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

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201. ICLR 2025Do LLMs estimate uncertainty well in instruction-following?
202. ICLR 2025Do LLMs have Consistent Values?
203. ICLR 2025Do Vision & Language Decoders use Images and Text equally? How Self-consistent are their Explanations?
204. ICLR 2025Do Vision-Language Models Represent Space and How? Evaluating Spatial Frame of Reference under Ambiguities
205. ICLR 2025Do You Keep an Eye on What I Ask? Mitigating Multimodal Hallucination via Attention-Guided Ensemble Decoding
206. ICLR 2025Dobi-SVD: Differentiable SVD for LLM Compression and Some New Perspectives
207. ICLR 2025DOCS: Quantifying Weight Similarity for Deeper Insights into Large Language Models
208. ICLR 2025Does Safety Training of LLMs Generalize to Semantically Related Natural Prompts?
209. ICLR 2025Does Spatial Cognition Emerge in Frontier Models?
210. ICLR 2025DOTS: Learning to Reason Dynamically in LLMs via Optimal Reasoning Trajectories Search
211. ICLR 2025DPLM-2: A Multimodal Diffusion Protein Language Model
212. ICLR 2025Draw-and-Understand: Leveraging Visual Prompts to Enable MLLMs to Comprehend What You Want
213. ICLR 2025DS-LLM: Leveraging Dynamical Systems to Enhance Both Training and Inference of Large Language Models
214. ICLR 2025DSBench: How Far Are Data Science Agents from Becoming Data Science Experts?
215. ICLR 2025Dualformer: Controllable Fast and Slow Thinking by Learning with Randomized Reasoning Traces
216. ICLR 2025DynaMath: A Dynamic Visual Benchmark for Evaluating Mathematical Reasoning Robustness of Vision Language Models
217. ICLR 2025Dynamic Loss-Based Sample Reweighting for Improved Large Language Model Pretraining
218. ICLR 2025Dynamic Mixture of Experts: An Auto-Tuning Approach for Efficient Transformer Models
219. ICLR 2025Dynamic Modeling of Patients, Modalities and Tasks via Multi-modal Multi-task Mixture of Experts
220. ICLR 2025Dynamic Multimodal Evaluation with Flexible Complexity by Vision-Language Bootstrapping
221. ICLR 2025Dynamic Sparse Training versus Dense Training: The Unexpected Winner in Image Corruption Robustness
222. ICLR 2025Dynamic-LLaVA: Efficient Multimodal Large Language Models via Dynamic Vision-language Context Sparsification
223. ICLR 2025Dynamic-SUPERB Phase-2: A Collaboratively Expanding Benchmark for Measuring the Capabilities of Spoken Language Models with 180 Tasks
224. ICLR 2025DynaPrompt: Dynamic Test-Time Prompt Tuning
225. ICLR 2025Dysca: A Dynamic and Scalable Benchmark for Evaluating Perception Ability of LVLMs
226. ICLR 2025Eagle: Exploring The Design Space for Multimodal LLMs with Mixture of Encoders
227. ICLR 2025Efficient and Context-Aware Label Propagation for Zero-/Few-Shot Training-Free Adaptation of Vision-Language Model
228. ICLR 2025Efficient Masked AutoEncoder for Video Object Counting and A Large-Scale Benchmark
229. ICLR 2025Efficiently Democratizing Medical LLMs for 50 Languages via a Mixture of Language Family Experts
230. ICLR 2025EffoVPR: Effective Foundation Model Utilization for Visual Place Recognition
231. ICLR 2025ElasticTok: Adaptive Tokenization for Image and Video
232. ICLR 2025ELICIT: LLM Augmentation Via External In-context Capability
233. ICLR 2025Emergence of a High-Dimensional Abstraction Phase in Language Transformers
234. ICLR 2025EMMA: Empowering Multi-modal Mamba with Structural and Hierarchical Alignment
235. ICLR 2025Enhancing Cognition and Explainability of Multimodal Foundation Models with Self-Synthesized Data
236. ICLR 2025Enhancing Document Understanding with Group Position Embedding: A Novel Approach to Incorporate Layout Information
237. ICLR 2025Enhancing Graph Of Thought: Enhancing Prompts with LLM Rationales and Dynamic Temperature Control
238. ICLR 2025Enhancing Pre-trained Representation Classifiability can Boost its Interpretability
239. ICLR 2025Episodic Memories Generation and Evaluation Benchmark for Large Language Models
240. ICLR 2025ETA: Evaluating Then Aligning Safety of Vision Language Models at Inference Time
241. ICLR 2025Evidential Learning-based Certainty Estimation for Robust Dense Feature Matching
242. ICLR 2025Exact Byte-Level Probabilities from Tokenized Language Models for FIM-Tasks and Model Ensembles
243. ICLR 2025ExACT: Teaching AI Agents to Explore with Reflective-MCTS and Exploratory Learning
244. ICLR 2025Exploiting Distribution Constraints for Scalable and Efficient Image Retrieval
245. ICLR 2025Explore Theory of Mind: program-guided adversarial data generation for theory of mind reasoning
246. ICLR 2025Exploring the Design Space of Visual Context Representation in Video MLLMs
247. ICLR 2025Exploring the Effectiveness of Object-Centric Representations in Visual Question Answering: Comparative Insights with Foundation Models
248. ICLR 2025Exposure Bracketing Is All You Need For A High-Quality Image
249. ICLR 2025F-Fidelity: A Robust Framework for Faithfulness Evaluation of Explainable AI
250. ICLR 2025Facilitating Multi-turn Function Calling for LLMs via Compositional Instruction Tuning

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.