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 124 of 225

6151. ICLR 2025CREMA: Generalizable and Efficient Video-Language Reasoning via Multimodal Modular Fusion
6152. ICLR 2025Cross the Gap: Exposing the Intra-modal Misalignment in CLIP via Modality Inversion
6153. ICLR 2025Cross-Modal Safety Mechanism Transfer in Large Vision-Language Models
6154. ICLR 2025CSA: Data-efficient Mapping of Unimodal Features to Multimodal Features
6155. ICLR 2025CURIE: Evaluating LLMs on Multitask Scientific Long-Context Understanding and Reasoning
6156. ICLR 2025Cut Your Losses in Large-Vocabulary Language Models
6157. ICLR 2025Cyclic Contrastive Knowledge Transfer for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
6158. ICLR 2025DailyDilemmas: Revealing Value Preferences of LLMs with Quandaries of Daily Life
6159. ICLR 2025DAMO: Decoding by Accumulating Activations Momentum for Mitigating Hallucinations in Vision-Language Models
6160. ICLR 2025Data Pruning by Information Maximization
6161. ICLR 2025Data Selection via Optimal Control for Language Models
6162. ICLR 2025DataMan: Data Manager for Pre-training Large Language Models
6163. ICLR 2025DECO: Unleashing the Potential of ConvNets for Query-based Detection and Segmentation
6164. ICLR 2025Deconstructing What Makes a Good Optimizer for Autoregressive Language Models
6165. ICLR 2025Deep Incomplete Multi-view Learning via Cyclic Permutation of VAEs
6166. ICLR 2025Deep Linear Probe Generators for Weight Space Learning
6167. ICLR 2025DELTA: DENSE EFFICIENT LONG-RANGE 3D TRACKING FOR ANY VIDEO
6168. ICLR 2025Demystifying the Token Dynamics of Deep Selective State Space Models
6169. ICLR 2025Density estimation with LLMs: a geometric investigation of in-context learning trajectories
6170. ICLR 2025DEPT: Decoupled Embeddings for Pre-training Language Models
6171. ICLR 2025Designing Concise ConvNets with Columnar Stages
6172. ICLR 2025Determine-Then-Ensemble: Necessity of Top-k Union for Large Language Model Ensembling
6173. ICLR 2025Diff-Prompt: Diffusion-Driven Prompt Generator with Mask Supervision
6174. ICLR 2025Differential Transformer
6175. ICLR 2025Differentially Private Steering for Large Language Model Alignment
6176. ICLR 2025Diffusion Feedback Helps CLIP See Better
6177. ICLR 2025Digi-Q: Learning VLM Q-Value Functions for Training Device-Control Agents
6178. ICLR 2025Directional Gradient Projection for Robust Fine-Tuning of Foundation Models
6179. ICLR 2025Discovering Clone Negatives via Adaptive Contrastive Learning for Image-Text Matching
6180. ICLR 2025Discovering Influential Neuron Path in Vision Transformers
6181. ICLR 2025DisEnvisioner: Disentangled and Enriched Visual Prompt for Customized Image Generation
6182. ICLR 2025Distributional Associations vs In-Context Reasoning: A Study of Feed-forward and Attention Layers
6183. ICLR 2025Divergence-enhanced Knowledge-guided Context Optimization for Visual-Language Prompt Tuning
6184. ICLR 2025Divide and Translate: Compositional First-Order Logic Translation and Verification for Complex Logical Reasoning
6185. ICLR 2025Do Egocentric Video-Language Models Truly Understand Hand-Object Interactions?
6186. ICLR 2025Do LLMs estimate uncertainty well in instruction-following?
6187. ICLR 2025Do LLMs have Consistent Values?
6188. ICLR 2025Do Vision & Language Decoders use Images and Text equally? How Self-consistent are their Explanations?
6189. ICLR 2025Do Vision-Language Models Represent Space and How? Evaluating Spatial Frame of Reference under Ambiguities
6190. ICLR 2025Do You Keep an Eye on What I Ask? Mitigating Multimodal Hallucination via Attention-Guided Ensemble Decoding
6191. ICLR 2025Dobi-SVD: Differentiable SVD for LLM Compression and Some New Perspectives
6192. ICLR 2025DOCS: Quantifying Weight Similarity for Deeper Insights into Large Language Models
6193. ICLR 2025Does Safety Training of LLMs Generalize to Semantically Related Natural Prompts?
6194. ICLR 2025Does Spatial Cognition Emerge in Frontier Models?
6195. ICLR 2025DOTS: Learning to Reason Dynamically in LLMs via Optimal Reasoning Trajectories Search
6196. ICLR 2025DPLM-2: A Multimodal Diffusion Protein Language Model
6197. ICLR 2025Draw-and-Understand: Leveraging Visual Prompts to Enable MLLMs to Comprehend What You Want
6198. ICLR 2025DS-LLM: Leveraging Dynamical Systems to Enhance Both Training and Inference of Large Language Models
6199. ICLR 2025DSBench: How Far Are Data Science Agents from Becoming Data Science Experts?
6200. ICLR 2025Dualformer: Controllable Fast and Slow Thinking by Learning with Randomized Reasoning Traces

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.