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 26 of 29

1251. ICLR 2026TurboBoA: Faster and Exact Attention-aware Quantization without Backpropagation
1252. ICLR 2026Turning Internal Gap into Self-Improvement: Promoting the Generation-Understanding Unification in MLLMs
1253. ICLR 2026TwinVLA: Data-Efficient Bimanual Manipulation with Twin Single-Arm Vision-Language-Action Models
1254. ICLR 2026Type-Compliant Adaptation Cascades
1255. ICLR 2026U-MARVEL: Unveiling Key Factors for Universal Multimodal Retrieval via Embedding Learning with MLLMs
1256. ICLR 2026U2-BENCH: Benchmarking Large Vision-Language Models on Ultrasound Understanding
1257. ICLR 2026UI-Ins: Enhancing GUI Grounding with Multi-Perspective Instruction as Reasoning
1258. ICLR 2026UltraLLaDA: Scaling the Context Length to 128K for Diffusion Large Language Models
1259. ICLR 2026UME-R1: Exploring Reasoning-Driven Generative Multimodal Embeddings
1260. ICLR 2026Uncertainty-Aware Gaussian Map for Vision-Language Navigation
1261. ICLR 2026Uncertainty-driven Embedding Convolution
1262. ICLR 2026Uncovering Robot Vulnerabilities through Semantic Potential Fields
1263. ICLR 2026Understanding Language Prior of LVLMs by Contrasting Chain-of-Embedding
1264. ICLR 2026Understanding Task Vectors in In-Context Learning: Emergence, Functionality, and Limitations
1265. ICLR 2026Understanding the Implicit Biases of Design Choices for Time Series Foundation Models
1266. ICLR 2026Understanding Transformers for Time Series: Rank Structure, Flow-of-ranks, and Compressibility
1267. ICLR 2026Understanding VLMs Spatial Mental Modeling Capability from Limited Views
1268. ICLR 2026Understanding vs. Generation: Navigating Optimization Dilemma in Multimodal Models
1269. ICLR 2026Unfolding Spatial Cognition: Evaluating Multimodal Models on Visual Simulations
1270. ICLR 2026Uni-CoT: Towards Unified Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Across Text and Vision
1271. ICLR 2026Uni-X: Mitigating Modality Conflict with a Two-End-Separated Architecture for Unified Multimodal Models
1272. ICLR 2026UniCA: Unified Covariate Adaptation for Time Series Foundation Model
1273. ICLR 2026UniCon: Unified Framework for Efficient Contrastive Alignment via Kernels
1274. ICLR 2026Unified Diffusion VLA: Vision-Language-Action Model via Joint Discrete Diffusion Diffusion Process
1275. ICLR 2026Unified Vision-Language-Action Model
1276. ICLR 2026Unified Vision–Language Modeling via Concept Space Alignment
1277. ICLR 2026Unifying Diffusion and Autoregression for Generalizable Vision-Language-Action Model
1278. ICLR 2026UniHM: Unified Dexterous Hand Manipulation with Vision Language Model
1279. ICLR 2026UniLiP: Adapting CLIP for Unified Multimodal Understanding, Generation and Editing
1280. ICLR 2026UniQL: Unified Quantization and Low-rank Compression for Adaptive Edge LLMs
1281. ICLR 2026UniRestorer: Universal Image Restoration via Adaptively Estimating Image Degradation at Proper Granularity
1282. ICLR 2026UNITE: Universal kNowledge Integration from Task-specific Experts
1283. ICLR 2026UniUGG: Unified 3D Understanding and Generation via Geometric-Semantic Encoding
1284. ICLR 2026UNIVERSAL AND EFFICIENT LOADING BALANCING FOR RL TRAINING OF LARGE MULTIMODAL MODELS
1285. ICLR 2026Universal Properties of Activation Sparsity in Modern Large Language Models
1286. ICLR 2026Unlearning Isn't Invisible: Detecting Unlearning Traces in LLMs from Model Outputs
1287. ICLR 2026Unleashing LLMs in Bayesian Optimization: Preference-Guided Framework for Scientific Discovery
1288. ICLR 2026Unleashing Perception-Time Scaling to Multimodal Reasoning Models
1289. ICLR 2026Unlocking the Value of Text: Event-Driven Reasoning and Multi-Level Alignment for Time Series Forecasting
1290. ICLR 2026Unmasking Backdoors: An Explainable Defense via Gradient-Attention Anomaly Scoring for Pre-trained Language Models
1291. ICLR 2026Unpacking Human Preference for LLMs: Demographically Aware Evaluation with the HUMAINE Framework
1292. ICLR 2026Unveiling Downstream Performance Scaling of LLMs: A Clustering-Based Perspective
1293. ICLR 2026Unveiling Perceptual Artifacts: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Interpretable AI-Generated Image Detection
1294. ICLR 2026Unveiling Super Experts in Mixture-of-Experts Large Language Models
1295. ICLR 2026Unveiling the Cognitive Compass: Theory-of-Mind–Guided Multimodal Emotion Reasoning
1296. ICLR 2026Urban Socio-Semantic Segmentation with Vision-Language Reasoning
1297. ICLR 2026UrbanFeel：A Comprehensive Benchmark for Temporal and Perceptual Understanding of City Scenes through Human Perspective
1298. ICLR 2026V2P-Bench: Evaluating Video-Language Understanding with Visual Prompts for Better Human-Model Interaction
1299. ICLR 2026VARestorer: One-Step VAR Distillation for Real-World Image Super-Resolution
1300. ICLR 2026Variational Reasoning for Language Models

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.