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

1,910 papers, page 11 of 39

501. ICML 2026Localize and Neutralize: Gradient-Guided Token Suppression Against Visual Prompt Injection Attack
502. ICML 2026LogicSAGE: Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning with Socratic-Guided Enhancement
503. ICML 2026Logit-Attention Divergence: Mitigating Position Bias in Multi-Image Retrieval via Attention-Guided Calibration
504. ICML 2026Long Grounded Thoughts: Synthesizing Visual Problems and Reasoning Chains at Scale
505. ICML 2026Long-Context Modeling with Dynamic Hierarchical Sparse Attention for Memory-Constrained LLM Inference
506. ICML 2026Look on Demand: A Cognitive Scheduling Framework for Visual Evidence Acquisition in Multimodal Reasoning
507. ICML 2026Lookahead-GCG: Improving Universal Multi-Model Optimization-Based Jailbreaking Attacks via Stochastic Nesterov Optimization
508. ICML 2026Looking Locally: Object-Centric Vision Transformers as Foundation Models for Efficient Segmentation
509. ICML 2026Low-cost Full Fine-tuning: Learning What to Update for LLMs
510. ICML 2026M-IDoL: Information Decomposition for Modality-Specific and Diverse Representation Learning in Medical Foundation Model
511. ICML 2026MACD: Model-Aware Contrastive Decoding via Counterfactual Data for Video-LLMs
512. ICML 2026MADA-Attack: Transferable Multi-modal Attention Distraction Adversarial Attack against Vision Language Models
513. ICML 2026MAGIC: Multi-Granularity Language-Informed Image Clustering
514. ICML 2026Making Expert Reasoning Learnable with Self-Distillation
515. ICML 2026ManiSoft: Towards Vision-Language Manipulation for Soft Continuum Robotics
516. ICML 2026Mantis: Lightweight Foundation Model for Time Series Classification
517. ICML 2026MapDream: Task-Driven Map Learning for Vision-Language Navigation
518. ICML 2026MathlibLemma: Folklore Lemma Generation and Benchmark for Formal Mathematics
519. ICML 2026MDN: Parallelizing Stepwise Momentum for Delta Linear Attention
520. ICML 2026Measuring Meta-Cultural Competency: A Spectral Framework for LLM Knowledge Structures
521. ICML 2026MechVQA: Benchmarking and Enhancing Multimodal LLMs on Comprehensive Mechanical Drawing Understanding
522. ICML 2026Med-Scout: Curing MLLMs' Geometric Blindness in Medical Perception via Geometry-Aware RL Post-Training
523. ICML 2026MEDA: Medical-Oriented Activation Editing for Hallucination Mitigation in Medical Large Vision-Language Model
524. ICML 2026MedCRP-CL: Continual Medical Image Segmentation via Bayesian Nonparametric Semantic Modality Discovery
525. ICML 2026MedMosaic: A Challenging Large Scale Benchmark of Diverse Medical Audio
526. ICML 2026MedREK: Retrieval-Based Editing for Medical LLMs with Key-Aware Prompts
527. ICML 2026MedScope: Incentivizing "Think with Videos" for Clinical Reasoning via Coarse-to-Fine Tool Calling
528. ICML 2026MedSIGHT: Towards Grounded Visual Comprehension in Medical Large Vision-Language Models
529. ICML 2026Meerkat-VL: Implicit Risk Safety Alignment in Multimodal LLMs via Perceptual Reasoning and Self-Verification
530. ICML 2026MemOCR: Layout-Aware Visual Memory for Efficient Long-Horizon Reasoning
531. ICML 2026Memory Savings at What Cost? A Study of Alternatives to Backpropagation
532. ICML 2026MentisOculi: Revealing the Limits of Reasoning with Mental Imagery
533. ICML 2026MER-DG: Modality-Entropy Regularization for Multimodal Domain Generalization
534. ICML 2026MET-Bench: Multimodal Entity Tracking for Evaluating the Limitations of Vision-Language and Reasoning Models
535. ICML 2026MetaDNS: Enhancing Exploration in Discrete Neural Samplers via Metadynamics
536. ICML 2026MetaPerch: Learning from metadata for bioacoustics foundation models
537. ICML 2026MetaStreet: Semi-Supervised Multimodal Learning for Street-Level Socioeconomic Prediction
538. ICML 2026MFH-NAS:A Hybrid Neural Architecture Search Framework for Multimodal Fusion Object Detection
539. ICML 2026Mind-Omni: A Unified Multi-Task Framework for Brain-Vision-Language Modeling via Discrete Diffusion
540. ICML 2026MIND: Decoupling Model-Induced Label Noise via Latent Manifold Disentanglement
541. ICML 2026MIND: Multi-rationale INtegrated Discriminative Reasoning Framework for Multi-modal Large Models
542. ICML 2026Minibatch selection for Language Models via Partition Matroid Constrained Gradient Matching
543. ICML 2026MINT: Minimal Information Neuro-Symbolic Tree for Objective-Driven Knowledge-Gap Reasoning and Active Elicitation
544. ICML 2026Mitigating Error Accumulation in Continuous Navigation via Memory-Augmented Kalman Filtering
545. ICML 2026Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models via Causal Route Gating
546. ICML 2026Mitigating Manifold Departure: Uncertainty-Aware Subspace Rectification for Trustworthy MLLM Decoding
547. ICML 2026Mitigating Mask Prior Drift and Positional Attention Collapse in Large Diffusion Vision-Language Models
548. ICML 2026Mitigating Perceptual Judgment Bias in Multimodal LLM-as-a-Judge via Perceptual Perturbation and Reward Modeling
549. ICML 2026Mitigating the Modality Gap in Vision–Language Models with Fractal Spectral Geometry
550. ICML 2026Mitigating Visual Hallucinations via Semantic Curriculum Preference Optimization in MLLMs

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.