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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101. ICML 2026BFCL Audio: An Audio Function Calling Evaluation for Large Language Models
102. ICML 2026Bimodal masked language modeling for bulk RNA-seq and DNA methylation representation learning
103. ICML 2026Bioacoustic Geolocation: Species Sounds as Geographic Signals
104. ICML 2026BioProBench: A Corpus and Benchmark for Biological Protocol Reasoning in Autonomous Science
105. ICML 2026BiRQA: Bidirectional Robust Quality Assessment for Images
106. ICML 2026BizFinBench.v2: Towards Reliable LLMs in Finance via Real-User Data and Offline/Online Bilingual Evaluation
107. ICML 2026Block Rotation is All You Need for MXFP4 Quantization
108. ICML 2026BrainJanus: A Unified Model for Understanding and Generation across Brain, Vision, and Language
109. ICML 2026Breaking Dual Bottlenecks: Evolving Unified Multimodal Models into Self-Adaptive Interleaved Visual Reasoners
110. ICML 2026BRIDGE: Triangular Fixed-Point Refinement for Long-Horizon Persona Consistency
111. ICML 2026Bridging On-Device and Cloud LLMs for Collaborative Reasoning: A Unified Methodology for Local Routing and Post-Training
112. ICML 2026Bridging the Grounding Gap in VideoQA via Typed Memory for Language-based Belief-State Reasoning
113. ICML 2026Bridging the Knowledge-Prediction Gap in LLMs on Multiple-Choice Questions
114. ICML 2026Bridging the Perceptual Gap: Residual-Enhanced Downscaling and Manifold-Aware Perception Alignment Adaptation for NR-IQA
115. ICML 2026Bring My Cup! Personalizing Vision-Language-Action Models with Visual Attentive Prompting
116. ICML 2026BVS: Bayesian Visual Search with Multimodal Large Language Model for Fine-grained Perception
117. ICML 2026BYORn: Bootstrap Your Own Responses to Defend Large Vision-Language Models Against Backdoor Attacks
118. ICML 2026CACR: Reinforcing Temporal Answer Grounding in Instructional Video via Candidate-Aware Causal Reasoning
119. ICML 2026Calibrated Multimodal Representation Learning with Missing Modalities
120. ICML 2026CAMP: Coherent Alignment of Multimodal Prototypes for Explainable Complementary Learning
121. ICML 2026Can LLMs Reason Structurally? Benchmarking via the lens of Data Structures
122. ICML 2026Can VLMs Diagnose and Recover from VLA Manipulation Faults?
123. ICML 2026Can We Build a Monolithic Model for Fake Image Detection? SICA: Semantic-Induced Constrained Adaptation for Unified-Yet-Discriminative Artifact Feature Space Reconstruction
124. ICML 2026CaP-X: A Framework for Benchmarking and Improving Coding Agents for Robot Manipulation
125. ICML 2026Capacity without Access: Reinterpreting the Mid-Depth Spectral Plateau in LLMs
126. ICML 2026CAPTCHA Solving for Native GUI Agents: Automated Reasoning-Action Data Generation and Self-Corrective Training
127. ICML 2026Capturing Gaze Shifts for Guidance: Cross-Modal Fusion Enhancement for VLM Hallucination Mitigation
128. ICML 2026CARE: Class-Adaptive Expert Consensus for Reliable Learning with Long-Tailed Noisy Labels
129. ICML 2026CAST: Modeling Visual State Transitions for Consistent Video Retrieval
130. ICML 2026CAT-Q: Cost-efficient and Accurate Ternary Quantization for LLMs
131. ICML 2026CausalX: A Unified and Causally-Interpretable Plug-and-Play Model for Multi-modal Spatio-Temporal Forecasting
132. ICML 2026CauSciBench: Can LLMs Automate Causal Inference in Real-World Scientific Research?
133. ICML 2026CBV: Clean-label Backdoor Attacks on Vision Language Models via Diffusion Models
134. ICML 2026Cello: A Universal Cell-wise Feature Aggregation framework for Reliable Pathology Images Analysis
135. ICML 2026Certified Robustness under Heterogeneous Perturbations via Hybrid Randomized Smoothing
136. ICML 2026CFPO: Counterfactual Policy Optimization for Multimodal Reasoning
137. ICML 2026CG-MLLM: Captioning and Generating 3D content via Multi-modal Large Language Models
138. ICML 2026Characterizing Vision-Language-Action Models across XPUs: Constraints and Acceleration for On-Robot Deployment
139. ICML 2026ChartE$^{3}$: A Comprehensive Benchmark for End-to-End Chart Editing
140. ICML 2026Circle-RoPE: Cone-like Decoupled Rotary Positional Embedding for Vision-Language Models
141. ICML 2026CLEAR: Context-Aware Learning with End-to-End Mask-Free Inference for Adaptive Video Subtitle Removal
142. ICML 2026CLIP Tricks You: Training-free Token Pruning for Efficient Pixel Grounding in Large Vision-Language Models
143. ICML 2026CMI-RewardBench: Evaluating Music Reward Models with Compositional Multimodal Instruction
144. ICML 2026cMoLLM at Scale: Horizontal Scaling Laws for Convolutionally-Gated Mixture-of-LLMs
145. ICML 2026Code2Video: A Code-centric Paradigm for Educational Video Creation
146. ICML 2026Code2Worlds: Empowering Coding LLMs for 4D World Generation
147. ICML 2026COFT: Counterfactual–Conformal Decoding for Fair Chain‑of‑Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models
148. ICML 2026CoGeoAD: Hierarchical Color-Geometric Fusion with Multi-View Attention for Zero-Shot 3D Anomaly Detection
149. ICML 2026CoLA: Cross-Modal Low-rank Adaptation for Multimodal Downstream Tasks
150. ICML 2026Coloring the Noise: Adversarial Sobolev Alignment for Faithful Image Super Resolution

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.