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 47 of 104

2301. ICLR 2026QuaMo: Quaternion Motions for Vision-based 3D Human Kinematics Capture
2302. ICLR 2026Quant-dLLM: Post-Training Extreme Low-Bit Quantization for Diffusion Large Language Models
2303. ICLR 2026QuantSparse: Comprehensively Compressing Video Diffusion Transformer with Model Quantization and Attention Sparsification
2304. ICLR 2026Query-Guided Spatial–Temporal–Frequency Interaction for Music Audio–Visual Question Answering
2305. ICLR 2026QueryStream: Advancing Streaming Video Understanding with Query-Aware Pruning and Proactive Response
2306. ICLR 2026QUEST: A robust attention formulation using query-modulated spherical attention
2307. ICLR 2026QuestA: Expanding Reasoning Capacity in LLMs via Question Augmentation
2308. ICLR 2026QuoKA: Query-Oriented KV Selection for Efficient LLM Prefill
2309. ICLR 2026QuRL: Low-Precision Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Reasoning
2310. ICLR 2026R1-Code-Interpreter: LLMs Reason with Code via Supervised and Multi-stage Reinforcement Learning
2311. ICLR 2026R1-Reward: Training Multimodal Reward Model Through Stable Reinforcement Learning
2312. ICLR 2026RACE Attention: A Strictly Linear-Time Attention for Long-Sequence Training
2313. ICLR 2026RAG4DMC: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Data-Level Modality Completion
2314. ICLR 2026Rainbow Padding: Mitigating Early Termination in Instruction-Tuned Diffusion LLMs
2315. ICLR 2026Random Anchors with Low-rank Decorrelated Learning: A Minimalist Pipeline for Class-Incremental Medical Image Classification
2316. ICLR 2026Random Policy Valuation is Enough for LLM Reasoning with Verifiable Rewards
2317. ICLR 2026RankLLM: Weighted Ranking of LLMs by Quantifying Question Difficulty
2318. ICLR 2026RAR: Reversing Visual Attention Re-Sinking for Unlocking Potential in Multimodal Large Language Models
2319. ICLR 2026RAVENEA: A Benchmark for Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Visual Culture Understanding
2320. ICLR 2026RCPU: Rotation-Constrained Error Compensation for Structured Pruning of a Large Language Model
2321. ICLR 2026Read the Room: Video Social Reasoning with Mental-Physical Causal Chains
2322. ICLR 2026Reading Images Like Texts: Sequential Image Understanding in Vision-Language Models
2323. ICLR 2026REAP the Experts: Why Pruning Prevails for One-Shot MoE compression
2324. ICLR 2026Reasoning as Representation: Rethinking Visual Reinforcement Learning in Image Quality Assessment
2325. ICLR 2026Reasoning Boosts Opinion Alignment in LLMs
2326. ICLR 2026Reasoning on Time-Series for Financial Technical Analysis
2327. ICLR 2026Reasoning-Aligned Perception Decoupling for Scalable Multi-modal Reasoning
2328. ICLR 2026Reasoning-Driven Multimodal LLM for Domain Generalization
2329. ICLR 2026Reassessing Layer Pruning in LLMs: New Insights and Methods
2330. ICLR 2026ReCAPA: Hierarchical Predictive Correction to Mitigate Cascading Failures
2331. ICLR 2026ReCogDrive: A Reinforced Cognitive Framework for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
2332. ICLR 2026Reconstructing KV Caches with Cross-Layer Fusion for Enhanced Transformers
2333. ICLR 2026Reconstruction Alignment Improves Unified Multimodal Models
2334. ICLR 2026Reducing Semantic Mismatch in Brain-to-Text Decoding Through Personalized Multimodal Masking
2335. ICLR 2026Ref-Adv: Exploring MLLM Visual Reasoning in Referring Expression Tasks
2336. ICLR 2026Reforming the Mechanism: Editing Reasoning Patterns in LLMs with Circuit Reshaping
2337. ICLR 2026Reformulation for Pretraining Data Augmentation
2338. ICLR 2026RefTool: Reference-Guided Tool Creation for Knowledge-Intensive Reasoning
2339. ICLR 2026RegionReasoner: Region-Grounded Multi-Round Visual Reasoning
2340. ICLR 2026ReIn: Conversational Error Recovery with Reasoning Inception
2341. ICLR 2026Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards Implicitly Incentivizes Correct Reasoning in Base LLMs
2342. ICLR 2026Relational Transformer: Toward Zero-Shot Foundation Models for Relational Data
2343. ICLR 2026RelayFormer: A Unified Local-Global Attention Framework for Scalable Image and Video Manipulation Localization
2344. ICLR 2026RePrompt: Reasoning-Augmented Reprompting for Text-to-Image Generation via Reinforcement Learning
2345. ICLR 2026RepSpec: Structural Re-parameterized Draft Model Training for Speculative Decoding
2346. ICLR 2026Repurposing Foundation Model for Generalizable Medical Time Series Classification
2347. ICLR 2026RESA: Bringing Back What Sparse Attention Ignores with Residual Estimation
2348. ICLR 2026Reshaping Reasoning in LLMs: A Theoretical Analysis of RL Training Dynamics through Pattern Selection
2349. ICLR 2026Resp-Agent: An Agent-Based System for Multimodal Respiratory Sound Generation and Disease Diagnosis
2350. ICLR 2026Rethinking Benign Relearning: Syntax as the Hidden Driver of Unlearning Failures

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.