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 65 of 104

3201. ICML 2026Interpreting and Enhancing Emotional Circuits in Large Vision-Language Models via Cross-Modal Information Flow
3202. ICML 2026Intrinsic Gradient Suppression for Label-Noise Prompt Tuning in Vision–Language Models
3203. ICML 2026IPMark: A Sentence-Level Watermark for LLMs with Hierarchical Personalization and Efficient Detection
3204. ICML 2026IQA-Spider: Unifying Multi-Granularity Image Quality Assessment with Reasoning, Grounding and Referring
3205. ICML 2026IRIS: Implicit Reward-Guided Internal Sifting for Mitigating Multimodal Hallucination
3206. ICML 2026Is Code Better Than Language for Algorithmic Reasoning?
3207. ICML 2026Is Your LLM Overcharging You? Tokenization, Transparency, and Incentives
3208. ICML 2026IVQA-LD: Inclusive Multimodal Understanding for Population with Limb Deficiency
3209. ICML 2026Jailbreaking Vision-Language Models Through the Visual Modality
3210. ICML 2026Joint Navigation and Manipulation Planning with 3D Interaction Chains
3211. ICML 2026Keep It in Mind: User Centric Continual Spatial Intelligence Reasoning in Egocentric Video Streams
3212. ICML 2026Know Thyself, Know Thy User: Intrinsic Dual-Perspective Reasoning for Role-Playing LLMs
3213. ICML 2026KODA: Contrastive Representation Comparison and Alignment for Vision-Language Foundation Models
3214. ICML 2026KORE: Enhancing Knowledge Injection for Large Multimodal Models via Knowledge-Oriented Controls
3215. ICML 2026KromHC: Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections with Kronecker-Product Residual Matrices
3216. ICML 2026Kuramoto Oscillatory Phase Encoding: Neuro-inspired Synchronization for Improved Learning Efficiency
3217. ICML 2026LAGEA: Language Guided Embodied Agents for Robotic Manipulation
3218. ICML 2026Lagrangian Perturbation Diffusion Steering: Latent Reinforcement Learning for Generative Policies
3219. ICML 2026LALM-as-a-Judge: Benchmarking Large Audio-Language Models for Safety Evaluation in Multi-Turn Spoken Dialogues
3220. ICML 2026LangForce: Bayesian Decomposition of Vision Language Action Models via Latent Action Queries
3221. ICML 2026LangPrecip: Language-Aware Multimodal Precipitation Nowcasting
3222. ICML 2026LaRA-Fusion: Latent-Robust Adaptation via Dual-Loop Constraints for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion
3223. ICML 2026LARA: Latent Action Representation Alignment for Vision-Language-Action Models
3224. ICML 2026Large Language Model Teaches Visual Students: Cross-Modality Transfer of Fine-Grained Conceptual Knowledge
3225. ICML 2026Large Language Models as Topological Thinkers: A Benchmark on Graph Persistent Homology
3226. ICML 2026Large Vision-Language Models Get Lost in Attention
3227. ICML 2026LAST: Bridging Vision-Language and Action Manifolds via Gromov-Wasserstein Alignment
3228. ICML 2026LaST$_{0}$: Latent Spatio-Temporal Chain-of-Thought for Robotic Vision-Language-Action Model
3229. ICML 2026Latent Reasoning VLA: Latent Thinking and Prediction for Vision-Language-Action Models
3230. ICML 2026LatentLens: Revealing Highly Interpretable Visual Tokens in LLMs
3231. ICML 2026LATMiX: Learnable Affine Transformations for Microscaling Quantization of LLMs
3232. ICML 2026LaTtE-Flow: Layerwise Timestep-Expert Flow-based Transformer
3233. ICML 2026LAVA: A Unified Framework for Finetuning Language and Vision Models
3234. ICML 2026Lavida-R1: Advancing Reasoning for Unified Multimodal Diffusion Language Models
3235. ICML 2026Layer-Centric Factors of Variation Disentanglement for Task- and Model-Agnostic Generalization
3236. ICML 2026LC-QAT: Data-Efficient 2-Bit QAT for LLMs via Linear-Constrained Vector Quantization
3237. ICML 2026Leak@$k$: Unlearning Does Not Make LLMs Forget Under Probabilistic Decoding
3238. ICML 2026Learn to Think: Improving Multimodal Reasoning through Vision-Aware Self-Improvement Training
3239. ICML 2026Learning a Zeroth-Order Optimizer for Fine-Tuning LLMs
3240. ICML 2026Learning from Fine-Grained Visual Discrepancies: Mitigating Multimodal Hallucinations via In-Context Visual Contrastive Optimization
3241. ICML 2026Learning GUI Grounding with Spatial Reasoning from Visual Feedback
3242. ICML 2026Learning More from Less: Unlocking Internal Representations for Benchmark Compression
3243. ICML 2026Learning Rewrite-Invariant Reasoning with Targeted Alternation Training
3244. ICML 2026Learning Self-Correction in Vision–Language Models via Rollout Augmentation
3245. ICML 2026Learning Taxonomic Trees with Hierarchical Representation Regularization for Large Multimodal Models
3246. ICML 2026Learning the Neighborhood: Contrast-Free Multimodal Self-Supervised Molecular Graph Pretraining
3247. ICML 2026Learning to Decode Against Compositional Hallucination in Video Multimodal Large Language Models
3248. ICML 2026Learning to Memorize with Attributive and Associative Memory for Online Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models
3249. ICML 2026Learning to Move Before Learning to Do: Task-Agnostic pretraining for VLAs
3250. ICML 2026Learning When to Attend: Conditional Memory Access for Long-Context LLMs

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.