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 67 of 104

3301. ICML 2026MedSIGHT: Towards Grounded Visual Comprehension in Medical Large Vision-Language Models
3302. ICML 2026Meerkat-VL: Implicit Risk Safety Alignment in Multimodal LLMs via Perceptual Reasoning and Self-Verification
3303. ICML 2026MemOCR: Layout-Aware Visual Memory for Efficient Long-Horizon Reasoning
3304. ICML 2026Memory Savings at What Cost? A Study of Alternatives to Backpropagation
3305. ICML 2026MentisOculi: Revealing the Limits of Reasoning with Mental Imagery
3306. ICML 2026MER-DG: Modality-Entropy Regularization for Multimodal Domain Generalization
3307. ICML 2026MET-Bench: Multimodal Entity Tracking for Evaluating the Limitations of Vision-Language and Reasoning Models
3308. ICML 2026MetaDNS: Enhancing Exploration in Discrete Neural Samplers via Metadynamics
3309. ICML 2026MetaPerch: Learning from metadata for bioacoustics foundation models
3310. ICML 2026MetaStreet: Semi-Supervised Multimodal Learning for Street-Level Socioeconomic Prediction
3311. ICML 2026MFH-NAS:A Hybrid Neural Architecture Search Framework for Multimodal Fusion Object Detection
3312. ICML 2026Mind-Omni: A Unified Multi-Task Framework for Brain-Vision-Language Modeling via Discrete Diffusion
3313. ICML 2026MIND: Decoupling Model-Induced Label Noise via Latent Manifold Disentanglement
3314. ICML 2026MIND: Multi-rationale INtegrated Discriminative Reasoning Framework for Multi-modal Large Models
3315. ICML 2026Minibatch selection for Language Models via Partition Matroid Constrained Gradient Matching
3316. ICML 2026MINT: Minimal Information Neuro-Symbolic Tree for Objective-Driven Knowledge-Gap Reasoning and Active Elicitation
3317. ICML 2026Mitigating Error Accumulation in Continuous Navigation via Memory-Augmented Kalman Filtering
3318. ICML 2026Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models via Causal Route Gating
3319. ICML 2026Mitigating Manifold Departure: Uncertainty-Aware Subspace Rectification for Trustworthy MLLM Decoding
3320. ICML 2026Mitigating Mask Prior Drift and Positional Attention Collapse in Large Diffusion Vision-Language Models
3321. ICML 2026Mitigating Perceptual Judgment Bias in Multimodal LLM-as-a-Judge via Perceptual Perturbation and Reward Modeling
3322. ICML 2026Mitigating the Modality Gap in Vision–Language Models with Fractal Spectral Geometry
3323. ICML 2026Mitigating Visual Hallucinations via Semantic Curriculum Preference Optimization in MLLMs
3324. ICML 2026MiVE: Multiscale Vision-language features for reference-guided video Editing
3325. ICML 2026Mixing Expertise with Confidence: A Mixture of Experts Framework for Robust Multi-Modal Continual Learning
3326. ICML 2026Mixture of Distributions Matters: Dynamic Sparse Attention for Efficient Video Diffusion Transformers
3327. ICML 2026MLLM-4D: Towards Visual-based Spatial-Temporal Intelligence
3328. ICML 2026MM-Snowball: Evaluating and Mitigating Hallucination Snowballing in Multimodal Multi-Turn Dialogue
3329. ICML 2026MM-Spectrum: Multimodal Multi-spectral Molecular Structural Elucidation with a Stable MoE Framework
3330. ICML 2026MMBench-Live: A Continuously Evolving Benchmark for Multimodal Models
3331. ICML 2026MMClima: A Framework for Multimodal Climate Science Data and Evaluation
3332. ICML 2026MME-Reasoning: A Broad-Spectrum Benchmark for Evaluating Logical Reasoning in MLLMs
3333. ICML 2026MobileFusion: Mobile-Friendly Infrared and Visible Image Fusion via Structural Re-parameterization
3334. ICML 2026MOD-SR: Unifying Multimodal Learning and Direct Optimization with Gradient-Guided Diffusion Model for Symbolic Regression
3335. ICML 2026MoDA: Modulation Adapter for Fine-Grained Visual Understanding in Instructional MLLMs
3336. ICML 2026Modality-Decoupled Online Recursive Editing
3337. ICML 2026Model-Dowser: Data-Free Importance Probing to Mitigate Catastrophic Forgetting in Multimodal Large Language Models
3338. ICML 2026Model-Preserving Adaptive Rounding
3339. ICML 2026ModernVBERT: Towards Smaller Visual Document Retrievers
3340. ICML 2026MoLoRA: Composable Specialization via Per-Token Adapter Routing
3341. ICML 2026MORALISE: A Structured Benchmark for Moral Alignment in Visual Language Models
3342. ICML 2026MORE: A Multilingual Document Parsing Benchmark and Evaluation
3343. ICML 2026Mosaic: Unlocking Over 30$\times$ Context Length for Diffusion LLMs Inference via Global Memory Planning and Dynamic Peak Taming
3344. ICML 2026MotiMotion: Motion-Controlled Video Generation with Visual Reasoning
3345. ICML 2026Motion Dynamics Learning for Few-Shot Embodied Adaptation
3346. ICML 2026Move-Then-Operate: Behavioral Phasing for Human-Like Robotic Manipulation
3347. ICML 2026MoVie: Multimodal Video Compression with Text Guidance
3348. ICML 2026MuLoCo: Muon is a Practical Inner Optimizer for DiLoCo
3349. ICML 2026Multi-Label Test-Time Adaptation with Bayesian Conditional Priors
3350. ICML 2026MultiLoReFT: Decoupling Shared and Modality-Specific Subspaces in Multimodal Learning via Low-Rank Representation Fine-Tuning

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.