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

2,676 papers, page 50 of 54

2451. ICLR 2024RECOMBINER: Robust and Enhanced Compression with Bayesian Implicit Neural Representations
2452. ICLR 2024Recursive Generalization Transformer for Image Super-Resolution
2453. ICLR 2024ReLU Strikes Back: Exploiting Activation Sparsity in Large Language Models
2454. ICLR 2024Remote Sensing Vision-Language Foundation Models without Annotations via Ground Remote Alignment
2455. ICLR 2024Rephrase, Augment, Reason: Visual Grounding of Questions for Vision-Language Models
2456. ICLR 2024Rethinking Channel Dimensions to Isolate Outliers for Low-bit Weight Quantization of Large Language Models
2457. ICLR 2024Rethinking Model Ensemble in Transfer-based Adversarial Attacks
2458. ICLR 2024Retrieval-Enhanced Contrastive Vision-Text Models
2459. ICLR 2024Rotation Has Two Sides: Evaluating Data Augmentation for Deep One-class Classification
2460. ICLR 2024SALMONN: Towards Generic Hearing Abilities for Large Language Models
2461. ICLR 2024Scalable Modular Network: A Framework for Adaptive Learning via Agreement Routing
2462. ICLR 2024Scaling Laws for Sparsely-Connected Foundation Models
2463. ICLR 2024SCHEMA: State CHangEs MAtter for Procedure Planning in Instructional Videos
2464. ICLR 2024SEAL: A Framework for Systematic Evaluation of Real-World Super-Resolution
2465. ICLR 2024Seeking Neural Nuggets: Knowledge Transfer in Large Language Models from a Parametric Perspective
2466. ICLR 2024Sentence-level Prompts Benefit Composed Image Retrieval
2467. ICLR 2024Shadow Cones: A Generalized Framework for Partial Order Embeddings
2468. ICLR 2024Sheared LLaMA: Accelerating Language Model Pre-training via Structured Pruning
2469. ICLR 2024Sign2GPT: Leveraging Large Language Models for Gloss-Free Sign Language Translation
2470. ICLR 2024Skeleton-of-Thought: Prompting LLMs for Efficient Parallel Generation
2471. ICLR 2024Skip-Attention: Improving Vision Transformers by Paying Less Attention
2472. ICLR 2024SLiMe: Segment Like Me
2473. ICLR 2024Soft Contrastive Learning for Time Series
2474. ICLR 2024SPDER: Semiperiodic Damping-Enabled Object Representation
2475. ICLR 2024SpeechTokenizer: Unified Speech Tokenizer for Speech Language Models
2476. ICLR 2024SPTNet: An Efficient Alternative Framework for Generalized Category Discovery with Spatial Prompt Tuning
2477. ICLR 2024Stable Anisotropic Regularization
2478. ICLR 2024Steve-Eye: Equipping LLM-based Embodied Agents with Visual Perception in Open Worlds
2479. ICLR 2024Strategic Preys Make Acute Predators: Enhancing Camouflaged Object Detectors by Generating Camouflaged Objects
2480. ICLR 2024STREAM: Spatio-TempoRal Evaluation and Analysis Metric for Video Generative Models
2481. ICLR 2024Structured Video-Language Modeling with Temporal Grouping and Spatial Grounding
2482. ICLR 2024SuRe: Summarizing Retrievals using Answer Candidates for Open-domain QA of LLMs
2483. ICLR 2024SWAP-NAS: Sample-Wise Activation Patterns for Ultra-fast NAS
2484. ICLR 2024Synergistic Patch Pruning for Vision Transformer: Unifying Intra- & Inter-Layer Patch Importance
2485. ICLR 2024T-MARS: Improving Visual Representations by Circumventing Text Feature Learning
2486. ICLR 2024Tag2Text: Guiding Vision-Language Model via Image Tagging
2487. ICLR 2024Take a Step Back: Evoking Reasoning via Abstraction in Large Language Models
2488. ICLR 2024Talk like a Graph: Encoding Graphs for Large Language Models
2489. ICLR 2024Teach LLMs to Phish: Stealing Private Information from Language Models
2490. ICLR 2024Tell Your Model Where to Attend: Post-hoc Attention Steering for LLMs
2491. ICLR 2024Test-Time Adaptation with CLIP Reward for Zero-Shot Generalization in Vision-Language Models
2492. ICLR 2024The All-Seeing Project: Towards Panoptic Visual Recognition and Understanding of the Open World
2493. ICLR 2024The Effect of Intrinsic Dataset Properties on Generalization: Unraveling Learning Differences Between Natural and Medical Images
2494. ICLR 2024The Effectiveness of Random Forgetting for Robust Generalization
2495. ICLR 2024The Generative AI Paradox: “What It Can Create, It May Not Understand”
2496. ICLR 2024The Need for Speed: Pruning Transformers with One Recipe
2497. ICLR 2024The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on “A is B” fail to learn “B is A”
2498. ICLR 2024The Truth is in There: Improving Reasoning in Language Models with Layer-Selective Rank Reduction
2499. ICLR 2024The Unlocking Spell on Base LLMs: Rethinking Alignment via In-Context Learning
2500. ICLR 2024The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Linear Prediction as a Perceptual Metric

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.