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

1,401 papers, page 5 of 29

201. ICLR 2026Constructive Distortion: Improving MLLMs with Attention-Guided Image Warping
202. ICLR 2026Contamination Detection for VLMs Using Multi‑Modal Semantic Perturbations
203. ICLR 2026Content-Aware Mamba for Learned Image Compression
204. ICLR 2026Context parroting: A simple but tough-to-beat baseline for foundation models in scientific machine learning
205. ICLR 2026Context Tokens are Anchors: Understanding the Repetition Curse in Diffusion MLLMs from an Information Flow Perspective
206. ICLR 2026ContextNav: Towards Agentic Multimodal In-Context Learning
207. ICLR 2026Continuous Space-Time Video Super-Resolution with 3D Fourier Fields
208. ICLR 2026Convex Dominance in Deep Learning I: A Scaling Law of Loss and Learning Rate
209. ICLR 2026ConvT3: Structured State Kernels for Convolutional State Space Models
210. ICLR 2026CoRA: Boosting Time Series Foundation Models for Multivariate Forecasting through Correlation-aware Adapter
211. ICLR 2026CORE: Concept-Oriented Reinforcement for Bridging the Definition–Application Gap in Mathematical Reasoning
212. ICLR 2026Cortical Policy: A Dual-Stream View Transformer for Robotic Manipulation
213. ICLR 2026CortiLife: A Unified Framework for Cortical Representation Learning across the Lifespan
214. ICLR 2026COSMO-INR: Complex Sinusoidal Modulation for Implicit Neural Representations
215. ICLR 2026Cosmos Policy: Fine-Tuning Video Models for Visuomotor Control and Planning
216. ICLR 2026Cost-Aware Dynamic Tree Construction for Efficient Large Language Model Inference
217. ICLR 2026CoT Vectors: Transferring and Probing the Reasoning Mechanisms of LLMs
218. ICLR 2026CoT-RVS: Zero-Shot Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Segmentation for Videos
219. ICLR 2026Coupling Experts and Routers in Mixture-of-Experts via an Auxiliary Loss
220. ICLR 2026CP-Agent: Context‑Aware Multimodal Reasoning for Cellular Morphological Profiling under Chemical Perturbations
221. ICLR 2026CPQS-Tuning: A Model Self-Perception-Based Data Filtering Algorithm for Efficient Instruction Fine-Tuning
222. ICLR 2026Critic–Adviser–Reviser Cyclic Refinement: Towards High-Quality EMR Corpus Generation with LLMs
223. ICLR 2026Critical attention scaling in long-context transformers
224. ICLR 2026Critical Confabulation: Can LLMs Hallucinate for Social Good?
225. ICLR 2026Critique-RL: Training Critiquing Language Models Through Two-Stage RL for Improved Discrimination and Constructive Feedback
226. ICLR 2026Cross-Modal Redundancy and the Geometry of Vision–Language Embeddings
227. ICLR 2026Cross-Tokenizer Likelihood Scoring Algorithms for Language Model Distillation
228. ICLR 2026Ctrl-World: A Controllable Generative World Model for Robot Manipulation
229. ICLR 2026Culture In a Frame: C$^3$B as a Comic-Based Benchmark for Multimodal Culturally Awareness
230. ICLR 2026CurES: From Gradient Analysis to Efficient Curriculum Learning for Reasoning LLMs
231. ICLR 2026Customizing Visual Emotion Evaluation for MLLMs: An Open-vocabulary, Multifaceted, and Scalable Approach
232. ICLR 2026d$^2$Cache: Accelerating Diffusion-Based LLMs via Dual Adaptive Caching
233. ICLR 2026D2E: Scaling Vision-Action Pretraining on Desktop Data for Transfer to Embodied AI
234. ICLR 2026DAG-Math: Graph-Guided Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs
235. ICLR 2026Data Provenance for Image Auto-Regressive Generation
236. ICLR 2026Data-Centric Lessons To Improve Speech-Language Pretraining
237. ICLR 2026DAVE: A VLM Vision Encoder for Document Understanding and Web Agents
238. ICLR 2026DaVinci: Reinforcing Visual-Structural Syntax in MLLMs for Generalized Scientific Diagram Parsing
239. ICLR 2026DeAltHDR: Learning HDR Video Reconstruction from Degraded Alternating Exposure Sequences
240. ICLR 2026DEAS: DEtached value learning with Action Sequence for Scalable Offline RL
241. ICLR 2026Death of the Novel(ty): Beyond N-Gram Novelty as a Metric for Textual Creativity
242. ICLR 2026DecAlign: Hierarchical Cross-Modal Alignment for Decoupled Multimodal Representation Learning
243. ICLR 2026Decoding Inner Speech with an End-to-End Brain-to-Text Neural Interface
244. ICLR 2026Decoding Open-Ended Information Seeking Goals from Eye Movements in Reading
245. ICLR 2026Decomposed Attention Fusion in MLLMs for Training-free Video Reasoning Segmentation
246. ICLR 2026Decomposition of Concept-Level Rules in Visual Scenes
247. ICLR 2026Decoupling Positional and Symbolic Attention in Transformers
248. ICLR 2026Deep Ignorance: Filtering Pretraining Data Builds Tamper-Resistant Safeguards into Open-Weight LLMs
249. ICLR 2026Deep Think with Confidence
250. ICLR 2026DeepEyes: Incentivizing "Thinking with Images" via Reinforcement Learning

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.