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

1,226 papers, page 12 of 25

551. ICLR 2023Faster Gradient-Free Methods for Escaping Saddle Points
552. ICLR 2023Fundamental limits on the robustness of image classifiers
553. ICLR 2023GAMR: A Guided Attention Model for (visual) Reasoning
554. ICLR 2023Generalization and Estimation Error Bounds for Model-based Neural Networks
555. ICLR 2023Generalization Bounds for Federated Learning: Fast Rates, Unparticipating Clients and Unbounded Losses
556. ICLR 2023GPViT: A High Resolution Non-Hierarchical Vision Transformer with Group Propagation
557. ICLR 2023HiCLIP: Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining with Hierarchy-aware Attention
558. ICLR 2023HiViT: A Simpler and More Efficient Design of Hierarchical Vision Transformer
559. ICLR 2023Human MotionFormer: Transferring Human Motions with Vision Transformers
560. ICLR 2023Identifiability Results for Multimodal Contrastive Learning
561. ICLR 2023Image as Set of Points
562. ICLR 2023Image to Sphere: Learning Equivariant Features for Efficient Pose Prediction
563. ICLR 2023Interactive Portrait Harmonization
564. ICLR 2023ISAAC Newton: Input-based Approximate Curvature for Newton's Method
565. ICLR 2023Iterative Patch Selection for High-Resolution Image Recognition
566. ICLR 2023Knowledge Distillation based Degradation Estimation for Blind Super-Resolution
567. ICLR 2023Large Language Models are Human-Level Prompt Engineers
568. ICLR 2023Layer Grafted Pre-training: Bridging Contrastive Learning And Masked Image Modeling For Label-Efficient Representations
569. ICLR 2023Learning Iterative Neural Optimizers for Image Steganography
570. ICLR 2023Learning Multimodal Data Augmentation in Feature Space
571. ICLR 2023Learning Sparse and Low-Rank Priors for Image Recovery via Iterative Reweighted Least Squares Minimization
572. ICLR 2023Learning to Compose Soft Prompts for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
573. ICLR 2023Learning to Decompose Visual Features with Latent Textual Prompts
574. ICLR 2023Learning to Grow Pretrained Models for Efficient Transformer Training
575. ICLR 2023Learning to Jointly Share and Prune Weights for Grounding Based Vision and Language Models
576. ICLR 2023Leveraging Future Relationship Reasoning for Vehicle Trajectory Prediction
577. ICLR 2023Leveraging Large Language Models for Multiple Choice Question Answering
578. ICLR 2023Light Sampling Field and BRDF Representation for Physically-based Neural Rendering
579. ICLR 2023LipsFormer: Introducing Lipschitz Continuity to Vision Transformers
580. ICLR 2023LMSeg: Language-guided Multi-dataset Segmentation
581. ICLR 2023Lossless Adaptation of Pretrained Vision Models For Robotic Manipulation
582. ICLR 2023LPT: Long-tailed Prompt Tuning for Image Classification
583. ICLR 2023Masked Unsupervised Self-training for Label-free Image Classification
584. ICLR 2023Masked Vision and Language Modeling for Multi-modal Representation Learning
585. ICLR 2023MaskViT: Masked Visual Pre-Training for Video Prediction
586. ICLR 2023MAST: Masked Augmentation Subspace Training for Generalizable Self-Supervised Priors
587. ICLR 2023Maximizing Spatio-Temporal Entropy of Deep 3D CNNs for Efficient Video Recognition
588. ICLR 2023Measuring axiomatic soundness of counterfactual image models
589. ICLR 2023MEDICAL IMAGE UNDERSTANDING WITH PRETRAINED VISION LANGUAGE MODELS: A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY
590. ICLR 2023Meta Learning to Bridge Vision and Language Models for Multimodal Few-Shot Learning
591. ICLR 2023MIMT: Masked Image Modeling Transformer for Video Compression
592. ICLR 2023Mini-batch $k$-means terminates within $O(d/\epsilon)$ iterations
593. ICLR 2023MixPro: Data Augmentation with MaskMix and Progressive Attention Labeling for Vision Transformer
594. ICLR 2023MMVAE+: Enhancing the Generative Quality of Multimodal VAEs without Compromises
595. ICLR 2023MOAT: Alternating Mobile Convolution and Attention Brings Strong Vision Models
596. ICLR 2023Modeling Multimodal Aleatoric Uncertainty in Segmentation with Mixture of Stochastic Experts
597. ICLR 2023Mosaic Representation Learning for Self-supervised Visual Pre-training
598. ICLR 2023Multimodal Analogical Reasoning over Knowledge Graphs
599. ICLR 2023Multimodal Federated Learning via Contrastive Representation Ensemble
600. ICLR 2023MultiViz: Towards Visualizing and Understanding Multimodal 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.