: A Head-Level KV Cache Compression Method with Integrated Retrieval and Reasoning
508. ICLR 2025Nova: Generative Language Models for Assembly Code with Hierarchical Attention and Contrastive Learning
509. ICLR 2025NovelQA: Benchmarking Question Answering on Documents Exceeding 200K Tokens
510. ICLR 2025NoVo: Norm Voting off Hallucinations with Attention Heads in Large Language Models
511. ICLR 2025NV-Embed: Improved Techniques for Training LLMs as Generalist Embedding Models
512. ICLR 2025OASIS Uncovers: High-Quality T2I Models, Same Old Stereotypes
513. ICLR 2025OATS: Outlier-Aware Pruning Through Sparse and Low Rank Decomposition
514. ICLR 2025OmniBind: Large-scale Omni Multimodal Representation via Binding Spaces
515. ICLR 2025OmniCorpus: A Unified Multimodal Corpus of 10 Billion-Level Images Interleaved with Text
516. ICLR 2025OmniKV: Dynamic Context Selection for Efficient Long-Context LLMs
517. ICLR 2025OmnixR: Evaluating Omni-modality Language Models on Reasoning across Modalities
518. ICLR 2025On Disentangled Training for Nonlinear Transform in Learned Image Compression
519. ICLR 2025On Evaluating the Durability of Safeguards for Open-Weight LLMs
520. ICLR 2025On Quantizing Neural Representation for Variable-Rate Video Coding
521. ICLR 2025On Speeding Up Language Model Evaluation
522. ICLR 2025On Targeted Manipulation and Deception when Optimizing LLMs for User Feedback
523. ICLR 2025On the Importance of Language-driven Representation Learning for Heterogeneous Federated Learning
524. ICLR 2025On the self-verification limitations of large language models on reasoning and planning tasks
525. ICLR 2025Once-for-All: Controllable Generative Image Compression with Dynamic Granularity Adaptation
526. ICLR 2025One Model Transfer to All: On Robust Jailbreak Prompts Generation against LLMs
527. ICLR 2025One-for-All Few-Shot Anomaly Detection via Instance-Induced Prompt Learning
528. ICLR 2025Open-Vocabulary Customization from CLIP via Data-Free Knowledge Distillation
529. ICLR 2025OpenMathInstruct-2: Accelerating AI for Math with Massive Open-Source Instruction Data
530. ICLR 2025OpenPRM: Building Open-domain Process-based Reward Models with Preference Trees
531. ICLR 2025Operator Deep Smoothing for Implied Volatility
532. ICLR 2025OptiBench Meets ReSocratic: Measure and Improve LLMs for Optimization Modeling
533. ICLR 2025Optimized Multi-Token Joint Decoding With Auxiliary Model for LLM Inference
534. ICLR 2025Optimizing 4D Gaussians for Dynamic Scene Video from Single Landscape Images
535. ICLR 2025Oryx MLLM: On-Demand Spatial-Temporal Understanding at Arbitrary Resolution
536. ICLR 2025OS-ATLAS: Foundation Action Model for Generalist GUI Agents
537. ICLR 2025OSCAR: Operating System Control via State-Aware Reasoning and Re-Planning
538. ICLR 2025OSTQuant: Refining Large Language Model Quantization with Orthogonal and Scaling Transformations for Better Distribution Fitting
539. ICLR 2025OVTR: End-to-End Open-Vocabulary Multiple Object Tracking with Transformer
540. ICLR 2025PAD: Personalized Alignment of LLMs at Decoding-time
541. ICLR 2025Painting with Words: Elevating Detailed Image Captioning with Benchmark and Alignment Learning
542. ICLR 2025Pangea: A Fully Open Multilingual Multimodal LLM for 39 Languages
543. ICLR 2025PaPaGei: Open Foundation Models for Optical Physiological Signals
544. ICLR 2025Param$\Delta$ for Direct Mixing: Post-Train Large Language Model At Zero Cost
545. ICLR 2025PathGen-1.6M: 1.6 Million Pathology Image-text Pairs Generation through Multi-agent Collaboration
546. ICLR 2025PEARL: Towards Permutation-Resilient LLMs
547. ICLR 2025Permute-and-Flip: An optimally stable and watermarkable decoder for LLMs
548. ICLR 2025Perplexed by Perplexity: Perplexity-Based Data Pruning With Small Reference Models
549. ICLR 2025Persistent Pre-training Poisoning of LLMs
550. ICLR 2025Personalized Visual Instruction Tuning

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.