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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51. ICLR 2025Animate Your Thoughts: Reconstruction of Dynamic Natural Vision from Human Brain Activity
52. ICLR 2025Animate-X: Universal Character Image Animation with Enhanced Motion Representation
53. ICLR 2025Anyprefer: An Agentic Framework for Preference Data Synthesis
54. ICLR 2025ARB-LLM: Alternating Refined Binarizations for Large Language Models
55. ICLR 2025Are Large Vision Language Models Good Game Players?
56. ICLR 2025Arithmetic Transformers Can Length-Generalize in Both Operand Length and Count
57. ICLR 2025Articulate-Anything: Automatic Modeling of Articulated Objects via a Vision-Language Foundation Model
58. ICLR 2025Asymmetric Factorized Bilinear Operation for Vision Transformer
59. ICLR 2025Attribute-based Visual Reprogramming for Vision-Language Models
60. ICLR 2025AugKD: Ingenious Augmentations Empower Knowledge Distillation for Image Super-Resolution
61. ICLR 2025AuroraCap: Efficient, Performant Video Detailed Captioning and a New Benchmark
62. ICLR 2025AutoBencher: Towards Declarative Benchmark Construction
63. ICLR 2025Automatic Curriculum Expert Iteration for Reliable LLM Reasoning
64. ICLR 2025Autonomous Evaluation of LLMs for Truth Maintenance and Reasoning Tasks
65. ICLR 2025Autoregressive Pretraining with Mamba in Vision
66. ICLR 2025Backdooring Vision-Language Models with Out-Of-Distribution Data
67. ICLR 2025BadRobot: Jailbreaking Embodied LLM Agents in the Physical World
68. ICLR 2025Balancing Act: Diversity and Consistency in Large Language Model Ensembles
69. ICLR 2025BALROG: Benchmarking Agentic LLM and VLM Reasoning On Games
70. ICLR 2025Basis Sharing: Cross-Layer Parameter Sharing for Large Language Model Compression
71. ICLR 2025Benchmarking LLMs' Judgments with No Gold Standard
72. ICLR 2025Benchmarking Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation with Dynamic VQA Dataset and Self-adaptive Planning Agent
73. ICLR 2025Benchmarking Vision Language Model Unlearning via Fictitious Facial Identity Dataset
74. ICLR 2025Better autoregressive regression with LLMs via regression-aware fine-tuning
75. ICLR 2025Better Instruction-Following Through Minimum Bayes Risk
76. ICLR 2025Beware of Calibration Data for Pruning Large Language Models
77. ICLR 2025Beyond Autoregression: Discrete Diffusion for Complex Reasoning and Planning
78. ICLR 2025Beyond FVD: An Enhanced Evaluation Metrics for Video Generation Distribution Quality
79. ICLR 2025Beyond Graphs: Can Large Language Models Comprehend Hypergraphs?
80. ICLR 2025Beyond Linear Approximations: A Novel Pruning Approach for Attention Matrix
81. ICLR 2025Beyond Mere Token Analysis: A Hypergraph Metric Space Framework for Defending Against Socially Engineered LLM Attacks
82. ICLR 2025Beyond Model Collapse: Scaling Up with Synthesized Data Requires Verification
83. ICLR 2025Beyond Next Token Prediction: Patch-Level Training for Large Language Models
84. ICLR 2025Beyond Single Concept Vector: Modeling Concept Subspace in LLMs with Gaussian Distribution
85. ICLR 2025Beyond Surface Structure: A Causal Assessment of LLMs' Comprehension ability
86. ICLR 2025BigDocs: An Open Dataset for Training Multimodal Models on Document and Code Tasks
87. ICLR 2025BIRD: A Trustworthy Bayesian Inference Framework for Large Language Models
88. ICLR 2025Black Sheep in the Herd: Playing with Spuriously Correlated Attributes for Vision-Language Recognition
89. ICLR 2025BlueSuffix: Reinforced Blue Teaming for Vision-Language Models Against Jailbreak Attacks
90. ICLR 2025Boltzmann Semantic Score: A Semantic Metric for Evaluating Large Vision Models Using Large Language Models
91. ICLR 2025Boosting the visual interpretability of CLIP via adversarial fine-tuning
92. ICLR 2025Both Ears Wide Open: Towards Language-Driven Spatial Audio Generation
93. ICLR 2025Breaking Mental Set to Improve Reasoning through Diverse Multi-Agent Debate
94. ICLR 2025Bridging Compressed Image Latents and Multimodal Large Language Models
95. ICLR 2025Bridging Information Asymmetry in Text-video Retrieval: A Data-centric Approach
96. ICLR 2025Bridging the Semantic Gap Between Text and Table: A Case Study on NL2SQL
97. ICLR 2025BRIGHT: A Realistic and Challenging Benchmark for Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval
98. ICLR 2025Broaden your SCOPE! Efficient Multi-turn Conversation Planning for LLMs with Semantic Space
99. ICLR 2025Building, Reusing, and Generalizing Abstract Representations from Concrete Sequences
100. ICLR 2025C-CLIP: Multimodal Continual Learning for Vision-Language Model

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.