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

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651. ICLR 2025SleepSMC: Ubiquitous Sleep Staging via Supervised Multimodal Coordination
652. ICLR 2025SLoPe: Double-Pruned Sparse Plus Lazy Low-Rank Adapter Pretraining of LLMs
653. ICLR 2025Small Models are LLM Knowledge Triggers for Medical Tabular Prediction
654. ICLR 2025Smaller, Weaker, Yet Better: Training LLM Reasoners via Compute-Optimal Sampling
655. ICLR 2025Smoothing the Shift: Towards Stable Test-Time Adaptation under Complex Multimodal Noises
656. ICLR 2025SMT: Fine-Tuning Large Language Models with Sparse Matrices
657. ICLR 2025Solving Token Gradient Conflict in Mixture-of-Experts for Large Vision-Language Model
658. ICLR 2025SPAM: Spike-Aware Adam with Momentum Reset for Stable LLM Training
659. ICLR 2025SPaR: Self-Play with Tree-Search Refinement to Improve Instruction-Following in Large Language Models
660. ICLR 2025Sparse autoencoders reveal selective remapping of visual concepts during adaptation
661. ICLR 2025Specialized Foundation Models Struggle to Beat Supervised Baselines
662. ICLR 2025SpikeLLM: Scaling up Spiking Neural Network to Large Language Models via Saliency-based Spiking
663. ICLR 2025SpinQuant: LLM Quantization with Learned Rotations
664. ICLR 2025SPORTU: A Comprehensive Sports Understanding Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models
665. ICLR 2025STAR: Synthesis of Tailored Architectures
666. ICLR 2025STBLLM: Breaking the 1-Bit Barrier with Structured Binary LLMs
667. ICLR 2025Step-by-Step Reasoning for Math Problems via Twisted Sequential Monte Carlo
668. ICLR 2025Straight to Zero: Why Linearly Decaying the Learning Rate to Zero Works Best for LLMs
669. ICLR 2025Streaming Video Question-Answering with In-context Video KV-Cache Retrieval
670. ICLR 2025Streaming Video Understanding and Multi-round Interaction with Memory-enhanced Knowledge
671. ICLR 2025Streamlining Redundant Layers to Compress Large Language Models
672. ICLR 2025StructRAG: Boosting Knowledge Intensive Reasoning of LLMs via Inference-time Hybrid Information Structurization
673. ICLR 2025SuperCorrect: Advancing Small LLM Reasoning with Thought Template Distillation and Self-Correction
674. ICLR 2025SV-RAG: LoRA-Contextualizing Adaptation of MLLMs for Long Document Understanding
675. ICLR 2025SVBench: A Benchmark with Temporal Multi-Turn Dialogues for Streaming Video Understanding
676. ICLR 2025SVD-LLM: Truncation-aware Singular Value Decomposition for Large Language Model Compression
677. ICLR 2025SWE-bench Multimodal: Do AI Systems Generalize to Visual Software Domains?
678. ICLR 2025SWIFT: On-the-Fly Self-Speculative Decoding for LLM Inference Acceleration
679. ICLR 2025Swiss Army Knife: Synergizing Biases in Knowledge from Vision Foundation Models for Multi-Task Learning
680. ICLR 2025SysBench: Can LLMs Follow System Message?
681. ICLR 2025SysCaps: Language Interfaces for Simulation Surrogates of Complex Systems
682. ICLR 2025System 1.x: Learning to Balance Fast and Slow Planning with Language Models
683. ICLR 2025TAID: Temporally Adaptive Interpolated Distillation for Efficient Knowledge Transfer in Language Models
684. ICLR 2025Tamper-Resistant Safeguards for Open-Weight LLMs
685. ICLR 2025TaskGalaxy: Scaling Multi-modal Instruction Fine-tuning with Tens of Thousands Vision Task Types
686. ICLR 2025TAU-106K: A New Dataset for Comprehensive Understanding of Traffic Accident
687. ICLR 2025Teaching Human Behavior Improves Content Understanding Abilities Of VLMs
688. ICLR 2025Teaching LLMs How to Learn with Contextual Fine-Tuning
689. ICLR 2025TEASER: Token Enhanced Spatial Modeling for Expressions Reconstruction
690. ICLR 2025TeaserGen: Generating Teasers for Long Documentaries
691. ICLR 2025Tell me about yourself: LLMs are aware of their learned behaviors
692. ICLR 2025TempMe: Video Temporal Token Merging for Efficient Text-Video Retrieval
693. ICLR 2025Temporal Reasoning Transfer from Text to Video
694. ICLR 2025TEOChat: A Large Vision-Language Assistant for Temporal Earth Observation Data
695. ICLR 2025Test of Time: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Temporal Reasoning
696. ICLR 2025Test-time Adaptation for Image Compression with Distribution Regularization
697. ICLR 2025Text4Seg: Reimagining Image Segmentation as Text Generation
698. ICLR 2025The 3D-PC: a benchmark for visual perspective taking in humans and machines
699. ICLR 2025The AdEMAMix Optimizer: Better, Faster, Older
700. ICLR 2025The Hyperfitting Phenomenon: Sharpening and Stabilizing LLMs for Open-Ended Text Generation

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.