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 63 of 104

3101. ICML 2026From Blind Spots to Gains: Diagnostic-Driven Iterative Training for Large Multimodal Models
3102. ICML 2026From Content to Knowledge: Lightning Fast Long-Video Understanding with Neural Knowledge Representations
3103. ICML 2026From Correspondence to Actions: Human-Like Multi-Image Spatial Reasoning in Multi-modal Large Language Models
3104. ICML 2026From Diagrams to Code: Multilingual Programming with Visual Design
3105. ICML 2026From Drift to Coherence: Stabilizing Beliefs in LLMs
3106. ICML 2026From Growing to Looping: A Unified View of Iterative Computation in LLMs
3107. ICML 2026From Historical Patches to Repair Plans: Outcome-Conditioned Reasoning for Repository-Level Program Repair
3108. ICML 2026From Internal Diagnosis to External Auditing: A VLM-Driven Paradigm for Data-Free Online Backdoor Defense
3109. ICML 2026From Noise to Control: Parameterized Diffusion Policies
3110. ICML 2026From Perception to Planning: Evolving Ego-Centric Task-Oriented Spatiotemporal Reasoning via Curriculum Learning
3111. ICML 2026From Pixels to Tokens: A Systematic Study of Latent Action Supervision for Vision-Language-Action Models
3112. ICML 2026From Prompts to Tokens: Internalizing Causal Supervision in Vision-Language Model for Multi-Image Causal Reasoning
3113. ICML 2026From Seeing to Thinking: Decoupling Perception and Reasoning Improves Post-Training of Vision-Language Models
3114. ICML 2026From Winning to Understanding: A Diagnostic Long-Horizon RTS Benchmark for LLMs
3115. ICML 2026Furina: Fragmented Uncertainty-Driven Refusal Instability Attack
3116. ICML 2026FUSE: Quantifying Uncertainty in Vision-Language Models by Bayesian Fusing Epistemic and Aleatoric Uncertainty
3117. ICML 2026FusionCell: Cross-Attentive Fusion of Layout Geometry and Netlist Topology for Standard-Cell Performance Prediction
3118. ICML 2026FutureOmni: Evaluating Future Forecasting from Omni-Modal Context for Multimodal LLMs
3119. ICML 2026GAE: Unleashing Physical Potential of VLM with Generalizable Action Expert
3120. ICML 2026GameVerse: Can Vision-Language Models Learn from Video-based Reflection?
3121. ICML 2026GASS: Geometry-Aware Spherical Sampling for Disentangled Diversity Enhancement in Text-to-Image Generation
3122. ICML 2026Gated Relational Alignment via Confidence-based Distillation for Efficient VLMs
3123. ICML 2026Gateways to Tractability for Satisfiability in Pearl’s Causal Hierarchy
3124. ICML 2026GAUSS: Graph-Assisted Uncertainty Quantification using Structure and Semantics for Long-Form Generation in LLMs
3125. ICML 2026GemDepth: Geometry-Embedded Features for 3D-Consistent Video Depth
3126. ICML 2026GEMQ: Global Expert-Level Mixed-Precision Quantization for MoE LLMs
3127. ICML 2026GenAlign: Towards Unified Alignment Framework of MLLMs via Generative Reward Model
3128. ICML 2026General Covariant Action Modeling: Constructing Generalized Manifolds via Spatio-Temporal Decoupling
3129. ICML 2026Generation Enhances Understanding in Unified Multimodal Models via Multi-Representation Generation
3130. ICML 2026Generative Visual Code Mobile World Models
3131. ICML 2026GenExam: A Multidisciplinary Text-to-Image Exam
3132. ICML 2026GenShield: Unified Detection and Artifact Correction for AI-Generated Images
3133. ICML 2026GeoEvo: Identity-Aware Potential Game with Geometric Evolution for Personalized Multimodal Federated Learning
3134. ICML 2026Geometric Reciprocity: Unlocking Self-Supervision for Stereoscopic Video Generation
3135. ICML 2026Geometry-based Schrödinger Bridges for Trustworthy Multimodal Fusion
3136. ICML 2026Geometry-Preserving Unsupervised Alignment for Heterogeneous Foundation Models
3137. ICML 2026GeoReward: Mitigating Contextual Variable Overestimation in Vision-Language Models for Cross-Market Preference Prediction
3138. ICML 2026GeoSense: Internalizing Geometric Necessity Perception for Multimodal Reasoning
3139. ICML 2026GePBench: Evaluating Fundamental Geometric Perception for Multimodal Large Language Models
3140. ICML 2026Giving Sensors a Voice: Multimodal JEPA for Semantic Time-Series Embeddings
3141. ICML 2026Global Geometry Is Not Enough for Vision Representations
3142. ICML 2026GOTabPFN: From Feature Ordering to Compact Tokenization for Tabular Foundation Models on High-Dimensional Data
3143. ICML 2026Gradient Transformer: Learning to Generate Updates for LLMs
3144. ICML 2026Gram2Token: Enabling Run-time GPU-Native Grammar-Constrained Decoding for LLMs
3145. ICML 2026Granularity-Aware Adaptive Classifier Expansion via Zero-Shot Learning
3146. ICML 2026Graph Alignment via Dual-Pass Spectral Encoding and Latent Space Communication
3147. ICML 2026GRASP: Awakening Latent Spatial Reasoning in LVLMs via Training-free Geometric Rectification
3148. ICML 2026Group Cognition Learning: Making Everything Better Through Controlled Two-Stage Agents Collaboration
3149. ICML 2026Group-wise Data Ordering: Enhancing Instruction Tuning of Large Language Models via Embedding Proximity
3150. ICML 2026GSRQ: Gain-Shape Residual Quantization for Sub-1-bit KV Cache

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.