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

11,207 papers, page 29 of 225

1401. ICLR 2026ActiveDPO: Active Direct Preference Optimization for Sample-Efficient Alignment
1402. ICLR 2026AdAEM: An Adaptively and Automated Extensible Evaluation Method of LLMs' Value Difference
1403. ICLR 2026Adaptive Debiasing Tsallis Entropy for Test-Time Adaptation
1404. ICLR 2026Adaptive Logit Adjustment for Debiasing Multimodal Language Models
1405. ICLR 2026AdaReasoner: Dynamic Tool Orchestration for Iterative Visual Reasoning
1406. ICLR 2026AdPO: Enhancing the Adversarial Robustness of Large Vision-Language Models with Preference Optimization
1407. ICLR 2026Advancing Complex Video Object Segmentation via Progressive Concept Construction
1408. ICLR 2026Adversarial Attacks Already Tell the Answer: Directional Bias-Guided Test-time Defense for Vision-Language Models
1409. ICLR 2026AetherCode: Evaluating LLMs’ Ability to Win In Premier Programming Competitions
1410. ICLR 2026AFTER: Mitigating the Object Hallucination of LVLM via Adaptive Factual-Guided Activation Editing
1411. ICLR 2026Agentic Jigsaw Interaction Learning for Enhancing Visual Perception and Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
1412. ICLR 2026Align-Then-stEer: Adapting the Vision-Language Action Models through Unified Latent Guidance
1413. ICLR 2026ALM-MTA: Front-Door Causal Multi-Touch Attribution Method for Creator-Ecosystem Optimization
1414. ICLR 2026AMiD: Knowledge Distillation for LLMs with $\alpha$-mixture Assistant Distribution
1415. ICLR 2026AMLRIS: Alignment-aware Masked Learning for Referring Image Segmentation
1416. ICLR 2026An Empirical Study of Attention and Diversity for Adaptive Visual Token Pruning in Large Vision-Language Models
1417. ICLR 2026An Information-Theoretic Parameter-Free Bayesian Framework for Probing Labeled Dependency Trees from Attention Score
1418. ICLR 2026An Open-Ended Benchmark and Formal Framework for Adjuvant Research with MLLM
1419. ICLR 2026Analyzing the Training Dynamics of Image Restoration Transformers: A Revisit to Layer Normalization
1420. ICLR 2026Anatomy-aware Representation Learning for Medical Ultrasound
1421. ICLR 2026Anchor Frame Bridging for Coherent First-Last Frame Video Generation
1422. ICLR 2026AnesSuite: A Comprehensive Benchmark and Dataset Suite for Anesthesiology Reasoning in LLMs
1423. ICLR 2026Annotation-Efficient Honesty Alignment via Confidence Elicitation and Calibration
1424. ICLR 2026Antislop: A Comprehensive Framework for Identifying and Eliminating Repetitive Patterns in Language Models
1425. ICLR 2026Any-Order Any-Subset AutoRegressive Model
1426. ICLR 2026AnyBCQ: Hardware Efficient Flexible Binary-Coded Quantization for Multi-Precision LLMs
1427. ICLR 2026Are LLMs Really Not Knowledgeable? Mining the Submerged Knowledge in LLMs' Memory
1428. ICLR 2026ARES: Multimodal Adaptive Reasoning via Difficulty-Aware Token-Level Entropy Shaping
1429. ICLR 2026ARMs: Adaptive Red-Teaming Agent against Multimodal Models with Plug-and-Play Attacks
1430. ICLR 2026Articulation in Motion: Prior-free Part Mobility Analysis for Articulated Objects By Dynamic-Static Disentanglement
1431. ICLR 2026ASMIL: Attention-Stabilized Multiple Instance Learning for Whole-Slide Imaging
1432. ICLR 2026ASTRAEA: A Token-wise Acceleration Framework for Video Diffusion Transformers
1433. ICLR 2026Asynchronous Matching with Dynamic Sampling for Multimodal Dataset Distillation
1434. ICLR 2026Attend to the Active: Structure-Aware Dynamic Attention in LLMs for Compositional Instruction Following
1435. ICLR 2026Attention Is All You Need for KV Cache in Diffusion LLMs
1436. ICLR 2026Attention Sinks and Compression Valleys in LLMs are Two Sides of the Same Coin
1437. ICLR 2026Attention, Please! Revisiting Attentive Probing Through the Lens of Efficiency
1438. ICLR 2026AttTok: Marrying Attribute Tokens with Generative Pre-trained Vision-Language Models towards Medical Image Understanding
1439. ICLR 2026AutoBio: A Simulation and Benchmark for Robotic Automation in Digital Biology Laboratory
1440. ICLR 2026AutoCode: LLMs as Problem Setters for Competitive Programming
1441. ICLR 2026Autoencoding-Free Context Compression for LLMs via Contextual Semantic Anchors
1442. ICLR 2026AutoFly: Vision-Language-Action Model for UAV Autonomous Navigation in the Wild
1443. ICLR 2026AutoGPS: Automated Geometry Problem Solving via Multimodal Formalization and Deductive Reasoning
1444. ICLR 2026Automated Stateful Specialization for Adaptive Agent Systems
1445. ICLR 2026Automatic Dialectic Jailbreak: A Framework for Generating Effective Jailbreak Strategies
1446. ICLR 2026Automatic Image-Level Morphological Trait Annotation for Organismal Images
1447. ICLR 2026Autonomous Play with Correspondence-Driven Trajectory Warping
1448. ICLR 2026AutoQVLA: Not All Channels Are Equal in Vision-Language-Action Model's Quantization
1449. ICLR 2026AVERE: Improving Audiovisual Emotion Reasoning with Preference Optimization
1450. ICLR 2026Avey-B

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.