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. ICML 2026AnomSeer: Reinforcing Multimodal LLMs to Reason for Time-Series Anomaly Detection
52. ICML 2026Antidistillation Fingerprinting
53. ICML 2026Any3D-VLA: Enhancing VLA Robustness via Diverse Point Clouds
54. ICML 2026AnyCanvas: Potential Field Guidance for Training-Free Spatial Control in Text-to-Image Diffusion
55. ICML 2026AnyMod-LLVE: Low-Light Video Enhancement with Modality-Agnostic Inference
56. ICML 2026AOEB: Benchmarking Agent-Oriented Multimodal Embeddings
57. ICML 2026AOEPT: Breaking the Implicit Modality-Reduction Bottleneck in Modality-Missing Prompt Tuning
58. ICML 2026API: Adaptive Prototype Imputation for Incomplete Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
59. ICML 2026ArborKV: Structure-Aware KV Cache Management for Scaling Tree-based LLM Reasoning
60. ICML 2026ArcVQ-VAE: A Spherical Vector Quantization Framework with ArcCosine Additive Margin
61. ICML 2026Are Tools Always Beneficial? Learning to Invoke Tools Adaptively for Dual-Mode Multimodal LLM Reasoning
62. ICML 2026Are VLMs Seeing or Just Saying? Uncovering the Illusion of Visual Re-examination
63. ICML 2026Are We Overconfident in Models and Results for Semi-Supervised 3D Medical Image Segmentation?
64. ICML 2026Ask Less, See More: Communication-Conditioned Token Pruning for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Cooperative Autonomous Driving with Multimodal Large Language Models
65. ICML 2026ASRU: Activation Steering Meets Reinforcement Unlearning for Multimodal Large Language Models
66. ICML 2026Attacking Gray-Box Large Vision-Language Models with Adaptive SVD-Structured Adversarial Alignment
67. ICML 2026Attend to Anything: Foundation Model for Unified Human Attention Modeling
68. ICML 2026Attention with Routed-Memory for Learnable Sparse Control
69. ICML 2026Attentive Multi-Layer Fusion for Vision Transformers
70. ICML 2026AugServe: Adaptive Request Scheduling for Augmented Large Language Model Inference Serving
71. ICML 2026AuTAgent: A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Tool-Augmented Audio Reasoning
72. ICML 2026Automated Formal Proofs of Combinatorial Identities via Wilf–Zeilberger Guidance and LLMs
73. ICML 2026AutoMoT: A Unified Vision-Language-Action Model with Asynchronous Mixture -of-Transformers for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
74. ICML 2026AutoVSR: Automatic Visual-to-Symbolic Reasoning for Symbolic Expression Generation from Circuit Schematic
75. ICML 2026AVI-Bench: Toward Human-like Audio-Visual Intelligence of Omni-MLLMs
76. ICML 2026Awakening Visual Reasoning: Mitigating Post-Training Failure in Vision-Text Compression
77. ICML 2026BabyVision: Visual Reasoning Beyond Language
78. ICML 2026Bad Seeing or Bad Thinking? Rewarding Perception for Multimodal Reasoning
79. ICML 2026BEAR: Dissecting Embodied Abilities in Multimodal Language Models through Skill-level Evaluation and Diagnosis
80. ICML 2026BEDTime: A Unified Benchmark for Automatically Describing Time Series
81. ICML 2026Benchmarking and Enhancing VLM for Compressed Image Understanding
82. ICML 2026Benchmarking and Evolving Reason-Reflect-Rectify for Reflective Visual Generation
83. ICML 2026Benchmarking Dense and Indiscernible Object Counting with Blueberries
84. ICML 2026Benchmarking LLM-Assisted Blue Teaming via Standardized Threat Hunting
85. ICML 2026Benchmarking the Scientific Mind: A Pathology-Derived Biomedical VQA Benchmark for Complex Scientific Reasoning
86. ICML 2026Bend the Basics: Degradation-Aware Deformable Tokenization for All-in-One Image Restoration
87. ICML 2026Best of Both Worlds: Multimodal Reasoning and Generation via Unified Discrete Flow Matching
88. ICML 2026Beyond Attention Imbalance: Mitigating Hallucinations via Spectral Surgery
89. ICML 2026Beyond Blind Noising: Disentangled Visual Rectification for Hallucination Mitigation in MLLMs
90. ICML 2026Beyond Description: Federated Adaptation via Semantic-Visual Prototype Alignment
91. ICML 2026Beyond Fixed Biases: Decoding the Role of Reasoning Uncertainty in MLLM Modality Conflicts
92. ICML 2026Beyond Language Modeling: An Exploration of Multimodal Pretraining
93. ICML 2026Beyond Logits: Coherent Hallucination Mitigation via Attention Contrastive Decoding
94. ICML 2026Beyond Logits: Metastable Latent Dynamics for Sample-Efficient Best-of-N Selection in LLMs
95. ICML 2026Beyond Next-Token Alignment: Distilling Multimodal Large Language Models via Token Interactions
96. ICML 2026Beyond Sample-Level Forgetting: Improving Reliability in Multimodal Unlearning
97. ICML 2026Beyond Single-View Indexing: Structure-Aware Multi-View Retrieval for Knowledge-Based VQA
98. ICML 2026Beyond Text-to-SQL: Can LLMs Really Debug Enterprise ETL SQL?
99. ICML 2026Beyond Unidirectional Bias: Reciprocal Perspective Calibration in Scene Graph Generation
100. ICML 2026Beyond VLM-Based Rewards: Diffusion-Native Latent Reward Modeling

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.