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 41 of 225

2001. ICLR 2026Let's Think in Two Steps: Mitigating Agreement Bias in MLLMs with Self-Grounded Verification
2002. ICLR 2026Leveraging Data to Say No: Memory Augmented Plug-and-Play Selective Prediction
2003. ICLR 2026Leveraging Pretrained Knowledge at Inference Time: LoRA-Gated Contrastive Decoding for Multilingual Factual Language Generation in Adapted LLMs
2004. ICLR 2026LEXam: Benchmarking Legal Reasoning on 340 Law Exams
2005. ICLR 2026Light of Normals: Unified Feature Representation for Universal Photometric Stereo
2006. ICLR 2026Lightweight Spatio-Temporal Modeling via Temporally Shifted Distillation for Real-Time Accident Anticipation
2007. ICLR 2026Linear Mechanisms for Spatiotemporal Reasoning in Vision Language Models
2008. ICLR 2026LinearSR: Unlocking Linear Attention for Stable and Efficient Image Super-Resolution
2009. ICLR 2026LingoLoop Attack: Trapping MLLMs via Linguistic Context and State Entrapment into Endless Loops
2010. ICLR 2026LinguaMap: Which Layers of LLMs Speak Your Language and How to Tune Them?
2011. ICLR 2026LINK: Learning Instance-level Knowledge from Vision-Language Models for Human-Object Interaction Detection
2012. ICLR 2026Linking Process to Outcome: Conditional Reward Modeling for LLM Reasoning
2013. ICLR 2026LiveClin: A Live Clinical Benchmark without Leakage
2014. ICLR 2026LLaVA-4D: Embedding SpatioTemporal Prompt into LMMs for 4D Scene Understanding
2015. ICLR 2026LLaVA-FA: Learning Fourier Approximation for Compressing Large Multimodal Models
2016. ICLR 2026LLaVAction: evaluating and training multi-modal large language models for action understanding
2017. ICLR 2026LLM Pretraining with Continuous Concepts
2018. ICLR 2026LLMs as Rules Oracles: Exploring Real-World Multimodal Reasoning in Tabletop Strategy Game Environments
2019. ICLR 2026LLMs Can Hide Text in Other Text of the Same Length
2020. ICLR 2026LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation
2021. ICLR 2026LLMs Must Think Thrice to Solve Executable Counterfactuals
2022. ICLR 2026LLMS ON TRIAL: Evaluating Judicial Fairness For Large Language Models
2023. ICLR 2026LLMs Process Lists With General Filter Heads
2024. ICLR 2026LLMs Struggle to Balance Reasoning and World Knowledge in Causal Narrative Understanding
2025. ICLR 2026lmgame-Bench: How Good are LLMs at Playing Games?
2026. ICLR 2026Local Linear Attention: An Optimal Interpolation of Linear and Softmax Attention For Test-Time Regression
2027. ICLR 2026Locality-Attending Vision Transformer
2028. ICLR 2026Locality-aware Parallel Decoding for Efficient Autoregressive Image Generation
2029. ICLR 2026Log-Linear Attention
2030. ICLR 2026LogiConBench: Benchmarking Logical Consistencies of LLMs
2031. ICLR 2026LogiStory: A Logic-Aware Framework for Multi-Image Story Visualization
2032. ICLR 2026Long-range Modeling and Processing of Multimodal Event Sequences
2033. ICLR 2026Long-tailed Test-Time Adaptation for Vision-Language Models
2034. ICLR 2026LongHorizonUI: A Unified Framework for Robust long-horizon Task Automation of GUI Agent
2035. ICLR 2026Look Carefully: Adaptive Visual Reinforcements in Multimodal Large Language Models for Hallucination Mitigation
2036. ICLR 2026LoopFormer: Elastic-Depth Looped Transformers for Latent Reasoning via Shortcut Modulation
2037. ICLR 2026Lost in Tokenization: Context as the Key to Unlocking Biomolecular Understanding in Scientific LLMs
2038. ICLR 2026LSA: Layer-wise Sparsity Allocation for Large Language Model Pruning Based on Minimal Linear Reconstruction Error
2039. ICLR 2026LucidFlux: Caption-Free Universal Image Restoration via a Large-Scale Diffusion Transformer
2040. ICLR 2026LVTINO: LAtent Video consisTency INverse sOlver for High Definition Video Restoration
2041. ICLR 2026LycheeDecode: Accelerating Long-Context LLM Inference via Hybrid-Head Sparse Decoding
2042. ICLR 2026M$^2$-Miner: Multi-Agent Enhanced MCTS for Mobile GUI Agent Data Mining
2043. ICLR 2026M$^3$E: Continual Vision-and-Language Navigation via Mixture of Macro and Micro Experts
2044. ICLR 2026M3CoTBench: Benchmark Chain-of-Thought of MLLMs in Medical Image Understanding
2045. ICLR 2026Many-for-Many: Unify the Training of Multiple Video and Image Generation and Manipulation Tasks
2046. ICLR 2026MANZANO: A Simple and Scalable Unified Multimodal Model with a Hybrid Vision Tokenizer
2047. ICLR 2026Map as a Prompt: Learning Multi-Modal Spatial-Signal Foundation Models for Cross-scenario Wireless Localization
2048. ICLR 2026Map the Flow: Revealing Hidden Pathways of Information in VideoLLMs
2049. ICLR 2026Mapping Post-Training Forgetting in Language Models at Scale
2050. ICLR 2026MARC: Memory-Augmented RL Token Compression for Efficient 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.