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 43 of 225

2101. ICLR 2026MMR-Life: Piecing Together Real-life Scenes for Multimodal Multi-image Reasoning
2102. ICLR 2026MMR-V: What's Left Unsaid? A Benchmark for Multimodal Deep Reasoning in Videos
2103. ICLR 2026MMReD: a Cross-Modal Benchmark for Dense Context Reasoning
2104. ICLR 2026MMSearch-Plus: Benchmarking Provenance-Aware Search for Multimodal Browsing Agents
2105. ICLR 2026MMSI-Bench: A Benchmark for Multi-Image Spatial Intelligence
2106. ICLR 2026MMSU: A Massive Multi-task Spoken Language Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark
2107. ICLR 2026MMTok: Multimodal Coverage Maximization for Efficient Inference of VLMs
2108. ICLR 2026MoBE: Mixture-of-Basis-Experts for Compressing MoE-based LLMs
2109. ICLR 2026MobiEdit: Resource-efficient Knowledge Editing for Personalized On-device LLMs
2110. ICLR 2026MobileIPL: Enhancing Mobile Agents Thinking Process via Iterative Preference Learning
2111. ICLR 2026MoCa: Modeling Object Consistency for 3D Camera Control in Video Generation
2112. ICLR 2026Mod-Adapter: Tuning-Free and Versatile Multi-concept Personalization via Modulation Adapter
2113. ICLR 2026Modal Aphasia: Can Unified Multimodal Models Describe Images From Memory?
2114. ICLR 2026Modality Alignment across Trees on Heterogeneous Hyperbolic Manifolds
2115. ICLR 2026Model Collapse Is Not a Bug but a Feature in Machine Unlearning for LLMs
2116. ICLR 2026MoDr: Mixture-of-Depth-Recurrent Transformers for Test-Time Reasoning
2117. ICLR 2026MoEEdit: Efficient and Routing-Stable Knowledge Editing for Mixture-of-Experts LLMs
2118. ICLR 2026MoL: Adaptive Mixture-of-Length Reasoning for Efficient Question Answering with Context
2119. ICLR 2026MolLangBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Language-Prompted Molecular Structure Recognition, Editing, and Generation
2120. ICLR 2026MoM: Linear Sequence Modeling with Mixture-of-Memories
2121. ICLR 2026MomaGraph: State-Aware Unified Scene Graphs with Vision-Language Models for Embodied Task Planning
2122. ICLR 2026MoNE: Replacing Redundant Experts with Lightweight Novices for Structured Pruning of MoE
2123. ICLR 2026MoRA: Missing Modality Low-Rank Adaptation for Visual Recognition
2124. ICLR 2026Mordal: Automated Pretrained Model Selection for Vision Language Models
2125. ICLR 2026More Thought, Less Accuracy? On the Dual Nature of Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
2126. ICLR 2026MotionSight: Boosting Fine-Grained Motion Understanding in Multimodal LLMs
2127. ICLR 2026MRAD: Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection with Memory-Driven Retrieval
2128. ICLR 2026MRMR: A Realistic and Expert-Level Multidisciplinary Benchmark for Reasoning-Intensive Multimodal Retrieval
2129. ICLR 2026MrRoPE: Mixed-radix Rotary Position Embedding
2130. ICLR 2026MSCR: Exploring the Vulnerability of LLMs’ Mathematical Reasoning Abilities Using Multi-Source Candidate Replacement
2131. ICLR 2026MT-DAO: Multi-Timescale Distributed Adaptive Optimizers with Local Updates
2132. ICLR 2026MTVCraft: Tokenizing 4D Motion for Arbitrary Character Animation
2133. ICLR 2026Multi-Domain Transferable Graph Gluing for Building Graph Foundation Models
2134. ICLR 2026Multi-LCB: Extending LiveCodeBench to Multiple Programming Languages
2135. ICLR 2026Multi-Scale Hypergraph Meets LLMs: Aligning Large Language Models for Time Series Analysis
2136. ICLR 2026MultiMat: Multimodal Program Synthesis for Procedural Materials using Large Multimodal Models
2137. ICLR 2026Multimodal Aligned Semantic Knowledge for Unpaired Image-text Matching
2138. ICLR 2026Multimodal Classification via Total Correlation Maximization
2139. ICLR 2026Multimodal Dataset Distillation Made Simple by Prototype-guided Data Synthesis
2140. ICLR 2026Multimodal Dataset Distillation via Phased Teacher Models
2141. ICLR 2026Multimodal LLM-assisted Evolutionary Search for Programmatic Control Policies
2142. ICLR 2026Multimodal Policy Internalization for Conversational Agents
2143. ICLR 2026Multimodal Prompt Optimization: Why Not Leverage Multiple Modalities for MLLMs
2144. ICLR 2026MULTIMODALITY AS SUPERVISION: SELF-SUPERVISED SPECIALIZATION TO THE TEST ENVIRONMENT VIA MULTIMODALITY
2145. ICLR 2026Multiple Token Divergence: Measuring and Steering In-Context Computation Density
2146. ICLR 2026MVR: Multi-view Video Reward Shaping for Reinforcement Learning
2147. ICLR 2026Naming to Learn: Class Incremental Learning for Vision-Language Model with Unlabeled Data
2148. ICLR 2026Nano3D: A Training-Free Approach for Efficient 3D Editing Without Masks
2149. ICLR 2026Natural Identifiers for Privacy and Data Audits in Large Language Models
2150. ICLR 2026Natural Language PDDL (NL-PDDL) for Open-world Goal-oriented Commonsense Regression Planning in Embodied AI

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.