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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751. ICLR 2026MoRA: Missing Modality Low-Rank Adaptation for Visual Recognition
752. ICLR 2026Mordal: Automated Pretrained Model Selection for Vision Language Models
753. ICLR 2026More Thought, Less Accuracy? On the Dual Nature of Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
754. ICLR 2026MotionSight: Boosting Fine-Grained Motion Understanding in Multimodal LLMs
755. ICLR 2026MRAD: Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection with Memory-Driven Retrieval
756. ICLR 2026MRMR: A Realistic and Expert-Level Multidisciplinary Benchmark for Reasoning-Intensive Multimodal Retrieval
757. ICLR 2026MrRoPE: Mixed-radix Rotary Position Embedding
758. ICLR 2026MSCR: Exploring the Vulnerability of LLMs’ Mathematical Reasoning Abilities Using Multi-Source Candidate Replacement
759. ICLR 2026MT-DAO: Multi-Timescale Distributed Adaptive Optimizers with Local Updates
760. ICLR 2026MTVCraft: Tokenizing 4D Motion for Arbitrary Character Animation
761. ICLR 2026Multi-Domain Transferable Graph Gluing for Building Graph Foundation Models
762. ICLR 2026Multi-LCB: Extending LiveCodeBench to Multiple Programming Languages
763. ICLR 2026Multi-Scale Hypergraph Meets LLMs: Aligning Large Language Models for Time Series Analysis
764. ICLR 2026MultiMat: Multimodal Program Synthesis for Procedural Materials using Large Multimodal Models
765. ICLR 2026Multimodal Aligned Semantic Knowledge for Unpaired Image-text Matching
766. ICLR 2026Multimodal Classification via Total Correlation Maximization
767. ICLR 2026Multimodal Dataset Distillation Made Simple by Prototype-guided Data Synthesis
768. ICLR 2026Multimodal Dataset Distillation via Phased Teacher Models
769. ICLR 2026Multimodal LLM-assisted Evolutionary Search for Programmatic Control Policies
770. ICLR 2026Multimodal Policy Internalization for Conversational Agents
771. ICLR 2026Multimodal Prompt Optimization: Why Not Leverage Multiple Modalities for MLLMs
772. ICLR 2026MULTIMODALITY AS SUPERVISION: SELF-SUPERVISED SPECIALIZATION TO THE TEST ENVIRONMENT VIA MULTIMODALITY
773. ICLR 2026Multiple Token Divergence: Measuring and Steering In-Context Computation Density
774. ICLR 2026MVR: Multi-view Video Reward Shaping for Reinforcement Learning
775. ICLR 2026Naming to Learn: Class Incremental Learning for Vision-Language Model with Unlabeled Data
776. ICLR 2026Nano3D: A Training-Free Approach for Efficient 3D Editing Without Masks
777. ICLR 2026Natural Identifiers for Privacy and Data Audits in Large Language Models
778. ICLR 2026Natural Language PDDL (NL-PDDL) for Open-world Goal-oriented Commonsense Regression Planning in Embodied AI
779. ICLR 2026NC-Bench and NCfold: A Benchmark and Closed-Loop Framework for RNA Non-Canonical Base-Pair Prediction
780. ICLR 2026Near-Optimal Online Deployment and Routing for Streaming LLMs
781. ICLR 2026Neologism Learning for Controllability and Self-Verbalization
782. ICLR 2026NePTune: A Neuro-Pythonic Framework for Tunable Compositional Reasoning on Vision-Language
783. ICLR 2026NerVE: Nonlinear Eigenspectrum Dynamics in LLM Feed-Forward Networks
784. ICLR 2026Neural Message-Passing on Attention Graphs for Hallucination Detection
785. ICLR 2026Neuron-Aware Data Selection in Instruction Tuning for Large Language Models
786. ICLR 2026New Hybrid Fine-Tuning Paradigm for LLMs: Algorithm Design and Convergence Analysis Framework
787. ICLR 2026NExT-OMNI: Towards Any-to-Any Omnimodal Foundation Models with Discrete Flow Matching
788. ICLR 2026Next-ToBE: Probabilistic Next Token-Bag Exploitation for Activating Anticipatory Capacity in LLMs
789. ICLR 2026NLI : Non-uniform Linear Interpolation Approximation of Nonlinear Operations for Efficient LLMs Inference
790. ICLR 2026No Caption, No Problem: Caption-Free Membership Inference via Model-Fitted Embeddings
791. ICLR 2026No Labels, No Problem: Training Visual Reasoners with Multimodal Verifiers
792. ICLR 2026No outlier channels but with outlier blocks
793. ICLR 2026No Pixel Left Behind: A Detail-Preserving Architecture for Robust High-Resolution AI-Generated Image Detection
794. ICLR 2026Noise Stability of Transformer Models
795. ICLR 2026Noisy but Valid: Robust Statistical Evaluation of LLMs with Imperfect Judges
796. ICLR 2026Nonparametric Teaching of Attention Learners
797. ICLR 2026Not All Documents Are What You Need for Extracting Instruction Tuning Data
798. ICLR 2026Not Search, But Scan: Benchmarking MLLMs on Scan-Oriented Academic Paper Reasoning
799. ICLR 2026Not-a-Bandit: Provably No-Regret Drafter Selection in Speculative Decoding for LLMs
800. ICLR 2026Nüwa: Mending the Spatial Integrity Torn by VLM Token Pruning

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.