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 68 of 104

3351. ICML 2026Multimodal Fact-Level Attribution for Verifiable Reasoning
3352. ICML 2026Multimodal Function Vectors for Visual Relations
3353. ICML 2026Multimodal Fusion via Self-Consistent Task-Gradient Fields
3354. ICML 2026Multimodal Latent Language Modeling with Next-Token Diffusion
3355. ICML 2026Multimodal Nested Learning for Decoupled and Coordinated Optimization
3356. ICML 2026Multimodal Scaling Laws for Task & Data-Optimized Models of Visual Cortex
3357. ICML 2026MultiPriv: Benchmarking Individual-Level Privacy Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
3358. ICML 2026MVI-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Robustness to Misleading Visual Inputs in LVLMs
3359. ICML 2026MVP-LAM: Learning Action-Centric Latent Action via Cross-Viewpoint Reconstruction
3360. ICML 2026Native Active Perception as Reasoning for Omni-Modal Understanding
3361. ICML 2026NAVIGATE: Evaluating Visual-Guided Search Decision-Making on the Open Web
3362. ICML 2026Navigating the Pareto Frontier of Alignment: Spectrum-Adaptive Fine-Tuning for LLMs
3363. ICML 2026NeUQI: Near-Optimal Uniform Quantization Parameter Initialization for Low-Bit LLMs
3364. ICML 2026Neural Implicit Action Fields: From Discrete Waypoints to Continuous Functions for Vision-Language-Action Models
3365. ICML 2026Neuro-Fuzzy Concept Learning for Interpretable Large Multimodal Models
3366. ICML 2026NeuroCLUS: A Foundation Model with Functional Clustering for Intracranial Neural Decoding
3367. ICML 2026Neuromem: A Granular Decomposition of the Streaming Lifecycle in External Memory for LLMs
3368. ICML 2026NeurVLA: Unleashing Failure-Handling Capability of Vision-Language-Action Models via Neural-Symbolic Reasoning
3369. ICML 2026Neutral-Reference Prompting for Vision–Language Models
3370. ICML 2026No Data? No Problem: Robust Vision-Tabular Learning with Missing Values
3371. ICML 2026Norm$\times$Direction: Restoring the Missing Query Norm in Vision Linear Attention
3372. ICML 2026Normalization Equivariance for Arbitrary Backbones, with Application to Image Denoising
3373. ICML 2026Numina-Lean-Agent: An Open and General Agentic Reasoning System for Formal Mathematics
3374. ICML 2026ObjEmbed: Towards Universal Multimodal Object Embeddings
3375. ICML 2026Olmix: A Framework for Data Mixing Throughout LM Development
3376. ICML 2026Omni-Diffusion: Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation with Masked Discrete Diffusion
3377. ICML 2026Omni-Perception Policy Optimization for Multimodal Emotion Reasoning
3378. ICML 2026OmniAID: Decoupling Semantic and Artifacts for Universal AI-Generated Image Detection in the Wild
3379. ICML 2026OmniFit: Bridging Modalities via Layer-Adaptive Token Compression for Omnimodal Large Language Models
3380. ICML 2026OmniSapiens: A Foundation Model for Social Behavior Processing via Heterogeneity-Aware Relative Policy Optimization
3381. ICML 2026OmniShow: Unifying Multimodal Conditions for Human-Object Interaction Video Generation
3382. ICML 2026OmniSIFT: Modality-Asymmetric Token Compression for Efficient Omni-modal Large Language Models
3383. ICML 2026OmniVL-Guard: Towards Unified Vision-Language Forgery Detection and Grounding via Balanced RL
3384. ICML 2026On Minimum Depth and Width of Floating-Point Neural Networks for Representing Floating-Point Functions
3385. ICML 2026On Path to Multimodal Historical Reasoning: HistBench and HistAgent
3386. ICML 2026On the Adversarial Robustness of Large Vision-Language Models under Visual Token Compression
3387. ICML 2026On the Difficulty of Learning a Meta-network for Training Data Selection
3388. ICML 2026On the Generalization Gap in Self-Evolving Language Model Reasoning
3389. ICML 2026On the Intrinsic Limits of Transformer Image Embeddings in Non-Solvable Spatial Reasoning
3390. ICML 2026On the Plasticity and Stability for Post-Training Large Language Models
3391. ICML 2026One Bias After Another: Mechanistic Reward Shaping and Persistent Biases in Language Reward Models
3392. ICML 2026One Bug, Hundreds Behind: LLMs for Large-Scale Bug Discovery
3393. ICML 2026One LR Doesn’t Fit All: Heavy-Tail Guided Layerwise Learning Rates for LLMs
3394. ICML 2026One-shot Entropy Minimization for Language Model Reasoning
3395. ICML 2026Op-CAD: Benchmarking and Investigating Operation-oriented CAD Generation
3396. ICML 2026Open-World LLM Logical Reasoning
3397. ICML 2026OpenHA: A Series of Open-Source Hierarchical Agentic Models in Minecraft
3398. ICML 2026OpenMAG: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal-Attributed Graph
3399. ICML 2026OpenTSLM: Time-Series Language Models for Reasoning over Multivariate Medical Text- and Time-Series Data
3400. ICML 2026Opt-Verifier: Unleashing the Power of LLMs for Optimization Modeling via Dual-Side Verification

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.