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

1,051 papers, page 16 of 22

751. ICML 2026Scaling by Diversified Experience for Vision-Language-Action Models
752. ICML 2026Scaling Prompt Synthesis for Large Language Model Reasoning
753. ICML 2026Scaling Vision Transformers for Functional MRI with Flat Maps
754. ICML 2026Scaling-Aware Adapter for Structure-Grounded LLM Reasoning
755. ICML 2026Scaling, Benchmarking, and Reasoning of Vision-Language Agents for Mobile GUI Navigation
756. ICML 2026ScalingAR: Scaling Confidence for Autoregressive Image Generation
757. ICML 2026Scene Graph Thinking: Reinforcing Structured Visual Reasoning for Multimodal Large Language Models
758. ICML 2026SceneSmith: Agentic Generation of Simulation-Ready Indoor Scenes
759. ICML 2026SciPredict: Can LLMs Predict the Outcomes of Scientific Experiments in Natural Sciences?
760. ICML 2026SciVideoBench: Benchmarking Scientific Video Reasoning in Large Multimodal Models
761. ICML 2026SCOPE and SCION: A Benchmark and an Auditable Reference Pipeline for Schema Induction and Fusion from Text
762. ICML 2026SCOPE: Evolving Symbolic World for Planning in Open-Ended Environments
763. ICML 2026ScreenParse: Moving Beyond Sparse Grounding with Complete Screen Parsing Supervision
764. ICML 2026SCRWKV: Ultra-Compact Structure-Calibrated Vision-RWKV for Topological Crack Segmentation
765. ICML 2026SEAgent: Self-Evolving Computer Use Agent with Autonomous Learning from Experience
766. ICML 2026Securing Multimodal AI through Internal Information Decomposition
767. ICML 2026See First, Reason Later: Mutual Information-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language Models
768. ICML 2026See What Matters: Differentiable Grid Sample Pruning for Generalizable Vision-Language-Action Model
769. ICML 2026See, Act, Adapt: Active Perception for Unsupervised Cross-Domain Visual Adaptation via Personalized VLM-Guided Agent
770. ICML 2026Seeing is Solving: Unlocking Efficient Multimodal RL via View Alignment
771. ICML 2026Seeing is Understanding: Unlocking Causal Attention into Modality-Mutual Attention for Multimodal LLMs
772. ICML 2026Seeing Realism from Simulation: Efficient Video Transfer for Vision-Language-Action Data Augmentation
773. ICML 2026Seeing Symbols, Missing Structure: A Real-World Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition Benchmark for Large Models
774. ICML 2026Seeing to Generalize: How Visual Data Corrects Binding Shortcuts
775. ICML 2026Seeing Without Understanding: Disentangling Perception, Reasoning, and Simulation in VLM Gameplay
776. ICML 2026Seg-ReSearch: Segmentation with Interleaved Reasoning and External Search
777. ICML 2026Seizure-Semiology-Suite($S^3$): A Clinically Multimodal Dataset, Benchmark, and Models for Seizure Semiology Understanding
778. ICML 2026Selective Coupling of Decoupled Informative Regions: Masked Attention Alignment for Data-Free Quantization of Vision Transformers
779. ICML 2026Selective Deferred Routing: Enabling Cost-Efficient Collaboration between Local SLMs and Remote LLMs
780. ICML 2026Self-Calibrated Consistency can Fight Back for Adversarial Robustness in Vision-Language Models
781. ICML 2026Self-Captioning Multimodal Interaction Tuning: Amplifying Exploitable Redundancies for Robust Vision Language Models
782. ICML 2026Self-Prophetic Decoding to Unlock Visual Search in LVLMs
783. ICML 2026Self-Supervised Weight Templates for Scalable Vision Model Initialization
784. ICML 2026Sem-Detect: Semantic Level Detection of AI Generated Peer-Reviews
785. ICML 2026Semantic Impact–Driven Visual Scheduling in Vision-Language Models
786. ICML 2026Semantic Robustness Certification for Vision-Language Models
787. ICML 2026Semantic Router: On the Feasibility of Hijacking MLLMs via a Single Adversarial Perturbation
788. ICML 2026Semantic-Enriched Latent Visual Reasoning
789. ICML 2026SEMIR: Semantic Minor-Induced Representation Learning on Graphs for Visual Segmentation
790. ICML 2026Sentinel-VLA: A Metacognitive VLA Model with Active Status Monitoring for Dynamic Reasoning and Error Recovery
791. ICML 2026SEPS: Semantic-Enhanced Patch Slimming Framework for Fine-Grained Cross-Modal Alignment
792. ICML 2026Shape of Thought: Progressive Object Assembly via Visual Chain-of-Thought
793. ICML 2026SHARP-Q: Spectral Hessian Alignment and Rectification for Post-training Quantization
794. ICML 2026Similarity Is Not Logic: Factored Inference for Dual-Encoder Vision-Language Models
795. ICML 2026SJD-SV: Speculative Jacobi Decoding with Semantics Verification for Autoregressive Image Generation
796. ICML 2026SkillNet: Hierarchical Skill Modeling for Compositional Generalization in Vision-Language Action Models
797. ICML 2026Skip a Layer or Loop It? Learning Program-of-Layers in LLMs
798. ICML 2026Skip-It? Theoretical Conditions for Layer Skipping in Vision–Language Models
799. ICML 2026SL-VC: A Benchmark and Automated Framework for Separation Logic Verification Condition Proving
800. ICML 2026SLAP: The Semantic Least Action Principle for Variational Video-Language Modeling

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.