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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951. ICLR 2026REAP the Experts: Why Pruning Prevails for One-Shot MoE compression
952. ICLR 2026Reasoning as Representation: Rethinking Visual Reinforcement Learning in Image Quality Assessment
953. ICLR 2026Reasoning Boosts Opinion Alignment in LLMs
954. ICLR 2026Reasoning on Time-Series for Financial Technical Analysis
955. ICLR 2026Reasoning-Aligned Perception Decoupling for Scalable Multi-modal Reasoning
956. ICLR 2026Reasoning-Driven Multimodal LLM for Domain Generalization
957. ICLR 2026Reassessing Layer Pruning in LLMs: New Insights and Methods
958. ICLR 2026ReCAPA: Hierarchical Predictive Correction to Mitigate Cascading Failures
959. ICLR 2026ReCogDrive: A Reinforced Cognitive Framework for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
960. ICLR 2026Reconstructing KV Caches with Cross-Layer Fusion for Enhanced Transformers
961. ICLR 2026Reconstruction Alignment Improves Unified Multimodal Models
962. ICLR 2026Reducing Semantic Mismatch in Brain-to-Text Decoding Through Personalized Multimodal Masking
963. ICLR 2026Ref-Adv: Exploring MLLM Visual Reasoning in Referring Expression Tasks
964. ICLR 2026Reforming the Mechanism: Editing Reasoning Patterns in LLMs with Circuit Reshaping
965. ICLR 2026Reformulation for Pretraining Data Augmentation
966. ICLR 2026RefTool: Reference-Guided Tool Creation for Knowledge-Intensive Reasoning
967. ICLR 2026RegionReasoner: Region-Grounded Multi-Round Visual Reasoning
968. ICLR 2026ReIn: Conversational Error Recovery with Reasoning Inception
969. ICLR 2026Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards Implicitly Incentivizes Correct Reasoning in Base LLMs
970. ICLR 2026Relational Transformer: Toward Zero-Shot Foundation Models for Relational Data
971. ICLR 2026RelayFormer: A Unified Local-Global Attention Framework for Scalable Image and Video Manipulation Localization
972. ICLR 2026RePrompt: Reasoning-Augmented Reprompting for Text-to-Image Generation via Reinforcement Learning
973. ICLR 2026RepSpec: Structural Re-parameterized Draft Model Training for Speculative Decoding
974. ICLR 2026Repurposing Foundation Model for Generalizable Medical Time Series Classification
975. ICLR 2026RESA: Bringing Back What Sparse Attention Ignores with Residual Estimation
976. ICLR 2026Reshaping Reasoning in LLMs: A Theoretical Analysis of RL Training Dynamics through Pattern Selection
977. ICLR 2026Resp-Agent: An Agent-Based System for Multimodal Respiratory Sound Generation and Disease Diagnosis
978. ICLR 2026Rethinking Benign Relearning: Syntax as the Hidden Driver of Unlearning Failures
979. ICLR 2026Rethinking Bottlenecks in Safety Fine-Tuning of Vision Language Models
980. ICLR 2026Rethinking Causal Mask Attention for Vision-Language Inference
981. ICLR 2026Rethinking Code Similarity for Automated Algorithm Design with LLMs
982. ICLR 2026Rethinking Data Curation in LLM Training: Online Reweighting Offers Better Generalization than Offline Methods
983. ICLR 2026Rethinking Expressivity and Degradation-Awareness in Attention for All-in-One Blind Image Restoration
984. ICLR 2026Rethinking Layer Relevance in Large Language Models Beyond Cosine Similarity
985. ICLR 2026Rethinking LLM Evaluation: Can We Evaluate LLMs with 200× Less Data?
986. ICLR 2026Rethinking LLM Reasoning: From Explicit Trajectories to Latent Representations
987. ICLR 2026Rethinking Radiology Report Generation: From Narrative Flow to Topic-Guided Findings
988. ICLR 2026Rethinking Residual Errors in Compensation-based LLM Quantization
989. ICLR 2026Rethinking Uncertainty Estimation in LLMs: A Principled Single-Sequence Measure
990. ICLR 2026Rethinking Unsupervised Cross-modal Flow Estimation: Learning from Decoupled Optimization and Consistency Constraint
991. ICLR 2026Reverse-Engineered Reasoning for Open-Ended Generation
992. ICLR 2026Reversible Primitive–Composition Alignment for Continual Vision–Language Learning
993. ICLR 2026Revisiting Confidence Calibration for Misclassification Detection in VLMs
994. ICLR 2026Revisiting Multimodal Positional Encoding in Vision–Language Models
995. ICLR 2026Revisiting the Past: Data Unlearning with Model State History
996. ICLR 2026Revisual-R1: Advancing Multimodal Reasoning From Optimized Cold Start to Staged Reinforcement Learning
997. ICLR 2026ReWatch-R1: Boosting Complex Video Reasoning in Large Vision-Language Models through Agentic Data Synthesis
998. ICLR 2026RF-DETR: Neural Architecture Search for Real-Time Detection Transformers
999. ICLR 2026Riemannian High-Order Pooling for Brain Foundation Models
1000. ICLR 2026RIVER: Real-time Video Interaction Benchmark

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.