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 66 of 104

3251. ICML 2026Learning with Admissibility: Robust Fuzzy Hashing for Cross-Modal Retrieval with Noisy Labels
3252. ICML 2026Left–Right Symmetry Breaking in CLIP-Style Vision-Language Models Trained on Synthetic Spatial-Relation Data
3253. ICML 2026Less Is More in Federated Continual Learning: RieSelect for Conflict-Aware Layer Selection in LLMs
3254. ICML 2026Less is More: Geometric Unlearning for LLMs with Minimal Data Disclosure
3255. ICML 2026Less Precise Can Be More Reliable: A Systematic Evaluation of Quantization’s Impact on VLMs Beyond Accuracy
3256. ICML 2026Let Language Constrain Geometry: Vision–Language Models as Semantic and Spatial Critics for 3D Generation
3257. ICML 2026Leveraging Evidence Priors for Robust Prompt Learning under Noisy Supervision in Vision-Language Models
3258. ICML 2026LFQ: Logit-aware Final-block Quantization for Boosting the Generation Quality of Low-Bit Quantized LLMs
3259. ICML 2026LIFT: A Novel Framework for Enhancing Long-Context Understanding of LLMs via Long Input Fine-Tuning
3260. ICML 2026LiME: Lightweight Mixture of Experts for Efficient Multimodal Multi-task Learning
3261. ICML 2026LIMSSR: LLM-Driven Sequence-to-Score Reasoning under Training-Time Incomplete Multimodal Observations
3262. ICML 2026Linear Ensembles Wash Away Watermarks: On the Fragility of Distributional Perturbations in LLMs
3263. ICML 2026Linearizing Vision Transformer with Test-Time Training
3264. ICML 2026Linguistic Relative Policy Optimization for Video Anomaly Reasoning
3265. ICML 2026LittleBit-2: Maximizing the Spectral Energy Gain in Sub-1-Bit LLMs via Latent Geometry Alignment
3266. ICML 2026LiveFigure: Generating Editable Scientific Illustration with VLM Agents
3267. ICML 2026LLM-Guided Diagnostic Evidence Alignment for Medical Vision–Language Pretraining under Limited Pairing
3268. ICML 2026LLM4Branch: Large Language Model for Discovering Efficient Branching Policies of Integer Programs
3269. ICML 2026LLMInertia: Adaptive Counter-Inertial Reasoning to Improve Evidence Faithfulness in Large Language Models
3270. ICML 2026LLMs as Noisy Channels: A Shannon Perspective on Model Capacity and Scaling Laws
3271. ICML 2026LLMs Lean on Priors, Not Programming Language Semantics
3272. ICML 2026LMM4-IC4K: A Large Multimodal Model Powered Integrated Circuit Footprint Geometry Understanding
3273. ICML 2026Local Linearity of LLMs Enables Activation Steering via Model-Based Linear Optimal Control
3274. ICML 2026Localize and Neutralize: Gradient-Guided Token Suppression Against Visual Prompt Injection Attack
3275. ICML 2026LogicSAGE: Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning with Socratic-Guided Enhancement
3276. ICML 2026Logit-Attention Divergence: Mitigating Position Bias in Multi-Image Retrieval via Attention-Guided Calibration
3277. ICML 2026Long Grounded Thoughts: Synthesizing Visual Problems and Reasoning Chains at Scale
3278. ICML 2026Long-Context Modeling with Dynamic Hierarchical Sparse Attention for Memory-Constrained LLM Inference
3279. ICML 2026Look on Demand: A Cognitive Scheduling Framework for Visual Evidence Acquisition in Multimodal Reasoning
3280. ICML 2026Lookahead-GCG: Improving Universal Multi-Model Optimization-Based Jailbreaking Attacks via Stochastic Nesterov Optimization
3281. ICML 2026Looking Locally: Object-Centric Vision Transformers as Foundation Models for Efficient Segmentation
3282. ICML 2026Low-cost Full Fine-tuning: Learning What to Update for LLMs
3283. ICML 2026M-IDoL: Information Decomposition for Modality-Specific and Diverse Representation Learning in Medical Foundation Model
3284. ICML 2026MACD: Model-Aware Contrastive Decoding via Counterfactual Data for Video-LLMs
3285. ICML 2026MADA-Attack: Transferable Multi-modal Attention Distraction Adversarial Attack against Vision Language Models
3286. ICML 2026MAGIC: Multi-Granularity Language-Informed Image Clustering
3287. ICML 2026Making Expert Reasoning Learnable with Self-Distillation
3288. ICML 2026ManiSoft: Towards Vision-Language Manipulation for Soft Continuum Robotics
3289. ICML 2026Mantis: Lightweight Foundation Model for Time Series Classification
3290. ICML 2026MapDream: Task-Driven Map Learning for Vision-Language Navigation
3291. ICML 2026MathlibLemma: Folklore Lemma Generation and Benchmark for Formal Mathematics
3292. ICML 2026MDN: Parallelizing Stepwise Momentum for Delta Linear Attention
3293. ICML 2026Measuring Meta-Cultural Competency: A Spectral Framework for LLM Knowledge Structures
3294. ICML 2026MechVQA: Benchmarking and Enhancing Multimodal LLMs on Comprehensive Mechanical Drawing Understanding
3295. ICML 2026Med-Scout: Curing MLLMs' Geometric Blindness in Medical Perception via Geometry-Aware RL Post-Training
3296. ICML 2026MEDA: Medical-Oriented Activation Editing for Hallucination Mitigation in Medical Large Vision-Language Model
3297. ICML 2026MedCRP-CL: Continual Medical Image Segmentation via Bayesian Nonparametric Semantic Modality Discovery
3298. ICML 2026MedMosaic: A Challenging Large Scale Benchmark of Diverse Medical Audio
3299. ICML 2026MedREK: Retrieval-Based Editing for Medical LLMs with Key-Aware Prompts
3300. ICML 2026MedScope: Incentivizing "Think with Videos" for Clinical Reasoning via Coarse-to-Fine Tool Calling

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.