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 44 of 104

2151. ICLR 2026NC-Bench and NCfold: A Benchmark and Closed-Loop Framework for RNA Non-Canonical Base-Pair Prediction
2152. ICLR 2026Near-Optimal Online Deployment and Routing for Streaming LLMs
2153. ICLR 2026Neologism Learning for Controllability and Self-Verbalization
2154. ICLR 2026NePTune: A Neuro-Pythonic Framework for Tunable Compositional Reasoning on Vision-Language
2155. ICLR 2026NerVE: Nonlinear Eigenspectrum Dynamics in LLM Feed-Forward Networks
2156. ICLR 2026Neural Message-Passing on Attention Graphs for Hallucination Detection
2157. ICLR 2026Neuron-Aware Data Selection in Instruction Tuning for Large Language Models
2158. ICLR 2026New Hybrid Fine-Tuning Paradigm for LLMs: Algorithm Design and Convergence Analysis Framework
2159. ICLR 2026NExT-OMNI: Towards Any-to-Any Omnimodal Foundation Models with Discrete Flow Matching
2160. ICLR 2026Next-ToBE: Probabilistic Next Token-Bag Exploitation for Activating Anticipatory Capacity in LLMs
2161. ICLR 2026NLI : Non-uniform Linear Interpolation Approximation of Nonlinear Operations for Efficient LLMs Inference
2162. ICLR 2026No Caption, No Problem: Caption-Free Membership Inference via Model-Fitted Embeddings
2163. ICLR 2026No Labels, No Problem: Training Visual Reasoners with Multimodal Verifiers
2164. ICLR 2026No outlier channels but with outlier blocks
2165. ICLR 2026No Pixel Left Behind: A Detail-Preserving Architecture for Robust High-Resolution AI-Generated Image Detection
2166. ICLR 2026Noise Stability of Transformer Models
2167. ICLR 2026Noisy but Valid: Robust Statistical Evaluation of LLMs with Imperfect Judges
2168. ICLR 2026Nonparametric Teaching of Attention Learners
2169. ICLR 2026Not All Documents Are What You Need for Extracting Instruction Tuning Data
2170. ICLR 2026Not Search, But Scan: Benchmarking MLLMs on Scan-Oriented Academic Paper Reasoning
2171. ICLR 2026Not-a-Bandit: Provably No-Regret Drafter Selection in Speculative Decoding for LLMs
2172. ICLR 2026Nüwa: Mending the Spatial Integrity Torn by VLM Token Pruning
2173. ICLR 2026Object-Centric Refinement for Enhanced Zero-Shot Segmentation
2174. ICLR 2026OCR-Reasoning Benchmark: Unveiling the True Capabilities of MLLMs in Complex Text-Rich Image Reasoning
2175. ICLR 2026Off-Trajectory Reasoning: Can LLMs Collaborate on Reasoning Trajectory?
2176. ICLR 2026Omni-Captioner: Data Pipeline, Models, and Benchmark for Omni Detailed Perception
2177. ICLR 2026Omni-IML: Towards Unified Interpretable Image Manipulation Localization
2178. ICLR 2026Omni-View: Unlocking How Generation Facilitates Understanding in Unified 3D Model based on Multiview images
2179. ICLR 2026Omni-Weather: Unified Multimodal Foundation Model for Weather Generation and Understanding
2180. ICLR 2026OmniActor: A Generalist GUI and Embodied Agent for 2D&3D Worlds
2181. ICLR 2026OmniCT: Towards a Unified Slice-Volume LVLM for Comprehensive CT Analysis
2182. ICLR 2026OmniCVR: A Benchmark for Omni-Composed Video Retrieval with Vision, Audio, and Text
2183. ICLR 2026OmniEVA: Embodied Versatile Planner via Task-Adaptive 3D-Grounded and Embodiment-aware Reasoning
2184. ICLR 2026OmniField: Conditioned Neural Fields for Robust Multimodal Spatiotemporal Learning
2185. ICLR 2026OmniMouse: Scaling properties of multi-modal, multi-task Brain Models on 150B Neural Tokens
2186. ICLR 2026OmniSpatial: Towards Comprehensive Spatial Reasoning Benchmark for Vision Language Models
2187. ICLR 2026OmniVideoBench: Towards Audio-Visual Understanding Evaluation for Omni MLLMs
2188. ICLR 2026OmniVinci: Enhancing Architecture and Data for Omni-Modal Understanding LLM
2189. ICLR 2026On Code-Induced Reasoning in LLMs
2190. ICLR 2026On Discriminative vs. Generative classifiers: Rethinking MLLMs for Action Understanding
2191. ICLR 2026On Robustness of Vision-Language-Action Model against Multi-Modal Perturbations
2192. ICLR 2026On the Eligibility of LLMs for Counterfactual Reasoning: A Decompositional Study
2193. ICLR 2026On the Generalization Capacities of MLLMs for Spatial Intelligence
2194. ICLR 2026On the Shelf Life of Finetuned LLM-Judges: Future Proofing, Backward Compatibility, and Question Generalization
2195. ICLR 2026On the Thinking-Language Modeling Gap in Large Language Models
2196. ICLR 2026On the Wings of Imagination: Conflicting Script-based Multi-role Framework for Humor Caption Generation
2197. ICLR 2026On-the-Fly Adaptation to Quantization: Configuration-Aware LoRA for Efficient Fine-Tuning of Quantized LLMs
2198. ICLR 2026Once-More: Continuous Self-Correction for Large Language Models via Perplexity-Guided Intervention
2199. ICLR 2026One Demo Is All It Takes: Planning Domain Derivation with LLMs from A Single Demonstration
2200. ICLR 2026One Patch Doesn’t Fit All: Adaptive Patching for Native-Resolution Multimodal Large Language Models

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.