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 30 of 225

1451. ICLR 2026BAH Dataset for Ambivalence/Hesitancy Recognition in Videos for Behavioural Change
1452. ICLR 2026BaseReward: A Strong Baseline for Multimodal Reward Model
1453. ICLR 2026Batch Pruning by Activation Stability
1454. ICLR 2026Bayesian Attention Mechanism: A Probabilistic Framework for Positional Encoding and Context Length Extrapolation
1455. ICLR 2026BBQ: Boosting Quantization Entropy with Bell Box Quantization
1456. ICLR 2026Be Careful When Fine-tuning On Open-Source LLMs: Your Fine-tuning Data Could Be Secretly Stolen!
1457. ICLR 2026BEAT: Visual Backdoor Attacks on VLM-based Embodied Agents via Contrastive Trigger Learning
1458. ICLR 2026BED-LLM: Intelligent Information Gathering with LLMs and Bayesian Experimental Design
1459. ICLR 2026Bee: A High-Quality Corpus and Full-Stack Suite to Unlock Advanced Fully Open MLLMs
1460. ICLR 2026Benchmarking ECG Foundational Models: A Reality Check Across Clinical Tasks
1461. ICLR 2026Benchmarking Large Vision-Language Models on Fine-Grained Image Tasks: A Comprehensive Evaluation
1462. ICLR 2026Benchmarking Overton Pluralism in LLMs
1463. ICLR 2026Better Together: Leveraging Unpaired Multimodal Data for Stronger Unimodal Models
1464. ICLR 2026Beyond Accuracy: Are Time Series Foundation Models Well-Calibrated?
1465. ICLR 2026Beyond Classification Accuracy: Neural-MedBench and the Need for Deeper Reasoning Benchmarks
1466. ICLR 2026Beyond DAGs: A Latent Partial Causal Model for Multimodal Learning
1467. ICLR 2026Beyond English-Centric Training: How Reinforcement Learning Improves Cross-Lingual Reasoning in LLMs
1468. ICLR 2026Beyond Fixed: Training-Free Variable-Length Denoising for Diffusion Large Language Models
1469. ICLR 2026Beyond Length: Quantifying Long-Range Information for Long-Context LLM Pretraining Data
1470. ICLR 2026Beyond Linear Processing: Dendritic Bilinear Integration in Spiking Neural Networks
1471. ICLR 2026Beyond Multi-Token Prediction: Pretraining LLMs with Future Summaries
1472. ICLR 2026Beyond Outliers: A Study of Optimizers Under Quantization
1473. ICLR 2026Beyond Raw Detection Scores: Markov-Informed Calibration for Boosting Machine-Generated Text Detection
1474. ICLR 2026Beyond Real: Imaginary Extension of Rotary Position Embeddings for Long-Context LLMs
1475. ICLR 2026Beyond Scattered Acceptance: Fast and Coherent Inference for DLMs via Longest Stable Prefixes
1476. ICLR 2026Beyond Speedup - Utilizing KV Cache for Sampling and Reasoning
1477. ICLR 2026Beyond Static Vision: Scene Dynamic Field Unlocks Intuitive Physics Understanding in Multi-modal Large Language Models
1478. ICLR 2026Beyond Student: An Asymmetric Network for Neural Network Inheritance
1479. ICLR 2026Beyond Text-Only: Towards Multimodal Table Retrieval in Open-World
1480. ICLR 2026Beyond URLs: Metadata Diversity and Position for Efficient LLM Pretraining
1481. ICLR 2026Bias Similarity Measurement: A Black-Box Audit of Fairness Across LLMs
1482. ICLR 2026BideDPO: Conditional Image Generation with Simultaneous Text and Condition Alignment
1483. ICLR 2026Bilateral Information-aware Test-time Adaptation for Vision-Language Models
1484. ICLR 2026BioCAP: Exploiting Synthetic Captions Beyond Labels in Biological Foundation Models
1485. ICLR 2026Bird's-eye-view Informed Reasoning Driver
1486. ICLR 2026Block Recurrent Dynamics in Vision Transformers
1487. ICLR 2026Block-wise Adaptive Caching for Accelerating Diffusion Policy
1488. ICLR 2026BOLT: Decision‑Aligned Distillation and Budget-Aware Routing for Constrained Multimodal QA on Robots
1489. ICLR 2026Bongard-RWR+: Real-World Representations of Fine-Grained Concepts in Bongard Problems
1490. ICLR 2026Boosting Medical Visual Understanding From Multi-Granular Language Learning
1491. ICLR 2026Boosting Multi-Domain Reasoning of LLMs via Curvature-Guided Policy Optimization
1492. ICLR 2026Bootstrapping MLLM for Weakly‑Supervised Class‑Agnostic Object Counting
1493. ICLR 2026BOTS: A Unified Framework for Bayesian Online Task Selection in LLM Reinforcement Finetuning
1494. ICLR 2026Bottlenecked Transformers: Periodic KV Cache Consolidation for Generalised Reasoning
1495. ICLR 2026Branch and Bound Search for Exact MAP Inference in Credal Networks
1496. ICLR 2026Branched Schrödinger Bridge Matching
1497. ICLR 2026Breaking Agent Backbones: Evaluating the Security of Backbone LLMs in AI Agents
1498. ICLR 2026Breaking the SFT Plateau: Multimodal Structured Reinforcement Learning for Chart-to-Code Generation
1499. ICLR 2026Bridging Draft Policy Misalignment: Group Tree Optimization for Speculative Decoding
1500. ICLR 2026Bridging Radiology and Pathology Foundation Models via Concept-Based Multimodal Co-Adaptation

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.