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 59 of 104

2901. ICML 2026CARE: Class-Adaptive Expert Consensus for Reliable Learning with Long-Tailed Noisy Labels
2902. ICML 2026CAST: Modeling Visual State Transitions for Consistent Video Retrieval
2903. ICML 2026CAT-Q: Cost-efficient and Accurate Ternary Quantization for LLMs
2904. ICML 2026CausalX: A Unified and Causally-Interpretable Plug-and-Play Model for Multi-modal Spatio-Temporal Forecasting
2905. ICML 2026CauSciBench: Can LLMs Automate Causal Inference in Real-World Scientific Research?
2906. ICML 2026CBV: Clean-label Backdoor Attacks on Vision Language Models via Diffusion Models
2907. ICML 2026Cello: A Universal Cell-wise Feature Aggregation framework for Reliable Pathology Images Analysis
2908. ICML 2026Certified Robustness under Heterogeneous Perturbations via Hybrid Randomized Smoothing
2909. ICML 2026CFPO: Counterfactual Policy Optimization for Multimodal Reasoning
2910. ICML 2026CG-MLLM: Captioning and Generating 3D content via Multi-modal Large Language Models
2911. ICML 2026Characterizing Vision-Language-Action Models across XPUs: Constraints and Acceleration for On-Robot Deployment
2912. ICML 2026ChartE$^{3}$: A Comprehensive Benchmark for End-to-End Chart Editing
2913. ICML 2026Circle-RoPE: Cone-like Decoupled Rotary Positional Embedding for Vision-Language Models
2914. ICML 2026CLEAR: Context-Aware Learning with End-to-End Mask-Free Inference for Adaptive Video Subtitle Removal
2915. ICML 2026CLIP Tricks You: Training-free Token Pruning for Efficient Pixel Grounding in Large Vision-Language Models
2916. ICML 2026CMI-RewardBench: Evaluating Music Reward Models with Compositional Multimodal Instruction
2917. ICML 2026cMoLLM at Scale: Horizontal Scaling Laws for Convolutionally-Gated Mixture-of-LLMs
2918. ICML 2026Code2Video: A Code-centric Paradigm for Educational Video Creation
2919. ICML 2026Code2Worlds: Empowering Coding LLMs for 4D World Generation
2920. ICML 2026COFT: Counterfactual–Conformal Decoding for Fair Chain‑of‑Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models
2921. ICML 2026CoGeoAD: Hierarchical Color-Geometric Fusion with Multi-View Attention for Zero-Shot 3D Anomaly Detection
2922. ICML 2026CoLA: Cross-Modal Low-rank Adaptation for Multimodal Downstream Tasks
2923. ICML 2026Coloring the Noise: Adversarial Sobolev Alignment for Faithful Image Super Resolution
2924. ICML 2026Comp-Attn: Present-and-Align Attention for Compositional Video Generation
2925. ICML 2026Compass-RoPE: Isotropic Rotary Position Embeddings for Vision Transformers
2926. ICML 2026Compressed Sensing for Capability Localization in Large Language Models
2927. ICML 2026Concept Concentration for Faithful Representation Intervention
2928. ICML 2026Concept-Guided Tokenization: Closing the Gap Between Reconstruction and Generation
2929. ICML 2026ConceptMoE: Adaptive Token-to-Concept Compression for Implicit Compute Allocation
2930. ICML 2026Condition Number Based Low-Bit Quantization for Image Super-Resolution
2931. ICML 2026Confidence is Not Universal: Task-Dependent Calibration and Emergent Behavior in LLMs
2932. ICML 2026Conformal Thinking: Risk Control for Reasoning on a Compute Budget
2933. ICML 2026ConsMSA: Semantic Distribution Consistency Learning for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
2934. ICML 2026Context-Aware Reasoner: Enhancing Contextual Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models
2935. ICML 2026Contextualized Visual Personalization in Vision-Language Models
2936. ICML 2026Contrastive Representation Regularization for Vision-Language-Action Models
2937. ICML 2026Contrastive Spectral Rectification: Test-Time Defense towards Zero-shot Adversarial Robustness of CLIP
2938. ICML 2026Controllable and Explainable Personality Sliders for LLMs at Inference Time
2939. ICML 2026Controlling the Risk of Corrupted Contexts for Language Models via Early-Exiting
2940. ICML 2026CoPE: Continual Probe-guided Expansion for Large Vision-Language Models
2941. ICML 2026CoRe: Combined Rewards with Vision-Language Model Feedback for Preference-Aligned Reinforcement Learning
2942. ICML 2026CORE: Conflict-Oriented Reasoning for General Multimodal Manipulation Detection
2943. ICML 2026Correcting Visual Blur Induced by Attention Distraction to Reduce Hallucinations: Algorithm and Theory
2944. ICML 2026Correspondence Cognitive Learning for Multi-Modal Object Re-Identification
2945. ICML 2026CoT is Not the Chain of Truth: An Empirical Internal Analysis of Reasoning LLMs for Fake News Generation
2946. ICML 2026Counterfactual Residual Data Augmentation for Regression
2947. ICML 2026Coverage ≠ Exposure: Auditable Control of Same-Support Tail Failures under Multimodal Missingness
2948. ICML 2026Criterion-Conditional In-Context Learning: Evaluating Criterion-Shift Adaptation in Vision-Language Models
2949. ICML 2026Cross-Modal Semantic Decoupling and Transfer for Text-to-Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification
2950. ICML 2026CryoACE: An Atom-centric Framework for Accurate and Automated Model Building in Cryo-EM

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.