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 191 of 225

9501. ICML 2024Tandem Transformers for Inference Efficient LLMs
9502. ICML 2024Temporal Spiking Neural Networks with Synaptic Delay for Graph Reasoning
9503. ICML 2024Thermometer: Towards Universal Calibration for Large Language Models
9504. ICML 2024tinyBenchmarks: evaluating LLMs with fewer examples
9505. ICML 2024tnGPS: Discovering Unknown Tensor Network Structure Search Algorithms via Large Language Models (LLMs)
9506. ICML 2024To Cool or not to Cool? Temperature Network Meets Large Foundation Models via DRO
9507. ICML 2024To Each (Textual Sequence) Its Own: Improving Memorized-Data Unlearning in Large Language Models
9508. ICML 2024Token-Specific Watermarking with Enhanced Detectability and Semantic Coherence for Large Language Models
9509. ICML 2024Toward Adaptive Reasoning in Large Language Models with Thought Rollback
9510. ICML 2024Towards Certified Unlearning for Deep Neural Networks
9511. ICML 2024Towards Modular LLMs by Building and Reusing a Library of LoRAs
9512. ICML 2024Triple Changes Estimator for Targeted Policies
9513. ICML 2024TroVE: Inducing Verifiable and Efficient Toolboxes for Solving Programmatic Tasks
9514. ICML 2024TVE: Learning Meta-attribution for Transferable Vision Explainer
9515. ICML 2024Two Stones Hit One Bird: Bilevel Positional Encoding for Better Length Extrapolation
9516. ICML 2024Understanding Retrieval-Augmented Task Adaptation for Vision-Language Models
9517. ICML 2024Understanding Unimodal Bias in Multimodal Deep Linear Networks
9518. ICML 2024Unifying Image Processing as Visual Prompting Question Answering
9519. ICML 2024Universal Consistency of Wide and Deep ReLU Neural Networks and Minimax Optimal Convergence Rates for Kolmogorov-Donoho Optimal Function Classes
9520. ICML 2024Unlocking the Power of Spatial and Temporal Information in Medical Multimodal Pre-training
9521. ICML 2024Unsupervised Evaluation of Code LLMs with Round-Trip Correctness
9522. ICML 2024Use Your INSTINCT: INSTruction optimization for LLMs usIng Neural bandits Coupled with Transformers
9523. ICML 2024Using Left and Right Brains Together: Towards Vision and Language Planning
9524. ICML 2024Video-LaVIT: Unified Video-Language Pre-training with Decoupled Visual-Motional Tokenization
9525. ICML 2024VideoPoet: A Large Language Model for Zero-Shot Video Generation
9526. ICML 2024ViP: A Differentially Private Foundation Model for Computer Vision
9527. ICML 2024Vision Mamba: Efficient Visual Representation Learning with Bidirectional State Space Model
9528. ICML 2024Vision Transformers as Probabilistic Expansion from Learngene
9529. ICML 2024VisionGraph: Leveraging Large Multimodal Models for Graph Theory Problems in Visual Context
9530. ICML 2024Visual-Text Cross Alignment: Refining the Similarity Score in Vision-Language Models
9531. ICML 2024Watermarks in the Sand: Impossibility of Strong Watermarking for Language Models
9532. ICML 2024Weakly Convex Regularisers for Inverse Problems: Convergence of Critical Points and Primal-Dual Optimisation
9533. ICML 2024What’s the score? Automated Denoising Score Matching for Nonlinear Diffusions
9534. ICML 2024Why Do You Grok? A Theoretical Analysis on Grokking Modular Addition
9535. ICML 2024Zero-Shot ECG Classification with Multimodal Learning and Test-time Clinical Knowledge Enhancement
9536. NeurIPS 2024$E^3$: Exploring Embodied Emotion Through A Large-Scale Egocentric Video Dataset
9537. NeurIPS 20243DCoMPaT200: Language Grounded Large-Scale 3D Vision Dataset for Compositional Recognition
9538. NeurIPS 20244M-21: An Any-to-Any Vision Model for Tens of Tasks and Modalities
9539. NeurIPS 2024A Benchmark Suite for Systematically Evaluating Reasoning Shortcuts
9540. NeurIPS 2024A Careful Examination of Large Language Model Performance on Grade School Arithmetic
9541. NeurIPS 2024A Concept-Based Explainability Framework for Large Multimodal Models
9542. NeurIPS 2024A General Protocol to Probe Large Vision Models for 3D Physical Understanding
9543. NeurIPS 2024A Hitchhiker's Guide to Fine-Grained Face Forgery Detection Using Common Sense Reasoning
9544. NeurIPS 2024A Neuro-Symbolic Benchmark Suite for Concept Quality and Reasoning Shortcuts
9545. NeurIPS 2024A Novel Benchmark for Decision-Making in Uncertain and Competitive Games
9546. NeurIPS 2024A Practitioner's Guide to Real-World Continual Multimodal Pretraining
9547. NeurIPS 2024A StrongREJECT for Empty Jailbreaks
9548. NeurIPS 2024A Unified Debiasing Approach for Vision-Language Models across Modalities and Tasks
9549. NeurIPS 2024A Versatile Diffusion Transformer with Mixture of Noise Levels for Audiovisual Generation
9550. NeurIPS 2024Accelerating Pre-training of Multimodal LLMs via Chain-of-Sight

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.