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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1051. ICLR 2026Seeing but Not Believing: Probing the Disconnect Between Visual Attention and Answer Correctness in VLMs
1052. ICLR 2026Seeing Through Deception: Uncovering Misleading Creator Intent in Multimodal News with Vision-Language Models
1053. ICLR 2026Seeing Through Words: Controlling Visual Retrieval Quality with Language
1054. ICLR 2026Seeing, Listening, Remembering, and Reasoning: A Multimodal Agent with Long-Term Memory
1055. ICLR 2026Seek-CAD: A Self-refined Generative Modeling for 3D Parametric CAD Using Local Inference via DeepSeek
1056. ICLR 2026Selection, Reflection and Self-Refinement: Revisit Reasoning Tasks via a Causal Lens
1057. ICLR 2026Self-Augmented Visual Contrastive Decoding
1058. ICLR 2026Self-Evolving Vision-Language Models for Image Quality Assessment via Voting and Ranking
1059. ICLR 2026Self-Improving Vision-Language-Action Models with Data Generation via Residual RL
1060. ICLR 2026Self-Refining Vision Language Model for Robotic Failure Detection and Reasoning
1061. ICLR 2026Self-Rewarding Vision-Language Model via Reasoning Decomposition and Multi-Reward Policy Optimization
1062. ICLR 2026SelfReflect: Can LLMs Communicate Their Internal Answer Distribution?
1063. ICLR 2026Semantic Uncertainty Quantification of Hallucinations in LLMs: A Quantum Tensor Network Based Method
1064. ICLR 2026Semantic Visual Anomaly Detection and Reasoning in AI-Generated Images
1065. ICLR 2026SemHiTok: A Unified Image Tokenizer via Semantic-Guided Hierarchical Codebook for Multimodal Understanding and Generation
1066. ICLR 2026Seq vs Seq: An Open Suite of Paired Encoders and Decoders
1067. ICLR 2026Sequential Parallel Duality in Prefix Scannable Models
1068. ICLR 2026SesaHand: Enhancing 3D Hand Reconstruction via Controllable Generation with Semantic and Structural Alignment
1069. ICLR 2026SFT Doesn’t Always Hurt General Capabilities: Revisiting Domain-Specific Fine-Tuning in LLMs
1070. ICLR 2026SHE-LoRA: Selective Homomorphic Encryption for Federated Tuning with Heterogeneous LoRA
1071. ICLR 2026SHIELD: Suppressing Hallucinations In LVLM Encoders via Bias and Vulnerability Defense
1072. ICLR 2026ShieldedCode: Learning Robust Representations for Virtual Machine Protected Code
1073. ICLR 2026Shift-and-Sum Quantization for Visual Autoregressive Models
1074. ICLR 2026Shuffle-R1: Efficient RL framework for Multimodal Large Language Models via Data-centric Dynamic Shuffle
1075. ICLR 2026SigLIP-HD by Fine-to-Coarse Supervision
1076. ICLR 2026SIGMA-GEN: STRUCTURE AND IDENTITY GUIDED MULTI-SUBJECT ASSEMBLY FOR IMAGE GENERATION
1077. ICLR 2026Sim2Real VLA: Zero-Shot Generalization of Synthesized Skills to Realistic Manipulation
1078. ICLR 2026SiMO: Single-Modality-Operable Multimodal Collaborative Perception
1079. ICLR 2026SimpleToM: Exposing the Gap between Explicit ToM Inference and Implicit ToM Application in LLMs
1080. ICLR 2026SimpleVLA-RL: Scaling VLA Training via Reinforcement Learning
1081. ICLR 2026Simulation to Rules: A Dual-VLM Framework for Formal Visual Planning
1082. ICLR 2026SiNGER: A Clearer Voice Distills Vision Transformers Further
1083. ICLR 2026SinkTrack: Attention Sink based Context Anchoring for Large Language Models
1084. ICLR 2026SIPDO: Closed-Loop Prompt Optimization via Synthetic Data Feedback
1085. ICLR 2026SketchThinker-R1: Towards Efficient Sketch-Style Reasoning in Large Multimodal Models
1086. ICLR 2026sleep2vec: Unified Cross-Modal Alignment for Heterogeneous Nocturnal Biosignals
1087. ICLR 2026SliderQuant: Accurate Post-Training Quantization for LLMs
1088. ICLR 2026SLM-MUX: Orchestrating Small Language Models for Reasoning
1089. ICLR 2026SlotGCG: Exploiting the Positional Vulnerability in LLMs for Jailbreak Attacks
1090. ICLR 2026Small Drafts, Big Verdict: Information-Intensive Visual Reasoning via Speculation
1091. ICLR 2026SMAN-Bench: A Cross-System Benchmark for Mobile Agents under Single- and Multi-path, Ambiguous, and Noisy Tasks
1092. ICLR 2026SmellNet: A Large-scale Dataset for Real-world Smell Recognition
1093. ICLR 2026Soft Equivariance Regularization for Invariant Self-Supervised Learning
1094. ICLR 2026SoLoPO: Unlocking Long-Context Capabilities in LLMs via Short-to-Long Preference Optimization
1095. ICLR 2026SophiaVL-R1: Reinforcing MLLMs Reasoning with Thinking Reward
1096. ICLR 2026SP-VLA: A Joint Model Scheduling and Token Pruning Approach for VLA Model Acceleration
1097. ICLR 2026SpaCE-10: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models in Compositional Spatial Intelligence
1098. ICLR 2026Sparse but Critical: A Token-Level Analysis of Distributional Shifts in RLVR Fine-Tuning of LLMs
1099. ICLR 2026Sparse CLIP: Co-Optimizing Interpretability and Performance in Contrastive Learning
1100. ICLR 2026Sparsity Forcing: Reinforcing Token Sparsity of MLLMs

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.