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 35 of 225

1701. ICLR 2026EgoTwin: Dreaming Body and View in First Person
1702. ICLR 2026ELEPHANT: Measuring and understanding social sycophancy in LLMs
1703. ICLR 2026Eliciting Numerical Predictive Distributions of LLMs Without Auto-Regression
1704. ICLR 2026Embodied Navigation Foundation Model
1705. ICLR 2026Embodied-R1: Reinforced Embodied Reasoning for General Robotic Manipulation
1706. ICLR 2026Emergent Discrete Controller Modules for Symbolic Planning in Transformers
1707. ICLR 2026EmoPrefer: Can Large Language Models Understand Human Emotion Preferences?
1708. ICLR 2026EmotionHallucer: Evaluating Emotion Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models
1709. ICLR 2026EmotionThinker: Prosody-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Explainable Speech Emotion Reasoning
1710. ICLR 2026Empowering Small VLMs to Think with Dynamic Memorization and Exploration
1711. ICLR 2026Enabling True Global Perception in State Space Models for Visual Tasks
1712. ICLR 2026Enabling Your Forensic Detector Know How Well It Performs on Distorted Samples
1713. ICLR 2026ENACT: Evaluating Embodied Cognition with World Modeling of Egocentric Interaction
1714. ICLR 2026Endowing GPT-4 with a Humanoid Body: Building the Bridge Between Off-the-Shelf VLMs and the Physical World
1715. ICLR 2026Enhanced Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models with Model Fusion
1716. ICLR 2026Enhancing Geometric Perception in VLMs via Translator-Guided Reinforcement Learning
1717. ICLR 2026Enhancing Instruction Following of LLMs via Activation Steering with Dynamic Rejection
1718. ICLR 2026Enhancing LLMs for Knowledge Base Question Answering by Chain-of-Decomposition
1719. ICLR 2026Enhancing Multi-Image Understanding through Delimiter Token Scaling
1720. ICLR 2026Enhancing Trustworthiness of Fine-Tuned LLMs via Regularized Subset Selection
1721. ICLR 2026Enhancing Visual Token Representations for Video Large Language Models via Training-free Spatial-Temporal Pooling and Gridding
1722. ICLR 2026Entropy-Based Block Pruning for Efficient Large Language Models
1723. ICLR 2026Entropy-Guided Dynamic Tokens for Graph-LLM Alignment in Molecular Understanding
1724. ICLR 2026Entropy-Monitored Kernelized Token Distillation for Audio-Visual Compression
1725. ICLR 2026EntropyLong: Effective Long-Context Training via Predictive Uncertainty
1726. ICLR 2026Equilibrium Language Models
1727. ICLR 2026Erase to Improve: Erasable Reinforcement Learning for Search-Augmented LLMs
1728. ICLR 2026ERGO: Efficient High-Resolution Visual Understanding for Vision-Language Models
1729. ICLR 2026Error Notebook-Guided, Training-Free Part Retrieval in 3D CAD Assemblies via Vision-Language Models
1730. ICLR 2026ES-dLLM: Efficient Inference for Diffusion Large Language Models by Early-Skipping
1731. ICLR 2026Escaping Low-Rank Traps: Interpretable Visual Concept Learning via Implicit Vector Quantization
1732. ICLR 2026Estimating Semantic Alphabet Size for LLM Uncertainty Quantification
1733. ICLR 2026Evaluating Cross-Modal Reasoning Ability and Problem Charactaristics with Multimodal Item Response Theory
1734. ICLR 2026EventFlash: Towards Efficient MLLMs for Event-Based Vision
1735. ICLR 2026Evidence for Limited Metacognition in LLMs
1736. ICLR 2026EVLP: Learning Unified Embodied Vision-Language Planner with Reinforced Supervised Fine-Tuning
1737. ICLR 2026Evolution and compression in LLMs: on the emergence of human-aligned categorization
1738. ICLR 2026Expert Divergence Learning for MoE-based Language Models
1739. ICLR 2026Expert Heads: Robust Evidence Identification for Large Language Models
1740. ICLR 2026Expert Merging in Sparse Mixture of Experts with Nash Bargaining
1741. ICLR 2026Explainable LLM Unlearning through Reasoning
1742. ICLR 2026Exploiting Low-Dimensional Manifold of Features for Few-shot Whole Slide Image Classification
1743. ICLR 2026Exploring Cross-Modal Flows for Few-Shot Learning
1744. ICLR 2026Exploring Interpretability for Visual Prompt Tuning with Cross-layer Concepts
1745. ICLR 2026Exploring Knowledge Purification in Multi-Teacher Knowledge Distillation for LLMs
1746. ICLR 2026Exploring the Basin-Like Loss Landscape in Large Language Models
1747. ICLR 2026ExpVid: A Benchmark for Experiment Video Understanding & Reasoning
1748. ICLR 2026Extending Sequence Length is Not All You Need: Effective Integration of Multimodal Signals for Gene Expression Prediction
1749. ICLR 2026Extending the Context of Pretrained LLMs by Dropping Their Positional Embedding
1750. ICLR 2026Fair in Mind, Fair in Action? A Synchronous Benchmark for Understanding and Generation in UMLLMs

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.