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 136 of 225

6751. ICLR 2025VCR: A Task for Pixel-Level Complex Reasoning in Vision Language Models via Restoring Occluded Text
6752. ICLR 2025VEDIT: Latent Prediction Architecture For Procedural Video Representation Learning
6753. ICLR 2025VibeCheck: Discover and Quantify Qualitative Differences in Large Language Models
6754. ICLR 2025VICtoR: Learning Hierarchical Vision-Instruction Correlation Rewards for Long-horizon Manipulation
6755. ICLR 2025Video Action Differencing
6756. ICLR 2025VideoWebArena: Evaluating Long Context Multimodal Agents with Video Understanding Web Tasks
6757. ICLR 2025ViDiT-Q: Efficient and Accurate Quantization of Diffusion Transformers for Image and Video Generation
6758. ICLR 2025VILA-U: a Unified Foundation Model Integrating Visual Understanding and Generation
6759. ICLR 2025Vision and Language Synergy for Rehearsal Free Continual Learning
6760. ICLR 2025Vision Language Models are In-Context Value Learners
6761. ICLR 2025Vision-LSTM: xLSTM as Generic Vision Backbone
6762. ICLR 2025VisRAG: Vision-based Retrieval-augmented Generation on Multi-modality Documents
6763. ICLR 2025Visual Agents as Fast and Slow Thinkers
6764. ICLR 2025Visual Description Grounding Reduces Hallucinations and Boosts Reasoning in LVLMs
6765. ICLR 2025Visual Haystacks: A Vision-Centric Needle-In-A-Haystack Benchmark
6766. ICLR 2025Visual-O1: Understanding Ambiguous Instructions via Multi-modal Multi-turn Chain-of-thoughts Reasoning
6767. ICLR 2025VisualAgentBench: Towards Large Multimodal Models as Visual Foundation Agents
6768. ICLR 2025VisualPredicator: Learning Abstract World Models with Neuro-Symbolic Predicates for Robot Planning
6769. ICLR 2025VL-Cache: Sparsity and Modality-Aware KV Cache Compression for Vision-Language Model Inference Acceleration
6770. ICLR 2025VL-ICL Bench: The Devil in the Details of Multimodal In-Context Learning
6771. ICLR 2025VLAS: Vision-Language-Action Model with Speech Instructions for Customized Robot Manipulation
6772. ICLR 2025VLM2Vec: Training Vision-Language Models for Massive Multimodal Embedding Tasks
6773. ICLR 2025VLMaterial: Procedural Material Generation with Large Vision-Language Models
6774. ICLR 2025VOILA: Evaluation of MLLMs For Perceptual Understanding and Analogical Reasoning
6775. ICLR 2025Watch Less, Do More: Implicit Skill Discovery for Video-Conditioned Policy
6776. ICLR 2025Watermark Anything With Localized Messages
6777. ICLR 2025Wavelet-based Positional Representation for Long Context
6778. ICLR 2025Wayward Concepts In Multimodal Models
6779. ICLR 2025Weak to Strong Generalization for Large Language Models with Multi-capabilities
6780. ICLR 2025Weak-to-Strong Generalization Through the Data-Centric Lens
6781. ICLR 2025Weakly-Supervised Affordance Grounding Guided by Part-Level Semantic Priors
6782. ICLR 2025Weighted Multi-Prompt Learning with Description-free Large Language Model Distillation
6783. ICLR 2025Weighted Point Set Embedding for Multimodal Contrastive Learning Toward Optimal Similarity Metric
6784. ICLR 2025What is Wrong with Perplexity for Long-context Language Modeling?
6785. ICLR 2025What Makes a Maze Look Like a Maze?
6786. ICLR 2025What to align in multimodal contrastive learning?
6787. ICLR 2025When Attention Sink Emerges in Language Models: An Empirical View
6788. ICLR 2025When Prompt Engineering Meets Software Engineering: CNL-P as Natural and Robust "APIs'' for Human-AI Interaction
6789. ICLR 2025Where Am I and What Will I See: An Auto-Regressive Model for Spatial Localization and View Prediction
6790. ICLR 2025Why Does the Effective Context Length of LLMs Fall Short?
6791. ICLR 2025WildBench: Benchmarking LLMs with Challenging Tasks from Real Users in the Wild
6792. ICLR 2025WizardMath: Empowering Mathematical Reasoning for Large Language Models via Reinforced Evol-Instruct
6793. ICLR 2025X-Fi: A Modality-Invariant Foundation Model for Multimodal Human Sensing
6794. ICLR 2025xFinder: Large Language Models as Automated Evaluators for Reliable Evaluation
6795. ICLR 2025YOLO-RD: Introducing Relevant and Compact Explicit Knowledge to YOLO by Retriever-Dictionary
6796. ICLR 2025You Only Prune Once: Designing Calibration-Free Model Compression With Policy Learning
6797. ICLR 2025Your Mixture-of-Experts LLM Is Secretly an Embedding Model for Free
6798. ICLR 2025Zeroth-Order Fine-Tuning of LLMs with Transferable Static Sparsity
6799. ICLR 2025ZETA: Leveraging $Z$-order Curves for Efficient Top-$k$ Attention
6800. ICLR 2025ZIP: An Efficient Zeroth-order Prompt Tuning for Black-box Vision-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.