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

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1701. ICML 2025Efficient Multi-modal Long Context Learning for Training-free Adaptation
1702. ICML 2025Efficient Quantification of Multimodal Interaction at Sample Level
1703. ICML 2025Efficient Time Series Processing for Transformers and State-Space Models through Token Merging
1704. ICML 2025Efficiently Serving Large Multimodal Models Using EPD Disaggregation
1705. ICML 2025ELEMENTAL: Interactive Learning from Demonstrations and Vision-Language Models for Reward Design in Robotics
1706. ICML 2025ELITE: Enhanced Language-Image Toxicity Evaluation for Safety
1707. ICML 2025Elucidating the design space of language models for image generation
1708. ICML 2025Elucidating the Design Space of Multimodal Protein Language Models
1709. ICML 2025Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs
1710. ICML 2025Emergent Response Planning in LLMs
1711. ICML 2025Empowering World Models with Reflection for Embodied Video Prediction
1712. ICML 2025Enhancing Rating-Based Reinforcement Learning to Effectively Leverage Feedback from Large Vision-Language Models
1713. ICML 2025Enhancing Target-unspecific Tasks through a Features Matrix
1714. ICML 2025EquivaMap: Leveraging LLMs for Automatic Equivalence Checking of Optimization Formulations
1715. ICML 2025ERICT: Enhancing Robustness by Identifying Concept Tokens in Zero-Shot Vision Language Models
1716. ICML 2025Evaluating LLMs Across Multi-Cognitive Levels: From Medical Knowledge Mastery to Scenario-Based Problem Solving
1717. ICML 2025Everything Everywhere All at Once: LLMs can In-Context Learn Multiple Tasks in Superposition
1718. ICML 2025Ex-VAD: Explainable Fine-grained Video Anomaly Detection Based on Visual-Language Models
1719. ICML 2025Exact Upper and Lower Bounds for the Output Distribution of Neural Networks with Random Inputs
1720. ICML 2025Explainable Concept Generation through Vision-Language Preference Learning for Understanding Neural Networks' Internal Representations
1721. ICML 2025Explanatory Instructions: Towards Unified Vision Tasks Understanding and Zero-shot Generalization
1722. ICML 2025FairPFN: A Tabular Foundation Model for Causal Fairness
1723. ICML 2025Fast Exact Unlearning for In-Context Learning Data for LLMs
1724. ICML 2025FeatSharp: Your Vision Model Features, Sharper
1725. ICML 2025Feature out! Let Raw Image as Your Condition for Blind Face Restoration
1726. ICML 2025Federated Disentangled Tuning with Textual Prior Decoupling and Visual Dynamic Adaptation
1727. ICML 2025FedOne: Query-Efficient Federated Learning for Black-box Discrete Prompt Learning
1728. ICML 2025FedPHA: Federated Prompt Learning for Heterogeneous Client Adaptation
1729. ICML 2025FG-CLIP: Fine-Grained Visual and Textual Alignment
1730. ICML 2025Fine-Grained Captioning of Long Videos through Scene Graph Consolidation
1731. ICML 2025FLAM: Frame-Wise Language-Audio Modeling
1732. ICML 2025FlipAttack: Jailbreak LLMs via Flipping
1733. ICML 2025Flopping for FLOPs: Leveraging Equivariance for Computational Efficiency
1734. ICML 2025Flow of Reasoning: Training LLMs for Divergent Reasoning with Minimal Examples
1735. ICML 2025FOCoOp: Enhancing Out-of-Distribution Robustness in Federated Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models
1736. ICML 2025Focus On This, Not That! Steering LLMs with Adaptive Feature Specification
1737. ICML 2025Foundation Model Insights and a Multi-Model Approach for Superior Fine-Grained One-shot Subset Selection
1738. ICML 2025FourierMamba: Fourier Learning Integration with State Space Models for Image Deraining
1739. ICML 2025Freeze-Omni: A Smart and Low Latency Speech-to-speech Dialogue Model with Frozen LLM
1740. ICML 2025From Black Boxes to Transparent Minds: Evaluating and Enhancing the Theory of Mind in Multimodal Large Language Models
1741. ICML 2025From Local Details to Global Context: Advancing Vision-Language Models with Attention-Based Selection
1742. ICML 2025From Thousands to Billions: 3D Visual Language Grounding via Render-Supervised Distillation from 2D VLMs
1743. ICML 2025From Token to Rhythm: A Multi-Scale Approach for ECG-Language Pretraining
1744. ICML 2025Function-to-Style Guidance of LLMs for Code Translation
1745. ICML 2025Galileo: Learning Global & Local Features of Many Remote Sensing Modalities
1746. ICML 2025Gandalf the Red: Adaptive Security for LLMs
1747. ICML 2025GaussMark: A Practical Approach for Structural Watermarking of Language Models
1748. ICML 2025Generalists vs. Specialists: Evaluating LLMs on Highly-Constrained Biophysical Sequence Optimization Tasks
1749. ICML 2025Generative Data Mining with Longtail-Guided Diffusion
1750. ICML 2025GeoPixel: Pixel Grounding Large Multimodal Model in Remote Sensing

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.