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 125 of 225

6201. ICLR 2025DynaMath: A Dynamic Visual Benchmark for Evaluating Mathematical Reasoning Robustness of Vision Language Models
6202. ICLR 2025Dynamic Loss-Based Sample Reweighting for Improved Large Language Model Pretraining
6203. ICLR 2025Dynamic Mixture of Experts: An Auto-Tuning Approach for Efficient Transformer Models
6204. ICLR 2025Dynamic Modeling of Patients, Modalities and Tasks via Multi-modal Multi-task Mixture of Experts
6205. ICLR 2025Dynamic Multimodal Evaluation with Flexible Complexity by Vision-Language Bootstrapping
6206. ICLR 2025Dynamic Sparse Training versus Dense Training: The Unexpected Winner in Image Corruption Robustness
6207. ICLR 2025Dynamic-LLaVA: Efficient Multimodal Large Language Models via Dynamic Vision-language Context Sparsification
6208. ICLR 2025Dynamic-SUPERB Phase-2: A Collaboratively Expanding Benchmark for Measuring the Capabilities of Spoken Language Models with 180 Tasks
6209. ICLR 2025DynaPrompt: Dynamic Test-Time Prompt Tuning
6210. ICLR 2025Dysca: A Dynamic and Scalable Benchmark for Evaluating Perception Ability of LVLMs
6211. ICLR 2025Eagle: Exploring The Design Space for Multimodal LLMs with Mixture of Encoders
6212. ICLR 2025Efficient and Context-Aware Label Propagation for Zero-/Few-Shot Training-Free Adaptation of Vision-Language Model
6213. ICLR 2025Efficient Masked AutoEncoder for Video Object Counting and A Large-Scale Benchmark
6214. ICLR 2025Efficiently Democratizing Medical LLMs for 50 Languages via a Mixture of Language Family Experts
6215. ICLR 2025EffoVPR: Effective Foundation Model Utilization for Visual Place Recognition
6216. ICLR 2025ElasticTok: Adaptive Tokenization for Image and Video
6217. ICLR 2025ELICIT: LLM Augmentation Via External In-context Capability
6218. ICLR 2025Emergence of a High-Dimensional Abstraction Phase in Language Transformers
6219. ICLR 2025EMMA: Empowering Multi-modal Mamba with Structural and Hierarchical Alignment
6220. ICLR 2025Enhancing Cognition and Explainability of Multimodal Foundation Models with Self-Synthesized Data
6221. ICLR 2025Enhancing Document Understanding with Group Position Embedding: A Novel Approach to Incorporate Layout Information
6222. ICLR 2025Enhancing Graph Of Thought: Enhancing Prompts with LLM Rationales and Dynamic Temperature Control
6223. ICLR 2025Enhancing Pre-trained Representation Classifiability can Boost its Interpretability
6224. ICLR 2025Episodic Memories Generation and Evaluation Benchmark for Large Language Models
6225. ICLR 2025ETA: Evaluating Then Aligning Safety of Vision Language Models at Inference Time
6226. ICLR 2025Evidential Learning-based Certainty Estimation for Robust Dense Feature Matching
6227. ICLR 2025Exact Byte-Level Probabilities from Tokenized Language Models for FIM-Tasks and Model Ensembles
6228. ICLR 2025ExACT: Teaching AI Agents to Explore with Reflective-MCTS and Exploratory Learning
6229. ICLR 2025Exploiting Distribution Constraints for Scalable and Efficient Image Retrieval
6230. ICLR 2025Explore Theory of Mind: program-guided adversarial data generation for theory of mind reasoning
6231. ICLR 2025Exploring the Design Space of Visual Context Representation in Video MLLMs
6232. ICLR 2025Exploring the Effectiveness of Object-Centric Representations in Visual Question Answering: Comparative Insights with Foundation Models
6233. ICLR 2025Exposure Bracketing Is All You Need For A High-Quality Image
6234. ICLR 2025F-Fidelity: A Robust Framework for Faithfulness Evaluation of Explainable AI
6235. ICLR 2025Facilitating Multi-turn Function Calling for LLMs via Compositional Instruction Tuning
6236. ICLR 2025Failures to Find Transferable Image Jailbreaks Between Vision-Language Models
6237. ICLR 2025FairMT-Bench: Benchmarking Fairness for Multi-turn Dialogue in Conversational LLMs
6238. ICLR 2025Feast Your Eyes: Mixture-of-Resolution Adaptation for Multimodal Large Language Models
6239. ICLR 2025Federated Continual Learning Goes Online: Uncertainty-Aware Memory Management for Vision Tasks and Beyond
6240. ICLR 2025Ferret-UI 2: Mastering Universal User Interface Understanding Across Platforms
6241. ICLR 2025Few-Class Arena: A Benchmark for Efficient Selection of Vision Models and Dataset Difficulty Measurement
6242. ICLR 2025Filtered not Mixed: Filtering-Based Online Gating for Mixture of Large Language Models
6243. ICLR 2025Fine-Grained Verifiers: Preference Modeling as Next-token Prediction in Vision-Language Alignment
6244. ICLR 2025Fine-tuning can Help Detect Pretraining Data from Large Language Models
6245. ICLR 2025Fine-tuning with Reserved Majority for Noise Reduction
6246. ICLR 2025FlashMask: Efficient and Rich Mask Extension of FlashAttention
6247. ICLR 2025FlexPrefill: A Context-Aware Sparse Attention Mechanism for Efficient Long-Sequence Inference
6248. ICLR 2025FLIP: Flow-Centric Generative Planning as General-Purpose Manipulation World Model
6249. ICLR 2025Forewarned is Forearmed: Harnessing LLMs for Data Synthesis via Failure-induced Exploration
6250. ICLR 2025Forgetting Transformer: Softmax Attention with a Forget Gate

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.