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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551. ICLR 2026InftyThink: Breaking the Length Limits of Long-Context Reasoning in Large Language Models
552. ICLR 2026Inoculation Prompting: Eliciting traits from LLMs during training can reduce trait expression at test-time
553. ICLR 2026InSight-o3: Empowering Multimodal Foundation Models with Generalized Visual Search
554. ICLR 2026Interleave-VLA: Enhancing Robot Manipulation with Image-Text Interleaved Instructions
555. ICLR 2026Interleaving Reasoning for Better Text-to-Image Generation
556. ICLR 2026InternSpatial: A Comprehensive Dataset for Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
557. ICLR 2026InternSVG: Towards Unified SVG Tasks with Multimodal Large Language Models
558. ICLR 2026Interpretable 3D Neural Object Volumes for Robust Conceptual Reasoning
559. ICLR 2026Intrinsic Entropy of Context Length Scaling in LLMs
560. ICLR 2026Inverse IFEval: Can LLMs Unlearn Stubborn Training Conventions to Follow Real Instructions?
561. ICLR 2026Investigating Redundancy in Multimodal Large Language Models with Multiple Vision Encoders
562. ICLR 2026Is Finer Better? The Limits of Microscaling Formats in Large Language Models
563. ICLR 2026Is This Just Fantasy? Language Model Representations Reflect Human Judgments of Event Plausibility
564. ICLR 2026It's All Just Vectorization: einx, a Universal Notation for Tensor Operations
565. ICLR 2026IV-Bench: A Benchmark for Image-Grounded Video Perception and Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs
566. ICLR 2026IVC-Prune: Revealing the Implicit Visual Coordinates in LVLMs for Vision Token Pruning
567. ICLR 2026IVEBench: Modern Benchmark Suite for Instruction-Guided Video Editing Assessment
568. ICLR 2026IWR-Bench: Can LVLMs reconstruct interactive webpage from a user interaction video?
569. ICLR 2026Jailbreaking the Matrix: Nullspace Steering for Controlled Model Subversion
570. ICLR 2026JanusCoder: Towards a Foundational Visual-Programmatic Interface for Code Intelligence
571. ICLR 2026JanusVLN: Decoupling Semantics and Spatiality with Dual Implicit Memory for Vision-Language Navigation
572. ICLR 2026Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma Guided Network for Efficient 3D Medical Segmentation
573. ICLR 2026JointAVBench: A Benchmark for Joint Audio-Visual Reasoning Evaluation
574. ICLR 2026Journey to the Centre of Cluster: Harnessing Interior Nodes for A/B Testing under Network Interference
575. ICLR 2026Judo: A Juxtaposed Domain-oriented Multimodal Reasoner for Industrial Anomaly QA
576. ICLR 2026Just Do It!? Computer-Use Agents Exhibit Blind Goal-Directedness
577. ICLR 2026K-Sort Eval: Efficient Preference Evaluation for Visual Generation via Corrected VLM-as-a-Judge
578. ICLR 2026K²-Agent: Co-Evolving Know-What and Know-How for Hierarchical Mobile Device Control
579. ICLR 2026Kaleidoscope: In-language Exams for Massively Multilingual Vision Evaluation
580. ICLR 2026KaLM-Embedding-V2: Superior Training Techniques and Data Inspire A Versatile Embedding Model
581. ICLR 2026KBVQ-MoE: KLT-guided SVD with Bias-Corrected Vector Quantization for MoE Large Language Models
582. ICLR 2026KeepLoRA: Continual Learning with Residual Gradient Adaptation
583. ICLR 2026Know When to Abstain: Optimal Selective Classification with Likelihood Ratios
584. ICLR 2026KnowGuard: Knowledge-Driven Abstention for Multi-Round Clinical Reasoning
585. ICLR 2026Knowledge Exchange with Confidence: Cost-Effective LLM Integration for Reliable and Efficient Visual Question Answering
586. ICLR 2026Knowledge Externalization: Reversible Unlearning and Modular Retrieval in Multimodal Large Language Models
587. ICLR 2026Knowledge Fusion of Large Language Models via Modular SkillPacks
588. ICLR 2026Knowledge Reasoning Language Model: Unifying Knowledge and Language for Inductive Knowledge Graph Reasoning
589. ICLR 2026KnowledgeSmith: Uncovering Knowledge Updating in LLMs with Model Editing and Unlearning
590. ICLR 2026KV-Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference
591. ICLR 2026LABEL-FREE MITIGATION OF SPURIOUS CORRELATIONS IN VLMS USING SPARSE AUTOENCODERS
592. ICLR 2026LadderSym: A Multimodal Interleaved Transformer for Music Practice Error Detection
593. ICLR 2026LaDiR: Latent Diffusion Enhances LLMs for Text Reasoning
594. ICLR 2026Landscape of Thoughts: Visualizing the Reasoning Process of Large Language Models
595. ICLR 2026Language Confusion Gate: Language-Aware Decoding Through Model Self-Distillation
596. ICLR 2026Language in the Flow of Time: Time-Series-Paired Texts Weaved into a Unified Temporal Narrative
597. ICLR 2026Language Models are Injective and Hence Invertible
598. ICLR 2026Language-guided Open-world Video Anomaly Detection under Weak Supervision
599. ICLR 2026Language-Instructed Vision Embeddings for Controllable and Generalizable Perception
600. ICLR 2026LaplacianFormer:Rethinking Linear Attention with Laplacian Kernel

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.