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

1,051 papers, page 13 of 22

601. ICML 2026ObjEmbed: Towards Universal Multimodal Object Embeddings
602. ICML 2026Olmix: A Framework for Data Mixing Throughout LM Development
603. ICML 2026Omni-Diffusion: Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation with Masked Discrete Diffusion
604. ICML 2026Omni-Perception Policy Optimization for Multimodal Emotion Reasoning
605. ICML 2026OmniAID: Decoupling Semantic and Artifacts for Universal AI-Generated Image Detection in the Wild
606. ICML 2026OmniFit: Bridging Modalities via Layer-Adaptive Token Compression for Omnimodal Large Language Models
607. ICML 2026OmniSapiens: A Foundation Model for Social Behavior Processing via Heterogeneity-Aware Relative Policy Optimization
608. ICML 2026OmniShow: Unifying Multimodal Conditions for Human-Object Interaction Video Generation
609. ICML 2026OmniSIFT: Modality-Asymmetric Token Compression for Efficient Omni-modal Large Language Models
610. ICML 2026OmniVL-Guard: Towards Unified Vision-Language Forgery Detection and Grounding via Balanced RL
611. ICML 2026On Minimum Depth and Width of Floating-Point Neural Networks for Representing Floating-Point Functions
612. ICML 2026On Path to Multimodal Historical Reasoning: HistBench and HistAgent
613. ICML 2026On the Adversarial Robustness of Large Vision-Language Models under Visual Token Compression
614. ICML 2026On the Difficulty of Learning a Meta-network for Training Data Selection
615. ICML 2026On the Generalization Gap in Self-Evolving Language Model Reasoning
616. ICML 2026On the Intrinsic Limits of Transformer Image Embeddings in Non-Solvable Spatial Reasoning
617. ICML 2026On the Plasticity and Stability for Post-Training Large Language Models
618. ICML 2026One Bias After Another: Mechanistic Reward Shaping and Persistent Biases in Language Reward Models
619. ICML 2026One Bug, Hundreds Behind: LLMs for Large-Scale Bug Discovery
620. ICML 2026One LR Doesn’t Fit All: Heavy-Tail Guided Layerwise Learning Rates for LLMs
621. ICML 2026One-shot Entropy Minimization for Language Model Reasoning
622. ICML 2026Op-CAD: Benchmarking and Investigating Operation-oriented CAD Generation
623. ICML 2026Open-World LLM Logical Reasoning
624. ICML 2026OpenHA: A Series of Open-Source Hierarchical Agentic Models in Minecraft
625. ICML 2026OpenMAG: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal-Attributed Graph
626. ICML 2026OpenTSLM: Time-Series Language Models for Reasoning over Multivariate Medical Text- and Time-Series Data
627. ICML 2026Opt-Verifier: Unleashing the Power of LLMs for Optimization Modeling via Dual-Side Verification
628. ICML 2026Optimized Deferral for Imbalanced Settings
629. ICML 2026ORBIT: A Prognostic World Model for Ocular Reasoning Based on Imagined Trajectories
630. ICML 2026Out-of-Distribution Evaluation of Rule-Based and Strategic Reasoning in Chess Transformers
631. ICML 2026Overcoming the Modality Gap in Context-Aided Forecasting
632. ICML 2026OvisOCR: End-to-End Document Parsing via Aligning Specialized Perception with General Reasoning
633. ICML 2026Pair2Scene: Learning Local Object Relations for Procedural Scene Generation
634. ICML 2026ParisKV: Fast and Drift-Robust KV-Cache Retrieval for Long-Context LLMs
635. ICML 2026Partial Ring Scan: Revisiting Scan Order in Vision State Space Models
636. ICML 2026Particle Flow for Learning from Label Proportions
637. ICML 2026Partitioning for Intrinsic Model Inversion Resistance in Collaborative Inference
638. ICML 2026Perceptual Flow Network for Visually Grounded Reasoning
639. ICML 2026PGT: Procedurally Generated Tasks for improving visual grounding in MLLMs
640. ICML 2026PhaseAlign: Complex Phase Alignment for Stable Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
641. ICML 2026PhaseCoder: Microphone Geometry-Agnostic Spatial Audio Understanding for Multimodal LLMs
642. ICML 2026PhoStream: Benchmarking Real-World Streaming for Omnimodal Assistants in Mobile Scenarios
643. ICML 2026PhysForge: Generating Physics-Grounded 3D Assets for Interactive Virtual World
644. ICML 2026PISCES: Annotation-free Text-to-Video Post-Training via Optimal Transport-Aligned Rewards
645. ICML 2026PixCLIP: Towards Fine-grained Vision-Language Understanding via Any-granularity Pixel-Text Alignment
646. ICML 2026Plan in Sandbox, Navigate in Open Worlds: Learning Physics-Grounded Abstracted Experience for Embodied Navigation
647. ICML 2026Plasticity Activation via Polar Operator: A Plug-in Method for Balancing Stability and Plasticity
648. ICML 2026Platonic Transformers: A Solid Choice For Equivariance
649. ICML 2026PlotCraft: Pushing the Limits of LLMs for Complex and Interactive Data Visualization
650. ICML 2026POLIA: Policy Optimization with Visual-Object-Level Intrinsic Advantage for Multimodal Reasoning

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.