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

11,207 papers, page 182 of 225

9051. ICLR 2024Lie Group Decompositions for Equivariant Neural Networks
9052. ICLR 2024Lipsum-FT: Robust Fine-Tuning of Zero-Shot Models Using Random Text Guidance
9053. ICLR 2024Listen, Think, and Understand
9054. ICLR 2024LLaMA-Adapter: Efficient Fine-tuning of Large Language Models with Zero-initialized Attention
9055. ICLR 2024LLCP: Learning Latent Causal Processes for Reasoning-based Video Question Answer
9056. ICLR 2024Llemma: An Open Language Model for Mathematics
9057. ICLR 2024LLM Augmented LLMs: Expanding Capabilities through Composition
9058. ICLR 2024LLM-CXR: Instruction-Finetuned LLM for CXR Image Understanding and Generation
9059. ICLR 2024LLMs Meet VLMs: Boost Open Vocabulary Object Detection with Fine-grained Descriptors
9060. ICLR 2024Look, Remember and Reason: Grounded Reasoning in Videos with Language Models
9061. ICLR 2024LUM-ViT: Learnable Under-sampling Mask Vision Transformer for Bandwidth Limited Optical Signal Acquisition
9062. ICLR 2024Making LLaMA SEE and Draw with SEED Tokenizer
9063. ICLR 2024Massive Editing for Large Language Models via Meta Learning
9064. ICLR 2024Mastering Symbolic Operations: Augmenting Language Models with Compiled Neural Networks
9065. ICLR 2024Matcher: Segment Anything with One Shot Using All-Purpose Feature Matching
9066. ICLR 2024MathCoder: Seamless Code Integration in LLMs for Enhanced Mathematical Reasoning
9067. ICLR 2024MathVista: Evaluating Mathematical Reasoning of Foundation Models in Visual Contexts
9068. ICLR 2024MCM: Masked Cell Modeling for Anomaly Detection in Tabular Data
9069. ICLR 2024Measuring Vision-Language STEM Skills of Neural Models
9070. ICLR 2024MetaCoCo: A New Few-Shot Classification Benchmark with Spurious Correlation
9071. ICLR 2024MetaMath: Bootstrap Your Own Mathematical Questions for Large Language Models
9072. ICLR 2024MetaTool Benchmark for Large Language Models: Deciding Whether to Use Tools and Which to Use
9073. ICLR 2024MiniGPT-4: Enhancing Vision-Language Understanding with Advanced Large Language Models
9074. ICLR 2024MIntRec2.0: A Large-scale Benchmark Dataset for Multimodal Intent Recognition and Out-of-scope Detection in Conversations
9075. ICLR 2024Mitigating Hallucination in Large Multi-Modal Models via Robust Instruction Tuning
9076. ICLR 2024Mixture-of-Experts Meets Instruction Tuning: A Winning Combination for Large Language Models
9077. ICLR 2024MMICL: Empowering Vision-language Model with Multi-Modal In-Context Learning
9078. ICLR 2024Model Tells You What to Discard: Adaptive KV Cache Compression for LLMs
9079. ICLR 2024ModernTCN: A Modern Pure Convolution Structure for General Time Series Analysis
9080. ICLR 2024MOFI: Learning Image Representations from Noisy Entity Annotated Images
9081. ICLR 2024MogaNet: Multi-order Gated Aggregation Network
9082. ICLR 2024MOTOR: A Time-to-Event Foundation Model For Structured Medical Records
9083. ICLR 2024Multi-granularity Correspondence Learning from Long-term Noisy Videos
9084. ICLR 2024Multimodal Learning Without Labeled Multimodal Data: Guarantees and Applications
9085. ICLR 2024Multimodal Molecular Pretraining via Modality Blending
9086. ICLR 2024Multimodal Patient Representation Learning with Missing Modalities and Labels
9087. ICLR 2024Multimodal Web Navigation with Instruction-Finetuned Foundation Models
9088. ICLR 2024Negative Label Guided OOD Detection with Pretrained Vision-Language Models
9089. ICLR 2024Nemesis: Normalizing the Soft-prompt Vectors of Vision-Language Models
9090. ICLR 2024Neural Polynomial Gabor Fields for Macro Motion Analysis
9091. ICLR 2024Neural Rate Control for Learned Video Compression
9092. ICLR 2024Neural-Symbolic Recursive Machine for Systematic Generalization
9093. ICLR 2024Neuro-Inspired Information-Theoretic Hierarchical Perception for Multimodal Learning
9094. ICLR 2024Neuroformer: Multimodal and Multitask Generative Pretraining for Brain Data
9095. ICLR 2024Neurosymbolic Grounding for Compositional World Models
9096. ICLR 2024NeurRev: Train Better Sparse Neural Network Practically via Neuron Revitalization
9097. ICLR 2024OmniQuant: Omnidirectionally Calibrated Quantization for Large Language Models
9098. ICLR 2024On the generalization capacity of neural networks during generic multimodal reasoning
9099. ICLR 2024On the Humanity of Conversational AI: Evaluating the Psychological Portrayal of LLMs
9100. ICLR 2024On the Reliability of Watermarks for Large 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.