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 61 of 104

3001. ICML 2026Distilling Neuro-Symbolic Programs into 3D Multi-modal LLMs
3002. ICML 2026Distinguishable Deletion: Unifying Knowledge Erasure and Refusal for Large Language Model Unlearning
3003. ICML 2026DIVA: Harnessing the Representation Divergence in Unified Multimodal Models for Mutual Reinforcement
3004. ICML 2026Dive into the Scene: Breaking the Perceptual Bottleneck in Vision-Language Decision Making via Focus Plan Generation
3005. ICML 2026Diversity Matters: Revisiting Test-Time Compute in Vision-Language Models
3006. ICML 2026Divide and Conquer: Reliable Multi-View Evidential Learning for Deepfake Detection
3007. ICML 2026DIYHealth Suite: Dataset, Model, and Benchmark for Health Management at Home
3008. ICML 2026DLEBench: Evaluating Small-scale Object Editing Ability for Instruction-based Image Editing Model
3009. ICML 2026dnaHNet: A Scalable and Hierarchical Foundation Model for Genomic Sequence Learning
3010. ICML 2026Do Audio LLMs Listen or Read? Analyzing and Mitigating Paralinguistic Failures with VoxParadox
3011. ICML 2026Do Vision and Text Cues Exhibit Evidential Coupling? UFO: A Benchmark for Compositional Multimodal Reasoning in Unified Models
3012. ICML 2026Do-Prompt: Causal Interventions Meet Variational Prompt Bottlenecks
3013. ICML 2026DocHop: Benchmarking Out-of-domain Multi-hop Reasoning in Information-Dense Documents
3014. ICML 2026DocVAL: Validated Chain-of-Thought Distillation for Grounded Document VQA
3015. ICML 2026Does AI Reviewer See the Full Picture? Attacking and Defending Multimodal Peer Review
3016. ICML 2026Does Reasoning Improve Seeing? Understanding When Vision-Language Models Benefit from Thinking
3017. ICML 2026Don't Force the Fit: Bounded Log-Likelihood Loss for Enhanced Reasoning in Large Language Models
3018. ICML 2026Don't Forget Why You Started: Tackling Dual Forgetting in Vision-Language Continual Learning
3019. ICML 2026Don't Overthink with Pixels: Efficient Reasoning for Segmentation
3020. ICML 2026DOUBT: Decoupled Object-level Understanding and Bridging via vMF-based Trustworthiness for Hallucination Detection in MLLMs
3021. ICML 2026DPsurv: Dual-Prototype Evidential Fusion for Uncertainty-Aware and Interpretable Whole Slide Image Survival Prediction
3022. ICML 2026DR-MMSearchAgent: Deepening Reasoning in Multimodal Search Agents
3023. ICML 2026DR$^2$Seg: Decomposed Two-Stage Rollouts for Efficient Reasoning Segmentation in Multimodal Large Language Models
3024. ICML 2026DREAM-R: Multimodal Speculative Reasoning with RL-Based Refined Drafting, Precise Verification, and Fully Parallel Execution
3025. ICML 2026DRFusion: Drift-Resilient Temporally Consistent Infrared–Visible Video Fusion
3026. ICML 2026DSB: Dynamic Sliding Block Scheduling for Diffusion LLMs
3027. ICML 2026DTKG: Dual-Track Knowledge Graph-Verified Reasoning Framework for Multi-Hop QA
3028. ICML 2026Dual-Latent Memory Routing for Vision-Language Reasoning
3029. ICML 2026DuRP: Dual-Stage Physics-Embedded Learning for Joint Radiance and Polarization Restoration
3030. ICML 2026DyGRO-VLA: Cross-Task Scaling of Vision–Language–Action Models via Dynamic Grouped Residual Optimization
3031. ICML 2026Dyn-VPP: Video Prediction Policy Optimization for Improved Visual Dynamics
3032. ICML 2026Dynamic Decision Learning: Test-Time Evolution for Abnormality Grounding in Rare Diseases
3033. ICML 2026Dynamic Linear Attention
3034. ICML 2026Dynamic Multimodal Evaluation via Knowledge-Enhanced Benchmark Evolution
3035. ICML 2026EAGer: Entropy-Aware GEneRation for Adaptive Inference-Time Scaling
3036. ICML 2026EAKV: An Entropy-Driven Adaptive KV Compression Framework for Long Video Understanding
3037. ICML 2026ECA: Efficient Continual Alignment for Open-Ended Image-to-Text Generation
3038. ICML 2026EchoAttention: Exploiting Token-Pair Redundancy and Frame-Block Similarity for Efficient Video Generation
3039. ICML 2026EcoVLA: Environment-Aware Adaptive Pruning with Interleaved Inference Orchestration for Vision-Language-Action Models
3040. ICML 2026EEG-Based Multimodal Learning via Hyperbolic Mixture-of-Curvature Experts
3041. ICML 2026EEmo-Logic: A Unified Dataset and Multi-Stage Framework for Comprehensive Image-Evoked Emotion Assessment
3042. ICML 2026Effective Distillation to Hybrid xLSTM Architectures
3043. ICML 2026Effective Model Pruning : Measuring the Redundancy of Model Components
3044. ICML 2026Efficient Distributed MLLM Training with Cornstarch
3045. ICML 2026Efficient DP-SGD for LLMs with Randomized Clipping
3046. ICML 2026Efficient Hallucination Detection for LLMs Using Uncertainty-Aware Attention Heads
3047. ICML 2026Efficient Reasoning with Hidden Thinking
3048. ICML 2026Efficient RL Training for LLMs with Experience Replay
3049. ICML 2026Ego3S: Select, Strengthen, and Synchronize for Efficient Egocentric Reasoning
3050. ICML 2026Embodied Interpretability: Linking Causal Understanding to Generalization in Vision-Language-Action Models

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.