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 17 of 22

801. ICML 2026SLASH the Sink: Sharpening Structural Attention Inside LLMs
802. ICML 2026SleepLM: Natural-Language Intelligence for Human Sleep
803. ICML 2026SleepMaMi: A Universal Sleep Foundation Model for Integrating Macro- and Micro-structures
804. ICML 2026SliceFine: The Universal Winning-Slice Hypothesis for Pretrained Networks
805. ICML 2026SLIM: Secure and Efficient Inference for Large Language Models on Untrusted Devices via TEEs
806. ICML 2026SLIP-RS: Structured-Attribute Language-Image Pre-Training for Remote Sensing Object Detection
807. ICML 2026SLQ: Bridging Modalities via Shared Latent Queries for Retrieval with Frozen MLLMs
808. ICML 2026Smaller Models are Natural Explorers for Policy-Level Diversity in GRPO
809. ICML 2026SMD: Multi-view Safety-Critical Driving Video Generation in the Real-world Domain
810. ICML 2026SMM Transformer: Leveraging Spiking Neural Networks for Multimodal Tasks
811. ICML 2026Smoothing Slot Attention Iterations and Recurrences
812. ICML 2026SoftMoE: Soft Differentiable Routing for Mixture-of-Experts in LLMs
813. ICML 2026SOLAR: Self-supervised Joint Learning for Symmetric Multimodal Retrieval
814. ICML 2026SOTAlign: Semi-Supervised Alignment of Unimodal Vision and Language Models via Optimal Transport
815. ICML 2026SP-Mind: An Autonomous Reasoning Agent for Spatial Proteomics Analysis
816. ICML 2026SpaCeFormer: Fast Proposal-Free Open-Vocabulary 3D Instance Segmentation
817. ICML 2026SpanNorm: Reconciling Training Stability and Performance in Deep Transformers
818. ICML 2026SPARC: Separating Perception And Reasoning Circuits for Test-time Scaling of VLMs
819. ICML 2026SPARKLING: Balancing Signal Preservation and Symmetry Breaking for Width-Progressive Learning
820. ICML 2026Sparser Block-Sparse Attention via Token Permutation
821. ICML 2026Sparser, Faster, Lighter Transformer Language Models
822. ICML 2026SPATIA: Multimodal Generation and Prediction of Spatial Cell Phenotypes
823. ICML 2026Spatial Memory for Out-of-Vision Manipulation in Vision-Language-Action
824. ICML 2026Spatial Priors via Space Filling Curves for Small and Limited Data Vision Transformers
825. ICML 2026SpatialReward: Bridging the Perception Gap in Online RL for Image Editing via Explicit Spatial Reasoning
826. ICML 2026Spatio-Temporal LLM: Reasoning about Environments and Actions
827. ICML 2026SpatioLM: Towards General Physical Spatial Intelligence in Vision-Language Models
828. ICML 2026SpecPL: Disentangling Spectral Granularity for Prompt Learning
829. ICML 2026SpecPrune-VLA: Accelerating Vision-Language-Action Models via Action-Aware Self-Speculative Pruning
830. ICML 2026Spectra: Rethinking Optimizers for LLMs Under Spectral Anisotropy
831. ICML 2026Spectral Heat Flow for Conservative Token Condensation in Vision-Language Models
832. ICML 2026Spectral Imbalance Causes Forgetting in Low-Rank Continual Adaptation
833. ICML 2026Spectral-Progressive Thought Flow for Lightweight Multimodal Reasoning
834. ICML 2026SPEED-Bench: A Unified and Diverse Benchmark for Speculative Decoding
835. ICML 2026Spherical SO(3) Equivariant Local Attention
836. ICML 2026Spiked-CFR: Causal Representation Learning from LLMs via Wasserstein Projection Pursuit
837. ICML 2026SpikeVLA: Vision-Language-Action Models with Spiking Neural Networks
838. ICML 2026SplAttN: Bridging 2D and 3D with Gaussian Soft Splatting and Attention for Point Cloud Completion
839. ICML 2026SPLIT-VLM: Salience-Guided Partitioning towards Local Coverage for Importance-Aware Token Dropping in Vision-Language Models
840. ICML 2026SPR: A Structured Prompt Refinement Network for Modality Missing
841. ICML 2026SS-TPT: Stability and Suitability-Guided Test-Time Prompt Tuning for Adversarially Robust Vision-Language Models
842. ICML 2026SSDCN: Spatial-Spectral Dual-Clustering-based Network for Hyperspectral Image Super-resolution
843. ICML 2026SSL4RL: Revisiting Self-supervised Learning as Intrinsic Reward for Visual-Language Reasoning
844. ICML 2026ST-Veto: Spatio-Temporal Token Veto for Diffusion MLLMs via Taylor Prediction and Visual Grounding
845. ICML 2026Stabilizing Native Low-Rank LLM Pretraining
846. ICML 2026Stable Spectral Copula Alignment for Robust Multimodal Learning
847. ICML 2026StableI2I: Spotting Unintended Changes in Image-to-Image Transition
848. ICML 2026StableVLA: Towards Robust Vision-Language-Action Models without Extra Data
849. ICML 2026STARE: Step-wise Temporal Alignment and Red-teaming Engine for Multi-modal Toxicity Attack
850. ICML 2026Statistically Calibrated Scaling for Token Merging in Transformers

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.