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 188 of 225

9351. ICML 2024IOI: Invisible One-Iteration Adversarial Attack on No-Reference Image- and Video-Quality Metrics
9352. ICML 2024Junk DNA Hypothesis: Pruning Small Pre-Trained Weights $\textit{Irreversibly}$ and $\textit{Monotonically}$ Impairs ``Difficult" Downstream Tasks in LLMs
9353. ICML 2024KIVI: A Tuning-Free Asymmetric 2bit Quantization for KV Cache
9354. ICML 2024KnowFormer: Revisiting Transformers for Knowledge Graph Reasoning
9355. ICML 2024Knowledge Transfer from Vision Foundation Models for Efficient Training of Small Task-specific Models
9356. ICML 2024Language Models Represent Beliefs of Self and Others
9357. ICML 2024Language Models with Conformal Factuality Guarantees
9358. ICML 2024Language-Driven Cross-Modal Classifier for Zero-Shot Multi-Label Image Recognition
9359. ICML 2024Large Language Models are Geographically Biased
9360. ICML 2024Large Language Models Can Automatically Engineer Features for Few-Shot Tabular Learning
9361. ICML 2024Latent Logic Tree Extraction for Event Sequence Explanation from LLMs
9362. ICML 2024Latent variable model for high-dimensional point process with structured missingness
9363. ICML 2024LeaPformer: Enabling Linear Transformers for Autoregressive and Simultaneous Tasks via Learned Proportions
9364. ICML 2024Learning Adaptive and View-Invariant Vision Transformer for Real-Time UAV Tracking
9365. ICML 2024Learning from Students: Applying t-Distributions to Explore Accurate and Efficient Formats for LLMs
9366. ICML 2024Learning Pseudo-Contractive Denoisers for Inverse Problems
9367. ICML 2024Learning to Explore in POMDPs with Informational Rewards
9368. ICML 2024Learning to Scale Logits for Temperature-Conditional GFlowNets
9369. ICML 2024Learning with Partial-Label and Unlabeled Data: A Uniform Treatment for Supervision Redundancy and Insufficiency
9370. ICML 2024LESS: Selecting Influential Data for Targeted Instruction Tuning
9371. ICML 2024Let Go of Your Labels with Unsupervised Transfer
9372. ICML 2024Leverage Class-Specific Accuracy to Guide Data Generation for Improving Image Classification
9373. ICML 2024Leveraging VLM-Based Pipelines to Annotate 3D Objects
9374. ICML 2024Libra: Building Decoupled Vision System on Large Language Models
9375. ICML 2024LIDAO: Towards Limited Interventions for Debiasing (Large) Language Models
9376. ICML 2024Lightweight Image Super-Resolution via Flexible Meta Pruning
9377. ICML 2024Linear Explanations for Individual Neurons
9378. ICML 2024LLark: A Multimodal Instruction-Following Language Model for Music
9379. ICML 2024LoRAP: Transformer Sub-Layers Deserve Differentiated Structured Compression for Large Language Models
9380. ICML 2024Low-Rank Similarity Mining for Multimodal Dataset Distillation
9381. ICML 2024LQER: Low-Rank Quantization Error Reconstruction for LLMs
9382. ICML 2024Machine Vision Therapy: Multimodal Large Language Models Can Enhance Visual Robustness via Denoising In-Context Learning
9383. ICML 2024MagicLens: Self-Supervised Image Retrieval with Open-Ended Instructions
9384. ICML 2024Mastering Text-to-Image Diffusion: Recaptioning, Planning, and Generating with Multimodal LLMs
9385. ICML 2024MathScale: Scaling Instruction Tuning for Mathematical Reasoning
9386. ICML 2024Memory-Space Visual Prompting for Efficient Vision-Language Fine-Tuning
9387. ICML 2024MFTN: A Multi-scale Feature Transfer Network Based on IMatchFormer for Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution
9388. ICML 2024MindEye2: Shared-Subject Models Enable fMRI-To-Image With 1 Hour of Data
9389. ICML 2024Minimum-Norm Interpolation Under Covariate Shift
9390. ICML 2024MLLM-as-a-Judge: Assessing Multimodal LLM-as-a-Judge with Vision-Language Benchmark
9391. ICML 2024MM-Vet: Evaluating Large Multimodal Models for Integrated Capabilities
9392. ICML 2024MMPareto: Boosting Multimodal Learning with Innocent Unimodal Assistance
9393. ICML 2024MMT-Bench: A Comprehensive Multimodal Benchmark for Evaluating Large Vision-Language Models Towards Multitask AGI
9394. ICML 2024Mobile Attention: Mobile-Friendly Linear-Attention for Vision Transformers
9395. ICML 2024MobileLLM: Optimizing Sub-billion Parameter Language Models for On-Device Use Cases
9396. ICML 2024Modeling Caption Diversity in Contrastive Vision-Language Pretraining
9397. ICML 2024Momentor: Advancing Video Large Language Model with Fine-Grained Temporal Reasoning
9398. ICML 2024Monitoring AI-Modified Content at Scale: A Case Study on the Impact of ChatGPT on AI Conference Peer Reviews
9399. ICML 2024MS$^3$D: A RG Flow-Based Regularization for GAN Training with Limited Data
9400. ICML 2024Multi-Factor Adaptive Vision Selection for Egocentric Video Question Answering

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.