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 32 of 225

1551. ICLR 2026Codified Finite-state Machines for Role-playing
1552. ICLR 2026CoFact: Conformal Factuality Guarantees for Language Models under Distribution Shift
1553. ICLR 2026CogFlow: Bridging Perception and Reasoning through Knowledge Internalization for Visual Mathematical Problem Solving
1554. ICLR 2026CogMoE: Signal-Quality–Guided Multimodal MoE for Cognitive Load Prediction
1555. ICLR 2026COLD-Steer: Steering Large Language Models via In-Context One-step Learning Dynamics
1556. ICLR 2026CoMem: Compositional Concept-Graph Memory for Vision–Language Adaptation
1557. ICLR 2026COMPACT: COMPositional Atomic-to-Complex Visual Capability Tuning
1558. ICLR 2026Comparing the learning dynamics of in-context learning and fine-tuning in language models
1559. ICLR 2026CompassNav: Steering From Path Imitation to Decision Understanding In Navigation
1560. ICLR 2026CompoDistill: Attention Distillation for Compositional Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs
1561. ICLR 2026Compose and Fuse: Revisiting the Foundational Bottlenecks in Multimodal Reasoning
1562. ICLR 2026Compose Your Policies! Improving Diffusion-based or Flow-based Robot Policies via Test-time Distribution-level Composition
1563. ICLR 2026Composer: A Search Framework for Hybrid Neural Architecture Design
1564. ICLR 2026Compositional-ARC: Assessing Systematic Generalization in Abstract Spatial Reasoning
1565. ICLR 2026Compute-Optimal Quantization-Aware Training
1566. ICLR 2026CoNavBench: Collaborative Long-Horizon Vision-Language Navigation Benchmark
1567. ICLR 2026CONCUR: A Framework for Continual Constrained and Unconstrained Routing
1568. ICLR 2026Conditioned Initialization for Attention
1569. ICLR 2026Conformal Prediction for Long-Tailed Classification
1570. ICLR 2026Consolidating Reinforcement Learning for Multimodal Discrete Diffusion Models
1571. ICLR 2026Constantly Improving Image Models Need Constantly Improving Benchmarks
1572. ICLR 2026Constitutional Classifiers++: Production-Grade Defenses against Universal Jailbreaks
1573. ICLR 2026Constructive Distortion: Improving MLLMs with Attention-Guided Image Warping
1574. ICLR 2026Contamination Detection for VLMs Using Multi‑Modal Semantic Perturbations
1575. ICLR 2026Content-Aware Mamba for Learned Image Compression
1576. ICLR 2026Context parroting: A simple but tough-to-beat baseline for foundation models in scientific machine learning
1577. ICLR 2026Context Tokens are Anchors: Understanding the Repetition Curse in Diffusion MLLMs from an Information Flow Perspective
1578. ICLR 2026ContextNav: Towards Agentic Multimodal In-Context Learning
1579. ICLR 2026Continuous Space-Time Video Super-Resolution with 3D Fourier Fields
1580. ICLR 2026Convex Dominance in Deep Learning I: A Scaling Law of Loss and Learning Rate
1581. ICLR 2026ConvT3: Structured State Kernels for Convolutional State Space Models
1582. ICLR 2026CoRA: Boosting Time Series Foundation Models for Multivariate Forecasting through Correlation-aware Adapter
1583. ICLR 2026CORE: Concept-Oriented Reinforcement for Bridging the Definition–Application Gap in Mathematical Reasoning
1584. ICLR 2026Cortical Policy: A Dual-Stream View Transformer for Robotic Manipulation
1585. ICLR 2026CortiLife: A Unified Framework for Cortical Representation Learning across the Lifespan
1586. ICLR 2026COSMO-INR: Complex Sinusoidal Modulation for Implicit Neural Representations
1587. ICLR 2026Cosmos Policy: Fine-Tuning Video Models for Visuomotor Control and Planning
1588. ICLR 2026Cost-Aware Dynamic Tree Construction for Efficient Large Language Model Inference
1589. ICLR 2026CoT Vectors: Transferring and Probing the Reasoning Mechanisms of LLMs
1590. ICLR 2026CoT-RVS: Zero-Shot Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Segmentation for Videos
1591. ICLR 2026Coupling Experts and Routers in Mixture-of-Experts via an Auxiliary Loss
1592. ICLR 2026CP-Agent: Context‑Aware Multimodal Reasoning for Cellular Morphological Profiling under Chemical Perturbations
1593. ICLR 2026CPQS-Tuning: A Model Self-Perception-Based Data Filtering Algorithm for Efficient Instruction Fine-Tuning
1594. ICLR 2026Critic–Adviser–Reviser Cyclic Refinement: Towards High-Quality EMR Corpus Generation with LLMs
1595. ICLR 2026Critical attention scaling in long-context transformers
1596. ICLR 2026Critical Confabulation: Can LLMs Hallucinate for Social Good?
1597. ICLR 2026Critique-RL: Training Critiquing Language Models Through Two-Stage RL for Improved Discrimination and Constructive Feedback
1598. ICLR 2026Cross-Modal Redundancy and the Geometry of Vision–Language Embeddings
1599. ICLR 2026Cross-Tokenizer Likelihood Scoring Algorithms for Language Model Distillation
1600. ICLR 2026Ctrl-World: A Controllable Generative World Model for Robot Manipulation

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.