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

390 papers, page 6 of 8

251. ICML 2025Overcoming Multi-step Complexity in Multimodal Theory-of-Mind Reasoning: A Scalable Bayesian Planner
252. ICML 2025Parrot: Multilingual Visual Instruction Tuning
253. ICML 2025PDE-Controller: LLMs for Autoformalization and Reasoning of PDEs
254. ICML 2025Perception in Reflection
255. ICML 2025Peripheral Memory for LLMs: Integration of Sequential Memory Banks with Adaptive Querying
256. ICML 2025Phase transitions for the existence of unregularized M-estimators in single index models
257. ICML 2025PoisonedEye: Knowledge Poisoning Attack on Retrieval-Augmented Generation based Large Vision-Language Models
258. ICML 2025Position: Beyond Assistance – Reimagining LLMs as Ethical and Adaptive Co-Creators in Mental Health Care
259. ICML 2025Position: Enough of Scaling LLMs! Lets Focus on Downscaling
260. ICML 2025Position: LLMs Need a Bayesian Meta-Reasoning Framework for More Robust and Generalizable Reasoning
261. ICML 2025Position: Not All Explanations for Deep Learning Phenomena Are Equally Valuable
262. ICML 2025Position: Rethinking LLM Bias Probing Using Lessons from the Social Sciences
263. ICML 2025Primitive Vision: Improving Diagram Understanding in MLLMs
264. ICML 2025Privacy-Shielded Image Compression: Defending Against Exploitation from Vision-Language Pretrained Models
265. ICML 2025Probing Visual Language Priors in VLMs
266. ICML 2025Product of Experts with LLMs: Boosting Performance on ARC Is a Matter of Perspective
267. ICML 2025Promoting Ensemble Diversity with Interactive Bayesian Distributional Robustness for Fine-tuning Foundation Models
268. ICML 2025Prompt-based Depth Pruning of Large Language Models
269. ICML 2025Proposer-Agent-Evaluator (PAE): Autonomous Skill Discovery For Foundation Model Internet Agents
270. ICML 2025PROXSPARSE: REGULARIZED LEARNING OF SEMI-STRUCTURED SPARSITY MASKS FOR PRETRAINED LLMS
271. ICML 2025Proxy-FDA: Proxy-based Feature Distribution Alignment for Fine-tuning Vision Foundation Models without Forgetting
272. ICML 2025Putnam-AXIOM: A Functional & Static Benchmark for Measuring Higher Level Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs
273. ICML 2025Puzzle: Distillation-Based NAS for Inference-Optimized LLMs
274. ICML 2025PyTDC: A multimodal machine learning training, evaluation, and inference platform for biomedical foundation models
275. ICML 2025QMamba: On First Exploration of Vision Mamba for Image Quality Assessment
276. ICML 2025QoS-Efficient Serving of Multiple Mixture-of-Expert LLMs Using Partial Runtime Reconfiguration
277. ICML 2025Quantifying Prediction Consistency Under Fine-tuning Multiplicity in Tabular LLMs
278. ICML 2025Quantum Speedup for Hypergraph Sparsification
279. ICML 2025QuEST: Stable Training of LLMs with 1-Bit Weights and Activations
280. ICML 2025R2-T2: Re-Routing in Test-Time for Multimodal Mixture-of-Experts
281. ICML 2025Ranked from Within: Ranking Large Multimodal Models Without Labels
282. ICML 2025RBench: Graduate-level Multi-disciplinary Benchmarks for LLM & MLLM Complex Reasoning Evaluation
283. ICML 2025RE-IMAGINE: Symbolic Benchmark Synthesis for Reasoning Evaluation
284. ICML 2025Re-ranking Reasoning Context with Tree Search Makes Large Vision-Language Models Stronger
285. ICML 2025Reasoning Limitations of Multimodal Large Language Models. A case study of Bongard Problems
286. ICML 2025Reasoning Through Execution: Unifying Process and Outcome Rewards for Code Generation
287. ICML 2025ReFocus: Visual Editing as a Chain of Thought for Structured Image Understanding
288. ICML 2025ReinboT: Amplifying Robot Visual-Language Manipulation with Reinforcement Learning
289. ICML 2025RepoAudit: An Autonomous LLM-Agent for Repository-Level Code Auditing
290. ICML 2025Rethinking External Slow-Thinking: From Snowball Errors to Probability of Correct Reasoning
291. ICML 2025Retrieval-Augmented Perception: High-resolution Image Perception Meets Visual RAG
292. ICML 2025Revisiting Continuity of Image Tokens for Cross-domain Few-shot Learning
293. ICML 2025Reward-Guided Speculative Decoding for Efficient LLM Reasoning
294. ICML 2025Robust Multimodal Large Language Models Against Modality Conflict
295. ICML 2025RollingQ: Reviving the Cooperation Dynamics in Multimodal Transformer
296. ICML 2025rStar-Math: Small LLMs Can Master Math Reasoning with Self-Evolved Deep Thinking
297. ICML 2025RULEBREAKERS: Challenging LLMs at the Crossroads between Formal Logic and Human-like Reasoning
298. ICML 2025SAE-V: Interpreting Multimodal Models for Enhanced Alignment
299. ICML 2025SafeAuto: Knowledge-Enhanced Safe Autonomous Driving with Multimodal Foundation Models
300. ICML 2025SAFER: A Calibrated Risk-Aware Multimodal Recommendation Model for Dynamic Treatment Regimes

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.