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

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2751. ICLR 2026Why is Your Language Model a Poor Implicit Reward Model?
2752. ICLR 2026Why Keep Your Doubts to Yourself? Trading Visual Uncertainties in Multi-Agent Bandit Systems
2753. ICLR 2026Why Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Enables MLLMs Preserve Prior Knowledge Better: A Data Perspective
2754. ICLR 2026Wide-In, Narrow-Out: Revokable Decoding for Efficient and Effective DLLMs
2755. ICLR 2026Wiki-R1: Incentivizing Multimodal Reasoning for Knowledge-based VQA via Data and Sampling Curriculum
2756. ICLR 2026WIMFRIS: WIndow Mamba Fusion and Parameter Efficient Tuning for Referring Image Segmentation
2757. ICLR 2026WINA: Weight Informed Neuron Activation for Accelerating Large Language Model Inference
2758. ICLR 2026WMPO: World Model-based Policy Optimization for Vision-Language-Action Models
2759. ICLR 2026World2Minecraft: Occupancy-Driven simulated scenes Construction
2760. ICLR 2026WorldGym: World Model as An Environment for Policy Evaluation
2761. ICLR 2026WorldSense: Evaluating Real-world Omnimodal Understanding for Multimodal LLMs
2762. ICLR 2026WOW-Seg: A Word-free Open World Segmentation Model
2763. ICLR 2026WRING Out The Bias: A Rotation-Based Alternative To Projection Debiasing
2764. ICLR 2026WSM: Decay-Free Learning Rate Schedule via Checkpoint Merging for LLM Pre-training
2765. ICLR 2026WSVD: Weighted Low-Rank Approximation for Fast and Efficient Execution of Low-Precision Vision-Language Models
2766. ICLR 2026X-VLA: Soft-Prompted Transformer as Scalable Cross-Embodiment Vision-Language-Action Model
2767. ICLR 2026XModBench: Benchmarking Cross-Modal Capabilities and Consistency in Omni-Language Models
2768. ICLR 2026You Point, I Learn: Online Adaptation of Interactive Segmentation Models for Handling Distribution Shifts in Medical Imaging
2769. ICLR 2026YuE: Scaling Open Foundation Models for Long-Form Music Generation
2770. ICLR 2026Zebra-CoT: A Dataset for Interleaved Vision-Language Reasoning
2771. ICLR 2026Zero-shot HOI Detection with MLLM-based Detector-agnostic Interaction Recognition
2772. ICLR 2026Zeros can be Informative: Masked Binary U-Net for Image Segmentation on Tensor Cores
2773. ICLR 2026ZeroTuning: Unlocking the Initial Token's Power to Enhance Large Language Models Without Training
2774. ICML 2026“very likely” Means “uncertain”? How LLMs Diverge from Humans in Linguistic Uncertainty Quantification
2775. ICML 2026[CLS] is Not Enough: Multi-Label Recognition via Patch-Level Inference and Adaptive Aggregation
2776. ICML 2026$\mathcal{O}(\log N)$ Latent Dimension Suffices for Universal Approximation of Permutation-invariant Function
2777. ICML 2026$\sigma$: Sigmoid Modulation for Ultra High Resolution Diffusion
2778. ICML 2026$f$-Trajectory Balance: A Loss Family for Tuning GFlowNets, Generative Models, and LLMs with Off- and On-Policy Data
2779. ICML 2026$G^2$-Reader: Dual Evolving Graphs for Multimodal Document QA
2780. ICML 20263D-RFT: Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Video-based 3D Scene Understanding
2781. ICML 20263ViewSense: Spatial and Mental Perspective Reasoning from Orthographic Views in Vision-Language Models
2782. ICML 2026A Bayesian Approach to Quantify the Uncertainty of Human Ratings in a Single-Instance Multimodal Framework
2783. ICML 2026A Close Look at Negative Label Guided Out-of-distribution Detection in Pre-trained Vision-Language Models
2784. ICML 2026A Computational Framework for Evaluating Human-likeness in LLMs' Open-ended Human Behaviors
2785. ICML 2026A Generalist Pair-wise Progress Critic Model for Vision-Language-Action Robots
2786. ICML 2026A Progressive Evidence Localization Framework Based on Wasserstein Gradient Flows for Document Visual Question Answering
2787. ICML 2026A Provable Expressiveness Hierarchy in Hybrid Linear-Full Attention
2788. ICML 2026A Robust Optimization Guided Pruning Framework for Vision and Large Language Models
2789. ICML 2026A robust PPG foundation model using multimodal physiological supervision
2790. ICML 2026A Very Big Video Reasoning Suite
2791. ICML 2026A²RBench: An Automatic Paradigm for Formally Verifiable Abstract Reasoning Benchmark Generation
2792. ICML 2026A3: an Analytical Low-Rank Approximation Framework for Attention
2793. ICML 2026ABCD: All Biases Come Disguised
2794. ICML 2026AC-ODM: Actor–Critic Online Data Mixing for Sample-Efficient LLM Pretraining
2795. ICML 2026Activation-Free Backbones for Image Recognition: Polynomial Alternatives within MetaFormer-Style Vision Models
2796. ICML 2026Active Exploring like a Pigeon: Reinforcing Spatial Reasoning via Agentic Vision-Language Models
2797. ICML 2026Active Learning with Foundation Model Priors: Efficient Learning under Class Imbalance
2798. ICML 2026ActiveScope: Actively Seeking and Correcting Perception for MLLMs
2799. ICML 2026AD-MIR: Bridging the Gap from Perception to Persuasion in Advertising Video Understanding via Structured Reasoning
2800. ICML 2026AdaMeZO: Adam-style Zeroth-Order Optimizer for LLM Fine-tuning Without Maintaining the Moments

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.