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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851. ICLR 2025Arithmetic Transformers Can Length-Generalize in Both Operand Length and Count
852. ICLR 2025Articulate-Anything: Automatic Modeling of Articulated Objects via a Vision-Language Foundation Model
853. ICLR 2025Asymmetric Factorized Bilinear Operation for Vision Transformer
854. ICLR 2025Attribute-based Visual Reprogramming for Vision-Language Models
855. ICLR 2025AugKD: Ingenious Augmentations Empower Knowledge Distillation for Image Super-Resolution
856. ICLR 2025AuroraCap: Efficient, Performant Video Detailed Captioning and a New Benchmark
857. ICLR 2025AutoBencher: Towards Declarative Benchmark Construction
858. ICLR 2025Automatic Curriculum Expert Iteration for Reliable LLM Reasoning
859. ICLR 2025Autonomous Evaluation of LLMs for Truth Maintenance and Reasoning Tasks
860. ICLR 2025Autoregressive Pretraining with Mamba in Vision
861. ICLR 2025Backdooring Vision-Language Models with Out-Of-Distribution Data
862. ICLR 2025BadRobot: Jailbreaking Embodied LLM Agents in the Physical World
863. ICLR 2025Balancing Act: Diversity and Consistency in Large Language Model Ensembles
864. ICLR 2025BALROG: Benchmarking Agentic LLM and VLM Reasoning On Games
865. ICLR 2025Basis Sharing: Cross-Layer Parameter Sharing for Large Language Model Compression
866. ICLR 2025Benchmarking LLMs' Judgments with No Gold Standard
867. ICLR 2025Benchmarking Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation with Dynamic VQA Dataset and Self-adaptive Planning Agent
868. ICLR 2025Benchmarking Vision Language Model Unlearning via Fictitious Facial Identity Dataset
869. ICLR 2025Better autoregressive regression with LLMs via regression-aware fine-tuning
870. ICLR 2025Better Instruction-Following Through Minimum Bayes Risk
871. ICLR 2025Beware of Calibration Data for Pruning Large Language Models
872. ICLR 2025Beyond Autoregression: Discrete Diffusion for Complex Reasoning and Planning
873. ICLR 2025Beyond FVD: An Enhanced Evaluation Metrics for Video Generation Distribution Quality
874. ICLR 2025Beyond Graphs: Can Large Language Models Comprehend Hypergraphs?
875. ICLR 2025Beyond Linear Approximations: A Novel Pruning Approach for Attention Matrix
876. ICLR 2025Beyond Mere Token Analysis: A Hypergraph Metric Space Framework for Defending Against Socially Engineered LLM Attacks
877. ICLR 2025Beyond Model Collapse: Scaling Up with Synthesized Data Requires Verification
878. ICLR 2025Beyond Next Token Prediction: Patch-Level Training for Large Language Models
879. ICLR 2025Beyond Single Concept Vector: Modeling Concept Subspace in LLMs with Gaussian Distribution
880. ICLR 2025Beyond Surface Structure: A Causal Assessment of LLMs' Comprehension ability
881. ICLR 2025BigDocs: An Open Dataset for Training Multimodal Models on Document and Code Tasks
882. ICLR 2025BIRD: A Trustworthy Bayesian Inference Framework for Large Language Models
883. ICLR 2025Black Sheep in the Herd: Playing with Spuriously Correlated Attributes for Vision-Language Recognition
884. ICLR 2025BlueSuffix: Reinforced Blue Teaming for Vision-Language Models Against Jailbreak Attacks
885. ICLR 2025Boltzmann Semantic Score: A Semantic Metric for Evaluating Large Vision Models Using Large Language Models
886. ICLR 2025Boosting the visual interpretability of CLIP via adversarial fine-tuning
887. ICLR 2025Both Ears Wide Open: Towards Language-Driven Spatial Audio Generation
888. ICLR 2025Breaking Mental Set to Improve Reasoning through Diverse Multi-Agent Debate
889. ICLR 2025Bridging Compressed Image Latents and Multimodal Large Language Models
890. ICLR 2025Bridging Information Asymmetry in Text-video Retrieval: A Data-centric Approach
891. ICLR 2025Bridging the Semantic Gap Between Text and Table: A Case Study on NL2SQL
892. ICLR 2025BRIGHT: A Realistic and Challenging Benchmark for Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval
893. ICLR 2025Broaden your SCOPE! Efficient Multi-turn Conversation Planning for LLMs with Semantic Space
894. ICLR 2025Building, Reusing, and Generalizing Abstract Representations from Concrete Sequences
895. ICLR 2025C-CLIP: Multimodal Continual Learning for Vision-Language Model
896. ICLR 2025Cafe-Talk: Generating 3D Talking Face Animation with Multimodal Coarse- and Fine-grained Control
897. ICLR 2025Calibrating LLMs with Information-Theoretic Evidential Deep Learning
898. ICLR 2025CAMEx: Curvature-aware Merging of Experts
899. ICLR 2025Can In-context Learning Really Generalize to Out-of-distribution Tasks?
900. ICLR 2025Can Knowledge Editing Really Correct Hallucinations?

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.