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 37 of 225

1801. ICLR 2026From Vicious to Virtuous Cycles: Synergistic Representation Learning for Unsupervised Video Object-Centric Learning
1802. ICLR 2026Front-Loading Reasoning: The Synergy between Pretraining and Post-Training Data
1803. ICLR 2026FSA: An Alternative Efficient Implementation of Native Sparse Attention Kernel
1804. ICLR 2026Fusing Pixels and Genes: Spatially-Aware Learning in Computational Pathology
1805. ICLR 2026FZOO: Fast Zeroth-Order Optimizer for Fine‑Tuning Large Language Models towards Adam‑Scale Speed
1806. ICLR 2026G-reasoner: Foundation Models for Unified Reasoning over Graph-structured Knowledge
1807. ICLR 2026GarmentGPT: Compositional Garment Pattern Generation via Discrete Latent Tokenization
1808. ICLR 2026Generalizable Coarse-to-Fine Robot Manipulation via Language-Aligned 3D Keypoints
1809. ICLR 2026Generalizable Heuristic Generation Through LLMs with Meta-Optimization
1810. ICLR 2026Generative Universal Verifier as Multimodal Meta-Reasoner
1811. ICLR 2026Genie Envisioner: A Unified World Foundation Platform for Robotic Manipulation
1812. ICLR 2026GeoBench: Rethinking Multimodal Geometric Problem-Solving via Hierarchical Evaluation
1813. ICLR 2026GeoDiv: Framework for Measuring Geographical Diversity in Text-to-Image Models
1814. ICLR 2026GeoGramBench: Benchmarking the Geometric Program Reasoning in Modern LLMs
1815. ICLR 2026Geometric Constraints for Small Language Models to Understand and Expand Scientific Taxonomies
1816. ICLR 2026Geometry of Uncertainty: Learning Metric Spaces for Multimodal State Estimation in RL
1817. ICLR 2026GeoPurify: A Data-Efficient Geometric Distillation Framework for Open-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation
1818. ICLR 2026Get RICH or Die Scaling: Profitably Trading Inference Compute for Robustness
1819. ICLR 2026GHOST: Hallucination-Inducing Image Generation for Multimodal LLMs
1820. ICLR 2026GhostEI-Bench: Do Mobile Agent Resilience to Environmental Injection in Dynamic On-Device Environments?
1821. ICLR 2026GIQ: Benchmarking 3D Geometric Reasoning of Vision Foundation Models with Simulated and Real Polyhedra
1822. ICLR 2026GIR-Bench: Versatile Benchmark for Generating Images with Reasoning
1823. ICLR 2026GIT-BO: High-Dimensional Bayesian Optimization with Tabular Foundation Models
1824. ICLR 2026Glance for Context: Learning When to Leverage LLMs for Node-Aware GNN-LLM Fusion
1825. ICLR 2026Global-Recent Semantic Reasoning on Dynamic Text-Attributed Graphs with Large Language Models
1826. ICLR 2026GneissWeb: Preparing High Quality Data for LLMs at Scale
1827. ICLR 2026GNN-as-Judge: Unleashing the Power of LLMs for Graph Few-shot Semi-supervised Learning with GNN Feedback
1828. ICLR 2026Go Beyond Earth: Understanding Human Actions and Scenes in Microgravity Environments
1829. ICLR 2026GoT-R1: Unleashing Reasoning Capability of Autoregressive Visual Generation with Reinforcement Learning
1830. ICLR 2026GPG: A Simple and Strong Reinforcement Learning Baseline for Model Reasoning
1831. ICLR 2026GPT4Scene: Understand 3D Scenes from Videos with Vision-Language Models
1832. ICLR 2026GPTailor: Large Language Model Pruning Through Layer Cutting and Stitching
1833. ICLR 2026GradPruner: Gradient-guided Layer Pruning Enabling Efficient Fine-Tuning and Inference for LLMs
1834. ICLR 2026GRAM-DTI: Adaptive Multimodal Representation Learning for Drug–Target Interaction Prediction
1835. ICLR 2026GranViT: A Fine-Grained Vision Model With Autoregressive Perception For MLLMs
1836. ICLR 2026Graph Signal Processing Meets Mamba2: Adaptive Filter Bank via Delta Modulation
1837. ICLR 2026Graph Tokenization for Bridging Graphs and Transformers
1838. ICLR 2026GraphShield: Graph-Theoretic Modeling of Network-Level Dynamics for Robust Jailbreak Detection
1839. ICLR 2026Grasp Any Region: Prompting MLLM to Understand the Dense World
1840. ICLR 2026Ground Slow, Move Fast: A Dual-System Foundation Model for Generalizable Vision-Language Navigation
1841. ICLR 2026Grounding Generative Planners in Verifiable Logic: A Hybrid Architecture for Trustworthy Embodied AI
1842. ICLR 2026Grounding or Guessing? Visual Signals for Detecting Hallucinations in Sign Language Translation
1843. ICLR 2026Grounding-IQA: Grounding Multimodal Language Model for Image Quality Assessment
1844. ICLR 2026GTA1: GUI Test-time Scaling Agent
1845. ICLR 2026GTool: Graph Enhanced Tool Planning with Large Language Model
1846. ICLR 2026GTR-Bench: Evaluating Geo-Temporal Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
1847. ICLR 2026GuardAlign: Robust Safety Alignment in Multimodal Large Language Models
1848. ICLR 2026GUI-Shift: Enhancing VLM-Based GUI Agents through Self-supervised Reinforcement Learning
1849. ICLR 2026Guided Query Refinement: Multimodal Hybrid Retrieval with Test-Time Optimization
1850. ICLR 2026Guided Speculative Inference for Efficient Test-Time Alignment of LLMs

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.