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 57 of 225

2801. ICML 2026AdaNav: Adaptive Reasoning with Uncertainty for Vision-Language Navigation
2802. ICML 2026Adaptive Generation of Bias-Eliciting Questions for LLMs
2803. ICML 2026Adaptive Residual-Update Steering for Low-Overhead Hallucination Mitigation in Large Vision-Language Models
2804. ICML 2026Adaptive Time Series Reasoning via Segment Selection
2805. ICML 2026Adaptive Token Refinement in Long-Tailed Large Vision-Language Models Fine-Tuning
2806. ICML 2026ADEPT: RL-Aligned Agentic Decoding of Emotion via Evidence Probing Tools — From Consensus Learning to Ambiguity-Driven Emotion Reasoning
2807. ICML 2026Advancing Analytic Class-Incremental Learning through Vision-Language Calibration
2808. ICML 2026Adversarial Training for Process Reward Models
2809. ICML 2026AesFormer: Transform Everyday Photos into Beautiful Memories
2810. ICML 2026AffIn-Space: Learning Affine-Invariant Representations for 3D Spatial Understanding with MLLMs
2811. ICML 2026Agent0-VL: Exploring Self-Evolving Agent for Tool-Integrated Vision-Language Reasoning
2812. ICML 2026AGoQ: Activation and Gradient Quantization for Memory-Efficient Distributed Training of LLMs
2813. ICML 2026AIR-VLA: Vision-Language-Action Systems for Aerial Manipulation
2814. ICML 2026AIR: Post-training Data Selection for Reasoning via Attention Head Influence
2815. ICML 2026AlgoTrace: Algorithmic Primitives and Compositional Geometry of Reasoning in Language Models
2816. ICML 2026AlienLM: Alienization of Language for API-Boundary Privacy in Black-Box LLMs
2817. ICML 2026AlignedNorm: Prompting Vision–Language Models via Coupled Prompt Field
2818. ICML 2026Aligning Tree-Search Policies with Fixed Token Budgets in Test-Time Scaling of LLMs
2819. ICML 2026AlphaGRPO: Unlocking Self-Reflective Multimodal Generation in Unified Multimodal Models via Decompositional Verifiable Reward
2820. ICML 2026Alterbute: Editing Intrinsic Attributes of Objects in Images
2821. ICML 2026An In-Depth Study on Deep Learning Model Cloning
2822. ICML 2026Anchor-Final Self-Supervision Drives Hallucination-Aware Optimization in Large Vision-Language Models
2823. ICML 2026ANCHOR: Abductive Network Construction with Hierarchical Orchestration for Reliable Probability Inference in Large Language Models
2824. ICML 2026AnomSeer: Reinforcing Multimodal LLMs to Reason for Time-Series Anomaly Detection
2825. ICML 2026Antidistillation Fingerprinting
2826. ICML 2026Any3D-VLA: Enhancing VLA Robustness via Diverse Point Clouds
2827. ICML 2026AnyCanvas: Potential Field Guidance for Training-Free Spatial Control in Text-to-Image Diffusion
2828. ICML 2026AnyMod-LLVE: Low-Light Video Enhancement with Modality-Agnostic Inference
2829. ICML 2026AOEB: Benchmarking Agent-Oriented Multimodal Embeddings
2830. ICML 2026AOEPT: Breaking the Implicit Modality-Reduction Bottleneck in Modality-Missing Prompt Tuning
2831. ICML 2026API: Adaptive Prototype Imputation for Incomplete Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
2832. ICML 2026ArborKV: Structure-Aware KV Cache Management for Scaling Tree-based LLM Reasoning
2833. ICML 2026ArcVQ-VAE: A Spherical Vector Quantization Framework with ArcCosine Additive Margin
2834. ICML 2026Are Tools Always Beneficial? Learning to Invoke Tools Adaptively for Dual-Mode Multimodal LLM Reasoning
2835. ICML 2026Are VLMs Seeing or Just Saying? Uncovering the Illusion of Visual Re-examination
2836. ICML 2026Are We Overconfident in Models and Results for Semi-Supervised 3D Medical Image Segmentation?
2837. ICML 2026Ask Less, See More: Communication-Conditioned Token Pruning for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Cooperative Autonomous Driving with Multimodal Large Language Models
2838. ICML 2026ASRU: Activation Steering Meets Reinforcement Unlearning for Multimodal Large Language Models
2839. ICML 2026Attacking Gray-Box Large Vision-Language Models with Adaptive SVD-Structured Adversarial Alignment
2840. ICML 2026Attend to Anything: Foundation Model for Unified Human Attention Modeling
2841. ICML 2026Attention with Routed-Memory for Learnable Sparse Control
2842. ICML 2026Attentive Multi-Layer Fusion for Vision Transformers
2843. ICML 2026AugServe: Adaptive Request Scheduling for Augmented Large Language Model Inference Serving
2844. ICML 2026AuTAgent: A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Tool-Augmented Audio Reasoning
2845. ICML 2026Automated Formal Proofs of Combinatorial Identities via Wilf–Zeilberger Guidance and LLMs
2846. ICML 2026AutoMoT: A Unified Vision-Language-Action Model with Asynchronous Mixture -of-Transformers for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
2847. ICML 2026AutoVSR: Automatic Visual-to-Symbolic Reasoning for Symbolic Expression Generation from Circuit Schematic
2848. ICML 2026AVI-Bench: Toward Human-like Audio-Visual Intelligence of Omni-MLLMs
2849. ICML 2026Awakening Visual Reasoning: Mitigating Post-Training Failure in Vision-Text Compression
2850. ICML 2026BabyVision: Visual Reasoning Beyond Language

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.