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 60 of 104

2951. ICML 2026CSD: Content-aware Speculative Decoding for Efficient Image Generation
2952. ICML 2026CUARewardBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Reward Models for Computer-Using Agents
2953. ICML 2026CurvZO: Adaptive Curvature-Guided Sparse Zeroth-Order Optimization for Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning
2954. ICML 2026CVSearch: Empowering Multimodal LLMs with Cognitive Visual Search for High-Resolution Image Perception
2955. ICML 2026D$^2$O: A Dual Debiasing Operator for Training-Free Test-Time Adaptation of Vision–Language Models
2956. ICML 2026DAPD: Dependency-Aware Parallel Decoding via Attention for Diffusion LLMs
2957. ICML 2026Data Selection for Fine-tuning Vision Language Models via Cross Modal Alignment Trajectories
2958. ICML 2026DDGA: Dirichlet Distributional Gradient Aggregation for Transferable Vision-Language Adversarial Attacks
2959. ICML 2026Decentralized Instruction Tuning: Conflict-Aware Splitting and Weight Merging
2960. ICML 2026DecepChain: Inducing Deceptive Reasoning in Large Language Models
2961. ICML 2026DECO: Decoupled Multimodal Diffusion Transformer for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation with a Plugin Tactile Adapter
2962. ICML 2026Decompose and Recompose: Reasoning New Skills from Existing Abilities for Cross-Task Robotic Manipulation
2963. ICML 2026Decompose, Structure, and Repair: A Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Autoformalization via Operator Trees
2964. ICML 2026Decomposed On-Policy Distillation for Vision-Language Reasoning: Steering Gradients for Visual Grounding
2965. ICML 2026Decouple and Cache: KV Cache Construction for Streaming Video Understanding
2966. ICML 2026Decoupled Training with Local Reinforcement Fine-Tuning in Federated Learning
2967. ICML 2026Decoupling Skeleton and Flesh: Efficient Multimodal Table Reasoning with Disentangled Alignment and Structure-aware Guidance
2968. ICML 2026Deep Ensemble Clustering for Visual Representation Learning
2969. ICML 2026Deep Learning for BioImaging: What Are We Really Learning?
2970. ICML 2026Deep Pre-Alignment for VLMs
2971. ICML 2026Deep Residual Injection for Full-Spectrum Forensic Signal Perception in Multimodal Large Language Models
2972. ICML 2026DeepHA: Scaling Action Chains Elicits Deep Hierarchical Agents
2973. ICML 2026DeepImageSearch: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Context-Aware Image Retrieval in Visual Histories
2974. ICML 2026DeepSight: Long-Horizon World Modeling via Latent States Prediction for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
2975. ICML 2026DeFacto: Counterfactual Thinking with Images for Enforcing Evidence-Grounded and Faithful Reasoning
2976. ICML 2026DEGAP: Dynamic Entropy-Guided Attention Perturbation for Contrastive Decoding in Large Vision-Language Models
2977. ICML 2026Degradation-Aware Metric Prompting for Hyperspectral Image Restoration
2978. ICML 2026Deliberate Evolution: Agentic Reasoning for Sample-Efficient Symbolic Regression with LLMs
2979. ICML 2026Demystifying Scientific Problem-Solving in LLMs by Probing Knowledge and Reasoning
2980. ICML 2026DenseMLLM: Standard Multimodal LLMs for Dense Prediction
2981. ICML 2026Density-Aware Translation of Spurious Correlations in Zero-Shot VLMs
2982. ICML 2026Depth-Breadth Synergy in RLVR: Unlocking LLM Reasoning Gains with Adaptive Exploration
2983. ICML 2026Detached Skip-Links and $R$-Probe: Decoupling Feature Aggregation from Gradient Propagation for MLLM OCR
2984. ICML 2026Detecting Errors in AI-Generated Annotations: When and Why Semantic Neighbors Help
2985. ICML 2026Diagnosing and Correcting Concept Omission in Multimodal Diffusion Transformers
2986. ICML 2026Diagnosing Multi-step Reasoning Failures in Black-box LLMs via Stepwise Confidence Attribution
2987. ICML 2026Difference-Aware Decision Learning for Multimodal Image Fusion
2988. ICML 2026Differentiable Conformal Training for LLM Reasoning Factuality
2989. ICML 2026DiffThinker: Towards Generative Multimodal Reasoning with Diffusion Models
2990. ICML 2026Dimension-Free Multimodal Sampling via Preconditioned Annealed Langevin Dynamics
2991. ICML 2026Dirichlet-Prior Shaping: Guiding Expert Specialization in Upcycled MoEs
2992. ICML 2026Discovering Differences in Strategic Behavior between Humans and LLMs
2993. ICML 2026Discrete Diffusion VLA: Bringing Discrete Diffusion to Action Decoding in Vision-Language-Action Policies
2994. ICML 2026Discriminative Visual Process Rewards for Scaling Thinking at Test-Time with Images
2995. ICML 2026Disease-Centric Vision-Language Pretraining with Hybrid Visual Encoding for 3D Computed Tomography
2996. ICML 2026Disentangling Consensus and Value-Specific Representations for Controllable Pluralistic Value Alignment of LLMs
2997. ICML 2026Dismantling Pathological Shortcuts: A Causal Framework for Faithful LVLM Decoding
2998. ICML 2026Dismantling the Illusion of Vision-Language-Action Models Competence via Explicit Distributional Shifts
2999. ICML 2026Dissecting Multimodal In-Context Learning: Modality Asymmetries and Circuit Dynamics in modern Transformers
3000. ICML 2026Dissecting the Safety Circuit: Neuronal Intervention for Transferable Adversarial Attacks on VLMs

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.