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 54 of 104

2651. ICLR 2026UniLiP: Adapting CLIP for Unified Multimodal Understanding, Generation and Editing
2652. ICLR 2026UniQL: Unified Quantization and Low-rank Compression for Adaptive Edge LLMs
2653. ICLR 2026UniRestorer: Universal Image Restoration via Adaptively Estimating Image Degradation at Proper Granularity
2654. ICLR 2026UNITE: Universal kNowledge Integration from Task-specific Experts
2655. ICLR 2026UniUGG: Unified 3D Understanding and Generation via Geometric-Semantic Encoding
2656. ICLR 2026UNIVERSAL AND EFFICIENT LOADING BALANCING FOR RL TRAINING OF LARGE MULTIMODAL MODELS
2657. ICLR 2026Universal Properties of Activation Sparsity in Modern Large Language Models
2658. ICLR 2026Unlearning Isn't Invisible: Detecting Unlearning Traces in LLMs from Model Outputs
2659. ICLR 2026Unleashing LLMs in Bayesian Optimization: Preference-Guided Framework for Scientific Discovery
2660. ICLR 2026Unleashing Perception-Time Scaling to Multimodal Reasoning Models
2661. ICLR 2026Unlocking the Value of Text: Event-Driven Reasoning and Multi-Level Alignment for Time Series Forecasting
2662. ICLR 2026Unmasking Backdoors: An Explainable Defense via Gradient-Attention Anomaly Scoring for Pre-trained Language Models
2663. ICLR 2026Unpacking Human Preference for LLMs: Demographically Aware Evaluation with the HUMAINE Framework
2664. ICLR 2026Unveiling Downstream Performance Scaling of LLMs: A Clustering-Based Perspective
2665. ICLR 2026Unveiling Perceptual Artifacts: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Interpretable AI-Generated Image Detection
2666. ICLR 2026Unveiling Super Experts in Mixture-of-Experts Large Language Models
2667. ICLR 2026Unveiling the Cognitive Compass: Theory-of-Mind–Guided Multimodal Emotion Reasoning
2668. ICLR 2026Urban Socio-Semantic Segmentation with Vision-Language Reasoning
2669. ICLR 2026UrbanFeel：A Comprehensive Benchmark for Temporal and Perceptual Understanding of City Scenes through Human Perspective
2670. ICLR 2026V2P-Bench: Evaluating Video-Language Understanding with Visual Prompts for Better Human-Model Interaction
2671. ICLR 2026VARestorer: One-Step VAR Distillation for Real-World Image Super-Resolution
2672. ICLR 2026Variational Reasoning for Language Models
2673. ICLR 2026VaseVQA-3D: Benchmarking 3D VLMs on Ancient Greek Pottery
2674. ICLR 2026VEAttack: Downstream-agnostic Vision Encoder Attack against Large Vision Language Models
2675. ICLR 2026VER: Vision Expert Transformer for Robot Learning via Foundation Distillation and Dynamic Routing
2676. ICLR 2026Verification and Co-Alignment via Heterogeneous Consistency for Preference-Aligned LLM Annotations
2677. ICLR 2026Verifier-free Test-Time Sampling for Vision Language Action Models
2678. ICLR 2026VGR: Visual Grounded Reasoning
2679. ICLR 2026Vid-LLM: A Compact Video-based 3D Multimodal LLM with Reconstruction–Reasoning Synergy
2680. ICLR 2026Video-As-Prompt: Unified Semantic Control for Video Generation
2681. ICLR 2026Video-KTR: Reinforcing Video Reasoning via Key Token Attribution
2682. ICLR 2026Video-LevelGauge: Investigating Contextual Positional Bias in Video Language Models.
2683. ICLR 2026Video-STAR: Reinforcing Open-Vocabulary Action Recognition with Tools
2684. ICLR 2026VideoAnchor: Reinforcing Subspace-Structured Visual Cues for Coherent Visual-Spatial Reasoning
2685. ICLR 2026VideoChat-Flash: Hierarchical Compression for Long-Context Video Modeling
2686. ICLR 2026VideoJudge: Bootstrapping Enables Scalable Supervision of MLLM-as-a-Judge for Video Understanding
2687. ICLR 2026VideoMathQA: Benchmarking Mathematical Reasoning via Multimodal Understanding in Video
2688. ICLR 2026VideoMind: A Chain-of-LoRA Agent for Temporal-Grounded Video Reasoning
2689. ICLR 2026VideoNSA: Native Sparse Attention Scales Video Understanding
2690. ICLR 2026VideoReasonBench: Can MLLMs Perform Vision-Centric Complex Video Reasoning?
2691. ICLR 2026VideoZoomer: Reinforcement-Learned Temporal Focusing for Long Video Reasoning
2692. ICLR 2026VidGuard-R1: AI-Generated Video Detection and Explanation via Reasoning MLLMs and RL
2693. ICLR 2026villa-X: Enhancing Latent Action Modeling in Vision-Language-Action Models
2694. ICLR 2026ViPER: Empowering the Self-Evolution of Visual Perception Abilities in Vision-Language Models
2695. ICLR 2026ViPRA: Video Prediction for Robot Actions
2696. ICLR 2026VIRTUE: Visual-Interactive Text-Image Universal Embedder
2697. ICLR 2026VisCodex: Unified Multimodal Code Generation via Merging Vision and Coding Models
2698. ICLR 2026VisioMath: Benchmarking Figure-based Mathematical Reasoning in LMMs
2699. ICLR 2026Vision Language Models are Biased
2700. ICLR 2026Vision-Language-Action Instruction Tuning: From Understanding to Manipulation

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.