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 46 of 225

2251. ICLR 2026PM-KVQ: Progressive Mixed-precision KV Cache Quantization for Long-CoT LLMs
2252. ICLR 2026PoliCon: Evaluating LLMs on Achieving Diverse Political Consensus Objectives
2253. ICLR 2026Policy Contrastive Decoding for Robotic Foundation Models
2254. ICLR 2026PonderLM: Pretraining Language Models to Ponder in Continuous Space
2255. ICLR 2026Pose-RFT: Aligning MLLMs for 3D Pose Generation via Hybrid Action Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
2256. ICLR 2026PoSh: Using Scene Graphs to Guide LLMs-as-a-Judge for Detailed Image Descriptions
2257. ICLR 2026Post-hoc Probabilistic Vision-Language Models
2258. ICLR 2026Post-Training Quantization for Video Matting
2259. ICLR 2026PostAlign: Multimodal Grounding as a Corrective Lens for MLLMs
2260. ICLR 2026PPE: Positional Preservation Embedding for Token Compression in Multimodal Large Language Models
2261. ICLR 2026PPLLaVA: Varied Video Sequence Understanding With Prompt Guidance
2262. ICLR 2026Pragma-VL: Towards a Pragmatic Arbitration of Safety and Helpfulness in MLLMs
2263. ICLR 2026Pre-training LLM without Learning Rate Decay Enhances Supervised Fine-Tuning
2264. ICLR 2026Pre-training under infinite compute
2265. ICLR 2026Predicting LLM Reasoning Performance with Small Proxy Model
2266. ICLR 2026Predicting Training Re-evaluation Curves Enables Effective Data Curriculums for LLMs
2267. ICLR 2026PreferThinker: Reasoning-based Personalized Image Preference Assessment
2268. ICLR 2026PrefixMemory-Tuning: Modernizing Prefix-Tuning by Decoupling the Prefix from Attention
2269. ICLR 2026Preserve and Sculpt: Manifold-Aligned Fine-tuning of Vision-Language Models for Few-Shot Learning
2270. ICLR 2026Pretraining Scaling Laws for Generative Evaluations of Language Models
2271. ICLR 2026Pretraining with hierarchical memories: separating long-tail and common knowledge
2272. ICLR 2026Prior-based Noisy Text Data Filtering: Fast and Strong Alternative For Perplexity
2273. ICLR 2026PRISM: Controllable Diffusion for Compound Image Restoration with Scientific Fidelity
2274. ICLR 2026PRISM: Enhancing PRotein Inverse Folding through Fine- Grained Retrieval on Structure-Sequence Multimodal Representations
2275. ICLR 2026PRISM: Festina Lente Proactivity—Risk-Sensitive, Uncertainty-Aware Deliberation for Proactive Agents
2276. ICLR 2026PRISMM-Bench: A Benchmark of Peer-Review Grounded Multimodal Inconsistencies
2277. ICLR 2026Probing Rotary Position Embeddings through Frequency Entropy
2278. ICLR 2026Product of Experts for Visual Generation
2279. ICLR 2026Programming with Pixels: Can Computer-Use Agents do Software Engineering?
2280. ICLR 2026Progressive Online Video Understanding with Evidence-Aligned Timing and Transparent Decisions
2281. ICLR 2026Prompt and Parameter Co-Optimization for Large Language Models
2282. ICLR 2026Prompt-Robust Vision-Language Models via Meta-Finetuning
2283. ICLR 2026Propaganda AI: An Analysis of Semantic Divergence in Large Language Models
2284. ICLR 2026Proper Velocity Neural Networks
2285. ICLR 2026ProSafePrune: Projected Safety Pruning for Mitigating Over-Refusal in LLMs
2286. ICLR 2026ProtoKV: Long-context Knowledges Are Already Well-Organized Before Your Query
2287. ICLR 2026Proximal Supervised Fine-Tuning
2288. ICLR 2026ProxyThinker: Test-Time Guidance through Small Visual Reasoners
2289. ICLR 2026Prune Redundancy, Preserve Essence: Vision Token Compression in VLMs via Synergistic Importance-Diversity
2290. ICLR 2026PSP: Prompt-Guided Self-Training Sampling Policy for Active Prompt Learning
2291. ICLR 2026PT$^2$-LLM: Post-Training Ternarization for Large Language Models
2292. ICLR 2026Pulp Motion: Framing-aware multimodal camera and human motion generation
2293. ICLR 2026Purifying Generative LLMs from Backdoors without Prior Knowledge or Clean Reference
2294. ICLR 2026Pursuing Minimal Sufficiency in Spatial Reasoning
2295. ICLR 2026PuzzleWorld: A Benchmark for Multimodal, Open-Ended Reasoning in Puzzlehunts
2296. ICLR 2026pySpatial: Generating 3D Visual Programs for Zero-Shot Spatial Reasoning
2297. ICLR 2026QeRL: Beyond Efficiency - Quantization-enhanced Reinforcement Learning for LLMs
2298. ICLR 2026QKV Projections Require a Fraction of Their Memory
2299. ICLR 2026QLIP: A Dynamic Quadtree Vision Prior Enhances MLLM Performance Without Retraining
2300. ICLR 2026QPrompt-R1: Real-Time Reasoning for Domain-Generalized Semantic Segmentation via Group-Relative Query Alignment

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.