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

5,190 papers, page 39 of 104

1901. ICLR 2026Image is All You Need: Towards Efficient and Effective Large Language Model-Based Recommender Systems
1902. ICLR 2026Image Quality Assessment for Embodied AI
1903. ICLR 2026ImageDoctor: Diagnosing Text-to-Image Generation via Grounded Image Reasoning
1904. ICLR 2026ImagenWorld: Stress-Testing Image Generation Models with Explainable Human Evaluation on Open-ended Real-World Tasks
1905. ICLR 2026ImageRAG: Dynamic Image Retrieval for Reference-Guided Image Generation
1906. ICLR 2026Imagine How To Change: Explicit Procedure Modeling for Change Captioning
1907. ICLR 2026Imitating the Truth: Attention-aware Truth-Guided Enhancement for Hallucination Mitigation in Large Vision-Language Models
1908. ICLR 2026Importance Sampling for Multi-Negative Multimodal Direct Preference Optimization
1909. ICLR 2026Improving Block-Wise LLM Quantization by 4-bit Block-Wise Optimal Float (BOF4): Analysis and Variations
1910. ICLR 2026In Good GRACES: Principled Teacher Selection for Knowledge Distillation
1911. ICLR 2026In-Context Algorithm Emulation in Fixed-Weight Transformers
1912. ICLR 2026In-Context Watermarks for Large Language Models
1913. ICLR 2026In-Place Test-Time Training
1914. ICLR 2026Incentivizing Consistent, Effective and Scalable Reasoning Capability in Audio LLMs via Reasoning Process Rewards
1915. ICLR 2026InclusiveVidPose: Bridging the Pose Estimation Gap for Individuals with Limb Deficiencies in Video-Based Motion
1916. ICLR 2026IndicVisionBench: Benchmarking Cultural and Multilingual Understanding in VLMs
1917. ICLR 2026Inducing Dyslexia in Vision Language Models
1918. ICLR 2026Inductive Reasoning for Temporal Knowledge Graphs with Emerging Entities
1919. ICLR 2026Inference-Time Dynamic Modality Selection for Incomplete Multimodal Classification
1920. ICLR 2026Inferring the Invisible: Neuro-Symbolic Rule Discovery for Missing Value Imputation
1921. ICLR 2026Influence-Preserving Proxies for Gradient-Based Data Selection in LLM FineTuning
1922. ICLR 2026InfoDet: A Dataset for Infographic Element Detection
1923. ICLR 2026InftyThink: Breaking the Length Limits of Long-Context Reasoning in Large Language Models
1924. ICLR 2026Inoculation Prompting: Eliciting traits from LLMs during training can reduce trait expression at test-time
1925. ICLR 2026InSight-o3: Empowering Multimodal Foundation Models with Generalized Visual Search
1926. ICLR 2026Interleave-VLA: Enhancing Robot Manipulation with Image-Text Interleaved Instructions
1927. ICLR 2026Interleaving Reasoning for Better Text-to-Image Generation
1928. ICLR 2026InternSpatial: A Comprehensive Dataset for Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
1929. ICLR 2026InternSVG: Towards Unified SVG Tasks with Multimodal Large Language Models
1930. ICLR 2026Interpretable 3D Neural Object Volumes for Robust Conceptual Reasoning
1931. ICLR 2026Intrinsic Entropy of Context Length Scaling in LLMs
1932. ICLR 2026Inverse IFEval: Can LLMs Unlearn Stubborn Training Conventions to Follow Real Instructions?
1933. ICLR 2026Investigating Redundancy in Multimodal Large Language Models with Multiple Vision Encoders
1934. ICLR 2026Is Finer Better? The Limits of Microscaling Formats in Large Language Models
1935. ICLR 2026Is This Just Fantasy? Language Model Representations Reflect Human Judgments of Event Plausibility
1936. ICLR 2026It's All Just Vectorization: einx, a Universal Notation for Tensor Operations
1937. ICLR 2026IV-Bench: A Benchmark for Image-Grounded Video Perception and Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs
1938. ICLR 2026IVC-Prune: Revealing the Implicit Visual Coordinates in LVLMs for Vision Token Pruning
1939. ICLR 2026IVEBench: Modern Benchmark Suite for Instruction-Guided Video Editing Assessment
1940. ICLR 2026IWR-Bench: Can LVLMs reconstruct interactive webpage from a user interaction video?
1941. ICLR 2026Jailbreaking the Matrix: Nullspace Steering for Controlled Model Subversion
1942. ICLR 2026JanusCoder: Towards a Foundational Visual-Programmatic Interface for Code Intelligence
1943. ICLR 2026JanusVLN: Decoupling Semantics and Spatiality with Dual Implicit Memory for Vision-Language Navigation
1944. ICLR 2026Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma Guided Network for Efficient 3D Medical Segmentation
1945. ICLR 2026JointAVBench: A Benchmark for Joint Audio-Visual Reasoning Evaluation
1946. ICLR 2026Journey to the Centre of Cluster: Harnessing Interior Nodes for A/B Testing under Network Interference
1947. ICLR 2026Judo: A Juxtaposed Domain-oriented Multimodal Reasoner for Industrial Anomaly QA
1948. ICLR 2026Just Do It!? Computer-Use Agents Exhibit Blind Goal-Directedness
1949. ICLR 2026K-Sort Eval: Efficient Preference Evaluation for Visual Generation via Corrected VLM-as-a-Judge
1950. ICLR 2026K²-Agent: Co-Evolving Know-What and Know-How for Hierarchical Mobile Device Control

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.