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 62 of 104

3051. ICML 2026Empty Shelves or Lost Keys? Recall Is the Bottleneck for Parametric Factuality
3052. ICML 2026Enhancing LLMs for Graph Tasks via Graph-aware LoRA Generation
3053. ICML 2026Enhancing Multi-Modal LLMs Reasoning via Difficulty-Aware Group Normalization
3054. ICML 2026Enhancing Numerical Prediction in LLMs via Smooth MMD Alignment
3055. ICML 2026Enhancing Reasoning for Diffusion LLMs via Distribution Matching Policy Optimization
3056. ICML 2026EnsembleVLA: Ensemble Learning for Vision-Language Action Models
3057. ICML 2026EntRAG: Entity-Centric Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering
3058. ICML 2026Epistemic Uncertainty Quantification for Pre-trained VLMs via Riemannian Flow Matching
3059. ICML 2026ERGeoBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Embodied Reasoning and Geo-localization in Multimodal Large Language Models
3060. ICML 2026Escaping the Likelihood Trap: Geometric Diversity Optimization for Long-Form Image Captioning
3061. ICML 2026Evaluating and Explaining Prompt Sensitivity of LLMs Using Interactions
3062. ICML 2026Evaluating LLMs When They Do Not Know the Answer: Statistical Evaluation of Mathematical Reasoning via Comparative Signals
3063. ICML 2026Evaluating Newtonian Mechanics in Video Generative Models with Real Physical Systems
3064. ICML 2026Evaluating Sample Utility for Efficient Data Selection by Mimicking Model Weights
3065. ICML 2026EvoGM: Learning to Merge LLMs via Evolutionary Generative Optimization
3066. ICML 2026Evolving Interdependent Operators with Large Language Models for Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization
3067. ICML 2026ExpAlign: Expectation-Guided Vision–Language Alignment for Open-Vocabulary Grounding
3068. ICML 2026ExpertWeaver: Unlocking the Inherent MoE in Dense LLMs with GLU Activation Patterns
3069. ICML 2026Extracting alignment data in open models
3070. ICML 2026ExVerus: Verus Proof Repair via Counterexample Reasoning
3071. ICML 2026Failure is Feedback: History-Aware Backtracking for Agentic Traversal in Multimodal Graphs
3072. ICML 2026FairSSL: Fair Multimodal Self-Supervised Learning
3073. ICML 2026Faithful Mobile GUI Agents with Guided Advantage Estimator
3074. ICML 2026Faithful Relational Reasoning with Region-based Embeddings: Expressivity of Convex Coordinate-wise Models
3075. ICML 2026Fast and Accurate Causal Parallel Decoding using Jacobi Forcing
3076. ICML 2026Fast and Expressive Multi-Byte Prediction with Probabilistic Circuits
3077. ICML 2026Federated Sketching LoRA: A Flexible Framework for Heterogeneous Collaborative Fine-Tuning of LLMs
3078. ICML 2026FedSSM: State Space Model-based Proactive Inference for Heterogeneous Multimodal Federated Learning
3079. ICML 2026FG-CLIP 2: A Bilingual Fine-grained Vision-Language Alignment Model
3080. ICML 2026Find, Fix, Reason: Context Repair for Video Reasoning
3081. ICML 2026Finding the Correct Visual Evidence Without Forgetting: Mitigating Hallucination in LVLMs via Inter-Layer Visual Attention Discrepancy
3082. ICML 2026Fine-Tuning of Transformer models with Frames
3083. ICML 2026FiSeR: Fine-Grained Source Representations for Cross-Domain AI Image Detection
3084. ICML 2026FLIPS: Instance-Fingerprinting for LLMs via Pseudo-random Sequences
3085. ICML 2026FloorplanQA: A Benchmark for Spatial Reasoning in LLMs using Structured Representations
3086. ICML 2026FlowNar: Scalable Streaming Narration for Long-Form Videos
3087. ICML 2026FlowSeg: Dynamic Semantic Guidance for LLM-Conditioned Segmentation
3088. ICML 2026FOCA: Future-Oriented Conditioning for Data-Efficient Vision-Language-Action Adaptation
3089. ICML 2026Focusing Where Vision Matters: Selective Training for Large Vision Language Models via Visual Information Gain
3090. ICML 2026Foreground-Aware Token Routing Vision Transformer for Real-Time Satellite Video Tracking
3091. ICML 2026Forensic Prompting with Dual-Action Policy Optimization for Vision-Language Forgery Detection and Localization
3092. ICML 2026Foresee-to-Ground: From Predictive Temporal Perception to Evidence-Driven Reasoning for Video Temporal Grounding
3093. ICML 2026Formalizing the Binding Problem
3094. ICML 2026FOVI: A biologically-inspired foveated interface for deep vision models
3095. ICML 2026FrameOracle: Learning What to See and How Much to See in Videos
3096. ICML 2026FreeRet: MLLMs as Training-Free Retrievers
3097. ICML 2026Frequency-Aware Perceptual Optimization for Low-Complexity Implicit Image Compression
3098. ICML 2026FRISM: Fine-Grained Reasoning Injection via Subspace-Level Model Merging for Vision–Language Models
3099. ICML 2026From 2D Grids to 1D Tokens: Reforming Shared Representations for Multimodal Image Fusion
3100. ICML 2026From Abstraction to Instantiation: Learning Behavioral Representation for Vision-Language-Action Model

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.