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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1001. ICLR 2026RL for Reasoning by Adaptively Revealing Rationales
1002. ICLR 2026RL makes MLLMs see better than SFT
1003. ICLR 2026RL Squeezes, SFT Expands: A Comparative Study of Reasoning LLMs
1004. ICLR 2026RLAD: Training LLMs to Discover Abstractions for Solving Reasoning Problems
1005. ICLR 2026RLAP-CLIP: Continual Multimodal Learning with Prototype Adaptation and Difficulty-Aware Routing
1006. ICLR 2026RMFlow: Refined Mean Flow by a Noise-Injection Step for Multimodal Generation
1007. ICLR 2026RoboCasa365: A Large-Scale Simulation Framework for Training and Benchmarking Generalist Robots
1008. ICLR 2026RoboInter: A Holistic Intermediate Representation Suite Towards Robotic Manipulation
1009. ICLR 2026RobotArena $\infty$: Unlimited Robot Benchmarking via Real-to-Sim Translation
1010. ICLR 2026Robotic Manipulation by Imitating Generated Videos Without Physical Demonstrations
1011. ICLR 2026Robust Fine-tuning of Vision-Language-Action Robot Policies via Parameter Merging
1012. ICLR 2026Robust Reward Modeling via Causal Rubrics
1013. ICLR 2026Robust Test-time Video-Text Retrieval: Benchmarking and Adapting for Query Shifts
1014. ICLR 2026RobustSpring: Benchmarking Robustness to Image Corruptions for Optical Flow, Scene Flow and Stereo
1015. ICLR 2026RoRE: Rotary Ray Embedding for Generalised Multi-Modal Scene Understanding
1016. ICLR 2026Rote Learning Considered Useful: Generalizing over Memorized Data in LLMs
1017. ICLR 2026Routing Manifold Alignment Improves Generalization of Mixture-of-Experts LLMs
1018. ICLR 2026Routing, Cascades, and User Choice for LLMs
1019. ICLR 2026ROVER: Benchmarking Reciprocal Cross-Modal Reasoning for Omnimodal Generation
1020. ICLR 2026RPM: Reasoning-Level Personalization for Black-Box Large Language Models
1021. ICLR 2026SABRE-FL: Selective and Accurate Backdoor Rejection for Federated Prompt Learning
1022. ICLR 2026SAES-SVD: Self-Adaptive Suppression of Accumulated and Local Errors for SVD-based LLM Compression
1023. ICLR 2026Safeguarding Multimodal Knowledge Copyright in the RAG-as-a-Service Environment
1024. ICLR 2026SafeMoE: Safe Fine-Tuning for MoE LLMs by Aligning Harmful Input Routing
1025. ICLR 2026Safety Mirage: How Spurious Correlations Undermine VLM Safety Fine-Tuning and Can Be Mitigated by Machine Unlearning
1026. ICLR 2026SAGE: Spatial-visual Adaptive Graph Exploration for Efficient Visual Place Recognition
1027. ICLR 2026SAM 3: Segment Anything with Concepts
1028. ICLR 2026Same Content, Different Representations: A Controlled Study for Table QA
1029. ICLR 2026Sample Lottery: Unsupervised Discovery of Critical Instances for LLM Reasoning
1030. ICLR 2026Sample Smart, Not Hard: Correctness-First Decoding for Better Reasoning in LLMs
1031. ICLR 2026Sapiens2
1032. ICLR 2026SASFT: Sparse Autoencoder-guided Supervised Finetuning to Mitigate Unexpected Code-Switching in LLMs
1033. ICLR 2026SC-Arena: A Natural Language Benchmark for Single-Cell Reasoning with Knowledge-Augmented Evaluation
1034. ICLR 2026Scalable Multilingual Multimodal Machine Translation with Speech-Text Fusion
1035. ICLR 2026ScaleCap: Scalable Image Captioning via Dual-Modality Debiasing
1036. ICLR 2026ScaleCUA: Scaling Open-Source Computer Use Agents with Cross-Platform Data
1037. ICLR 2026ScaleLong: A Multi-Timescale Benchmark for Long Video Understanding
1038. ICLR 2026Scaling Knowledge Editing in LLMs to 100,000 Facts with Neural KV Database
1039. ICLR 2026Scaling Laws Meet Model Architecture: Toward Inference-Efficient LLMs
1040. ICLR 2026Scaling up Memory for Robotic Control via Experience Retrieval
1041. ICLR 2026SceneCOT: Eliciting Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in 3D Scenes
1042. ICLR 2026SceneTransporter: Optimal Transport-Guided Compositional Latent Diffusion for Single-Image Structured 3D Scene Generation
1043. ICLR 2026SCI-Verifier: Scientific Verifier with Thinking
1044. ICLR 2026ScienceBoard: Evaluating Multimodal Autonomous Agents in Realistic Scientific Workflows
1045. ICLR 2026SciTS: Scientific Time Series Understanding and Generation with LLMs
1046. ICLR 2026SCUBA: Salesforce Computer Use Benchmark
1047. ICLR 2026Sculpting Subspaces: Constrained Full Fine-Tuning in LLMs for Continual Learning
1048. ICLR 2026Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs
1049. ICLR 2026SeeDNorm: Self-Rescaled Dynamic Normalization
1050. ICLR 2026Seeing Across Views: Benchmarking Spatial Reasoning of Vision-Language Models in Robotic Scenes

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.