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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801. ICLR 2026Object-Centric Refinement for Enhanced Zero-Shot Segmentation
802. ICLR 2026OCR-Reasoning Benchmark: Unveiling the True Capabilities of MLLMs in Complex Text-Rich Image Reasoning
803. ICLR 2026Off-Trajectory Reasoning: Can LLMs Collaborate on Reasoning Trajectory?
804. ICLR 2026Omni-Captioner: Data Pipeline, Models, and Benchmark for Omni Detailed Perception
805. ICLR 2026Omni-IML: Towards Unified Interpretable Image Manipulation Localization
806. ICLR 2026Omni-View: Unlocking How Generation Facilitates Understanding in Unified 3D Model based on Multiview images
807. ICLR 2026Omni-Weather: Unified Multimodal Foundation Model for Weather Generation and Understanding
808. ICLR 2026OmniActor: A Generalist GUI and Embodied Agent for 2D&3D Worlds
809. ICLR 2026OmniCT: Towards a Unified Slice-Volume LVLM for Comprehensive CT Analysis
810. ICLR 2026OmniCVR: A Benchmark for Omni-Composed Video Retrieval with Vision, Audio, and Text
811. ICLR 2026OmniEVA: Embodied Versatile Planner via Task-Adaptive 3D-Grounded and Embodiment-aware Reasoning
812. ICLR 2026OmniField: Conditioned Neural Fields for Robust Multimodal Spatiotemporal Learning
813. ICLR 2026OmniMouse: Scaling properties of multi-modal, multi-task Brain Models on 150B Neural Tokens
814. ICLR 2026OmniSpatial: Towards Comprehensive Spatial Reasoning Benchmark for Vision Language Models
815. ICLR 2026OmniVideoBench: Towards Audio-Visual Understanding Evaluation for Omni MLLMs
816. ICLR 2026OmniVinci: Enhancing Architecture and Data for Omni-Modal Understanding LLM
817. ICLR 2026On Code-Induced Reasoning in LLMs
818. ICLR 2026On Discriminative vs. Generative classifiers: Rethinking MLLMs for Action Understanding
819. ICLR 2026On Robustness of Vision-Language-Action Model against Multi-Modal Perturbations
820. ICLR 2026On the Eligibility of LLMs for Counterfactual Reasoning: A Decompositional Study
821. ICLR 2026On the Generalization Capacities of MLLMs for Spatial Intelligence
822. ICLR 2026On the Shelf Life of Finetuned LLM-Judges: Future Proofing, Backward Compatibility, and Question Generalization
823. ICLR 2026On the Thinking-Language Modeling Gap in Large Language Models
824. ICLR 2026On the Wings of Imagination: Conflicting Script-based Multi-role Framework for Humor Caption Generation
825. ICLR 2026On-the-Fly Adaptation to Quantization: Configuration-Aware LoRA for Efficient Fine-Tuning of Quantized LLMs
826. ICLR 2026Once-More: Continuous Self-Correction for Large Language Models via Perplexity-Guided Intervention
827. ICLR 2026One Demo Is All It Takes: Planning Domain Derivation with LLMs from A Single Demonstration
828. ICLR 2026One Patch Doesn’t Fit All: Adaptive Patching for Native-Resolution Multimodal Large Language Models
829. ICLR 2026One Skill, Many Websites: Learning Generalizable Skills Through Polymorphic Abstraction
830. ICLR 2026One-Step Flow for Image Super-Resolution with Tunable Fidelity-Realism Trade-offs
831. ICLR 2026OneTwoVLA: A Unified Vision-Language-Action Model with Adaptive Reasoning
832. ICLR 2026OpenEstimate: Evaluating LLMs on Probabilistic Estimation with Real-World Data
833. ICLR 2026OpenFly: A COMPREHENSIVE PLATFORM FOR AERIAL VISION-LANGUAGE NAVIGATION
834. ICLR 2026Optimal Aggregation of LLM and PRM Signals for Efficient Test-Time Scaling
835. ICLR 2026Optimal Brain Restoration for Joint Quantization and Sparsification of LLMs
836. ICLR 2026OptimalThinkingBench: Evaluating Over and Underthinking in LLMs
837. ICLR 2026Optimizing ID Consistency in Multimodal Large Models: Facial Restoration via Alignment, Entanglement, and Disentanglement
838. ICLR 2026OptimSyn: Influence-Guided Rubrics Optimization for Synthetic Data Generation
839. ICLR 2026OptMerge: Unifying Multimodal LLM Capabilities and Modalities via Model Merging
840. ICLR 2026ORION: Decoupling and Alignment for Unified Autoregressive Understanding and Generation
841. ICLR 2026Out of the Memory Barrier: A Highly Memory-Efficient Training System for LLMs with Million-Token Contexts
842. ICLR 2026Overcoming Joint Intractability with Lossless Hierarchical Speculative Decoding
843. ICLR 2026P$^2$-DPO:Grounding Hallucination in Perceptual Processing via Calibration Direct Preference Optimization
844. ICLR 2026Parallel Multimodal Diffusion Language Models for Thinking-Aware Editing and Generation
845. ICLR 2026Parallel Token Generation for Language Models
846. ICLR 2026ParallelBench: Understanding the Trade-offs of Parallel Decoding in Diffusion LLMs
847. ICLR 2026ParoQuant: Pairwise Rotation Quantization for Efficient Reasoning LLM Inference
848. ICLR 2026Part-level Semantic-guided Contrastive Learning for Fine-grained Visual Classification
849. ICLR 2026Part-X-MLLM: Part-aware 3D Multimodal Large Language Model
850. ICLR 2026PASER: Post-Training Data Selection for Efficient Pruned Large Language Model Recovery

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.