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 39 of 62

1901. ICML 2025Rethinking External Slow-Thinking: From Snowball Errors to Probability of Correct Reasoning
1902. ICML 2025Retrieval-Augmented Perception: High-resolution Image Perception Meets Visual RAG
1903. ICML 2025Revisiting Continuity of Image Tokens for Cross-domain Few-shot Learning
1904. ICML 2025Reward-Guided Speculative Decoding for Efficient LLM Reasoning
1905. ICML 2025Robust Multimodal Large Language Models Against Modality Conflict
1906. ICML 2025RollingQ: Reviving the Cooperation Dynamics in Multimodal Transformer
1907. ICML 2025rStar-Math: Small LLMs Can Master Math Reasoning with Self-Evolved Deep Thinking
1908. ICML 2025RULEBREAKERS: Challenging LLMs at the Crossroads between Formal Logic and Human-like Reasoning
1909. ICML 2025SAE-V: Interpreting Multimodal Models for Enhanced Alignment
1910. ICML 2025SafeAuto: Knowledge-Enhanced Safe Autonomous Driving with Multimodal Foundation Models
1911. ICML 2025SAFER: A Calibrated Risk-Aware Multimodal Recommendation Model for Dynamic Treatment Regimes
1912. ICML 2025Sample Efficient Demonstration Selection for In-Context Learning
1913. ICML 2025SAN: Hypothesizing Long-Term Synaptic Development and Neural Engram Mechanism in Scalable Model's Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
1914. ICML 2025Scaling Laws in Patchification: An Image Is Worth 50,176 Tokens And More
1915. ICML 2025Scaling Video-Language Models to 10K Frames via Hierarchical Differential Distillation
1916. ICML 2025SECOND: Mitigating Perceptual Hallucination in Vision-Language Models via Selective and Contrastive Decoding
1917. ICML 2025SEFE: Superficial and Essential Forgetting Eliminator for Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning
1918. ICML 2025Segment Anyword: Mask Prompt Inversion for Open-Set Grounded Segmentation
1919. ICML 2025Selective Prompt Anchoring for Code Generation
1920. ICML 2025Self-Organizing Visual Prototypes for Non-Parametric Representation Learning
1921. ICML 2025Self-Supervised Learning of Intertwined Content and Positional Features for Object Detection
1922. ICML 2025Semantic Shift Estimation via Dual-Projection and Classifier Reconstruction for Exemplar-Free Class-Incremental Learning
1923. ICML 2025SENSEI: Semantic Exploration Guided by Foundation Models to Learn Versatile World Models
1924. ICML 2025SFT Memorizes, RL Generalizes: A Comparative Study of Foundation Model Post-training
1925. ICML 2025ShadowKV: KV Cache in Shadows for High-Throughput Long-Context LLM Inference
1926. ICML 2025SK-VQA: Synthetic Knowledge Generation at Scale for Training Context-Augmented Multimodal LLMs
1927. ICML 2025SlimLLM: Accurate Structured Pruning for Large Language Models
1928. ICML 2025Soft Reasoning: Navigating Solution Spaces in Large Language Models through Controlled Embedding Exploration
1929. ICML 2025Softmax is not Enough (for Sharp Size Generalisation)
1930. ICML 2025SparseVLM: Visual Token Sparsification for Efficient Vision-Language Model Inference
1931. ICML 2025SpeCache: Speculative Key-Value Caching for Efficient Generation of LLMs
1932. ICML 2025SPEX: Scaling Feature Interaction Explanations for LLMs
1933. ICML 2025Stay-Positive: A Case for Ignoring Real Image Features in Fake Image Detection
1934. ICML 2025Stochastic Layer-Wise Shuffle for Improving Vision Mamba Training
1935. ICML 2025Streamline Without Sacrifice - Squeeze out Computation Redundancy in LMM
1936. ICML 2025Subobject-level Image Tokenization
1937. ICML 2025Surrogate Prompt Learning: Towards Efficient and Diverse Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models
1938. ICML 2025SWE-Lancer: Can Frontier LLMs Earn $1 Million from Real-World Freelance Software Engineering?
1939. ICML 2025Synonymous Variational Inference for Perceptual Image Compression
1940. ICML 2025TabPFN Unleashed: A Scalable and Effective Solution to Tabular Classification Problems
1941. ICML 2025Taming Rectified Flow for Inversion and Editing
1942. ICML 2025Targeted Unlearning with Single Layer Unlearning Gradient
1943. ICML 2025Teaching Physical Awareness to LLMs through Sounds
1944. ICML 2025Test-Time Adaptation for Online Vision-Language Navigation with Feedback-based Reinforcement Learning
1945. ICML 2025Test-Time Canonicalization by Foundation Models for Robust Perception
1946. ICML 2025Test-Time Multimodal Backdoor Detection by Contrastive Prompting
1947. ICML 2025Testing the Limits of Fine-Tuning for Improving Visual Cognition in Vision Language Models
1948. ICML 2025TextCenGen: Attention-Guided Text-Centric Background Adaptation for Text-to-Image Generation
1949. ICML 2025Textural or Textual: How Vision-Language Models Read Text in Images
1950. ICML 2025The Devil Is in the Details: Tackling Unimodal Spurious Correlations for Generalizable Multimodal Reward 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.