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 64 of 104

3151. ICML 2026h1: Bootstrapping LLMs to Reason over Longer Horizons via Reinforcement Learning
3152. ICML 2026HALO: A Unified Vision-Language-Action Model for Embodied Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
3153. ICML 2026HaloProbe: Bayesian Detection and Mitigation of Object Hallucinations in Vision-Language Models
3154. ICML 2026Hamiltonian Asymmetric Fusion: One-Way Safe Directed Refinement under Modality Imbalance
3155. ICML 2026Harnessing Non-Adversarial Robustness in Large Language Models
3156. ICML 2026Harnessing Spectrum Video for Subject-Level Few-Shot and Cross-Montage EEG Generalization
3157. ICML 2026HECTOR: Hybrid Editable Compositional Object References for Video Generation
3158. ICML 2026Hierarchical Image Tokenization for Multi-Scale Image Super Resolution
3159. ICML 2026Hierarchical Procedural Meta-Reasoning for Generalizable Multimodal Agents
3160. ICML 2026HieRD: Hierarchical Relational Distillation for Vision-Language Embedding Models
3161. ICML 2026HilbertA: Hilbert-Curve–Aligned Sparse Attention for 2D Structured Data
3162. ICML 2026HiMe: Hierarchical Embodied Memory for Long-Horizon Vision-Language-Action Control
3163. ICML 2026HiPhO: How Far Are (M)LLMs from Humans in the Latest High School Physics Olympiad Benchmark?
3164. ICML 2026Hölder++: Improving Quality-Coherence Trade-off in Multimodal VAEs
3165. ICML 2026Holi-Spatial: Evolving Video Streams into Holistic 3D Spatial Intelligence
3166. ICML 2026How do Humans Process AI-generated Hallucination Contents: a Neuroimaging Study
3167. ICML 2026How Does Reasoning Flow? Tracing Attention-Induced Information Flow for Targeted RL in LLMs
3168. ICML 2026How much can language models memorize?
3169. ICML 2026How Powerful are LLMs in Generating Formal Program Specifications?
3170. ICML 2026How RL Unlocks the Aha Moment in Geometric Interleaved Reasoning
3171. ICML 2026How2Everything: Mining the Web for How-to Procedures to Evaluate and Improve LLMs
3172. ICML 2026HSGG: Training-Free Hierarchical Scene Graph Generation with Geometry-Guided Relation Reasoning
3173. ICML 2026Hybrid Policy Distillation for LLMs
3174. ICML 2026HybridFlow: Resource-Adaptive Subtask Routing for Efficient Edge-Cloud LLM Inference
3175. ICML 2026Hydra-Nav: Object Navigation via Adaptive Dual-Process Reasoning
3176. ICML 2026HypCL: Adapting CLIP in Hyperbolic Space for Continual Learning
3177. ICML 2026Hyper-ICL: Attention Calibration with Hyperbolic Anchor Distillation for Multimodal In-Context Learning
3178. ICML 2026Hyper-LLaVA: Hyperbolic Uncertainty-aware Modality-Balanced Routing for Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning
3179. ICML 2026Hyperbolic Hierarchical Alignment for Video-Based Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification
3180. ICML 2026Hyperbolic Multimodal Continual Learning
3181. ICML 2026Hyperspectral Image Fusion with Spectral-Band and Fusion-Scale Agnosticism
3182. ICML 2026IAPO: Information-Aware Policy Optimization for Token-Efficient Reasoning
3183. ICML 2026IBMA: Information Bottleneck-Based Multimodal Alignment
3184. ICML 2026Image-to-Brain Signal Generation for Visual Prosthesis with CLIP Guided Multimodal Diffusion Models
3185. ICML 2026Imagination Helps Visual Reasoning, But Not Yet in Latent Space
3186. ICML 2026Immuno-VLM: Immunizing Large Vision-Language Models via Generative Semantic Antibodies for Open-World Trustworthiness
3187. ICML 2026ImpQuant: Fine-Grained Importance-Aware Quantization for Large Vision-Language Models
3188. ICML 2026Improved Dynamic Algorithm for Non-monotone Submodular Maximization under Cardinality Constraint
3189. ICML 2026Improving CLIP Adaptation by Breaking Tail Alignment for Source-Free Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning
3190. ICML 2026Improving Visual Token Reduction via Rectifying Distortions for Efficient Multimodal LLM Inference
3191. ICML 2026ImpText: A Benchmark and Tool-Augmented Framework for Implicit Text Reasoning
3192. ICML 2026Inference-Time Conformal Reasoning with Valid Factuality Control for Large Language Models
3193. ICML 2026InfoFlow KV: Information-Flow-Aware KV Recomputation for Long Context
3194. ICML 2026Inner-layer Token Self-modulation as Another Scaling Axis for LLMs
3195. ICML 2026Innovation: An Almost Characterization of Hallucination
3196. ICML 2026Inside the Visual Mind: Neuroscience-Motivated Concept Circuits for Interpreting and Steering Vision Transformers
3197. ICML 2026Instruction Decomposition and Action Alignment for Vision-Language Navigation
3198. ICML 2026Instruction Lens Score: Your Instruction Contributes a Powerful Object Hallucination Detector for Multimodal Large Language Models
3199. ICML 2026Interactive Person Retrieval via Multi-Turn Multimodal Conversation
3200. ICML 2026Interpretability Transfer from Language to Vision via Sparse Autoencoders

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.