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

1,716 papers, page 16 of 35

751. ICLR 2024How to Catch an AI Liar: Lie Detection in Black-Box LLMs by Asking Unrelated Questions
752. ICLR 2024Hypothesis Search: Inductive Reasoning with Language Models
753. ICLR 2024Identifying Representations for Intervention Extrapolation
754. ICLR 2024Image Background Serves as Good Proxy for Out-of-distribution Data
755. ICLR 2024Image Clustering Conditioned on Text Criteria
756. ICLR 2024Image2Sentence based Asymmetrical Zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval
757. ICLR 2024Implicit Neural Representations and the Algebra of Complex Wavelets
758. ICLR 2024Improved algorithm and bounds for successive projection
759. ICLR 2024Improved Probabilistic Image-Text Representations
760. ICLR 2024In-context Autoencoder for Context Compression in a Large Language Model
761. ICLR 2024Inducing High Energy-Latency of Large Vision-Language Models with Verbose Images
762. ICLR 2024Ins-DetCLIP: Aligning Detection Model to Follow Human-Language Instruction
763. ICLR 2024INSIDE: LLMs' Internal States Retain the Power of Hallucination Detection
764. ICLR 2024InstructDET: Diversifying Referring Object Detection with Generalized Instructions
765. ICLR 2024InternVid: A Large-scale Video-Text Dataset for Multimodal Understanding and Generation
766. ICLR 2024INViTE: INterpret and Control Vision-Language Models with Text Explanations
767. ICLR 2024Is ImageNet worth 1 video? Learning strong image encoders from 1 long unlabelled video
768. ICLR 2024It's Never Too Late: Fusing Acoustic Information into Large Language Models for Automatic Speech Recognition
769. ICLR 2024Jailbreak in pieces: Compositional Adversarial Attacks on Multi-Modal Language Models
770. ICLR 2024Jointly Training Large Autoregressive Multimodal Models
771. ICLR 2024Knowledge Card: Filling LLMs' Knowledge Gaps with Plug-in Specialized Language Models
772. ICLR 2024Knowledge Fusion of Large Language Models
773. ICLR 2024Kosmos-G: Generating Images in Context with Multimodal Large Language Models
774. ICLR 2024Label-free Node Classification on Graphs with Large Language Models (LLMs)
775. ICLR 2024Language-Informed Visual Concept Learning
776. ICLR 2024LanguageBind: Extending Video-Language Pretraining to N-modality by Language-based Semantic Alignment
777. ICLR 2024Large Language Models as Automated Aligners for benchmarking Vision-Language Models
778. ICLR 2024Large Language Models as Tool Makers
779. ICLR 2024Large Language Models Cannot Self-Correct Reasoning Yet
780. ICLR 2024Large Multilingual Models Pivot Zero-Shot Multimodal Learning across Languages
781. ICLR 2024Learning Hierarchical Image Segmentation For Recognition and By Recognition
782. ICLR 2024Learning Interactive Real-World Simulators
783. ICLR 2024Learning Semantic Proxies from Visual Prompts for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning in Deep Metric Learning
784. ICLR 2024Let's Verify Step by Step
785. ICLR 2024Leveraging Unpaired Data for Vision-Language Generative Models via Cycle Consistency
786. ICLR 2024Lie Group Decompositions for Equivariant Neural Networks
787. ICLR 2024Lipsum-FT: Robust Fine-Tuning of Zero-Shot Models Using Random Text Guidance
788. ICLR 2024Listen, Think, and Understand
789. ICLR 2024LLaMA-Adapter: Efficient Fine-tuning of Large Language Models with Zero-initialized Attention
790. ICLR 2024LLCP: Learning Latent Causal Processes for Reasoning-based Video Question Answer
791. ICLR 2024Llemma: An Open Language Model for Mathematics
792. ICLR 2024LLM Augmented LLMs: Expanding Capabilities through Composition
793. ICLR 2024LLM-CXR: Instruction-Finetuned LLM for CXR Image Understanding and Generation
794. ICLR 2024LLMs Meet VLMs: Boost Open Vocabulary Object Detection with Fine-grained Descriptors
795. ICLR 2024Look, Remember and Reason: Grounded Reasoning in Videos with Language Models
796. ICLR 2024LUM-ViT: Learnable Under-sampling Mask Vision Transformer for Bandwidth Limited Optical Signal Acquisition
797. ICLR 2024Making LLaMA SEE and Draw with SEED Tokenizer
798. ICLR 2024Massive Editing for Large Language Models via Meta Learning
799. ICLR 2024Mastering Symbolic Operations: Augmenting Language Models with Compiled Neural Networks
800. ICLR 2024Matcher: Segment Anything with One Shot Using All-Purpose Feature Matching

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.