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

2,676 papers, page 44 of 54

2151. ICLR 2025Uncovering Overfitting in Large Language Model Editing
2152. ICLR 2025Understanding and Enhancing Safety Mechanisms of LLMs via Safety-Specific Neuron
2153. ICLR 2025Understanding and Mitigating Bottlenecks of State Space Models through the Lens of Recency and Over-smoothing
2154. ICLR 2025Understanding and Mitigating Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models via Modular Attribution and Intervention
2155. ICLR 2025Understanding Long Videos with Multimodal Language Models
2156. ICLR 2025Unearthing Skill-level Insights for Understanding Trade-offs of Foundation Models
2157. ICLR 2025Unhackable Temporal Reward for Scalable Video MLLMs
2158. ICLR 2025Unified Parameter-Efficient Unlearning for LLMs
2159. ICLR 2025UniGS: Unified Language-Image-3D Pretraining with Gaussian Splatting
2160. ICLR 2025UNIP: Rethinking Pre-trained Attention Patterns for Infrared Semantic Segmentation
2161. ICLR 2025UniWav: Towards Unified Pre-training for Speech Representation Learning and Generation
2162. ICLR 2025Unlearning or Obfuscating? Jogging the Memory of Unlearned LLMs via Benign Relearning
2163. ICLR 2025Unleashing the Potential of Vision-Language Pre-Training for 3D Zero-Shot Lesion Segmentation via Mask-Attribute Alignment
2164. ICLR 2025Unveiling the Magic of Code Reasoning through Hypothesis Decomposition and Amendment
2165. ICLR 2025Unveiling the Secret Recipe: A Guide For Supervised Fine-Tuning Small LLMs
2166. ICLR 2025Varying Shades of Wrong: Aligning LLMs with Wrong Answers Only
2167. ICLR 2025VCR: A Task for Pixel-Level Complex Reasoning in Vision Language Models via Restoring Occluded Text
2168. ICLR 2025VEDIT: Latent Prediction Architecture For Procedural Video Representation Learning
2169. ICLR 2025VibeCheck: Discover and Quantify Qualitative Differences in Large Language Models
2170. ICLR 2025VICtoR: Learning Hierarchical Vision-Instruction Correlation Rewards for Long-horizon Manipulation
2171. ICLR 2025Video Action Differencing
2172. ICLR 2025VideoWebArena: Evaluating Long Context Multimodal Agents with Video Understanding Web Tasks
2173. ICLR 2025ViDiT-Q: Efficient and Accurate Quantization of Diffusion Transformers for Image and Video Generation
2174. ICLR 2025VILA-U: a Unified Foundation Model Integrating Visual Understanding and Generation
2175. ICLR 2025Vision and Language Synergy for Rehearsal Free Continual Learning
2176. ICLR 2025Vision Language Models are In-Context Value Learners
2177. ICLR 2025Vision-LSTM: xLSTM as Generic Vision Backbone
2178. ICLR 2025VisRAG: Vision-based Retrieval-augmented Generation on Multi-modality Documents
2179. ICLR 2025Visual Agents as Fast and Slow Thinkers
2180. ICLR 2025Visual Description Grounding Reduces Hallucinations and Boosts Reasoning in LVLMs
2181. ICLR 2025Visual Haystacks: A Vision-Centric Needle-In-A-Haystack Benchmark
2182. ICLR 2025Visual-O1: Understanding Ambiguous Instructions via Multi-modal Multi-turn Chain-of-thoughts Reasoning
2183. ICLR 2025VisualAgentBench: Towards Large Multimodal Models as Visual Foundation Agents
2184. ICLR 2025VisualPredicator: Learning Abstract World Models with Neuro-Symbolic Predicates for Robot Planning
2185. ICLR 2025VL-Cache: Sparsity and Modality-Aware KV Cache Compression for Vision-Language Model Inference Acceleration
2186. ICLR 2025VL-ICL Bench: The Devil in the Details of Multimodal In-Context Learning
2187. ICLR 2025VLAS: Vision-Language-Action Model with Speech Instructions for Customized Robot Manipulation
2188. ICLR 2025VLM2Vec: Training Vision-Language Models for Massive Multimodal Embedding Tasks
2189. ICLR 2025VLMaterial: Procedural Material Generation with Large Vision-Language Models
2190. ICLR 2025VOILA: Evaluation of MLLMs For Perceptual Understanding and Analogical Reasoning
2191. ICLR 2025Watch Less, Do More: Implicit Skill Discovery for Video-Conditioned Policy
2192. ICLR 2025Watermark Anything With Localized Messages
2193. ICLR 2025Wavelet-based Positional Representation for Long Context
2194. ICLR 2025Wayward Concepts In Multimodal Models
2195. ICLR 2025Weak to Strong Generalization for Large Language Models with Multi-capabilities
2196. ICLR 2025Weak-to-Strong Generalization Through the Data-Centric Lens
2197. ICLR 2025Weakly-Supervised Affordance Grounding Guided by Part-Level Semantic Priors
2198. ICLR 2025Weighted Multi-Prompt Learning with Description-free Large Language Model Distillation
2199. ICLR 2025Weighted Point Set Embedding for Multimodal Contrastive Learning Toward Optimal Similarity Metric
2200. ICLR 2025What is Wrong with Perplexity for Long-context Language Modeling?

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.