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

5,190 papers, page 50 of 104

2451. ICLR 2026SimpleToM: Exposing the Gap between Explicit ToM Inference and Implicit ToM Application in LLMs
2452. ICLR 2026SimpleVLA-RL: Scaling VLA Training via Reinforcement Learning
2453. ICLR 2026Simulation to Rules: A Dual-VLM Framework for Formal Visual Planning
2454. ICLR 2026SiNGER: A Clearer Voice Distills Vision Transformers Further
2455. ICLR 2026SinkTrack: Attention Sink based Context Anchoring for Large Language Models
2456. ICLR 2026SIPDO: Closed-Loop Prompt Optimization via Synthetic Data Feedback
2457. ICLR 2026SketchThinker-R1: Towards Efficient Sketch-Style Reasoning in Large Multimodal Models
2458. ICLR 2026sleep2vec: Unified Cross-Modal Alignment for Heterogeneous Nocturnal Biosignals
2459. ICLR 2026SliderQuant: Accurate Post-Training Quantization for LLMs
2460. ICLR 2026SLM-MUX: Orchestrating Small Language Models for Reasoning
2461. ICLR 2026SlotGCG: Exploiting the Positional Vulnerability in LLMs for Jailbreak Attacks
2462. ICLR 2026Small Drafts, Big Verdict: Information-Intensive Visual Reasoning via Speculation
2463. ICLR 2026SMAN-Bench: A Cross-System Benchmark for Mobile Agents under Single- and Multi-path, Ambiguous, and Noisy Tasks
2464. ICLR 2026SmellNet: A Large-scale Dataset for Real-world Smell Recognition
2465. ICLR 2026Soft Equivariance Regularization for Invariant Self-Supervised Learning
2466. ICLR 2026SoLoPO: Unlocking Long-Context Capabilities in LLMs via Short-to-Long Preference Optimization
2467. ICLR 2026SophiaVL-R1: Reinforcing MLLMs Reasoning with Thinking Reward
2468. ICLR 2026SP-VLA: A Joint Model Scheduling and Token Pruning Approach for VLA Model Acceleration
2469. ICLR 2026SpaCE-10: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models in Compositional Spatial Intelligence
2470. ICLR 2026Sparse but Critical: A Token-Level Analysis of Distributional Shifts in RLVR Fine-Tuning of LLMs
2471. ICLR 2026Sparse CLIP: Co-Optimizing Interpretability and Performance in Contrastive Learning
2472. ICLR 2026Sparsity Forcing: Reinforcing Token Sparsity of MLLMs
2473. ICLR 2026Sparsity-promoting Fine-tuning for Equivariant Materials Foundation Model
2474. ICLR 2026Spatial CAPTCHA: Generatively Benchmarking Spatial Reasoning for Human-Machine Differentiation
2475. ICLR 2026Spatial Forcing: Implicit Spatial Representation Alignment for Vision-language-action Model
2476. ICLR 2026Spatial Reasoning with Vision-Language Models in Ego-Centric Multi-View Scenes
2477. ICLR 2026Spatial-DISE: A Unified Benchmark for Evaluating Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
2478. ICLR 2026SpatialLadder: Progressive Training for Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
2479. ICLR 2026Spatially Guided Training for Vision-Language-Action Model
2480. ICLR 2026SpatialViz-Bench: A Cognitively-Grounded Benchmark for Diagnosing Spatial Visualization in MLLMs
2481. ICLR 2026SPECS: Decoupling Multimodal Learning via Self-distilled Preference-based Cold Start
2482. ICLR 2026SpectraLLM: Uncovering the Ability of LLMs for Molecule Structure Elucidation from Multi-Spectra
2483. ICLR 2026Speculative Speculative Decoding
2484. ICLR 2026Speech-to-LaTeX: New Models and Datasets for Converting Spoken Equations and Sentences
2485. ICLR 2026SPICE: Submodular Penalized Information–Conflict Selection for Efficient Large Language Model Training
2486. ICLR 2026SPIKE-RL: Video-LLMs meet Bayesian Surprise
2487. ICLR 2026SpikeStereoNet: A Brain-Inspired Framework for Stereo Depth Estimation from Spike Streams
2488. ICLR 2026SpinBench: Perspective and Rotation as a Lens on Spatial Reasoning in VLMs
2489. ICLR 2026SpineBench: A Clinically Salient, Level-Aware Benchmark Powered by the SpineMed-450k Corpus
2490. ICLR 2026SportR: A Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Model Reasoning in Sports
2491. ICLR 2026Spotlight on Token Perception for Multimodal Reinforcement Learning
2492. ICLR 2026SPR$^2$Q: Static Priority-based Rectifier Routing Quantization for Image Super-Resolution
2493. ICLR 2026SPRIG: Improving Large Language Model Performance by System Prompt Optimization
2494. ICLR 2026SRFT: A Single-Stage Method with Supervised and Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Reasoning
2495. ICLR 2026SRT: Super-Resolution for Time Series via Disentangled Rectified Flow
2496. ICLR 2026ssToken: Self-modulated and Semantic-aware Token Selection for LLM Fine-tuning
2497. ICLR 2026ST-SimDiff: Balancing Spatiotemporal Similarity and Difference for Efficient Video Understanding with MLLMs
2498. ICLR 2026StableToken: A Noise-Robust Semantic Speech Tokenizer for Resilient SpeechLLMs
2499. ICLR 2026STAT: Skill-Targeted Adaptive Training
2500. ICLR 2026Steering and Rectifying Latent representation manifolds in Frozen Multi-modal LLMs for Video Anomaly Detection

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.