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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1151. ICLR 2026Syncphony: Synchronized Audio-to-Video Generation with Diffusion Transformers
1152. ICLR 2026Synergizing Understanding and Generation with Interleaved Analyzing-Drafting Thinking
1153. ICLR 2026Synthesizing High-Quality Visual Question Answering from Medical Documents with Generator-Verifier LMMs
1154. ICLR 2026Synthesizing Multimodal Verifiable Game Data to Boost VLMs' General Reasoning
1155. ICLR 2026Synthetic Bootstrapped Pretraining
1156. ICLR 2026Tab-MIA: A Benchmark Dataset for Membership Inference Attacks on Tabular Data in LLMs
1157. ICLR 2026TableDART: Dynamic Adaptive Multi-Modal Routing for Table Understanding
1158. ICLR 2026TABLET: A Large-Scale Dataset for Robust Visual Table Understanding
1159. ICLR 2026Tactic: Adaptive Sparse Attention with Clustering and Distribution Fitting for Long-Context LLMs
1160. ICLR 2026Talking Points: Describing and Localizing Pixels
1161. ICLR 2026Taming Curvature: Architecture Warm-up for Stable Transformer Training
1162. ICLR 2026Taming Hierarchical Image Coding Optimization: A Spectral Regularization Perspective
1163. ICLR 2026Taming Polysemanticity in LLMs: Theory-Grounded Feature Recovery via Sparse Autoencoders
1164. ICLR 2026Taming the Fragility of KV Cache Eviction in LLM Inference
1165. ICLR 2026TAMMs: Change Understanding and Forecasting in Satellite Image Time Series with Temporal-Aware Multimodal Models
1166. ICLR 2026TangleScore: Tangle-Guided Purge and Imprint for Unstructured Knowledge Editing
1167. ICLR 2026TAPTRv3: Spatial and Temporal Context Foster Robust Tracking of Any Point in Long Video
1168. ICLR 2026Task-Aware Data Selection via Proxy-Label Enhanced Distribution Matching for LLM Finetuning
1169. ICLR 2026Task-Related Token Compression in Multimodal Large Language Models from an Explainability Perspective
1170. ICLR 2026Teach2Eval: An Interaction-Driven LLMs Evaluation Method via Teaching Effectiveness
1171. ICLR 2026Teaching Metric Distance to Discrete Autoregressive Language Models
1172. ICLR 2026Teaching VLMs to Admit Uncertainty in OCR from Lossy Visual Inputs
1173. ICLR 2026Tell me Habibi, is it Real or Fake?
1174. ICLR 2026Tequila: Deadzone-free Ternary Quantization for Large Language Models
1175. ICLR 2026TerraFM: A Scalable Foundation Model for Unified Multisensor Earth Observation
1176. ICLR 2026Test-time Domain Generalization for Image Super-resolution
1177. ICLR 2026Test-Time Matching: Unlocking Compositional Reasoning in Multimodal Models
1178. ICLR 2026TEST-TIME SCALING IN DIFFUSION LLMS VIA HIDDEN SEMI-AUTOREGRESSIVE EXPERTS
1179. ICLR 2026Test-Time Scaling with Reflective Generative Model
1180. ICLR 2026Text summarization via global structure awareness
1181. ICLR 2026The Achilles’ Heel of LLMs: How Altering a Handful of Neurons Can Cripple Language Abilities
1182. ICLR 2026The Art of Scaling Reinforcement Learning Compute for LLMs
1183. ICLR 2026The Devil behind the mask: An emergent safety vulnerability of Diffusion LLMs
1184. ICLR 2026THE END OF MANUAL DECODING: TOWARDS TRULY END-TO-END LANGUAGE MODELS
1185. ICLR 2026The Geometry of LLM Quantization: GPTQ as Babai's Nearest Plane Algorithm
1186. ICLR 2026The Geometry of Reasoning: Flowing Logics in Representation Space
1187. ICLR 2026The Hot Mess of AI: How Does Misalignment Scale With Model Intelligence and Task Complexity?
1188. ICLR 2026The Illusion of Diminishing Returns: Measuring Long Horizon Execution in LLMs
1189. ICLR 2026The Lattice Representation Hypothesis and Concept Algebra in LLMs
1190. ICLR 2026THE PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE: GUIDING LLM REASONING TRAJECTORIES WITH PREFIX CONSENSUS
1191. ICLR 2026The Pensieve Paradigm: Stateful Language Models with Learned Memory Management
1192. ICLR 2026The Softmax Bottleneck Does Not Limit the Probabilities of the Most Likely Tokens
1193. ICLR 2026The Unseen Bias: How Norm Discrepancy in Pre-Norm MLLMs Leads to Visual Information Loss
1194. ICLR 2026The Unseen Frontier: Pushing the Limits of LLM Sparsity with Surrogate-Free ADMM
1195. ICLR 2026THEMIS: Towards Holistic Evaluation of MLLMs for Scientific Paper Fraud Forensics
1196. ICLR 2026Theory of Space: Can Foundation Models Construct Spatial Beliefs through Active Exploration?
1197. ICLR 2026Thicker and Quicker: The Jumbo Token for Fast Plain Vision Transformers
1198. ICLR 2026Think in Parallel, Answer as One: Logit Averaging for Open-Ended Reasoning
1199. ICLR 2026Think Then Embed: Generative Context Improves Multimodal Embedding
1200. ICLR 2026Thinking with Camera: A Unified Multimodal Model for Camera-Centric Understanding and Generation

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.