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

1,226 papers, page 13 of 25

601. ICLR 2023NeRN: Learning Neural Representations for Neural Networks
602. ICLR 2023Neural Bregman Divergences for Distance Learning
603. ICLR 2023Neural Compositional Rule Learning for Knowledge Graph Reasoning
604. ICLR 2023Neural Optimal Transport
605. ICLR 2023Open-Vocabulary Object Detection upon Frozen Vision and Language Models
606. ICLR 2023PaLI: A Jointly-Scaled Multilingual Language-Image Model
607. ICLR 2023Patch-Level Contrasting without Patch Correspondence for Accurate and Dense Contrastive Representation Learning
608. ICLR 2023PatchDCT: Patch Refinement for High Quality Instance Segmentation
609. ICLR 2023PLOT: Prompt Learning with Optimal Transport for Vision-Language Models
610. ICLR 2023Programmatically Grounded, Compositionally Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
611. ICLR 2023Relational Attention: Generalizing Transformers for Graph-Structured Tasks
612. ICLR 2023REPAIR: REnormalizing Permuted Activations for Interpolation Repair
613. ICLR 2023Reversible Column Networks
614. ICLR 2023RGI: robust GAN-inversion for mask-free image inpainting and unsupervised pixel-wise anomaly detection
615. ICLR 2023ROSCOE: A Suite of Metrics for Scoring Step-by-Step Reasoning
616. ICLR 2023Scaling Laws For Deep Learning Based Image Reconstruction
617. ICLR 2023Schema Inference for Interpretable Image Classification
618. ICLR 2023Selection-Inference: Exploiting Large Language Models for Interpretable Logical Reasoning
619. ICLR 2023Selective Frequency Network for Image Restoration
620. ICLR 2023SemPPL: Predicting Pseudo-Labels for Better Contrastive Representations
621. ICLR 2023Sequential Learning of Neural Networks for Prequential MDL
622. ICLR 2023Socratic Models: Composing Zero-Shot Multimodal Reasoning with Language
623. ICLR 2023Spotlight: Mobile UI Understanding using Vision-Language Models with a Focus
624. ICLR 2023StrucTexTv2: Masked Visual-Textual Prediction for Document Image Pre-training
625. ICLR 2023Temporal Coherent Test Time Optimization for Robust Video Classification
626. ICLR 2023That Label's got Style: Handling Label Style Bias for Uncertain Image Segmentation
627. ICLR 2023The Lie Derivative for Measuring Learned Equivariance
628. ICLR 2023The Modality Focusing Hypothesis: Towards Understanding Crossmodal Knowledge Distillation
629. ICLR 2023This Looks Like It Rather Than That: ProtoKNN For Similarity-Based Classifiers
630. ICLR 2023TranSpeech: Speech-to-Speech Translation With Bilateral Perturbation
631. ICLR 2023Understanding Zero-shot Adversarial Robustness for Large-Scale Models
632. ICLR 2023Unicom: Universal and Compact Representation Learning for Image Retrieval
633. ICLR 2023Unified Discrete Diffusion for Simultaneous Vision-Language Generation
634. ICLR 2023UNIFIED-IO: A Unified Model for Vision, Language, and Multi-modal Tasks
635. ICLR 2023Universal Vision-Language Dense Retrieval: Learning A Unified Representation Space for Multi-Modal Retrieval
636. ICLR 2023Using Language to Extend to Unseen Domains
637. ICLR 2023Valid P-Value for Deep Learning-driven Salient Region
638. ICLR 2023Verifying the Union of Manifolds Hypothesis for Image Data
639. ICLR 2023ViewCo: Discovering Text-Supervised Segmentation Masks via Multi-View Semantic Consistency
640. ICLR 2023Vision Transformer Adapter for Dense Predictions
641. ICLR 2023Visual Classification via Description from Large Language Models
642. ICLR 2023Visual Recognition with Deep Nearest Centroids
643. ICLR 2023Visually-Augmented Language Modeling
644. ICLR 2023VoGE: A Differentiable Volume Renderer using Gaussian Ellipsoids for Analysis-by-Synthesis
645. ICLR 2023What Do Self-Supervised Vision Transformers Learn?
646. ICLR 2023When and Why Vision-Language Models Behave like Bags-Of-Words, and What to Do About It?
647. ICLR 2023Write and Paint: Generative Vision-Language Models are Unified Modal Learners
648. ICML 2023$\pi$-Tuning: Transferring Multimodal Foundation Models with Optimal Multi-task Interpolation
649. ICML 2023$H$-Consistency Bounds for Pairwise Misranking Loss Surrogates
650. ICML 2023A Closer Look at Self-Supervised Lightweight Vision Transformers

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.