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 36 of 225

1751. ICLR 2026FakeXplain: AI-Generated Image Detection via Human-Aligned Grounded Reasoning
1752. ICLR 2026Falcon: Fast Proximal Linearization of Normalized Cuts for Unsupervised Image Segmentation
1753. ICLR 2026Fantastic Tractor-Dogs and How Not to Find Them With Open-Vocabulary Detectors
1754. ICLR 2026FASA: FREQUENCY-AWARE SPARSE ATTENTION
1755. ICLR 2026Fast Data Mixture Optimization via Gradient Descent
1756. ICLR 2026FaSTA*: Fast-Slow Toolpath Agent with Subroutine Mining for Efficient Multi-turn Image Editing
1757. ICLR 2026Fastcar: Cache Attentive Replay for Fast Auto-Regressive Video Generation on the Edge
1758. ICLR 2026Faster Vision Transformers with Adaptive Patches
1759. ICLR 2026FASTer: Toward Powerful and Efficient Autoregressive Vision–Language–Action Models with Learnable Action Tokenizer and Block-wise Decoding
1760. ICLR 2026Fed-Duet: Dual Expert-Orchestrated Framework for Continual Federated Vision-Language Learning
1761. ICLR 2026FETAL-GAUGE: A BENCHMARK FOR ASSESSING VISION-LANGUAGE MODELS IN FETAL ULTRASOUND
1762. ICLR 2026Figma2Code: Automating Multimodal Design to Code in the Wild
1763. ICLR 2026Fine-Grained Activation Steering: Steering Less, Achieving More
1764. ICLR 2026Fine-R1: Make Multi-modal LLMs Excel in Fine-Grained Visual Recognition by Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
1765. ICLR 2026FLARE: Fully Integration of Vision-Language Representations for Deep Cross-Modal Understanding
1766. ICLR 2026FlashRNN: Unlocking Parallel Training of Nonlinear RNNs for Large Language Models
1767. ICLR 2026FlashVID: Efficient Video Large Language Models via Training-free Tree-based Spatiotemporal Token Merging
1768. ICLR 2026Flatness Guided Test-Time Adaptation for Vision-Language Models
1769. ICLR 2026Flatter Tokens are More Valuable for Speculative Draft Model Training
1770. ICLR 2026FLoC: Facility Location-Based Efficient Visual Token Compression for Long Video Understanding
1771. ICLR 2026Flow of Spans: Generalizing Language Models to Dynamic Span-Vocabulary via GFlowNets
1772. ICLR 2026FlowAD: Ego-Scene Interactive Modeling for Autonomous Driving
1773. ICLR 2026FlowGen: Synthesizing Diverse Flowcharts to Enhance and Benchmark MLLM Reasoning
1774. ICLR 2026FlowNIB: An Information Bottleneck Analysis of Bidirectional vs. Unidirectional Language Models
1775. ICLR 2026Fluent Alignment with Disfluent Judges: Post-training for lower-resource languages
1776. ICLR 2026FLUX-Reason-6M & PRISM-Bench: A Million-Scale Text-to-Image Reasoning Dataset and Comprehensive Benchmark
1777. ICLR 2026FOCUS: Efficient Keyframe Selection for Long Video Understanding
1778. ICLR 2026Following the Navigation: Enhancing Small Language Models Contextual Reasoning with LLM Guidance
1779. ICLR 2026FoNE: Precise Single-Token Number Embeddings via Fourier Features
1780. ICLR 2026Fostering Video Reasoning via Next-Event Prediction
1781. ICLR 2026Foundation Models for Causal Inference via Prior-Data Fitted Networks
1782. ICLR 2026Foundational Automatic Evaluators: Scaling Multi-Task Generative Evaluator Training for Reasoning-Centric Domains
1783. ICLR 2026FrameThinker: Learning to Think with Long Videos via Multi-Turn Frame Spotlighting
1784. ICLR 2026FREAK: A Fine-grained Hallucination Evaluation Benchmark for Advanced MLLMs
1785. ICLR 2026Free Energy Mixer
1786. ICLR 2026FreeViS: Training-free Video Stylization with Inconsistent References
1787. ICLR 2026FreqKV: Key-Value Compression in Frequency Domain for Context Window Extension
1788. ICLR 2026FRIEDA: Benchmarking Multi-Step Cartographic Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
1789. ICLR 2026From ``Sure" to ``Sorry": Detecting Jailbreak in Large Vision Language Model via JailNeurons
1790. ICLR 2026From Abstract to Contextual: What LLMs Still Cannot Do in Mathematics
1791. ICLR 2026From EduVisBench to EduVisAgent: A Benchmark and Multi-Agent Framework for Reasoning-Driven Pedagogical Visualization
1792. ICLR 2026From Evaluation to Defense: Advancing Safety in Video Large Language Models
1793. ICLR 2026From f(x) and g(x) to f(g(x)): LLMs Learn New Skills in RL by Composing Old Ones
1794. ICLR 2026From Narrow to Panoramic Vision: Attention-Guided Cold-Start Reshapes Multimodal Reasoning
1795. ICLR 2026From Natural Alignment to Conditional Controllability in Multimodal Dialogue
1796. ICLR 2026From Pixels to Words -- Towards Native Vision-Language Primitives at Scale
1797. ICLR 2026From Seeing to Doing: Bridging Reasoning and Decision for Robotic Manipulation
1798. ICLR 2026From Spatial to Actions: Grounding Vision-Language-Action Model in Spatial Foundation Priors
1799. ICLR 2026From Text to Talk: Audio-Language Model Needs Non-Autoregressive Joint Training
1800. ICLR 2026From Tokens to Thoughts: How LLMs and Humans Trade Compression for Meaning

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.