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

1,401 papers, page 13 of 29

601. ICLR 2026Late-to-Early Training: LET LLMs Learn Earlier, So Faster and Better
602. ICLR 2026Latent Speech-Text Transformer
603. ICLR 2026Latent Visual Reasoning
604. ICLR 2026Latent-Guided Reasoning: Empowering Small LLMs with Large-Model Thinking
605. ICLR 2026LatentQA: Teaching LLMs to Decode Activations Into Natural Language
606. ICLR 2026Lavida-O: Elastic Large Masked Diffusion Models for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
607. ICLR 2026LD-MoLE: Learnable Dynamic Routing for Mixture of LoRA Experts
608. ICLR 2026LeanForPhysics: Comprehensive Reasoning Framework for University-level Physics in Lean4
609. ICLR 2026Learned Meta-Tokens for Language Modeling
610. ICLR 2026Learning an Image Editing Model without Image Editing Pairs
611. ICLR 2026Learning Concept Bottleneck Models from Mechanistic Explanations
612. ICLR 2026Learning Domain-Aware Task Prompt Representations for Multi-Domain All-in-One Image Restoration
613. ICLR 2026Learning Exposure Mapping Functions for Inferring Heterogeneous Peer Effects
614. ICLR 2026Learning for Highly Faithful Explainability
615. ICLR 2026Learning multimodal dictionary decompositions with group-sparse autoencoders
616. ICLR 2026Learning Ordinal Probabilistic Reward from Preferences
617. ICLR 2026Learning Self-Critiquing Mechanisms for Region-Guided Chest X-Ray Report Generation
618. ICLR 2026Learning Semi-Structured Sparsity for LLMs via Shared and Context-Aware Hypernetwork
619. ICLR 2026Learning to Parallel: Accelerating Diffusion Large Language Models via Adaptive Parallel Decoding
620. ICLR 2026Learning to See Before Seeing: Demystifying LLM Visual Priors from Language Pre-training
621. ICLR 2026Learning-Time Encoding Shapes Unlearning in LLMs
622. ICLR 2026LearnPruner: Rethinking Attention-based Token Pruning in Vision Language Models
623. ICLR 2026LEGATO: Large-scale End-to-end Generalizable Approach to Typeset OMR
624. ICLR 2026LENS: Multi-level Evaluation of Multimodal Reasoning with Large Language Models
625. ICLR 2026LeSTD: LLM Compression via Learning-based Sparse Tensor Decomposition
626. ICLR 2026Let LLMs Speak Embedding Languages: Generative Text Embeddings via Iterative Contrastive Refinement
627. ICLR 2026Let's (not) just put things in Context: Test-time Training for Long-context LLMs
628. ICLR 2026Let's Split Up: Zero-Shot Classifier Edits for Fine-Grained Video Understanding
629. ICLR 2026Let's Think in Two Steps: Mitigating Agreement Bias in MLLMs with Self-Grounded Verification
630. ICLR 2026Leveraging Data to Say No: Memory Augmented Plug-and-Play Selective Prediction
631. ICLR 2026Leveraging Pretrained Knowledge at Inference Time: LoRA-Gated Contrastive Decoding for Multilingual Factual Language Generation in Adapted LLMs
632. ICLR 2026LEXam: Benchmarking Legal Reasoning on 340 Law Exams
633. ICLR 2026Light of Normals: Unified Feature Representation for Universal Photometric Stereo
634. ICLR 2026Lightweight Spatio-Temporal Modeling via Temporally Shifted Distillation for Real-Time Accident Anticipation
635. ICLR 2026Linear Mechanisms for Spatiotemporal Reasoning in Vision Language Models
636. ICLR 2026LinearSR: Unlocking Linear Attention for Stable and Efficient Image Super-Resolution
637. ICLR 2026LingoLoop Attack: Trapping MLLMs via Linguistic Context and State Entrapment into Endless Loops
638. ICLR 2026LinguaMap: Which Layers of LLMs Speak Your Language and How to Tune Them?
639. ICLR 2026LINK: Learning Instance-level Knowledge from Vision-Language Models for Human-Object Interaction Detection
640. ICLR 2026Linking Process to Outcome: Conditional Reward Modeling for LLM Reasoning
641. ICLR 2026LiveClin: A Live Clinical Benchmark without Leakage
642. ICLR 2026LLaVA-4D: Embedding SpatioTemporal Prompt into LMMs for 4D Scene Understanding
643. ICLR 2026LLaVA-FA: Learning Fourier Approximation for Compressing Large Multimodal Models
644. ICLR 2026LLaVAction: evaluating and training multi-modal large language models for action understanding
645. ICLR 2026LLM Pretraining with Continuous Concepts
646. ICLR 2026LLMs as Rules Oracles: Exploring Real-World Multimodal Reasoning in Tabletop Strategy Game Environments
647. ICLR 2026LLMs Can Hide Text in Other Text of the Same Length
648. ICLR 2026LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation
649. ICLR 2026LLMs Must Think Thrice to Solve Executable Counterfactuals
650. ICLR 2026LLMS ON TRIAL: Evaluating Judicial Fairness For Large Language 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.