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

11,207 papers, page 51 of 225

2501. ICLR 2026Steering Autoregressive Music Generation with Recursive Feature Machines
2502. ICLR 2026Steering Embedding Models with Geometric Rotation: Mapping Semantic Relationships Across Languages and Models
2503. ICLR 2026Steering MoE LLMs via Expert (De)Activation
2504. ICLR 2026Steering the Herd: A Framework for LLM-based Control of Social Learning
2505. ICLR 2026STEM: SCALING TRANSFORMERS WITH EMBEDDING MODULES
2506. ICLR 2026Stochastic Neural Networks for Causal Inference with Missing Confounders
2507. ICLR 2026StochasTok: Improving Fine-Grained Subword Understanding in LLMs
2508. ICLR 2026Stop Tracking Me! Proactive Defense Against Attribute Inference Attack in LLMs
2509. ICLR 2026StPR: Spatiotemporal Preservation and Routing for Exemplar-Free Video Class-Incremental Learning
2510. ICLR 2026Strategic Dishonesty Can Undermine AI Safety Evaluations of Frontier LLMs
2511. ICLR 2026Strategic Planning and Rationalizing on Trees Make LLMs Better Debaters
2512. ICLR 2026StreamingThinker: Large Language Models Can Think While Reading
2513. ICLR 2026StreamingVLM: Real-Time Understanding for Infinite Video Streams
2514. ICLR 2026String Seed of Thought: Prompting LLMs for Distribution-Faithful and Diverse Generation
2515. ICLR 2026Structural Prognostic Event Modeling for Multimodal Cancer Survival Analysis
2516. ICLR 2026Structurally Human, Semantically Biased: Detecting LLM-Generated References with Embeddings and GNNs
2517. ICLR 2026STVG-R1: Incentivizing Instance-Level Reasoning and Grounding in Videos via Reinforcement Learning
2518. ICLR 2026SuperF: Neural Implicit Fields for Multi-Image Super-Resolution
2519. ICLR 2026Supervised Fine-Tuning or Contrastive Learning? Towards Better Multimodal LLM Reranking
2520. ICLR 2026Supporting Multimodal Intermediate Fusion with Informatic Constraint and Distribution Coherence
2521. ICLR 2026SURGE: Surprise-Guided Token Reduction for Efficient Video Understanding with VLMs
2522. ICLR 2026SwiReasoning: Switch-Thinking in Latent and Explicit for Pareto-Superior Reasoning LLMs
2523. ICLR 2026Syncphony: Synchronized Audio-to-Video Generation with Diffusion Transformers
2524. ICLR 2026Synergizing Understanding and Generation with Interleaved Analyzing-Drafting Thinking
2525. ICLR 2026Synthesizing High-Quality Visual Question Answering from Medical Documents with Generator-Verifier LMMs
2526. ICLR 2026Synthesizing Multimodal Verifiable Game Data to Boost VLMs' General Reasoning
2527. ICLR 2026Synthetic Bootstrapped Pretraining
2528. ICLR 2026Tab-MIA: A Benchmark Dataset for Membership Inference Attacks on Tabular Data in LLMs
2529. ICLR 2026TableDART: Dynamic Adaptive Multi-Modal Routing for Table Understanding
2530. ICLR 2026TABLET: A Large-Scale Dataset for Robust Visual Table Understanding
2531. ICLR 2026Tactic: Adaptive Sparse Attention with Clustering and Distribution Fitting for Long-Context LLMs
2532. ICLR 2026Talking Points: Describing and Localizing Pixels
2533. ICLR 2026Taming Curvature: Architecture Warm-up for Stable Transformer Training
2534. ICLR 2026Taming Hierarchical Image Coding Optimization: A Spectral Regularization Perspective
2535. ICLR 2026Taming Polysemanticity in LLMs: Theory-Grounded Feature Recovery via Sparse Autoencoders
2536. ICLR 2026Taming the Fragility of KV Cache Eviction in LLM Inference
2537. ICLR 2026TAMMs: Change Understanding and Forecasting in Satellite Image Time Series with Temporal-Aware Multimodal Models
2538. ICLR 2026TangleScore: Tangle-Guided Purge and Imprint for Unstructured Knowledge Editing
2539. ICLR 2026TAPTRv3: Spatial and Temporal Context Foster Robust Tracking of Any Point in Long Video
2540. ICLR 2026Task-Aware Data Selection via Proxy-Label Enhanced Distribution Matching for LLM Finetuning
2541. ICLR 2026Task-Related Token Compression in Multimodal Large Language Models from an Explainability Perspective
2542. ICLR 2026Teach2Eval: An Interaction-Driven LLMs Evaluation Method via Teaching Effectiveness
2543. ICLR 2026Teaching Metric Distance to Discrete Autoregressive Language Models
2544. ICLR 2026Teaching VLMs to Admit Uncertainty in OCR from Lossy Visual Inputs
2545. ICLR 2026Tell me Habibi, is it Real or Fake?
2546. ICLR 2026Tequila: Deadzone-free Ternary Quantization for Large Language Models
2547. ICLR 2026TerraFM: A Scalable Foundation Model for Unified Multisensor Earth Observation
2548. ICLR 2026Test-time Domain Generalization for Image Super-resolution
2549. ICLR 2026Test-Time Matching: Unlocking Compositional Reasoning in Multimodal Models
2550. ICLR 2026TEST-TIME SCALING IN DIFFUSION LLMS VIA HIDDEN SEMI-AUTOREGRESSIVE EXPERTS

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.