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

1,401 papers, page 18 of 29

851. ICLR 2026Patch-as-Decodable-Token: Towards Unified Multi-Modal Vision Tasks in MLLMs
852. ICLR 2026Pay Less Attention to Function Words for Free Robustness of Vision-Language Models
853. ICLR 2026PCB-Bench: Benchmarking LLMs for Printed Circuit Board Placement and Routing
854. ICLR 2026PCLR: Progressively Compressed LoRA for Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning
855. ICLR 2026Pedagogically-Inspired Data Synthesis for Language Model Knowledge Distillation
856. ICLR 2026Perception-Aware Policy Optimization for Multimodal Reasoning
857. ICLR 2026Perception-R1: Advancing Multimodal Reasoning Capabilities of MLLMs via Visual Perception Reward
858. ICLR 2026PERK: Long-Context Reasoning as Parameter-Efficient Test-Time Learning
859. ICLR 2026Person-Centric Annotations of LAION-400M: Auditing Bias and Its Transfer to Models
860. ICLR 2026Personalized Reasoning: Just-in-time Personalization and Why LLMs Fail at It
861. ICLR 2026PersonaX: Multimodal Datasets with LLM-Inferred Behavior Traits
862. ICLR 2026PerSpectra: A Scalable and Configurable Pluralist Benchmark of Perspectives from Arguments
863. ICLR 2026PETRI: Learning Unified Cell Embeddings from Unpaired Modalities via Early-Fusion Joint Reconstruction
864. ICLR 2026pFedMMA: Personalized Federated Fine-Tuning with Multi-Modal Adapter for Vision-Language Models
865. ICLR 2026Phantom-Data: Towards a General Subject-Consistent Video Generation Dataset
866. ICLR 2026Photon: Speedup Volume Understanding with Efficient Multimodal Large Language Models
867. ICLR 2026PHyCLIP: $\ell_1$-Product of Hyperbolic Factors Unifies Hierarchy and Compositionality in Vision-Language Representation Learning
868. ICLR 2026PhysLLM: Harnessing Large Language Models for Cross-Modal Remote Physiological Sensing
869. ICLR 2026Pi-CCA: Prompt-Invariant CCA Certificates for Replay-Free Continual Multimodal Learning
870. ICLR 2026PICABench: How Far are We from Physical Realistic Image Editing?
871. ICLR 2026Pitfalls in Evaluating Language Model Forecasters
872. ICLR 2026PixelCraft: A Multi-Agent system for High-Fidelity Visual Reasoning on Structured Images
873. ICLR 2026PixelVLA: Advancing Pixel-level Understanding in Vision-Language-Action Model
874. ICLR 2026Plan then Act: Bi-level CAD Command Sequence Generation
875. ICLR 2026Plan-Answer-Refine-on-Graph: Structured Planning and Self-Refinement for Large Language Model Reasoning on Knowledge Graphs
876. ICLR 2026Planning with an Embodied Learnable Memory
877. ICLR 2026Plug-and-Play Compositionality for Boosting Continual Learning with Foundation Models
878. ICLR 2026Plug, Play, and Fortify: A Low-Cost Module for Robust Multimodal Image Understanding Models
879. ICLR 2026PM-KVQ: Progressive Mixed-precision KV Cache Quantization for Long-CoT LLMs
880. ICLR 2026PoliCon: Evaluating LLMs on Achieving Diverse Political Consensus Objectives
881. ICLR 2026Policy Contrastive Decoding for Robotic Foundation Models
882. ICLR 2026PonderLM: Pretraining Language Models to Ponder in Continuous Space
883. ICLR 2026Pose-RFT: Aligning MLLMs for 3D Pose Generation via Hybrid Action Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
884. ICLR 2026PoSh: Using Scene Graphs to Guide LLMs-as-a-Judge for Detailed Image Descriptions
885. ICLR 2026Post-hoc Probabilistic Vision-Language Models
886. ICLR 2026Post-Training Quantization for Video Matting
887. ICLR 2026PostAlign: Multimodal Grounding as a Corrective Lens for MLLMs
888. ICLR 2026PPE: Positional Preservation Embedding for Token Compression in Multimodal Large Language Models
889. ICLR 2026PPLLaVA: Varied Video Sequence Understanding With Prompt Guidance
890. ICLR 2026Pragma-VL: Towards a Pragmatic Arbitration of Safety and Helpfulness in MLLMs
891. ICLR 2026Pre-training LLM without Learning Rate Decay Enhances Supervised Fine-Tuning
892. ICLR 2026Pre-training under infinite compute
893. ICLR 2026Predicting LLM Reasoning Performance with Small Proxy Model
894. ICLR 2026Predicting Training Re-evaluation Curves Enables Effective Data Curriculums for LLMs
895. ICLR 2026PreferThinker: Reasoning-based Personalized Image Preference Assessment
896. ICLR 2026PrefixMemory-Tuning: Modernizing Prefix-Tuning by Decoupling the Prefix from Attention
897. ICLR 2026Preserve and Sculpt: Manifold-Aligned Fine-tuning of Vision-Language Models for Few-Shot Learning
898. ICLR 2026Pretraining Scaling Laws for Generative Evaluations of Language Models
899. ICLR 2026Pretraining with hierarchical memories: separating long-tail and common knowledge
900. ICLR 2026Prior-based Noisy Text Data Filtering: Fast and Strong Alternative For Perplexity

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.