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 55 of 225

2701. ICLR 2026Vision-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in Multimodal Large Language Models
2702. ICLR 2026Vision-Zero: Scalable VLM Self-Improvement via Strategic Gamified Self-Play
2703. ICLR 2026VisionReasoner: Unified Reasoning-Integrated Visual Perception via Reinforcement Learning
2704. ICLR 2026VisionTrim: Unified Vision Token Compression for Training-Free MLLM Acceleration
2705. ICLR 2026VisJudge-Bench: Aesthetics and Quality Assessment of Visualizations
2706. ICLR 2026Visual Jigsaw Post-Training Improves MLLMs
2707. ICLR 2026Visual Self-Refine: A Pixel-Guided Paradigm for Accurate Chart Parsing
2708. ICLR 2026Visual symbolic mechanisms: Emergent symbol processing in Vision Language Models
2709. ICLR 2026VisualPRM400K: An Effective Dataset for Training Multimodal Process Reward Models
2710. ICLR 2026VisuLogic: A Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Reasoning in Multi-modal Large Language Models
2711. ICLR 2026VisuRiddles: Fine-grained Perception is a Primary Bottleneck for Multimodal Large Language Models in Abstract Visual Reasoning
2712. ICLR 2026VITA: Zero-Shot Value Functions via Test-Time Adaptation of Vision–Language Models
2713. ICLR 2026Vivid-VR: Distilling Concepts from Text-to-Video Diffusion Transformer for Photorealistic Video Restoration
2714. ICLR 2026VL-JEPA: Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture for Vision-language
2715. ICLR 2026Vlaser: Vision-Language-Action Model with Synergistic Embodied Reasoning
2716. ICLR 2026VLBiMan: Vision-Language Anchored One-Shot Demonstration Enables Generalizable Bimanual Robotic Manipulation
2717. ICLR 2026VLM-Guided Adaptive Negative Prompting for Creative Generation
2718. ICLR 2026VLM-SubtleBench: How Far Are VLMs from Human-Level Subtle Comparative Reasoning?
2719. ICLR 2026VLM4VLA: Revisiting Vision-Language-Models in Vision-Language-Action Models
2720. ICLR 2026VLMgineer: Vision-Language Models as Robotic Toolsmiths
2721. ICLR 2026VLSU: Mapping the Limits of Joint Multimodal Understanding for AI Safety
2722. ICLR 2026VOGUE: Unified Understanding, Generation, and Editing for Videos
2723. ICLR 2026VoMP: Predicting Volumetric Mechanical Property Fields
2724. ICLR 2026VTool-R1: VLMs Learn to Think with Images via Reinforcement Learning on Multimodal Tool Use
2725. ICLR 2026VUDG: A Dataset for Video Understanding Domain Generalization
2726. ICLR 2026Vulcan: Crafting Compact Class-Specific Vision Transformers For Edge Intelligence
2727. ICLR 2026WAFT: Warping-Alone Field Transforms for Optical Flow
2728. ICLR 2026WAVE: Learning Unified & Versatile Audio-Visual Embeddings with Multimodal LLM
2729. ICLR 2026WavefrontDiffusion: Dynamic Decoding Schedule for Improved Reasoning
2730. ICLR 2026WebGen-Agent: Enhancing Interactive Website Generation with Multi-Level Feedback and Step-Level Reinforcement Learning
2731. ICLR 2026WebWatcher: Breaking New Frontiers of Vision-Language Deep Research Agent
2732. ICLR 2026Weight Decay may matter more than µP for Learning Rate Transfer in Practice
2733. ICLR 2026WeTok: Powerful Discrete Tokenization for High-Fidelity Visual Reconstruction
2734. ICLR 2026What "Not" to Detect: Negation-Aware VLMs via Structured Reasoning and Token Merging
2735. ICLR 2026What Layers When: Learning to Skip Compute in LLMs with Residual Gates
2736. ICLR 2026What Scales in Cross-Entropy Scaling Law?
2737. ICLR 2026What's the plan? Metrics for implicit planning in LLMs and their application to rhyme generation
2738. ICLR 2026Whatever Remains Must Be True: Filtering Drives Reasoning in LLMs, Shaping Diversity
2739. ICLR 2026When Foundation Models are One-Liners: Limitations and Future Directions for Time Series Anomaly Detection
2740. ICLR 2026When Language Models Lose Their Mind: The Consequences of Brain Misalignment
2741. ICLR 2026When Large Multimodal Models Confront Evolving Knowledge: Challenges and Explorations
2742. ICLR 2026When LLMs get significantly worse: A statistical approach to detect model degradations
2743. ICLR 2026When MLLMs Meets Compression Distortion: A Coding Paradigm Tailored to MLLMs
2744. ICLR 2026When Reasoning Meets Compression: Understanding the Effects of LLMs Compression on Large Reasoning Models
2745. ICLR 2026When to Ensemble: Identifying Token-Level Points for Stable and Fast LLM Ensembling
2746. ICLR 2026When Weak LLMs Speak with Confidence, Preference Alignment Gets Stronger
2747. ICLR 2026When would Vision-Proprioception Policies Fail in Robotic Manipulation?
2748. ICLR 2026Where Did This Sentence Come From? Tracing Provenance in LLM Reasoning Distillation
2749. ICLR 2026WholeBodyVLA: Towards Unified Latent VLA for Whole-body Loco-manipulation Control
2750. ICLR 2026Why Attention Patterns Exist: A Unifying Temporal Perspective Analysis

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.