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

1,401 papers, page 25 of 29

1201. ICLR 2026ThinkMorph: Emergent Properties in Multimodal Interleaved Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
1202. ICLR 2026Threading Keyframe with Narratives: MLLMs as Strong Long Video Comprehenders
1203. ICLR 2026Through the Lens of Contrast: Self-Improving Visual Reasoning in VLMs
1204. ICLR 2026TIGaussian: Disentangle Gaussians for Spatial-Awared Text-Image-3D Alignment
1205. ICLR 2026TikZilla: Scaling Text-to-TikZ with High-Quality Data and Reinforcement Learning
1206. ICLR 2026Time Optimal Execution of Action Chunk Policies Beyond Demonstration Speed
1207. ICLR 2026TimeOmni-1: Incentivizing Complex Reasoning with Time Series in Large Language Models
1208. ICLR 2026TimeSeriesExamAgent: Creating TimeSeries Reasoning Benchmarks at Scale
1209. ICLR 2026TINY BUT MIGHTY: A SOFTWARE-HARDWARE CO- DESIGN APPROACH FOR EFFICIENT MULTIMODAL IN- FERENCE ON BATTERY-POWERED SMALL DEVICES
1210. ICLR 2026TNT: Improving Chunkwise Training for Test-Time Memorization
1211. ICLR 2026To Compress or Not? Pushing the Frontier of Lossless GenAI Model Weights Compression with Exponent Concentration
1212. ICLR 2026To Sink or Not to Sink: Visual Information Pathways in Large Vision-Language Models
1213. ICLR 2026Tokenisation over Bounded Alphabets is Hard
1214. ICLR 2026TokUR: Token-Level Uncertainty Estimation for Large Language Model Reasoning
1215. ICLR 2026ToolWeaver: Weaving Collaborative Semantics for Scalable Tool Use in Large Language Models
1216. ICLR 2026Toward Universal and Transferable Jailbreak Attacks on Vision-Language Models
1217. ICLR 2026Towards a Foundation Model for Crowdsourced Label Aggregation
1218. ICLR 2026Towards All-Atom Foundation Models for Biomolecular Binding Affinity Prediction
1219. ICLR 2026Towards Faithful Reasoning in Remote Sensing: A Perceptually-Grounded GeoSpatial Chain-of-Thought for Vision-Language Models
1220. ICLR 2026Towards Multimodal Time Series Anomaly Detection with Semantic Alignment and Condensed Interaction
1221. ICLR 2026Towards Quantization-Aware Training for Ultra-Low-Bit Reasoning LLMs
1222. ICLR 2026Towards Sampling Data Structures for Tensor Products in Turnstile Streams
1223. ICLR 2026Towards Self-Robust LLMs: Intrinsic Prompt Noise Resistance via CoIPO
1224. ICLR 2026Towards Spatial Supersensing in Video
1225. ICLR 2026Towards Text-Mask Consistency in Medical Image Segmentation
1226. ICLR 2026Towards True Speech-to-Speech Models Without Text Guidance
1227. ICLR 2026Towards Understanding Subliminal Learning: When and How Hidden Biases Transfer
1228. ICLR 2026Towards Understanding Valuable Preference Data for Large Language Model Alignment
1229. ICLR 2026Tracing and Reversing Edits in LLMs
1230. ICLR 2026Train Once, Answer All: Many Pretraining Experiments for the Cost of One
1231. ICLR 2026Train-before-Test Harmonizes Language Model Rankings
1232. ICLR 2026Trained on Tokens, Calibrated on Concepts: The Emergence of Semantic Calibration in LLMs
1233. ICLR 2026Training-Free Loosely Speculative Decoding: Accepting Semantically Correct Drafts Beyond Exact Match
1234. ICLR 2026Trajectory-aware Shifted State Space Models for Online Video Super-Resolution
1235. ICLR 2026Transducing Language Models
1236. ICLR 2026Transductive Visual Programming: Evolving Tool Libraries from Experience for Spatial Reasoning
1237. ICLR 2026Transferable and Stealthy Adversarial Attacks on Large Vision-Language Models
1238. ICLR 2026Translation Heads: Unveiling Attention's Role in LLM Multilingual Translation
1239. ICLR 2026Trapped by simplicity: When Transformers fail to learn from noisy features
1240. ICLR 2026TRIBE: TRImodal Brain Encoder for whole-brain fMRI response prediction
1241. ICLR 2026Tricks or Traps? A Deep Dive into RL for LLM Reasoning
1242. ICLR 2026TripleSumm: Adaptive Triple-Modality Fusion for Video Summarization
1243. ICLR 2026TrustGen: A Platform of Dynamic Benchmarking on the Trustworthiness of Generative Foundation Models
1244. ICLR 2026Truthfulness Despite Weak Supervision: Evaluating and Training LLMs Using Peer Prediction
1245. ICLR 2026TS$^2$: Training with Sparsemax+, Testing with Softmax for Accurate and Diverse LLM Fine-Tuning
1246. ICLR 2026TSLM: Tree-Structured Language Modeling for Divergent Thinking
1247. ICLR 2026TSPulse: Tiny Pre-Trained Models with Disentangled Representations for Rapid Time-Series Analysis
1248. ICLR 2026TTOM: Test-Time Optimization and Memorization for Compositional Video Generation
1249. ICLR 2026Tug-of-War No More: Harmonizing Accuracy and Robustness in Vision-Language Models via Stability-Aware Task Vector Merging
1250. ICLR 2026TumorChain: Interleaved Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Traceable Clinical Tumor Analysis

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.