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 58 of 225

2851. ICML 2026Bad Seeing or Bad Thinking? Rewarding Perception for Multimodal Reasoning
2852. ICML 2026BEAR: Dissecting Embodied Abilities in Multimodal Language Models through Skill-level Evaluation and Diagnosis
2853. ICML 2026BEDTime: A Unified Benchmark for Automatically Describing Time Series
2854. ICML 2026Benchmarking and Enhancing VLM for Compressed Image Understanding
2855. ICML 2026Benchmarking and Evolving Reason-Reflect-Rectify for Reflective Visual Generation
2856. ICML 2026Benchmarking Dense and Indiscernible Object Counting with Blueberries
2857. ICML 2026Benchmarking LLM-Assisted Blue Teaming via Standardized Threat Hunting
2858. ICML 2026Benchmarking the Scientific Mind: A Pathology-Derived Biomedical VQA Benchmark for Complex Scientific Reasoning
2859. ICML 2026Bend the Basics: Degradation-Aware Deformable Tokenization for All-in-One Image Restoration
2860. ICML 2026Best of Both Worlds: Multimodal Reasoning and Generation via Unified Discrete Flow Matching
2861. ICML 2026Beyond Attention Imbalance: Mitigating Hallucinations via Spectral Surgery
2862. ICML 2026Beyond Blind Noising: Disentangled Visual Rectification for Hallucination Mitigation in MLLMs
2863. ICML 2026Beyond Description: Federated Adaptation via Semantic-Visual Prototype Alignment
2864. ICML 2026Beyond Fixed Biases: Decoding the Role of Reasoning Uncertainty in MLLM Modality Conflicts
2865. ICML 2026Beyond Language Modeling: An Exploration of Multimodal Pretraining
2866. ICML 2026Beyond Logits: Coherent Hallucination Mitigation via Attention Contrastive Decoding
2867. ICML 2026Beyond Logits: Metastable Latent Dynamics for Sample-Efficient Best-of-N Selection in LLMs
2868. ICML 2026Beyond Next-Token Alignment: Distilling Multimodal Large Language Models via Token Interactions
2869. ICML 2026Beyond Sample-Level Forgetting: Improving Reliability in Multimodal Unlearning
2870. ICML 2026Beyond Single-View Indexing: Structure-Aware Multi-View Retrieval for Knowledge-Based VQA
2871. ICML 2026Beyond Text-to-SQL: Can LLMs Really Debug Enterprise ETL SQL?
2872. ICML 2026Beyond Unidirectional Bias: Reciprocal Perspective Calibration in Scene Graph Generation
2873. ICML 2026Beyond VLM-Based Rewards: Diffusion-Native Latent Reward Modeling
2874. ICML 2026BFCL Audio: An Audio Function Calling Evaluation for Large Language Models
2875. ICML 2026Bimodal masked language modeling for bulk RNA-seq and DNA methylation representation learning
2876. ICML 2026Bioacoustic Geolocation: Species Sounds as Geographic Signals
2877. ICML 2026BioProBench: A Corpus and Benchmark for Biological Protocol Reasoning in Autonomous Science
2878. ICML 2026BiRQA: Bidirectional Robust Quality Assessment for Images
2879. ICML 2026BizFinBench.v2: Towards Reliable LLMs in Finance via Real-User Data and Offline/Online Bilingual Evaluation
2880. ICML 2026Block Rotation is All You Need for MXFP4 Quantization
2881. ICML 2026BrainJanus: A Unified Model for Understanding and Generation across Brain, Vision, and Language
2882. ICML 2026Breaking Dual Bottlenecks: Evolving Unified Multimodal Models into Self-Adaptive Interleaved Visual Reasoners
2883. ICML 2026BRIDGE: Triangular Fixed-Point Refinement for Long-Horizon Persona Consistency
2884. ICML 2026Bridging On-Device and Cloud LLMs for Collaborative Reasoning: A Unified Methodology for Local Routing and Post-Training
2885. ICML 2026Bridging the Grounding Gap in VideoQA via Typed Memory for Language-based Belief-State Reasoning
2886. ICML 2026Bridging the Knowledge-Prediction Gap in LLMs on Multiple-Choice Questions
2887. ICML 2026Bridging the Perceptual Gap: Residual-Enhanced Downscaling and Manifold-Aware Perception Alignment Adaptation for NR-IQA
2888. ICML 2026Bring My Cup! Personalizing Vision-Language-Action Models with Visual Attentive Prompting
2889. ICML 2026BVS: Bayesian Visual Search with Multimodal Large Language Model for Fine-grained Perception
2890. ICML 2026BYORn: Bootstrap Your Own Responses to Defend Large Vision-Language Models Against Backdoor Attacks
2891. ICML 2026CACR: Reinforcing Temporal Answer Grounding in Instructional Video via Candidate-Aware Causal Reasoning
2892. ICML 2026Calibrated Multimodal Representation Learning with Missing Modalities
2893. ICML 2026CAMP: Coherent Alignment of Multimodal Prototypes for Explainable Complementary Learning
2894. ICML 2026Can LLMs Reason Structurally? Benchmarking via the lens of Data Structures
2895. ICML 2026Can VLMs Diagnose and Recover from VLA Manipulation Faults?
2896. ICML 2026Can We Build a Monolithic Model for Fake Image Detection? SICA: Semantic-Induced Constrained Adaptation for Unified-Yet-Discriminative Artifact Feature Space Reconstruction
2897. ICML 2026CaP-X: A Framework for Benchmarking and Improving Coding Agents for Robot Manipulation
2898. ICML 2026Capacity without Access: Reinterpreting the Mid-Depth Spectral Plateau in LLMs
2899. ICML 2026CAPTCHA Solving for Native GUI Agents: Automated Reasoning-Action Data Generation and Self-Corrective Training
2900. ICML 2026Capturing Gaze Shifts for Guidance: Cross-Modal Fusion Enhancement for VLM Hallucination Mitigation

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.