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 34 of 62

1651. ICML 2025Cannot See the Forest for the Trees: Invoking Heuristics and Biases to Elicit Irrational Choices of LLMs
1652. ICML 2025CAT Merging: A Training-Free Approach for Resolving Conflicts in Model Merging
1653. ICML 2025Catch Your Emotion: Sharpening Emotion Perception in Multimodal Large Language Models
1654. ICML 2025Chameleon: A Flexible Data-mixing Framework for Language Model Pretraining and Finetuning
1655. ICML 2025CLIMB: Data Foundations for Large Scale Multimodal Clinical Foundation Models
1656. ICML 2025CoCoA-Mix: Confusion-and-Confidence-Aware Mixture Model for Context Optimization
1657. ICML 2025CoMemo: LVLMs Need Image Context with Image Memory
1658. ICML 2025Compositional Condition Question Answering in Tabular Understanding
1659. ICML 2025Compression via Pre-trained Transformers: A Study on Byte-Level Multimodal Data
1660. ICML 2025Context is Key: A Benchmark for Forecasting with Essential Textual Information
1661. ICML 2025ConText: Driving In-context Learning for Text Removal and Segmentation
1662. ICML 2025Contrastive Localized Language-Image Pre-Training
1663. ICML 2025CoreMatching: A Co-adaptive Sparse Inference Framework with Token and Neuron Pruning for Comprehensive Acceleration of Vision-Language Models
1664. ICML 2025Cowpox: Towards the Immunity of VLM-based Multi-Agent Systems
1665. ICML 2025CPCF: A Cross-Prompt Contrastive Framework for Referring Multimodal Large Language Models
1666. ICML 2025Cradle: Empowering Foundation Agents towards General Computer Control
1667. ICML 2025Cross-Modal Alignment via Variational Copula Modelling
1668. ICML 2025CSTrack: Enhancing RGB-X Tracking via Compact Spatiotemporal Features
1669. ICML 2025CTBench: A Library and Benchmark for Certified Training
1670. ICML 2025CtrlSynth: Controllable Image Text Synthesis for Data-Efficient Multimodal Learning
1671. ICML 2025Curvature Enhanced Data Augmentation for Regression
1672. ICML 2025DAMA: Data- and Model-aware Alignment of Multi-modal LLMs
1673. ICML 2025Data-Juicer Sandbox: A Feedback-Driven Suite for Multimodal Data-Model Co-development
1674. ICML 2025DEALing with Image Reconstruction: Deep Attentive Least Squares
1675. ICML 2025Decomposition of Graphic Design with Unified Multimodal Model
1676. ICML 2025Deep Principal Support Vector Machines for Nonlinear Sufficient Dimension Reduction
1677. ICML 2025DEFAME: Dynamic Evidence-based FAct-checking with Multimodal Experts
1678. ICML 2025Defending LVLMs Against Vision Attacks Through Partial-Perception Supervision
1679. ICML 2025Delta Decompression for MoE-based LLMs Compression
1680. ICML 2025Determining Layer-wise Sparsity for Large Language Models Through a Theoretical Perspective
1681. ICML 2025Dialogue Without Limits: Constant-Sized KV Caches for Extended Response in LLMs
1682. ICML 2025Diffuse Everything: Multimodal Diffusion Models on Arbitrary State Spaces
1683. ICML 2025Diffusion Instruction Tuning
1684. ICML 2025DiffusionVLA: Scaling Robot Foundation Models via Unified Diffusion and Autoregression
1685. ICML 2025Dimensionality Reduction on Complex Vector Spaces for Euclidean Distance with Dynamic Weights
1686. ICML 2025DIS-CO: Discovering Copyrighted Content in VLMs Training Data
1687. ICML 2025DistiLLM-2: A Contrastive Approach Boosts the Distillation of LLMs
1688. ICML 2025Divide and Conquer: Exploring Language-centric Tree Reasoning for Video Question-Answering
1689. ICML 2025Do Vision-Language Models Really Understand Visual Language?
1690. ICML 2025DOLPHIN: A Programmable Framework for Scalable Neurosymbolic Learning
1691. ICML 2025Double-Filter: Efficient Fine-tuning of Pre-trained Vision-Language Models via Patch&Layer Filtering
1692. ICML 2025DS-VLM: Diffusion Supervision Vision Language Model
1693. ICML 2025Dynamic Mixture of Curriculum LoRA Experts for Continual Multimodal Instruction Tuning
1694. ICML 2025DynaMind: Reasoning over Abstract Video Dynamics for Embodied Decision-Making
1695. ICML 2025EasyRef: Omni-Generalized Group Image Reference for Diffusion Models via Multimodal LLM
1696. ICML 2025EditLord: Learning Code Transformation Rules for Code Editing
1697. ICML 2025EduLLM: Leveraging Large Language Models and Framelet-Based Signed Hypergraph Neural Networks for Student Performance Prediction
1698. ICML 2025EEG-Language Pretraining for Highly Label-Efficient Clinical Phenotyping
1699. ICML 2025Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Soft Prompt Transfer for LLMs
1700. ICML 2025Efficient Logit-based Knowledge Distillation of Deep Spiking Neural Networks for Full-Range Timestep Deployment

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.