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

1,051 papers, page 20 of 22

951. ICML 2026TWLA: Achieving Ternary Weights and Low-Bit Activations for LLMs via Post-Training Quantization
952. ICML 2026Two Modalities Are Better Than One: Efficient Adversarial Purification via Multimodal Diffusion Models
953. ICML 2026UGround: Towards Unified Visual Grounding with Unrolled Transformers
954. ICML 2026UHR-BAT: Budget-Aware Token Compression Vision-Language model for Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing
955. ICML 2026UI2Code^N: UI-to-Code Generation as Interactive Visual Optimization
956. ICML 2026Uncovering Grounding IDs: How External Cues Shape Multi-Modal Binding
957. ICML 2026Understanding and Mitigating Token-Pruning-Induced Vulnerabilities in VLMs
958. ICML 2026Understanding Behavior Cloning with Action Quantization
959. ICML 2026Understanding the Ability of LLMs to Handle Character-Level Perturbation
960. ICML 2026Uni-DocRobust: Universal Plug-and-Play Robustness Enhancement for Multi-modal LLMs via Feature Restoration
961. ICML 2026UniFast-HGR: Scalable and Efficient Maximal Correlation for Multimodal Models
962. ICML 2026Unified Multimodal Autoregressive Modeling with Shared Context—Visual Tokenizer is Key to Unification
963. ICML 2026Unified Multimodal Visual Tracking with Dual Mixture-of-Experts
964. ICML 2026Unified Safe In-context Image Generation in Multimodal Diffusion Transformers via Restricting Unsafe Information Flows
965. ICML 2026UniFLoW: Universal Multi-Modal Federated LoRA Fine-Tuning Framework with Analytical Aggregation
966. ICML 2026UniJEPA: Enhancing Robot Policy via Unified Continuous and Discrete Representation Learning
967. ICML 2026UniMedVL: Unifying Medical Multimodal Understanding and Generation through Observation-Knowledge-Analysis
968. ICML 2026UniPercept: Towards Unified Perceptual-Level Image Understanding across Aesthetics, Quality, Structure, and Texture
969. ICML 2026UniRTL: Unifying Code and Graph for Robust RTL Representation Learning
970. ICML 2026Unison: Benchmarking Unified Multimodal Models via Synergistic Understanding and Generation
971. ICML 2026Universal Reasoner: A Single, Composable Plug-and-Play Reasoner for Frozen LLMs
972. ICML 2026Universal Skeleton Understanding via Differentiable Rendering and MLLMs
973. ICML 2026Unlocking Zero-Shot Geospatial Reasoning via Indirect Rewards
974. ICML 2026Unveiling the Visual Counting Bottleneck in Vision-Language Models
975. ICML 2026UOTIP: Unbalanced Optimal Transport Map for Unpaired Inverse Problems
976. ICML 2026UrbanFusion: Stochastic Multimodal Fusion for Contrastive Learning of Robust Spatial Representations
977. ICML 2026UrbanMLLM: Joint Learning of Cross-view Imagery for Urban Understanding
978. ICML 2026Utonia: Toward One Encoder for All Point Clouds
979. ICML 2026V-ABS: Action-Observer Driven Beam Search for Dynamic Visual Reasoning
980. ICML 2026V-LynX: Token Interface Alignment for Video+X LLMs
981. ICML 2026V1: Unifying Generation and Self-Verification for Parallel Reasoners
982. ICML 2026Variational Adapter for Cross-modal Similarity Representation
983. ICML 2026VBA: Vector Bundle Attention for Intrinsically Geometric Representation Learning
984. ICML 2026VCG-Bench: Towards A Unified Visual-Centric Benchmark for Structured Generation and Editing
985. ICML 2026VENOMREC: Cross-Modal Interactive Poisoning for Targeted Promotion in Multimodal LLM Recommender Systems
986. ICML 2026VEQ: Modality-Adaptive Quantization for MoE Vision-Language Models
987. ICML 2026VERA-V: Variational Inference Framework for Jailbreaking Vision-Language Models
988. ICML 2026Very Efficient Listwise Multimodal Reranking for Long Documents
989. ICML 2026VGGT-Motion: Motion-Aware Calibration-Free Monocular SLAM for Long-Range Consistency
990. ICML 2026VIBE: Disentangling Social Dynamics via Kinematics-Informed Variational Inference for Behavioral Emotion
991. ICML 2026Video-BCI: Bayesian Cognitive Integration of Self-Prior Hypotheses for Video Understanding
992. ICML 2026Video-in-the-Loop: Span-Grounded Long Video QA with Interleaved Reasoning
993. ICML 2026Video-MTR: Reinforced Multi-Turn Reasoning for Long Video Understanding
994. ICML 2026Video-OPD: Efficient Post-Training of Multimodal Large Language Models for Temporal Video Grounding via On-Policy Distillation
995. ICML 2026Video2GUI: Synthesizing Large-Scale Interaction Trajectories for Generalized GUI Agent Pretraining
996. ICML 2026VideoBrain: Learning Adaptive Frame Sampling for Long Video Understanding
997. ICML 2026VideoKR: Towards Knowledge- and Reasoning-Intensive Video Understanding
998. ICML 2026VideoLoom: A Video Large Language Model for Joint Spatial-Temporal Understanding
999. ICML 2026VIP: Visual-guided Prompt Evolution for Efficient Dense Vision-Language Inference
1000. ICML 2026Vision Language Models Cannot Reason About Physical Transformation

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.