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

11,207 papers, page 212 of 225

10551. ICLR 2023Learning Multimodal Data Augmentation in Feature Space
10552. ICLR 2023Learning Sparse and Low-Rank Priors for Image Recovery via Iterative Reweighted Least Squares Minimization
10553. ICLR 2023Learning to Compose Soft Prompts for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
10554. ICLR 2023Learning to Decompose Visual Features with Latent Textual Prompts
10555. ICLR 2023Learning to Grow Pretrained Models for Efficient Transformer Training
10556. ICLR 2023Learning to Jointly Share and Prune Weights for Grounding Based Vision and Language Models
10557. ICLR 2023Leveraging Future Relationship Reasoning for Vehicle Trajectory Prediction
10558. ICLR 2023Leveraging Large Language Models for Multiple Choice Question Answering
10559. ICLR 2023Light Sampling Field and BRDF Representation for Physically-based Neural Rendering
10560. ICLR 2023LipsFormer: Introducing Lipschitz Continuity to Vision Transformers
10561. ICLR 2023LMSeg: Language-guided Multi-dataset Segmentation
10562. ICLR 2023Lossless Adaptation of Pretrained Vision Models For Robotic Manipulation
10563. ICLR 2023LPT: Long-tailed Prompt Tuning for Image Classification
10564. ICLR 2023Masked Unsupervised Self-training for Label-free Image Classification
10565. ICLR 2023Masked Vision and Language Modeling for Multi-modal Representation Learning
10566. ICLR 2023MaskViT: Masked Visual Pre-Training for Video Prediction
10567. ICLR 2023MAST: Masked Augmentation Subspace Training for Generalizable Self-Supervised Priors
10568. ICLR 2023Maximizing Spatio-Temporal Entropy of Deep 3D CNNs for Efficient Video Recognition
10569. ICLR 2023Measuring axiomatic soundness of counterfactual image models
10570. ICLR 2023MEDICAL IMAGE UNDERSTANDING WITH PRETRAINED VISION LANGUAGE MODELS: A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY
10571. ICLR 2023Meta Learning to Bridge Vision and Language Models for Multimodal Few-Shot Learning
10572. ICLR 2023MIMT: Masked Image Modeling Transformer for Video Compression
10573. ICLR 2023Mini-batch $k$-means terminates within $O(d/\epsilon)$ iterations
10574. ICLR 2023MixPro: Data Augmentation with MaskMix and Progressive Attention Labeling for Vision Transformer
10575. ICLR 2023MMVAE+: Enhancing the Generative Quality of Multimodal VAEs without Compromises
10576. ICLR 2023MOAT: Alternating Mobile Convolution and Attention Brings Strong Vision Models
10577. ICLR 2023Modeling Multimodal Aleatoric Uncertainty in Segmentation with Mixture of Stochastic Experts
10578. ICLR 2023Mosaic Representation Learning for Self-supervised Visual Pre-training
10579. ICLR 2023Multimodal Analogical Reasoning over Knowledge Graphs
10580. ICLR 2023Multimodal Federated Learning via Contrastive Representation Ensemble
10581. ICLR 2023MultiViz: Towards Visualizing and Understanding Multimodal Models
10582. ICLR 2023NeRN: Learning Neural Representations for Neural Networks
10583. ICLR 2023Neural Bregman Divergences for Distance Learning
10584. ICLR 2023Neural Compositional Rule Learning for Knowledge Graph Reasoning
10585. ICLR 2023Neural Optimal Transport
10586. ICLR 2023Open-Vocabulary Object Detection upon Frozen Vision and Language Models
10587. ICLR 2023PaLI: A Jointly-Scaled Multilingual Language-Image Model
10588. ICLR 2023Patch-Level Contrasting without Patch Correspondence for Accurate and Dense Contrastive Representation Learning
10589. ICLR 2023PatchDCT: Patch Refinement for High Quality Instance Segmentation
10590. ICLR 2023PLOT: Prompt Learning with Optimal Transport for Vision-Language Models
10591. ICLR 2023Programmatically Grounded, Compositionally Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
10592. ICLR 2023Relational Attention: Generalizing Transformers for Graph-Structured Tasks
10593. ICLR 2023REPAIR: REnormalizing Permuted Activations for Interpolation Repair
10594. ICLR 2023Reversible Column Networks
10595. ICLR 2023RGI: robust GAN-inversion for mask-free image inpainting and unsupervised pixel-wise anomaly detection
10596. ICLR 2023ROSCOE: A Suite of Metrics for Scoring Step-by-Step Reasoning
10597. ICLR 2023Scaling Laws For Deep Learning Based Image Reconstruction
10598. ICLR 2023Schema Inference for Interpretable Image Classification
10599. ICLR 2023Selection-Inference: Exploiting Large Language Models for Interpretable Logical Reasoning
10600. ICLR 2023Selective Frequency Network for Image Restoration

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.