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 18 of 35

851. ICLR 2024Prompt Gradient Projection for Continual Learning
852. ICLR 2024Prompt Learning with Quaternion Networks
853. ICLR 2024Prototypical Information Bottlenecking and Disentangling for Multimodal Cancer Survival Prediction
854. ICLR 2024Pseudo-Generalized Dynamic View Synthesis from a Video
855. ICLR 2024Q-Bench: A Benchmark for General-Purpose Foundation Models on Low-level Vision
856. ICLR 2024QLLM: Accurate and Efficient Low-Bitwidth Quantization for Large Language Models
857. ICLR 2024Quasi-Monte Carlo for 3D Sliced Wasserstein
858. ICLR 2024Raidar: geneRative AI Detection viA Rewriting
859. ICLR 2024Reasoning on Graphs: Faithful and Interpretable Large Language Model Reasoning
860. ICLR 2024RECOMBINER: Robust and Enhanced Compression with Bayesian Implicit Neural Representations
861. ICLR 2024Recursive Generalization Transformer for Image Super-Resolution
862. ICLR 2024ReLU Strikes Back: Exploiting Activation Sparsity in Large Language Models
863. ICLR 2024Remote Sensing Vision-Language Foundation Models without Annotations via Ground Remote Alignment
864. ICLR 2024Rephrase, Augment, Reason: Visual Grounding of Questions for Vision-Language Models
865. ICLR 2024Rethinking Channel Dimensions to Isolate Outliers for Low-bit Weight Quantization of Large Language Models
866. ICLR 2024Rethinking Model Ensemble in Transfer-based Adversarial Attacks
867. ICLR 2024Retrieval-Enhanced Contrastive Vision-Text Models
868. ICLR 2024Rotation Has Two Sides: Evaluating Data Augmentation for Deep One-class Classification
869. ICLR 2024SALMONN: Towards Generic Hearing Abilities for Large Language Models
870. ICLR 2024Scalable Modular Network: A Framework for Adaptive Learning via Agreement Routing
871. ICLR 2024Scaling Laws for Sparsely-Connected Foundation Models
872. ICLR 2024SCHEMA: State CHangEs MAtter for Procedure Planning in Instructional Videos
873. ICLR 2024SEAL: A Framework for Systematic Evaluation of Real-World Super-Resolution
874. ICLR 2024Seeking Neural Nuggets: Knowledge Transfer in Large Language Models from a Parametric Perspective
875. ICLR 2024Sentence-level Prompts Benefit Composed Image Retrieval
876. ICLR 2024Shadow Cones: A Generalized Framework for Partial Order Embeddings
877. ICLR 2024Sheared LLaMA: Accelerating Language Model Pre-training via Structured Pruning
878. ICLR 2024Sign2GPT: Leveraging Large Language Models for Gloss-Free Sign Language Translation
879. ICLR 2024Skeleton-of-Thought: Prompting LLMs for Efficient Parallel Generation
880. ICLR 2024Skip-Attention: Improving Vision Transformers by Paying Less Attention
881. ICLR 2024SLiMe: Segment Like Me
882. ICLR 2024Soft Contrastive Learning for Time Series
883. ICLR 2024SPDER: Semiperiodic Damping-Enabled Object Representation
884. ICLR 2024SpeechTokenizer: Unified Speech Tokenizer for Speech Language Models
885. ICLR 2024SPTNet: An Efficient Alternative Framework for Generalized Category Discovery with Spatial Prompt Tuning
886. ICLR 2024Stable Anisotropic Regularization
887. ICLR 2024Steve-Eye: Equipping LLM-based Embodied Agents with Visual Perception in Open Worlds
888. ICLR 2024Strategic Preys Make Acute Predators: Enhancing Camouflaged Object Detectors by Generating Camouflaged Objects
889. ICLR 2024STREAM: Spatio-TempoRal Evaluation and Analysis Metric for Video Generative Models
890. ICLR 2024Structured Video-Language Modeling with Temporal Grouping and Spatial Grounding
891. ICLR 2024SuRe: Summarizing Retrievals using Answer Candidates for Open-domain QA of LLMs
892. ICLR 2024SWAP-NAS: Sample-Wise Activation Patterns for Ultra-fast NAS
893. ICLR 2024Synergistic Patch Pruning for Vision Transformer: Unifying Intra- & Inter-Layer Patch Importance
894. ICLR 2024T-MARS: Improving Visual Representations by Circumventing Text Feature Learning
895. ICLR 2024Tag2Text: Guiding Vision-Language Model via Image Tagging
896. ICLR 2024Take a Step Back: Evoking Reasoning via Abstraction in Large Language Models
897. ICLR 2024Talk like a Graph: Encoding Graphs for Large Language Models
898. ICLR 2024Teach LLMs to Phish: Stealing Private Information from Language Models
899. ICLR 2024Tell Your Model Where to Attend: Post-hoc Attention Steering for LLMs
900. ICLR 2024Test-Time Adaptation with CLIP Reward for Zero-Shot Generalization in Vision-Language Models

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.