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

1,051 papers, page 12 of 22

551. ICML 2026MiVE: Multiscale Vision-language features for reference-guided video Editing
552. ICML 2026Mixing Expertise with Confidence: A Mixture of Experts Framework for Robust Multi-Modal Continual Learning
553. ICML 2026Mixture of Distributions Matters: Dynamic Sparse Attention for Efficient Video Diffusion Transformers
554. ICML 2026MLLM-4D: Towards Visual-based Spatial-Temporal Intelligence
555. ICML 2026MM-Snowball: Evaluating and Mitigating Hallucination Snowballing in Multimodal Multi-Turn Dialogue
556. ICML 2026MM-Spectrum: Multimodal Multi-spectral Molecular Structural Elucidation with a Stable MoE Framework
557. ICML 2026MMBench-Live: A Continuously Evolving Benchmark for Multimodal Models
558. ICML 2026MMClima: A Framework for Multimodal Climate Science Data and Evaluation
559. ICML 2026MME-Reasoning: A Broad-Spectrum Benchmark for Evaluating Logical Reasoning in MLLMs
560. ICML 2026MobileFusion: Mobile-Friendly Infrared and Visible Image Fusion via Structural Re-parameterization
561. ICML 2026MOD-SR: Unifying Multimodal Learning and Direct Optimization with Gradient-Guided Diffusion Model for Symbolic Regression
562. ICML 2026MoDA: Modulation Adapter for Fine-Grained Visual Understanding in Instructional MLLMs
563. ICML 2026Modality-Decoupled Online Recursive Editing
564. ICML 2026Model-Dowser: Data-Free Importance Probing to Mitigate Catastrophic Forgetting in Multimodal Large Language Models
565. ICML 2026Model-Preserving Adaptive Rounding
566. ICML 2026ModernVBERT: Towards Smaller Visual Document Retrievers
567. ICML 2026MoLoRA: Composable Specialization via Per-Token Adapter Routing
568. ICML 2026MORALISE: A Structured Benchmark for Moral Alignment in Visual Language Models
569. ICML 2026MORE: A Multilingual Document Parsing Benchmark and Evaluation
570. ICML 2026Mosaic: Unlocking Over 30$\times$ Context Length for Diffusion LLMs Inference via Global Memory Planning and Dynamic Peak Taming
571. ICML 2026MotiMotion: Motion-Controlled Video Generation with Visual Reasoning
572. ICML 2026Motion Dynamics Learning for Few-Shot Embodied Adaptation
573. ICML 2026Move-Then-Operate: Behavioral Phasing for Human-Like Robotic Manipulation
574. ICML 2026MoVie: Multimodal Video Compression with Text Guidance
575. ICML 2026MuLoCo: Muon is a Practical Inner Optimizer for DiLoCo
576. ICML 2026Multi-Label Test-Time Adaptation with Bayesian Conditional Priors
577. ICML 2026MultiLoReFT: Decoupling Shared and Modality-Specific Subspaces in Multimodal Learning via Low-Rank Representation Fine-Tuning
578. ICML 2026Multimodal Fact-Level Attribution for Verifiable Reasoning
579. ICML 2026Multimodal Function Vectors for Visual Relations
580. ICML 2026Multimodal Fusion via Self-Consistent Task-Gradient Fields
581. ICML 2026Multimodal Latent Language Modeling with Next-Token Diffusion
582. ICML 2026Multimodal Nested Learning for Decoupled and Coordinated Optimization
583. ICML 2026Multimodal Scaling Laws for Task & Data-Optimized Models of Visual Cortex
584. ICML 2026MultiPriv: Benchmarking Individual-Level Privacy Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
585. ICML 2026MVI-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Robustness to Misleading Visual Inputs in LVLMs
586. ICML 2026MVP-LAM: Learning Action-Centric Latent Action via Cross-Viewpoint Reconstruction
587. ICML 2026Native Active Perception as Reasoning for Omni-Modal Understanding
588. ICML 2026NAVIGATE: Evaluating Visual-Guided Search Decision-Making on the Open Web
589. ICML 2026Navigating the Pareto Frontier of Alignment: Spectrum-Adaptive Fine-Tuning for LLMs
590. ICML 2026NeUQI: Near-Optimal Uniform Quantization Parameter Initialization for Low-Bit LLMs
591. ICML 2026Neural Implicit Action Fields: From Discrete Waypoints to Continuous Functions for Vision-Language-Action Models
592. ICML 2026Neuro-Fuzzy Concept Learning for Interpretable Large Multimodal Models
593. ICML 2026NeuroCLUS: A Foundation Model with Functional Clustering for Intracranial Neural Decoding
594. ICML 2026Neuromem: A Granular Decomposition of the Streaming Lifecycle in External Memory for LLMs
595. ICML 2026NeurVLA: Unleashing Failure-Handling Capability of Vision-Language-Action Models via Neural-Symbolic Reasoning
596. ICML 2026Neutral-Reference Prompting for Vision–Language Models
597. ICML 2026No Data? No Problem: Robust Vision-Tabular Learning with Missing Values
598. ICML 2026Norm$\times$Direction: Restoring the Missing Query Norm in Vision Linear Attention
599. ICML 2026Normalization Equivariance for Arbitrary Backbones, with Application to Image Denoising
600. ICML 2026Numina-Lean-Agent: An Open and General Agentic Reasoning System for Formal Mathematics

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.