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

390 papers, page 5 of 8

201. ICML 2025Low-Dimension-to-High-Dimension Generalization and Its Implications for Length Generalization
202. ICML 2025LowRA: Accurate and Efficient LoRA Fine-Tuning of LLMs under 2 Bits
203. ICML 2025LRA-QViT: Integrating Low-Rank Approximation and Quantization for Robust and Efficient Vision Transformers
204. ICML 2025LV-XAttn: Distributed Cross-Attention for Long Visual Inputs in Multimodal Large Language Models
205. ICML 2025M3-JEPA: Multimodal Alignment via Multi-gate MoE based on the Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture
206. ICML 2025MapEval: A Map-Based Evaluation of Geo-Spatial Reasoning in Foundation Models
207. ICML 2025MaskTwins: Dual-form Complementary Masking for Domain-Adaptive Image Segmentation
208. ICML 2025Matryoshka Quantization
209. ICML 2025MATS: An Audio Language Model under Text-only Supervision
210. ICML 2025MedRAX: Medical Reasoning Agent for Chest X-ray
211. ICML 2025MedXpertQA: Benchmarking Expert-Level Medical Reasoning and Understanding
212. ICML 2025MERGE$^3$: Efficient Evolutionary Merging on Consumer-grade GPUs
213. ICML 2025Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse
214. ICML 2025Minimum Width for Universal Approximation using Squashable Activation Functions
215. ICML 2025Mitigating Object Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models via Image-Grounded Guidance
216. ICML 2025MM-RLHF: The Next Step Forward in Multimodal LLM Alignment
217. ICML 2025MME-CoT: Benchmarking Chain-of-Thought in Large Multimodal Models for Reasoning Quality, Robustness, and Efficiency
218. ICML 2025MMedPO: Aligning Medical Vision-Language Models with Clinical-Aware Multimodal Preference Optimization
219. ICML 2025MMInference: Accelerating Pre-filling for Long-Context Visual Language Models via Modality-Aware Permutation Sparse Attention
220. ICML 2025MODA: MOdular Duplex Attention for Multimodal Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Understanding
221. ICML 2025Model Steering: Learning with a Reference Model Improves Generalization Bounds and Scaling Laws
222. ICML 2025Modularized Self-Reflected Video Reasoner for Multimodal LLM with Application to Video Question Answering
223. ICML 2025MoHAVE: Mixture of Hierarchical Audio-Visual Experts for Robust Speech Recognition
224. ICML 2025MoMa: Modulating Mamba for Adapting Image Foundation Models to Video Recognition
225. ICML 2025MP-Nav: Enhancing Data Poisoning Attacks against Multimodal Learning
226. ICML 2025MTSTRec: Multimodal Time-Aligned Shared Token Recommender
227. ICML 2025MUDDFormer: Breaking Residual Bottlenecks in Transformers via Multiway Dynamic Dense Connections
228. ICML 2025Multimodal Medical Code Tokenizer
229. ICML 2025MxMoE: Mixed-precision Quantization for MoE with Accuracy and Performance Co-Design
230. ICML 2025NegMerge: Sign-Consensual Weight Merging for Machine Unlearning
231. ICML 2025NestQuant: nested lattice quantization for matrix products and LLMs
232. ICML 2025Neural Encoding and Decoding at Scale
233. ICML 2025NICE Data Selection for Instruction Tuning in LLMs with Non-differentiable Evaluation Metric
234. ICML 2025Objective drives the consistency of representational similarity across datasets
235. ICML 2025OmniBal: Towards Fast Instruction-Tuning for Vision-Language Models via Omniverse Computation Balance
236. ICML 2025On Path to Multimodal Generalist: General-Level and General-Bench
237. ICML 2025On the Duality between Gradient Transformations and Adapters
238. ICML 2025On the Power of Context-Enhanced Learning in LLMs
239. ICML 2025One Example Shown, Many Concepts Known! Counterexample-Driven Conceptual Reasoning in Mathematical LLMs
240. ICML 2025One-dimensional Path Convolution
241. ICML 2025Open Your Eyes: Vision Enhances Message Passing Neural Networks in Link Prediction
242. ICML 2025Open-Det: An Efficient Learning Framework for Open-Ended Detection
243. ICML 2025OpenworldAUC: Towards Unified Evaluation and Optimization for Open-world Prompt Tuning
244. ICML 2025Orthogonal Subspace Decomposition for Generalizable AI-Generated Image Detection
245. ICML 2025Orthus: Autoregressive Interleaved Image-Text Generation with Modality-Specific Heads
246. ICML 2025Oscillation-Reduced MXFP4 Training for Vision Transformers
247. ICML 2025OTTER: A Vision-Language-Action Model with Text-Aware Visual Feature Extraction
248. ICML 2025Otter: Generating Tests from Issues to Validate SWE Patches
249. ICML 2025Outlier Gradient Analysis: Efficiently Identifying Detrimental Training Samples for Deep Learning Models
250. ICML 2025OV-MER: Towards Open-Vocabulary Multimodal Emotion Recognition

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.