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

11,207 papers, page 123 of 225

6101. ICLR 2025Can We Talk Models Into Seeing the World Differently?
6102. ICLR 2025CapeX: Category-Agnostic Pose Estimation from Textual Point Explanation
6103. ICLR 2025Captured by Captions: On Memorization and its Mitigation in CLIP Models
6104. ICLR 2025CarbonSense: A Multimodal Dataset and Baseline for Carbon Flux Modelling
6105. ICLR 2025Catastrophic Failure of LLM Unlearning via Quantization
6106. ICLR 2025Causal Graphical Models for Vision-Language Compositional Understanding
6107. ICLR 2025Causal Identification for Complex Functional Longitudinal Studies
6108. ICLR 2025Causal Order: The Key to Leveraging Imperfect Experts in Causal Inference
6109. ICLR 2025Causal Representation Learning from Multimodal Biomedical Observations
6110. ICLR 2025Causally Motivated Sycophancy Mitigation for Large Language Models
6111. ICLR 2025CBraMod: A Criss-Cross Brain Foundation Model for EEG Decoding
6112. ICLR 2025Century: A Framework and Dataset for Evaluating Historical Contextualisation of Sensitive Images
6113. ICLR 2025CertainlyUncertain: A Benchmark and Metric for Multimodal Epistemic and Aleatoric Awareness
6114. ICLR 2025Certifying Counterfactual Bias in LLMs
6115. ICLR 2025CG-Bench: Clue-grounded Question Answering Benchmark for Long Video Understanding
6116. ICLR 2025Chain-of-Action: Faithful and Multimodal Question Answering through Large Language Models
6117. ICLR 2025Chain-of-region: Visual Language Models Need Details for Diagram Analysis
6118. ICLR 2025ChartMoE: Mixture of Diversely Aligned Expert Connector for Chart Understanding
6119. ICLR 2025CHiP: Cross-modal Hierarchical Direct Preference Optimization for Multimodal LLMs
6120. ICLR 2025Circuit Representation Learning with Masked Gate Modeling and Verilog-AIG Alignment
6121. ICLR 2025CircuitFusion: Multimodal Circuit Representation Learning for Agile Chip Design
6122. ICLR 2025CL-MFAP: A Contrastive Learning-Based Multimodal Foundation Model for Molecular Property Prediction and Antibiotic Screening
6123. ICLR 2025Class Distribution-induced Attention Map for Open-vocabulary Semantic Segmentations
6124. ICLR 2025ClawMachine: Learning to Fetch Visual Tokens for Referential Comprehension
6125. ICLR 2025CLIBD: Bridging Vision and Genomics for Biodiversity Monitoring at Scale
6126. ICLR 2025ClimaQA: An Automated Evaluation Framework for Climate Question Answering Models
6127. ICLR 2025CLIPure: Purification in Latent Space via CLIP for Adversarially Robust Zero-Shot Classification
6128. ICLR 2025COAT: Compressing Optimizer states and Activations for Memory-Efficient FP8 Training
6129. ICLR 2025CodePlan: Unlocking Reasoning Potential in Large Language Models by Scaling Code-form Planning
6130. ICLR 2025CogCoM: A Visual Language Model with Chain-of-Manipulations Reasoning
6131. ICLR 2025ColPali: Efficient Document Retrieval with Vision Language Models
6132. ICLR 2025Combining Induction and Transduction for Abstract Reasoning
6133. ICLR 2025Composable Interventions for Language Models
6134. ICLR 2025Compositional 4D Dynamic Scenes Understanding with Physics Priors for Video Question Answering
6135. ICLR 2025Compositional Entailment Learning for Hyperbolic Vision-Language Models
6136. ICLR 2025Compute-Constrained Data Selection
6137. ICLR 2025Concept Bottleneck Language Models For Protein Design
6138. ICLR 2025Concept Bottleneck Large Language Models
6139. ICLR 2025CONDA: Adaptive Concept Bottleneck for Foundation Models Under Distribution Shifts
6140. ICLR 2025Conformal Language Model Reasoning with Coherent Factuality
6141. ICLR 2025Constructing Confidence Intervals for Average Treatment Effects from Multiple Datasets
6142. ICLR 2025Context Steering: Controllable Personalization at Inference Time
6143. ICLR 2025Context-Alignment: Activating and Enhancing LLMs Capabilities in Time Series
6144. ICLR 2025Context-aware Dynamic Pruning for Speech Foundation Models
6145. ICLR 2025Context-Parametric Inversion: Why Instruction Finetuning May Not Actually Improve Context Reliance
6146. ICLR 2025Contextual Self-paced Learning for Weakly Supervised Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding
6147. ICLR 2025Continuous Exposure Learning for Low-light Image Enhancement using Neural ODEs
6148. ICLR 2025Controllable Generation via Locally Constrained Resampling
6149. ICLR 2025Controlled LLM Decoding via Discrete Auto-regressive Biasing
6150. ICLR 2025Correlating instruction-tuning (in multimodal models) with vision-language processing (in the brain)

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.