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 38 of 225

1851. ICLR 2026GuidedSampling: Steering LLMs Towards Diverse Candidate Solutions at Inference-Time
1852. ICLR 2026Guiding Mixture-of-Experts with Temporal Multimodal Interactions
1853. ICLR 2026Hallucination Begins Where Saliency Drops
1854. ICLR 2026Hallucination Reduction with CASAL: Contrastive Activation Steering for Amortized Learning
1855. ICLR 2026Hallucination-aware Intermediate Representation Editing in Large Vision-Lanugage Models
1856. ICLR 2026HalluGuard: Demystifying Data-Driven and Reasoning-Driven Hallucinations in LLMs
1857. ICLR 2026HAMLET: Switch Your Vision-Language-Action Model into a History-Aware Policy
1858. ICLR 2026Harnessing Hyperbolic Geometry for Harmful Prompt Detection and Sanitization
1859. ICLR 2026Harnessing Temporal Databases for Systematic Evaluation of Factual Time-Sensitive Question-Answering in LLMs
1860. ICLR 2026HARP: Hallucination Detection via Reasoning Subspace Projection
1861. ICLR 2026HBO: Hierarchical Balancing Optimization for Fine-Tuning Large Language Models
1862. ICLR 2026HEIST: A Graph Foundation Model for Spatial Transcriptomics and Proteomics Data
1863. ICLR 2026Hessian-Enhanced Token Attribution (HETA): Interpreting Autoregressive LLMs
1864. ICLR 2026Hey, That's My Model! Introducing Chain & Hash, An LLM Fingerprinting Technique
1865. ICLR 2026HFSTI-Net: Hierarchical Frequency-spatial-temporal Interactions for Video Polyp Segmentation
1866. ICLR 2026HGNet: Scalable Foundation Model for Automated Knowledge Graph Generation from Scientific Literature
1867. ICLR 2026HiddenEcho: Mitigating Noise Amplification in Differentially Private LLMs with Hidden-State Correction
1868. ICLR 2026HiDivDrop: Vision Token Reduction in MLLMs via Late Injection and Differentiable Top-K
1869. ICLR 2026Hierarchy Decoding: A Training-free Parallel Decoding Strategy for Diffusion Large Language Models
1870. ICLR 2026HierLoc: Hyperbolic Entity Embeddings for Hierarchical Visual Geolocation
1871. ICLR 2026High Accuracy, Less Talk (HALT): Reliable LLMs through Capability-Aligned Finetuning
1872. ICLR 2026Highly Efficient and Effective LLMs with Multi-Boolean Architectures
1873. ICLR 2026Histopathology-Genomics Multi-modal Structural Representation Learning for Data-Efficient Precision Oncology
1874. ICLR 2026HiTeA: Hierarchical Temporal Alignment for Training-Free Long-Video Temporal Grounding
1875. ICLR 2026HiVid: LLM-Guided Video Saliency For Content-Aware VOD And Live Streaming
1876. ICLR 2026Holdout-Loss-Based Data Selection for LLM Finetuning via In-Context Learning
1877. ICLR 2026Hourglass Persistence for Graphs, Simplices, and Cells
1878. ICLR 2026Householder-Diagonalized Linear Attention (HDLA): Utilizing Enhanced Decay Mechanism for Efficient Sequence Modeling
1879. ICLR 2026How Base Frequency Shapes RoPE: An Analytical Study of Frequency-Band Formation
1880. ICLR 2026How Do Medical MLLMs Fail? A Study on Visual Grounding in Medical Images
1881. ICLR 2026How Learning Rate Decay Wastes Your Best Data in Curriculum-Based LLM Pretraining
1882. ICLR 2026How Reliable is Language Model Micro-Benchmarking?
1883. ICLR 2026How Text Quality Interventions Reshape Neural Scaling Laws for LLMs: Empirical Study
1884. ICLR 2026How to train data-efficient LLMs
1885. ICLR 2026How Well Does GPT-4o Understand Vision? Evaluating Multimodal Foundation Models on Standard Computer Vision Tasks
1886. ICLR 2026HSSBench: Benchmarking Humanities and Social Sciences Ability for Multimodal Large Language Models
1887. ICLR 2026Human Behavior Atlas: Benchmarking Unified Psychological And Social Behavior Understanding
1888. ICLR 2026Human Uncertainty-Aware Data Selection and Automatic Labeling in Visual Question Answering
1889. ICLR 2026Human-MME: A Holistic Evaluation Benchmark for Human-Centric Multimodal Large Language Models
1890. ICLR 2026Human-Object Interaction via Automatically Designed VLM-Guided Motion Policy
1891. ICLR 2026Hybrid Training for Vision-Language-Action Models
1892. ICLR 2026HYPER: A Foundation Model for Inductive Link Prediction with Knowledge Hypergraphs
1893. ICLR 2026Ice Cream Doesn’t Cause Drowning: Benchmarking LLMs Against Statistical Pitfalls in Causal Inference
1894. ICLR 2026IceCache: Memory-Efficient KV-cache Management for Long-Sequence LLMs
1895. ICLR 2026ICPO: Provable and Practical In-Context Policy Optimization for Test-Time Scaling
1896. ICLR 2026ICYM2I: The illusion of multimodal informativeness under missingness
1897. ICLR 2026Identifying and Evaluating Inactive Heads in Pretrained LLMs
1898. ICLR 2026Identifying Robust Neural Pathways: Few-Shot Adversarial Mask Tuning for Vision-Language Models
1899. ICLR 2026IF-VidCap: Can Video Caption Models Follow Instructions?
1900. ICLR 2026iLLaVA: An Image is Worth Fewer Than 1/3 Input Tokens in Large Multimodal Models

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.