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 42 of 104

2051. ICLR 2026MARS-Sep: Multimodal-Aligned Reinforced Sound Separation
2052. ICLR 2026MASAM: Multimodal Adaptive Sharpness-Aware Minimization for Heterogeneous Data Fusion
2053. ICLR 2026MaskInversion: Localized Embeddings via Optimization of Explainability Maps
2054. ICLR 2026MaskPro: Linear-Space Probabilistic Learning for Strict (N:M)-Sparsity on LLMs
2055. ICLR 2026MATA: A Trainable Hierarchical Automaton System for Multi-Agent Visual Reasoning
2056. ICLR 2026Math Blind: Failures in Diagram Understanding Undermine Reasoning in MLLMs
2057. ICLR 2026MathFimer: Enhancing Mathematical Reasoning by Expanding Reasoning Steps through Fill-in-the-Middle Task
2058. ICLR 2026Matting Anything 2: Towards Video Matting for Anything
2059. ICLR 2026MC-Search: Evaluating and Enhancing Multimodal Agentic Search with Structured Long Reasoning Chains
2060. ICLR 2026MCIF: Multimodal Crosslingual Instruction-Following Benchmark from Scientific Talks
2061. ICLR 2026Measure Twice, Cut Once: A Semantic-Oriented Approach to Video Temporal Localization with Video LLMs
2062. ICLR 2026Medical thinking with multiple images
2063. ICLR 2026MedLesionVQA: A Multimodal Benchmark Emulating Clinical Visual Diagnosis for Body Surface Health
2064. ICLR 2026MedVR: Annotation-Free Medical Visual Reasoning via Agentic Reinforcement Learning
2065. ICLR 2026MEM1: Learning to Synergize Memory and Reasoning for Efficient Long-Horizon Agents
2066. ICLR 2026Memento: Toward an All-Day Proactive Assistant for Ultra-Long Streaming Video
2067. ICLR 2026Memory-Free Continual Learning with Null Space Adaptation for Zero-Shot Vision-Language Models
2068. ICLR 2026MemoryVLA: Perceptual-Cognitive Memory in Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation
2069. ICLR 2026MergeMix: A Unified Augmentation Paradigm for Visual and Multi-Modal Understanding
2070. ICLR 2026MergeTune: Continued Fine-Tuning of Vision-Language Models
2071. ICLR 2026MeSH: Memory-as-State-Highways for Recursive Transformers
2072. ICLR 2026Meta-Adaptive Prompt Distillation for Few-Shot Visual Question Answering
2073. ICLR 2026Meta-UCF: Unified Task-Conditioned LoRA Generation for Continual Learning in Large Language Models
2074. ICLR 2026MetaCaptioner: Towards Generalist Visual Captioning with Open-source Suites
2075. ICLR 2026MetaEmbed: Scaling Multimodal Retrieval at Test-Time with Flexible Late Interaction
2076. ICLR 2026MetaSpatial: Reinforcing 3D Spatial Reasoning in VLMs for the Metaverse
2077. ICLR 2026MetaVLA: Unified Meta Co-Training for Efficient Embodied Adaptation
2078. ICLR 2026Metis: Training LLMs with FP4 Quantization
2079. ICLR 2026MHLA: Restoring Expressivity of Linear Attention via Token-Level Multi-Head
2080. ICLR 2026MIAM: Modality Imbalance-Aware Masking for Multimodal Ecological Applications
2081. ICLR 2026MICLIP: Learning to Interpret Representation in Vision Models
2082. ICLR 2026MicroMix: Efficient Mixed-Precision Quantization with Microscaling Formats for Large Language Models
2083. ICLR 2026MIDAS: Multi-Image Dispersion and Semantic Reconstruction for Jailbreaking MLLMs
2084. ICLR 2026Midway Network: Learning Representations for Recognition and Motion from Latent Dynamics
2085. ICLR 2026MILR: Improving Multimodal Image Generation via Test-Time Latent Reasoning
2086. ICLR 2026MIMIC-Bench: Exploring the User-Like Thinking and Mimicking Capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models
2087. ICLR 2026MindMix: A Multimodal Foundation Model for Auditory Perception Decoding via Deep Neural-Acoustic Alignment
2088. ICLR 2026Mini-o3: Scaling Up Reasoning Patterns and Interaction Turns for Visual Search
2089. ICLR 2026Misaligned Roles, Misplaced Images: Structural Input Perturbations Expose Multimodal Alignment Blind Spots
2090. ICLR 2026Missingness Bias Calibration in Feature Attribution Explanations
2091. ICLR 2026Mitigating Hallucination in Vision-Language Model with Depth and Spatial-aware Key-Value Refinement
2092. ICLR 2026Mitigating Safety Fallback in Editing-based Backdoor Injection on LLMs
2093. ICLR 2026Mixing Importance with Diversity: Joint Optimization for KV Cache Compression in Large Vision-Language Models
2094. ICLR 2026Mixture of Contexts for Long Video Generation
2095. ICLR 2026Mixture-of-Experts Can Surpass Dense LLMs Under Strictly Equal Resource
2096. ICLR 2026Mixture-of-Visual-Thoughts: Exploring Context-Adaptive Reasoning Mode Selection for General Visual Reasoning
2097. ICLR 2026MM-HELIX: Boosting Multimodal Long-Chain Reflective Reasoning with Holistic Platform and Adaptive Hybrid Policy Optimization
2098. ICLR 2026MME-Emotion: A Holistic Evaluation Benchmark for Emotional Intelligence in Multimodal Large Language Models
2099. ICLR 2026MME-Unify: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation Models
2100. ICLR 2026MMedAgent-RL: Optimizing Multi-Agent Collaboration for Multimodal Medical Reasoning

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.