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. ICML 2026DeepSight: Long-Horizon World Modeling via Latent States Prediction for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
202. ICML 2026DeFacto: Counterfactual Thinking with Images for Enforcing Evidence-Grounded and Faithful Reasoning
203. ICML 2026DEGAP: Dynamic Entropy-Guided Attention Perturbation for Contrastive Decoding in Large Vision-Language Models
204. ICML 2026Degradation-Aware Metric Prompting for Hyperspectral Image Restoration
205. ICML 2026Deliberate Evolution: Agentic Reasoning for Sample-Efficient Symbolic Regression with LLMs
206. ICML 2026Demystifying Scientific Problem-Solving in LLMs by Probing Knowledge and Reasoning
207. ICML 2026DenseMLLM: Standard Multimodal LLMs for Dense Prediction
208. ICML 2026Density-Aware Translation of Spurious Correlations in Zero-Shot VLMs
209. ICML 2026Depth-Breadth Synergy in RLVR: Unlocking LLM Reasoning Gains with Adaptive Exploration
210. ICML 2026Detached Skip-Links and $R$-Probe: Decoupling Feature Aggregation from Gradient Propagation for MLLM OCR
211. ICML 2026Detecting Errors in AI-Generated Annotations: When and Why Semantic Neighbors Help
212. ICML 2026Diagnosing and Correcting Concept Omission in Multimodal Diffusion Transformers
213. ICML 2026Diagnosing Multi-step Reasoning Failures in Black-box LLMs via Stepwise Confidence Attribution
214. ICML 2026Difference-Aware Decision Learning for Multimodal Image Fusion
215. ICML 2026Differentiable Conformal Training for LLM Reasoning Factuality
216. ICML 2026DiffThinker: Towards Generative Multimodal Reasoning with Diffusion Models
217. ICML 2026Dimension-Free Multimodal Sampling via Preconditioned Annealed Langevin Dynamics
218. ICML 2026Dirichlet-Prior Shaping: Guiding Expert Specialization in Upcycled MoEs
219. ICML 2026Discovering Differences in Strategic Behavior between Humans and LLMs
220. ICML 2026Discrete Diffusion VLA: Bringing Discrete Diffusion to Action Decoding in Vision-Language-Action Policies
221. ICML 2026Discriminative Visual Process Rewards for Scaling Thinking at Test-Time with Images
222. ICML 2026Disease-Centric Vision-Language Pretraining with Hybrid Visual Encoding for 3D Computed Tomography
223. ICML 2026Disentangling Consensus and Value-Specific Representations for Controllable Pluralistic Value Alignment of LLMs
224. ICML 2026Dismantling Pathological Shortcuts: A Causal Framework for Faithful LVLM Decoding
225. ICML 2026Dismantling the Illusion of Vision-Language-Action Models Competence via Explicit Distributional Shifts
226. ICML 2026Dissecting Multimodal In-Context Learning: Modality Asymmetries and Circuit Dynamics in modern Transformers
227. ICML 2026Dissecting the Safety Circuit: Neuronal Intervention for Transferable Adversarial Attacks on VLMs
228. ICML 2026Distilling Neuro-Symbolic Programs into 3D Multi-modal LLMs
229. ICML 2026Distinguishable Deletion: Unifying Knowledge Erasure and Refusal for Large Language Model Unlearning
230. ICML 2026DIVA: Harnessing the Representation Divergence in Unified Multimodal Models for Mutual Reinforcement
231. ICML 2026Dive into the Scene: Breaking the Perceptual Bottleneck in Vision-Language Decision Making via Focus Plan Generation
232. ICML 2026Diversity Matters: Revisiting Test-Time Compute in Vision-Language Models
233. ICML 2026Divide and Conquer: Reliable Multi-View Evidential Learning for Deepfake Detection
234. ICML 2026DIYHealth Suite: Dataset, Model, and Benchmark for Health Management at Home
235. ICML 2026DLEBench: Evaluating Small-scale Object Editing Ability for Instruction-based Image Editing Model
236. ICML 2026dnaHNet: A Scalable and Hierarchical Foundation Model for Genomic Sequence Learning
237. ICML 2026Do Audio LLMs Listen or Read? Analyzing and Mitigating Paralinguistic Failures with VoxParadox
238. ICML 2026Do Vision and Text Cues Exhibit Evidential Coupling? UFO: A Benchmark for Compositional Multimodal Reasoning in Unified Models
239. ICML 2026Do-Prompt: Causal Interventions Meet Variational Prompt Bottlenecks
240. ICML 2026DocHop: Benchmarking Out-of-domain Multi-hop Reasoning in Information-Dense Documents
241. ICML 2026DocVAL: Validated Chain-of-Thought Distillation for Grounded Document VQA
242. ICML 2026Does AI Reviewer See the Full Picture? Attacking and Defending Multimodal Peer Review
243. ICML 2026Does Reasoning Improve Seeing? Understanding When Vision-Language Models Benefit from Thinking
244. ICML 2026Don't Force the Fit: Bounded Log-Likelihood Loss for Enhanced Reasoning in Large Language Models
245. ICML 2026Don't Forget Why You Started: Tackling Dual Forgetting in Vision-Language Continual Learning
246. ICML 2026Don't Overthink with Pixels: Efficient Reasoning for Segmentation
247. ICML 2026DOUBT: Decoupled Object-level Understanding and Bridging via vMF-based Trustworthiness for Hallucination Detection in MLLMs
248. ICML 2026DPsurv: Dual-Prototype Evidential Fusion for Uncertainty-Aware and Interpretable Whole Slide Image Survival Prediction
249. ICML 2026DR-MMSearchAgent: Deepening Reasoning in Multimodal Search Agents
250. ICML 2026DR$^2$Seg: Decomposed Two-Stage Rollouts for Efficient Reasoning Segmentation in Multimodal Large Language Models

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.