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

1,910 papers, page 33 of 39

1601. ICML 2024Leverage Class-Specific Accuracy to Guide Data Generation for Improving Image Classification
1602. ICML 2024Leveraging VLM-Based Pipelines to Annotate 3D Objects
1603. ICML 2024Libra: Building Decoupled Vision System on Large Language Models
1604. ICML 2024LIDAO: Towards Limited Interventions for Debiasing (Large) Language Models
1605. ICML 2024Lightweight Image Super-Resolution via Flexible Meta Pruning
1606. ICML 2024Linear Explanations for Individual Neurons
1607. ICML 2024LLark: A Multimodal Instruction-Following Language Model for Music
1608. ICML 2024LoRAP: Transformer Sub-Layers Deserve Differentiated Structured Compression for Large Language Models
1609. ICML 2024Low-Rank Similarity Mining for Multimodal Dataset Distillation
1610. ICML 2024LQER: Low-Rank Quantization Error Reconstruction for LLMs
1611. ICML 2024Machine Vision Therapy: Multimodal Large Language Models Can Enhance Visual Robustness via Denoising In-Context Learning
1612. ICML 2024MagicLens: Self-Supervised Image Retrieval with Open-Ended Instructions
1613. ICML 2024Mastering Text-to-Image Diffusion: Recaptioning, Planning, and Generating with Multimodal LLMs
1614. ICML 2024MathScale: Scaling Instruction Tuning for Mathematical Reasoning
1615. ICML 2024Memory-Space Visual Prompting for Efficient Vision-Language Fine-Tuning
1616. ICML 2024MFTN: A Multi-scale Feature Transfer Network Based on IMatchFormer for Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution
1617. ICML 2024MindEye2: Shared-Subject Models Enable fMRI-To-Image With 1 Hour of Data
1618. ICML 2024Minimum-Norm Interpolation Under Covariate Shift
1619. ICML 2024MLLM-as-a-Judge: Assessing Multimodal LLM-as-a-Judge with Vision-Language Benchmark
1620. ICML 2024MM-Vet: Evaluating Large Multimodal Models for Integrated Capabilities
1621. ICML 2024MMPareto: Boosting Multimodal Learning with Innocent Unimodal Assistance
1622. ICML 2024MMT-Bench: A Comprehensive Multimodal Benchmark for Evaluating Large Vision-Language Models Towards Multitask AGI
1623. ICML 2024Mobile Attention: Mobile-Friendly Linear-Attention for Vision Transformers
1624. ICML 2024MobileLLM: Optimizing Sub-billion Parameter Language Models for On-Device Use Cases
1625. ICML 2024Modeling Caption Diversity in Contrastive Vision-Language Pretraining
1626. ICML 2024Momentor: Advancing Video Large Language Model with Fine-Grained Temporal Reasoning
1627. ICML 2024Monitoring AI-Modified Content at Scale: A Case Study on the Impact of ChatGPT on AI Conference Peer Reviews
1628. ICML 2024MS$^3$D: A RG Flow-Based Regularization for GAN Training with Limited Data
1629. ICML 2024Multi-Factor Adaptive Vision Selection for Egocentric Video Question Answering
1630. ICML 2024Multicalibration for Confidence Scoring in LLMs
1631. ICML 2024Multimodal Prototyping for cancer survival prediction
1632. ICML 2024Neural Image Compression with Text-guided Encoding for both Pixel-level and Perceptual Fidelity
1633. ICML 2024Neural Networks Learn Statistics of Increasing Complexity
1634. ICML 2024New Bounds on the Cohesion of Complete-link and Other Linkage Methods for Agglomerative Clustering
1635. ICML 2024NExT-Chat: An LMM for Chat, Detection and Segmentation
1636. ICML 2024NExT-GPT: Any-to-Any Multimodal LLM
1637. ICML 2024Non-Vacuous Generalization Bounds for Large Language Models
1638. ICML 2024Novel Spectral Algorithms for the Partial Credit Model
1639. ICML 2024On Prompt-Driven Safeguarding for Large Language Models
1640. ICML 2024On Stronger Computational Separations Between Multimodal and Unimodal Machine Learning
1641. ICML 2024On the Error-Propagation of Inexact Hotelling's Deflation for Principal Component Analysis
1642. ICML 2024On the Independence Assumption in Neurosymbolic Learning
1643. ICML 2024On Universally Optimal Algorithms for A/B Testing
1644. ICML 2024Open-Vocabulary Calibration for Fine-tuned CLIP
1645. ICML 2024Optimizing Watermarks for Large Language Models
1646. ICML 2024Outlier Weighed Layerwise Sparsity (OWL): A Missing Secret Sauce for Pruning LLMs to High Sparsity
1647. ICML 2024Outlier-aware Slicing for Post-Training Quantization in Vision Transformer
1648. ICML 2024Parallelized Spatiotemporal Slot Binding for Videos
1649. ICML 2024Parameter-Dependent Competitive Analysis for Online Capacitated Coverage Maximization through Boostings and Attenuations
1650. ICML 2024PARDEN, Can You Repeat That? Defending against Jailbreaks via Repetition

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.