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 2026Meta-UCF: Unified Task-Conditioned LoRA Generation for Continual Learning in Large Language Models
702. ICLR 2026MetaCaptioner: Towards Generalist Visual Captioning with Open-source Suites
703. ICLR 2026MetaEmbed: Scaling Multimodal Retrieval at Test-Time with Flexible Late Interaction
704. ICLR 2026MetaSpatial: Reinforcing 3D Spatial Reasoning in VLMs for the Metaverse
705. ICLR 2026MetaVLA: Unified Meta Co-Training for Efficient Embodied Adaptation
706. ICLR 2026Metis: Training LLMs with FP4 Quantization
707. ICLR 2026MHLA: Restoring Expressivity of Linear Attention via Token-Level Multi-Head
708. ICLR 2026MIAM: Modality Imbalance-Aware Masking for Multimodal Ecological Applications
709. ICLR 2026MICLIP: Learning to Interpret Representation in Vision Models
710. ICLR 2026MicroMix: Efficient Mixed-Precision Quantization with Microscaling Formats for Large Language Models
711. ICLR 2026MIDAS: Multi-Image Dispersion and Semantic Reconstruction for Jailbreaking MLLMs
712. ICLR 2026Midway Network: Learning Representations for Recognition and Motion from Latent Dynamics
713. ICLR 2026MILR: Improving Multimodal Image Generation via Test-Time Latent Reasoning
714. ICLR 2026MIMIC-Bench: Exploring the User-Like Thinking and Mimicking Capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models
715. ICLR 2026MindMix: A Multimodal Foundation Model for Auditory Perception Decoding via Deep Neural-Acoustic Alignment
716. ICLR 2026Mini-o3: Scaling Up Reasoning Patterns and Interaction Turns for Visual Search
717. ICLR 2026Misaligned Roles, Misplaced Images: Structural Input Perturbations Expose Multimodal Alignment Blind Spots
718. ICLR 2026Missingness Bias Calibration in Feature Attribution Explanations
719. ICLR 2026Mitigating Hallucination in Vision-Language Model with Depth and Spatial-aware Key-Value Refinement
720. ICLR 2026Mitigating Safety Fallback in Editing-based Backdoor Injection on LLMs
721. ICLR 2026Mixing Importance with Diversity: Joint Optimization for KV Cache Compression in Large Vision-Language Models
722. ICLR 2026Mixture of Contexts for Long Video Generation
723. ICLR 2026Mixture-of-Experts Can Surpass Dense LLMs Under Strictly Equal Resource
724. ICLR 2026Mixture-of-Visual-Thoughts: Exploring Context-Adaptive Reasoning Mode Selection for General Visual Reasoning
725. ICLR 2026MM-HELIX: Boosting Multimodal Long-Chain Reflective Reasoning with Holistic Platform and Adaptive Hybrid Policy Optimization
726. ICLR 2026MME-Emotion: A Holistic Evaluation Benchmark for Emotional Intelligence in Multimodal Large Language Models
727. ICLR 2026MME-Unify: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation Models
728. ICLR 2026MMedAgent-RL: Optimizing Multi-Agent Collaboration for Multimodal Medical Reasoning
729. ICLR 2026MMR-Life: Piecing Together Real-life Scenes for Multimodal Multi-image Reasoning
730. ICLR 2026MMR-V: What's Left Unsaid? A Benchmark for Multimodal Deep Reasoning in Videos
731. ICLR 2026MMReD: a Cross-Modal Benchmark for Dense Context Reasoning
732. ICLR 2026MMSearch-Plus: Benchmarking Provenance-Aware Search for Multimodal Browsing Agents
733. ICLR 2026MMSI-Bench: A Benchmark for Multi-Image Spatial Intelligence
734. ICLR 2026MMSU: A Massive Multi-task Spoken Language Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark
735. ICLR 2026MMTok: Multimodal Coverage Maximization for Efficient Inference of VLMs
736. ICLR 2026MoBE: Mixture-of-Basis-Experts for Compressing MoE-based LLMs
737. ICLR 2026MobiEdit: Resource-efficient Knowledge Editing for Personalized On-device LLMs
738. ICLR 2026MobileIPL: Enhancing Mobile Agents Thinking Process via Iterative Preference Learning
739. ICLR 2026MoCa: Modeling Object Consistency for 3D Camera Control in Video Generation
740. ICLR 2026Mod-Adapter: Tuning-Free and Versatile Multi-concept Personalization via Modulation Adapter
741. ICLR 2026Modal Aphasia: Can Unified Multimodal Models Describe Images From Memory?
742. ICLR 2026Modality Alignment across Trees on Heterogeneous Hyperbolic Manifolds
743. ICLR 2026Model Collapse Is Not a Bug but a Feature in Machine Unlearning for LLMs
744. ICLR 2026MoDr: Mixture-of-Depth-Recurrent Transformers for Test-Time Reasoning
745. ICLR 2026MoEEdit: Efficient and Routing-Stable Knowledge Editing for Mixture-of-Experts LLMs
746. ICLR 2026MoL: Adaptive Mixture-of-Length Reasoning for Efficient Question Answering with Context
747. ICLR 2026MolLangBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Language-Prompted Molecular Structure Recognition, Editing, and Generation
748. ICLR 2026MoM: Linear Sequence Modeling with Mixture-of-Memories
749. ICLR 2026MomaGraph: State-Aware Unified Scene Graphs with Vision-Language Models for Embodied Task Planning
750. ICLR 2026MoNE: Replacing Redundant Experts with Lightweight Novices for Structured Pruning of MoE

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.