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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251. ICLR 2025Failures to Find Transferable Image Jailbreaks Between Vision-Language Models
252. ICLR 2025FairMT-Bench: Benchmarking Fairness for Multi-turn Dialogue in Conversational LLMs
253. ICLR 2025Feast Your Eyes: Mixture-of-Resolution Adaptation for Multimodal Large Language Models
254. ICLR 2025Federated Continual Learning Goes Online: Uncertainty-Aware Memory Management for Vision Tasks and Beyond
255. ICLR 2025Ferret-UI 2: Mastering Universal User Interface Understanding Across Platforms
256. ICLR 2025Few-Class Arena: A Benchmark for Efficient Selection of Vision Models and Dataset Difficulty Measurement
257. ICLR 2025Filtered not Mixed: Filtering-Based Online Gating for Mixture of Large Language Models
258. ICLR 2025Fine-Grained Verifiers: Preference Modeling as Next-token Prediction in Vision-Language Alignment
259. ICLR 2025Fine-tuning can Help Detect Pretraining Data from Large Language Models
260. ICLR 2025Fine-tuning with Reserved Majority for Noise Reduction
261. ICLR 2025FlashMask: Efficient and Rich Mask Extension of FlashAttention
262. ICLR 2025FlexPrefill: A Context-Aware Sparse Attention Mechanism for Efficient Long-Sequence Inference
263. ICLR 2025FLIP: Flow-Centric Generative Planning as General-Purpose Manipulation World Model
264. ICLR 2025Forewarned is Forearmed: Harnessing LLMs for Data Synthesis via Failure-induced Exploration
265. ICLR 2025Forgetting Transformer: Softmax Attention with a Forget Gate
266. ICLR 2025Foundation Models Secretly Understand Neural Network Weights: Enhancing Hypernetwork Architectures with Foundation Models
267. ICLR 2025Fourier Sliced-Wasserstein Embedding for Multisets and Measures
268. ICLR 2025Frame-Voyager: Learning to Query Frames for Video Large Language Models
269. ICLR 2025Fréchet Wavelet Distance: A Domain-Agnostic Metric for Image Generation
270. ICLR 2025Frequency-Guided Masking for Enhanced Vision Self-Supervised Learning
271. ICLR 2025FreSh: Frequency Shifting for Accelerated Neural Representation Learning
272. ICLR 2025From Artificial Needles to Real Haystacks: Improving Retrieval Capabilities in LLMs by Finetuning on Synthetic Data
273. ICLR 2025From Attention to Activation: Unraveling the Enigmas of Large Language Models
274. ICLR 2025From Exploration to Mastery: Enabling LLMs to Master Tools via Self-Driven Interactions
275. ICLR 2025From Isolated Conversations to Hierarchical Schemas: Dynamic Tree Memory Representation for LLMs
276. ICLR 2025From Pixels to Tokens: Byte-Pair Encoding on Quantized Visual Modalities
277. ICLR 2025From Tokens to Words: On the Inner Lexicon of LLMs
278. ICLR 2025Fundamental Limitations on Subquadratic Alternatives to Transformers
279. ICLR 2025Fundamental Limits of Prompt Tuning Transformers: Universality, Capacity and Efficiency
280. ICLR 2025G-LLaVA: Solving Geometric Problem with Multi-Modal Large Language Model
281. ICLR 2025Gated Delta Networks: Improving Mamba2 with Delta Rule
282. ICLR 2025General Scene Adaptation for Vision-and-Language Navigation
283. ICLR 2025Generalization v.s. Memorization: Tracing Language Models’ Capabilities Back to Pretraining Data
284. ICLR 2025Generating CAD Code with Vision-Language Models for 3D Designs
285. ICLR 2025Generative Monoculture in Large Language Models
286. ICLR 2025GeoX: Geometric Problem Solving Through Unified Formalized Vision-Language Pre-training
287. ICLR 2025GEVRM: Goal-Expressive Video Generation Model For Robust Visual Manipulation
288. ICLR 2025GOFA: A Generative One-For-All Model for Joint Graph Language Modeling
289. ICLR 2025Gramian Multimodal Representation Learning and Alignment
290. ICLR 2025GReaTer: Gradients Over Reasoning Makes Smaller Language Models Strong Prompt Optimizers
291. ICLR 2025Grounding Multimodal Large Language Model in GUI World
292. ICLR 2025GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models
293. ICLR 2025GUI-World: A Video Benchmark and Dataset for Multimodal GUI-oriented Understanding
294. ICLR 2025Gumbel Counterfactual Generation From Language Models
295. ICLR 2025Halton Scheduler for Masked Generative Image Transformer
296. ICLR 2025HAMSTER: Hierarchical Action Models for Open-World Robot Manipulation
297. ICLR 2025HarmAug: Effective Data Augmentation for Knowledge Distillation of Safety Guard Models
298. ICLR 2025Harnessing Diversity for Important Data Selection in Pretraining Large Language Models
299. ICLR 2025Harnessing Webpage UIs for Text-Rich Visual Understanding
300. ICLR 2025HeadMap: Locating and Enhancing Knowledge Circuits in LLMs

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.