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

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151. ICLR 2025Compute-Constrained Data Selection
152. ICLR 2025Concept Bottleneck Language Models For Protein Design
153. ICLR 2025Concept Bottleneck Large Language Models
154. ICLR 2025CONDA: Adaptive Concept Bottleneck for Foundation Models Under Distribution Shifts
155. ICLR 2025Conformal Language Model Reasoning with Coherent Factuality
156. ICLR 2025Constructing Confidence Intervals for Average Treatment Effects from Multiple Datasets
157. ICLR 2025Context Steering: Controllable Personalization at Inference Time
158. ICLR 2025Context-Alignment: Activating and Enhancing LLMs Capabilities in Time Series
159. ICLR 2025Context-aware Dynamic Pruning for Speech Foundation Models
160. ICLR 2025Context-Parametric Inversion: Why Instruction Finetuning May Not Actually Improve Context Reliance
161. ICLR 2025Contextual Self-paced Learning for Weakly Supervised Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding
162. ICLR 2025Continuous Exposure Learning for Low-light Image Enhancement using Neural ODEs
163. ICLR 2025Controllable Generation via Locally Constrained Resampling
164. ICLR 2025Controlled LLM Decoding via Discrete Auto-regressive Biasing
165. ICLR 2025Correlating instruction-tuning (in multimodal models) with vision-language processing (in the brain)
166. ICLR 2025CREMA: Generalizable and Efficient Video-Language Reasoning via Multimodal Modular Fusion
167. ICLR 2025Cross the Gap: Exposing the Intra-modal Misalignment in CLIP via Modality Inversion
168. ICLR 2025Cross-Modal Safety Mechanism Transfer in Large Vision-Language Models
169. ICLR 2025CSA: Data-efficient Mapping of Unimodal Features to Multimodal Features
170. ICLR 2025CURIE: Evaluating LLMs on Multitask Scientific Long-Context Understanding and Reasoning
171. ICLR 2025Cut Your Losses in Large-Vocabulary Language Models
172. ICLR 2025Cyclic Contrastive Knowledge Transfer for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
173. ICLR 2025DailyDilemmas: Revealing Value Preferences of LLMs with Quandaries of Daily Life
174. ICLR 2025DAMO: Decoding by Accumulating Activations Momentum for Mitigating Hallucinations in Vision-Language Models
175. ICLR 2025Data Pruning by Information Maximization
176. ICLR 2025Data Selection via Optimal Control for Language Models
177. ICLR 2025DataMan: Data Manager for Pre-training Large Language Models
178. ICLR 2025DECO: Unleashing the Potential of ConvNets for Query-based Detection and Segmentation
179. ICLR 2025Deconstructing What Makes a Good Optimizer for Autoregressive Language Models
180. ICLR 2025Deep Incomplete Multi-view Learning via Cyclic Permutation of VAEs
181. ICLR 2025Deep Linear Probe Generators for Weight Space Learning
182. ICLR 2025DELTA: DENSE EFFICIENT LONG-RANGE 3D TRACKING FOR ANY VIDEO
183. ICLR 2025Demystifying the Token Dynamics of Deep Selective State Space Models
184. ICLR 2025Density estimation with LLMs: a geometric investigation of in-context learning trajectories
185. ICLR 2025DEPT: Decoupled Embeddings for Pre-training Language Models
186. ICLR 2025Designing Concise ConvNets with Columnar Stages
187. ICLR 2025Determine-Then-Ensemble: Necessity of Top-k Union for Large Language Model Ensembling
188. ICLR 2025Diff-Prompt: Diffusion-Driven Prompt Generator with Mask Supervision
189. ICLR 2025Differential Transformer
190. ICLR 2025Differentially Private Steering for Large Language Model Alignment
191. ICLR 2025Diffusion Feedback Helps CLIP See Better
192. ICLR 2025Digi-Q: Learning VLM Q-Value Functions for Training Device-Control Agents
193. ICLR 2025Directional Gradient Projection for Robust Fine-Tuning of Foundation Models
194. ICLR 2025Discovering Clone Negatives via Adaptive Contrastive Learning for Image-Text Matching
195. ICLR 2025Discovering Influential Neuron Path in Vision Transformers
196. ICLR 2025DisEnvisioner: Disentangled and Enriched Visual Prompt for Customized Image Generation
197. ICLR 2025Distributional Associations vs In-Context Reasoning: A Study of Feed-forward and Attention Layers
198. ICLR 2025Divergence-enhanced Knowledge-guided Context Optimization for Visual-Language Prompt Tuning
199. ICLR 2025Divide and Translate: Compositional First-Order Logic Translation and Verification for Complex Logical Reasoning
200. ICLR 2025Do Egocentric Video-Language Models Truly Understand Hand-Object Interactions?

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.