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 27 of 29

1301. ICLR 2026VaseVQA-3D: Benchmarking 3D VLMs on Ancient Greek Pottery
1302. ICLR 2026VEAttack: Downstream-agnostic Vision Encoder Attack against Large Vision Language Models
1303. ICLR 2026VER: Vision Expert Transformer for Robot Learning via Foundation Distillation and Dynamic Routing
1304. ICLR 2026Verification and Co-Alignment via Heterogeneous Consistency for Preference-Aligned LLM Annotations
1305. ICLR 2026Verifier-free Test-Time Sampling for Vision Language Action Models
1306. ICLR 2026VGR: Visual Grounded Reasoning
1307. ICLR 2026Vid-LLM: A Compact Video-based 3D Multimodal LLM with Reconstruction–Reasoning Synergy
1308. ICLR 2026Video-As-Prompt: Unified Semantic Control for Video Generation
1309. ICLR 2026Video-KTR: Reinforcing Video Reasoning via Key Token Attribution
1310. ICLR 2026Video-LevelGauge: Investigating Contextual Positional Bias in Video Language Models.
1311. ICLR 2026Video-STAR: Reinforcing Open-Vocabulary Action Recognition with Tools
1312. ICLR 2026VideoAnchor: Reinforcing Subspace-Structured Visual Cues for Coherent Visual-Spatial Reasoning
1313. ICLR 2026VideoChat-Flash: Hierarchical Compression for Long-Context Video Modeling
1314. ICLR 2026VideoJudge: Bootstrapping Enables Scalable Supervision of MLLM-as-a-Judge for Video Understanding
1315. ICLR 2026VideoMathQA: Benchmarking Mathematical Reasoning via Multimodal Understanding in Video
1316. ICLR 2026VideoMind: A Chain-of-LoRA Agent for Temporal-Grounded Video Reasoning
1317. ICLR 2026VideoNSA: Native Sparse Attention Scales Video Understanding
1318. ICLR 2026VideoReasonBench: Can MLLMs Perform Vision-Centric Complex Video Reasoning?
1319. ICLR 2026VideoZoomer: Reinforcement-Learned Temporal Focusing for Long Video Reasoning
1320. ICLR 2026VidGuard-R1: AI-Generated Video Detection and Explanation via Reasoning MLLMs and RL
1321. ICLR 2026villa-X: Enhancing Latent Action Modeling in Vision-Language-Action Models
1322. ICLR 2026ViPER: Empowering the Self-Evolution of Visual Perception Abilities in Vision-Language Models
1323. ICLR 2026ViPRA: Video Prediction for Robot Actions
1324. ICLR 2026VIRTUE: Visual-Interactive Text-Image Universal Embedder
1325. ICLR 2026VisCodex: Unified Multimodal Code Generation via Merging Vision and Coding Models
1326. ICLR 2026VisioMath: Benchmarking Figure-based Mathematical Reasoning in LMMs
1327. ICLR 2026Vision Language Models are Biased
1328. ICLR 2026Vision-Language-Action Instruction Tuning: From Understanding to Manipulation
1329. ICLR 2026Vision-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in Multimodal Large Language Models
1330. ICLR 2026Vision-Zero: Scalable VLM Self-Improvement via Strategic Gamified Self-Play
1331. ICLR 2026VisionReasoner: Unified Reasoning-Integrated Visual Perception via Reinforcement Learning
1332. ICLR 2026VisionTrim: Unified Vision Token Compression for Training-Free MLLM Acceleration
1333. ICLR 2026VisJudge-Bench: Aesthetics and Quality Assessment of Visualizations
1334. ICLR 2026Visual Jigsaw Post-Training Improves MLLMs
1335. ICLR 2026Visual Self-Refine: A Pixel-Guided Paradigm for Accurate Chart Parsing
1336. ICLR 2026Visual symbolic mechanisms: Emergent symbol processing in Vision Language Models
1337. ICLR 2026VisualPRM400K: An Effective Dataset for Training Multimodal Process Reward Models
1338. ICLR 2026VisuLogic: A Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Reasoning in Multi-modal Large Language Models
1339. ICLR 2026VisuRiddles: Fine-grained Perception is a Primary Bottleneck for Multimodal Large Language Models in Abstract Visual Reasoning
1340. ICLR 2026VITA: Zero-Shot Value Functions via Test-Time Adaptation of Vision–Language Models
1341. ICLR 2026Vivid-VR: Distilling Concepts from Text-to-Video Diffusion Transformer for Photorealistic Video Restoration
1342. ICLR 2026VL-JEPA: Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture for Vision-language
1343. ICLR 2026Vlaser: Vision-Language-Action Model with Synergistic Embodied Reasoning
1344. ICLR 2026VLBiMan: Vision-Language Anchored One-Shot Demonstration Enables Generalizable Bimanual Robotic Manipulation
1345. ICLR 2026VLM-Guided Adaptive Negative Prompting for Creative Generation
1346. ICLR 2026VLM-SubtleBench: How Far Are VLMs from Human-Level Subtle Comparative Reasoning?
1347. ICLR 2026VLM4VLA: Revisiting Vision-Language-Models in Vision-Language-Action Models
1348. ICLR 2026VLMgineer: Vision-Language Models as Robotic Toolsmiths
1349. ICLR 2026VLSU: Mapping the Limits of Joint Multimodal Understanding for AI Safety
1350. ICLR 2026VOGUE: Unified Understanding, Generation, and Editing for Videos

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.