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 40 of 62

1951. ICML 2025The Hidden Joules: Evaluating the Energy Consumption of Vision Backbones for Progress Towards More Efficient Model Inference
1952. ICML 2025The Hidden Life of Tokens: Reducing Hallucination of Large Vision-Language Models Via Visual Information Steering
1953. ICML 2025The Role of Sparsity for Length Generalization in LLMs
1954. ICML 2025Time-VLM: Exploring Multimodal Vision-Language Models for Augmented Time Series Forecasting
1955. ICML 2025TinyMIG: Transferring Generalization from Vision Foundation Models to Single-Domain Medical Imaging
1956. ICML 2025Tool Unlearning for Tool-Augmented LLMs
1957. ICML 2025Topological Signatures of Adversaries in Multimodal Alignments
1958. ICML 2025Toward Robust Hyper-Detailed Image Captioning: A Multiagent Approach and Dual Evaluation Metrics for Factuality and Coverage
1959. ICML 2025Towards Better-than-2 Approximation for Constrained Correlation Clustering
1960. ICML 2025Towards Efficient Online Tuning of VLM Agents via Counterfactual Soft Reinforcement Learning
1961. ICML 2025Towards Rationale-Answer Alignment of LVLMs via Self-Rationale Calibration
1962. ICML 2025Towards scientific discovery with dictionary learning: Extracting biological concepts from microscopy foundation models
1963. ICML 2025Towards World Simulator: Crafting Physical Commonsense-Based Benchmark for Video Generation
1964. ICML 2025TRUST-VLM: Thorough Red-Teaming for Uncovering Safety Threats in Vision-Language Models
1965. ICML 2025TuCo: Measuring the Contribution of Fine-Tuning to Individual Responses of LLMs
1966. ICML 2025TUMTraf VideoQA: Dataset and Benchmark for Unified Spatio-Temporal Video Understanding in Traffic Scenes
1967. ICML 2025UGPhysics: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Undergraduate Physics Reasoning with Large Language Models
1968. ICML 2025UI-Vision: A Desktop-centric GUI Benchmark for Visual Perception and Interaction
1969. ICML 2025Understanding and Mitigating Miscalibration in Prompt Tuning for Vision-Language Models
1970. ICML 2025Understanding Model Reprogramming for CLIP via Decoupling Visual Prompts
1971. ICML 2025Understanding Multimodal LLMs Under Distribution Shifts: An Information-Theoretic Approach
1972. ICML 2025Understanding the Emergence of Multimodal Representation Alignment
1973. ICML 2025Unifying 2D and 3D Vision-Language Understanding
1974. ICML 2025Unifying Specialized Visual Encoders for Video Language Models
1975. ICML 2025Unlocking the Capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models for Generalizable and Explainable Deepfake Detection
1976. ICML 2025Unlocking the Power of SAM 2 for Few-Shot Segmentation
1977. ICML 2025Unnatural Languages Are Not Bugs but Features for LLMs
1978. ICML 2025UP-VLA: A Unified Understanding and Prediction Model for Embodied Agent
1979. ICML 2025VIP: Vision Instructed Pre-training for Robotic Manipulation
1980. ICML 2025Vision-Language Model Selection and Reuse for Downstream Adaptation
1981. ICML 2025Vision-Language Models Create Cross-Modal Task Representations
1982. ICML 2025Visual Abstraction: A Plug-and-Play Approach for Text-Visual Retrieval
1983. ICML 2025Visual and Domain Knowledge for Professional-level Graph-of-Thought Medical Reasoning
1984. ICML 2025Visual Attention Never Fades: Selective Progressive Attention ReCalibration for Detailed Image Captioning in Multimodal Large Language Models
1985. ICML 2025Visual Autoregressive Modeling for Image Super-Resolution
1986. ICML 2025Visual Graph Arena: Evaluating Visual Conceptualization of Vision and Multimodal Large Language Models
1987. ICML 2025Watch Out Your Album! On the Inadvertent Privacy Memorization in Multi-Modal Large Language Models
1988. ICML 2025What can large language models do for sustainable food?
1989. ICML 2025What If We Recaption Billions of Web Images with LLaMA-3?
1990. ICML 2025What Makes In-context Learning Effective for Mathematical Reasoning
1991. ICML 2025When and How Does CLIP Enable Domain and Compositional Generalization?
1992. ICML 2025When Do LLMs Help With Node Classification? A Comprehensive Analysis
1993. ICML 2025When Every Millisecond Counts: Real-Time Anomaly Detection via the Multimodal Asynchronous Hybrid Network
1994. ICML 2025Why Is Spatial Reasoning Hard for VLMs? An Attention Mechanism Perspective on Focus Areas
1995. ICML 2025WikiBigEdit: Understanding the Limits of Lifelong Knowledge Editing in LLMs
1996. ICML 2025WildChat-50M: A Deep Dive Into the Role of Synthetic Data in Post-Training
1997. ICML 2025Windows Agent Arena: Evaluating Multi-Modal OS Agents at Scale
1998. ICML 2025WMarkGPT: Watermarked Image Understanding via Multimodal Large Language Models
1999. ICML 2025X-Transfer Attacks: Towards Super Transferable Adversarial Attacks on CLIP
2000. ICML 2025xLSTM 7B: A Recurrent LLM for Fast and Efficient Inference

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.