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

3,075 papers, page 33 of 62

1601. ICLR 2025WildBench: Benchmarking LLMs with Challenging Tasks from Real Users in the Wild
1602. ICLR 2025WizardMath: Empowering Mathematical Reasoning for Large Language Models via Reinforced Evol-Instruct
1603. ICLR 2025X-Fi: A Modality-Invariant Foundation Model for Multimodal Human Sensing
1604. ICLR 2025xFinder: Large Language Models as Automated Evaluators for Reliable Evaluation
1605. ICLR 2025YOLO-RD: Introducing Relevant and Compact Explicit Knowledge to YOLO by Retriever-Dictionary
1606. ICLR 2025You Only Prune Once: Designing Calibration-Free Model Compression With Policy Learning
1607. ICLR 2025Your Mixture-of-Experts LLM Is Secretly an Embedding Model for Free
1608. ICLR 2025Zeroth-Order Fine-Tuning of LLMs with Transferable Static Sparsity
1609. ICLR 2025ZETA: Leveraging $Z$-order Curves for Efficient Top-$k$ Attention
1610. ICLR 2025ZIP: An Efficient Zeroth-order Prompt Tuning for Black-box Vision-Language Models
1611. ICLR 2025ZooProbe: A Data Engine for Evaluating, Exploring, and Evolving Large-scale Training Data for Multimodal LLMs
1612. ICML 2025$\texttt{I$^2$MoE}$: Interpretable Multimodal Interaction-aware Mixture-of-Experts
1613. ICML 20253D Question Answering via only 2D Vision-Language Models
1614. ICML 2025A Closer Look at Multimodal Representation Collapse
1615. ICML 2025A Simple Model of Inference Scaling Laws
1616. ICML 2025A Tale of Two Structures: Do LLMs Capture the Fractal Complexity of Language?
1617. ICML 2025Adapting While Learning: Grounding LLMs for Scientific Problems with Tool Usage Adaptation
1618. ICML 2025Adaptive Sensitivity Analysis for Robust Augmentation against Natural Corruptions in Image Segmentation
1619. ICML 2025AdvPrompter: Fast Adaptive Adversarial Prompting for LLMs
1620. ICML 2025AffectGPT: A New Dataset, Model, and Benchmark for Emotion Understanding with Multimodal Large Language Models
1621. ICML 2025AGAV-Rater: Adapting Large Multimodal Model for AI-Generated Audio-Visual Quality Assessment
1622. ICML 2025Agent Reviewers: Domain-specific Multimodal Agents with Shared Memory for Paper Review
1623. ICML 2025Aggregation of Dependent Expert Distributions in Multimodal Variational Autoencoders
1624. ICML 2025Aligning Multimodal Representations through an Information Bottleneck
1625. ICML 2025An Analysis for Reasoning Bias of Language Models with Small Initialization
1626. ICML 2025An Efficient Matrix Multiplication Algorithm for Accelerating Inference in Binary and Ternary Neural Networks
1627. ICML 2025An Empirical Study on Configuring In-Context Learning Demonstrations for Unleashing MLLMs' Sentimental Perception Capability
1628. ICML 2025An Entropy-Based Model for Hierarchical Learning
1629. ICML 2025any4: Learned 4-bit Numeric Representation for LLMs
1630. ICML 2025Attention-Level Speculation
1631. ICML 2025Autoformulation of Mathematical Optimization Models Using LLMs
1632. ICML 2025Avoiding spurious sharpness minimization broadens applicability of SAM
1633. ICML 2025Balancing Preservation and Modification: A Region and Semantic Aware Metric for Instruction-Based Image Editing
1634. ICML 2025BaWA: Automatic Optimizing Pruning Metric for Large Language Models with Balanced Weight and Activation
1635. ICML 2025BaxBench: Can LLMs Generate Correct and Secure Backends?
1636. ICML 2025BDC-CLIP: Brownian Distance Covariance for Adapting CLIP to Action Recognition
1637. ICML 2025Be Confident: Uncovering Overfitting in MLLM Multi-Task Tuning
1638. ICML 2025Beyond Cropped Regions: New Benchmark and Corresponding Baseline for Chinese Scene Text Retrieval in Diverse Layouts
1639. ICML 2025Beyond Matryoshka: Revisiting Sparse Coding for Adaptive Representation
1640. ICML 2025Binary Hypothesis Testing for Softmax Models and Leverage Score Models
1641. ICML 2025BoA: Attention-aware Post-training Quantization without Backpropagation
1642. ICML 2025Bongard in Wonderland: Visual Puzzles that Still Make AI Go Mad?
1643. ICML 2025Bounded Rationality for LLMs: Satisficing Alignment at Inference-Time
1644. ICML 2025Bridging Protein Sequences and Microscopy Images with Unified Diffusion Models
1645. ICML 2025Bring Reason to Vision: Understanding Perception and Reasoning through Model Merging
1646. ICML 2025CAD-Editor: A Locate-then-Infill Framework with Automated Training Data Synthesis for Text-Based CAD Editing
1647. ICML 2025Can DBNNs Robust to Environmental Noise for Resource-constrained Scenarios?
1648. ICML 2025Can Large Language Models Understand Intermediate Representations in Compilers?
1649. ICML 2025Can MLLMs Reason in Multimodality? EMMA: An Enhanced MultiModal ReAsoning Benchmark
1650. ICML 2025Can We Predict Performance of Large Models across Vision-Language Tasks?

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.