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

3,075 papers, page 38 of 62

1851. ICML 2025One-dimensional Path Convolution
1852. ICML 2025Open Your Eyes: Vision Enhances Message Passing Neural Networks in Link Prediction
1853. ICML 2025Open-Det: An Efficient Learning Framework for Open-Ended Detection
1854. ICML 2025OpenworldAUC: Towards Unified Evaluation and Optimization for Open-world Prompt Tuning
1855. ICML 2025Orthogonal Subspace Decomposition for Generalizable AI-Generated Image Detection
1856. ICML 2025Orthus: Autoregressive Interleaved Image-Text Generation with Modality-Specific Heads
1857. ICML 2025Oscillation-Reduced MXFP4 Training for Vision Transformers
1858. ICML 2025OTTER: A Vision-Language-Action Model with Text-Aware Visual Feature Extraction
1859. ICML 2025Otter: Generating Tests from Issues to Validate SWE Patches
1860. ICML 2025Outlier Gradient Analysis: Efficiently Identifying Detrimental Training Samples for Deep Learning Models
1861. ICML 2025OV-MER: Towards Open-Vocabulary Multimodal Emotion Recognition
1862. ICML 2025Overcoming Multi-step Complexity in Multimodal Theory-of-Mind Reasoning: A Scalable Bayesian Planner
1863. ICML 2025Parrot: Multilingual Visual Instruction Tuning
1864. ICML 2025PDE-Controller: LLMs for Autoformalization and Reasoning of PDEs
1865. ICML 2025Perception in Reflection
1866. ICML 2025Peripheral Memory for LLMs: Integration of Sequential Memory Banks with Adaptive Querying
1867. ICML 2025Phase transitions for the existence of unregularized M-estimators in single index models
1868. ICML 2025PoisonedEye: Knowledge Poisoning Attack on Retrieval-Augmented Generation based Large Vision-Language Models
1869. ICML 2025Position: Beyond Assistance – Reimagining LLMs as Ethical and Adaptive Co-Creators in Mental Health Care
1870. ICML 2025Position: Enough of Scaling LLMs! Lets Focus on Downscaling
1871. ICML 2025Position: LLMs Need a Bayesian Meta-Reasoning Framework for More Robust and Generalizable Reasoning
1872. ICML 2025Position: Not All Explanations for Deep Learning Phenomena Are Equally Valuable
1873. ICML 2025Position: Rethinking LLM Bias Probing Using Lessons from the Social Sciences
1874. ICML 2025Primitive Vision: Improving Diagram Understanding in MLLMs
1875. ICML 2025Privacy-Shielded Image Compression: Defending Against Exploitation from Vision-Language Pretrained Models
1876. ICML 2025Probing Visual Language Priors in VLMs
1877. ICML 2025Product of Experts with LLMs: Boosting Performance on ARC Is a Matter of Perspective
1878. ICML 2025Promoting Ensemble Diversity with Interactive Bayesian Distributional Robustness for Fine-tuning Foundation Models
1879. ICML 2025Prompt-based Depth Pruning of Large Language Models
1880. ICML 2025Proposer-Agent-Evaluator (PAE): Autonomous Skill Discovery For Foundation Model Internet Agents
1881. ICML 2025PROXSPARSE: REGULARIZED LEARNING OF SEMI-STRUCTURED SPARSITY MASKS FOR PRETRAINED LLMS
1882. ICML 2025Proxy-FDA: Proxy-based Feature Distribution Alignment for Fine-tuning Vision Foundation Models without Forgetting
1883. ICML 2025Putnam-AXIOM: A Functional & Static Benchmark for Measuring Higher Level Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs
1884. ICML 2025Puzzle: Distillation-Based NAS for Inference-Optimized LLMs
1885. ICML 2025PyTDC: A multimodal machine learning training, evaluation, and inference platform for biomedical foundation models
1886. ICML 2025QMamba: On First Exploration of Vision Mamba for Image Quality Assessment
1887. ICML 2025QoS-Efficient Serving of Multiple Mixture-of-Expert LLMs Using Partial Runtime Reconfiguration
1888. ICML 2025Quantifying Prediction Consistency Under Fine-tuning Multiplicity in Tabular LLMs
1889. ICML 2025Quantum Speedup for Hypergraph Sparsification
1890. ICML 2025QuEST: Stable Training of LLMs with 1-Bit Weights and Activations
1891. ICML 2025R2-T2: Re-Routing in Test-Time for Multimodal Mixture-of-Experts
1892. ICML 2025Ranked from Within: Ranking Large Multimodal Models Without Labels
1893. ICML 2025RBench: Graduate-level Multi-disciplinary Benchmarks for LLM & MLLM Complex Reasoning Evaluation
1894. ICML 2025RE-IMAGINE: Symbolic Benchmark Synthesis for Reasoning Evaluation
1895. ICML 2025Re-ranking Reasoning Context with Tree Search Makes Large Vision-Language Models Stronger
1896. ICML 2025Reasoning Limitations of Multimodal Large Language Models. A case study of Bongard Problems
1897. ICML 2025Reasoning Through Execution: Unifying Process and Outcome Rewards for Code Generation
1898. ICML 2025ReFocus: Visual Editing as a Chain of Thought for Structured Image Understanding
1899. ICML 2025ReinboT: Amplifying Robot Visual-Language Manipulation with Reinforcement Learning
1900. ICML 2025RepoAudit: An Autonomous LLM-Agent for Repository-Level Code Auditing

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.