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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701. ICLR 2025The Labyrinth of Links: Navigating the Associative Maze of Multi-modal LLMs
702. ICLR 2025The Rise and Down of Babel Tower: Investigating the Evolution Process of Multilingual Code Large Language Model
703. ICLR 2025The Semantic Hub Hypothesis: Language Models Share Semantic Representations Across Languages and Modalities
704. ICLR 2025The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of the Deeper Layers
705. ICLR 2025Theory, Analysis, and Best Practices for Sigmoid Self-Attention
706. ICLR 2025ThinK: Thinner Key Cache by Query-Driven Pruning
707. ICLR 2025TidalDecode: Fast and Accurate LLM Decoding with Position Persistent Sparse Attention
708. ICLR 2025TIGeR: Unifying Text-to-Image Generation and Retrieval with Large Multimodal Models
709. ICLR 2025Tight Clusters Make Specialized Experts
710. ICLR 2025Time-MoE: Billion-Scale Time Series Foundation Models with Mixture of Experts
711. ICLR 2025Time-to-Event Pretraining for 3D Medical Imaging
712. ICLR 2025TimeSuite: Improving MLLMs for Long Video Understanding via Grounded Tuning
713. ICLR 2025TIPS: Text-Image Pretraining with Spatial awareness
714. ICLR 2025TLDR: Token-Level Detective Reward Model for Large Vision Language Models
715. ICLR 2025To Code or Not To Code? Exploring Impact of Code in Pre-training
716. ICLR 2025TokenFormer: Rethinking Transformer Scaling with Tokenized Model Parameters
717. ICLR 2025TOMATO: Assessing Visual Temporal Reasoning Capabilities in Multimodal Foundation Models
718. ICLR 2025Topograph: An Efficient Graph-Based Framework for Strictly Topology Preserving Image Segmentation
719. ICLR 2025ToVE: Efficient Vision-Language Learning via Knowledge Transfer from Vision Experts
720. ICLR 2025Toward Guidance-Free AR Visual Generation via Condition Contrastive Alignment
721. ICLR 2025Towards Effective Evaluations and Comparisons for LLM Unlearning Methods
722. ICLR 2025Towards Interpreting Visual Information Processing in Vision-Language Models
723. ICLR 2025Towards Neural Scaling Laws for Time Series Foundation Models
724. ICLR 2025Towards Realistic UAV Vision-Language Navigation: Platform, Benchmark, and Methodology
725. ICLR 2025Towards Robust and Parameter-Efficient Knowledge Unlearning for LLMs
726. ICLR 2025Towards Robust Multimodal Open-set Test-time Adaptation via Adaptive Entropy-aware Optimization
727. ICLR 2025Towards Semantic Equivalence of Tokenization in Multimodal LLM
728. ICLR 2025TRACE: Temporal Grounding Video LLM via Causal Event Modeling
729. ICLR 2025TraceVLA: Visual Trace Prompting Enhances Spatial-Temporal Awareness for Generalist Robotic Policies
730. ICLR 2025Tracking the Copyright of Large Vision-Language Models through Parameter Learning Adversarial Images
731. ICLR 2025Train Small, Infer Large: Memory-Efficient LoRA Training for Large Language Models
732. ICLR 2025Training Language Models on Synthetic Edit Sequences Improves Code Synthesis
733. ICLR 2025Training on the Test Task Confounds Evaluation and Emergence
734. ICLR 2025Training-Free Activation Sparsity in Large Language Models
735. ICLR 2025Training-Free Diffusion Model Alignment with Sampling Demons
736. ICLR 2025Transformer Block Coupling and its Correlation with Generalization in LLMs
737. ICLR 2025Transformer Meets Twicing: Harnessing Unattended Residual Information
738. ICLR 2025Transformer-Squared: Self-adaptive LLMs
739. ICLR 2025Transfusion: Predict the Next Token and Diffuse Images with One Multi-Modal Model
740. ICLR 2025Tree of Attributes Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models
741. ICLR 2025TULIP: Token-length Upgraded CLIP
742. ICLR 2025Turning Up the Heat: Min-p Sampling for Creative and Coherent LLM Outputs
743. ICLR 2025Two Effects, One Trigger: On the Modality Gap, Object Bias, and Information Imbalance in Contrastive Vision-Language Models
744. ICLR 2025TypedThinker: Diversify Large Language Model Reasoning with Typed Thinking
745. ICLR 2025u-$\mu$P: The Unit-Scaled Maximal Update Parametrization
746. ICLR 2025U-shaped and Inverted-U Scaling behind Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models
747. ICLR 2025Ultra-Sparse Memory Network
748. ICLR 2025Uncertainty-Aware Decoding with Minimum Bayes Risk
749. ICLR 2025Uncovering Latent Memories in Large Language Models
750. ICLR 2025Uncovering Overfitting in Large Language Model Editing

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.