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 40 of 225

1951. ICLR 2026Kaleidoscope: In-language Exams for Massively Multilingual Vision Evaluation
1952. ICLR 2026KaLM-Embedding-V2: Superior Training Techniques and Data Inspire A Versatile Embedding Model
1953. ICLR 2026KBVQ-MoE: KLT-guided SVD with Bias-Corrected Vector Quantization for MoE Large Language Models
1954. ICLR 2026KeepLoRA: Continual Learning with Residual Gradient Adaptation
1955. ICLR 2026Know When to Abstain: Optimal Selective Classification with Likelihood Ratios
1956. ICLR 2026KnowGuard: Knowledge-Driven Abstention for Multi-Round Clinical Reasoning
1957. ICLR 2026Knowledge Exchange with Confidence: Cost-Effective LLM Integration for Reliable and Efficient Visual Question Answering
1958. ICLR 2026Knowledge Externalization: Reversible Unlearning and Modular Retrieval in Multimodal Large Language Models
1959. ICLR 2026Knowledge Fusion of Large Language Models via Modular SkillPacks
1960. ICLR 2026Knowledge Reasoning Language Model: Unifying Knowledge and Language for Inductive Knowledge Graph Reasoning
1961. ICLR 2026KnowledgeSmith: Uncovering Knowledge Updating in LLMs with Model Editing and Unlearning
1962. ICLR 2026KV-Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference
1963. ICLR 2026LABEL-FREE MITIGATION OF SPURIOUS CORRELATIONS IN VLMS USING SPARSE AUTOENCODERS
1964. ICLR 2026LadderSym: A Multimodal Interleaved Transformer for Music Practice Error Detection
1965. ICLR 2026LaDiR: Latent Diffusion Enhances LLMs for Text Reasoning
1966. ICLR 2026Landscape of Thoughts: Visualizing the Reasoning Process of Large Language Models
1967. ICLR 2026Language Confusion Gate: Language-Aware Decoding Through Model Self-Distillation
1968. ICLR 2026Language in the Flow of Time: Time-Series-Paired Texts Weaved into a Unified Temporal Narrative
1969. ICLR 2026Language Models are Injective and Hence Invertible
1970. ICLR 2026Language-guided Open-world Video Anomaly Detection under Weak Supervision
1971. ICLR 2026Language-Instructed Vision Embeddings for Controllable and Generalizable Perception
1972. ICLR 2026LaplacianFormer:Rethinking Linear Attention with Laplacian Kernel
1973. ICLR 2026Late-to-Early Training: LET LLMs Learn Earlier, So Faster and Better
1974. ICLR 2026Latent Speech-Text Transformer
1975. ICLR 2026Latent Visual Reasoning
1976. ICLR 2026Latent-Guided Reasoning: Empowering Small LLMs with Large-Model Thinking
1977. ICLR 2026LatentQA: Teaching LLMs to Decode Activations Into Natural Language
1978. ICLR 2026Lavida-O: Elastic Large Masked Diffusion Models for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
1979. ICLR 2026LD-MoLE: Learnable Dynamic Routing for Mixture of LoRA Experts
1980. ICLR 2026LeanForPhysics: Comprehensive Reasoning Framework for University-level Physics in Lean4
1981. ICLR 2026Learned Meta-Tokens for Language Modeling
1982. ICLR 2026Learning an Image Editing Model without Image Editing Pairs
1983. ICLR 2026Learning Concept Bottleneck Models from Mechanistic Explanations
1984. ICLR 2026Learning Domain-Aware Task Prompt Representations for Multi-Domain All-in-One Image Restoration
1985. ICLR 2026Learning Exposure Mapping Functions for Inferring Heterogeneous Peer Effects
1986. ICLR 2026Learning for Highly Faithful Explainability
1987. ICLR 2026Learning multimodal dictionary decompositions with group-sparse autoencoders
1988. ICLR 2026Learning Ordinal Probabilistic Reward from Preferences
1989. ICLR 2026Learning Self-Critiquing Mechanisms for Region-Guided Chest X-Ray Report Generation
1990. ICLR 2026Learning Semi-Structured Sparsity for LLMs via Shared and Context-Aware Hypernetwork
1991. ICLR 2026Learning to Parallel: Accelerating Diffusion Large Language Models via Adaptive Parallel Decoding
1992. ICLR 2026Learning to See Before Seeing: Demystifying LLM Visual Priors from Language Pre-training
1993. ICLR 2026Learning-Time Encoding Shapes Unlearning in LLMs
1994. ICLR 2026LearnPruner: Rethinking Attention-based Token Pruning in Vision Language Models
1995. ICLR 2026LEGATO: Large-scale End-to-end Generalizable Approach to Typeset OMR
1996. ICLR 2026LENS: Multi-level Evaluation of Multimodal Reasoning with Large Language Models
1997. ICLR 2026LeSTD: LLM Compression via Learning-based Sparse Tensor Decomposition
1998. ICLR 2026Let LLMs Speak Embedding Languages: Generative Text Embeddings via Iterative Contrastive Refinement
1999. ICLR 2026Let's (not) just put things in Context: Test-time Training for Long-context LLMs
2000. ICLR 2026Let's Split Up: Zero-Shot Classifier Edits for Fine-Grained Video Understanding

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.