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

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3401. ICML 2026Optimized Deferral for Imbalanced Settings
3402. ICML 2026ORBIT: A Prognostic World Model for Ocular Reasoning Based on Imagined Trajectories
3403. ICML 2026Out-of-Distribution Evaluation of Rule-Based and Strategic Reasoning in Chess Transformers
3404. ICML 2026Overcoming the Modality Gap in Context-Aided Forecasting
3405. ICML 2026OvisOCR: End-to-End Document Parsing via Aligning Specialized Perception with General Reasoning
3406. ICML 2026Pair2Scene: Learning Local Object Relations for Procedural Scene Generation
3407. ICML 2026ParisKV: Fast and Drift-Robust KV-Cache Retrieval for Long-Context LLMs
3408. ICML 2026Partial Ring Scan: Revisiting Scan Order in Vision State Space Models
3409. ICML 2026Particle Flow for Learning from Label Proportions
3410. ICML 2026Partitioning for Intrinsic Model Inversion Resistance in Collaborative Inference
3411. ICML 2026Perceptual Flow Network for Visually Grounded Reasoning
3412. ICML 2026PGT: Procedurally Generated Tasks for improving visual grounding in MLLMs
3413. ICML 2026PhaseAlign: Complex Phase Alignment for Stable Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
3414. ICML 2026PhaseCoder: Microphone Geometry-Agnostic Spatial Audio Understanding for Multimodal LLMs
3415. ICML 2026PhoStream: Benchmarking Real-World Streaming for Omnimodal Assistants in Mobile Scenarios
3416. ICML 2026PhysForge: Generating Physics-Grounded 3D Assets for Interactive Virtual World
3417. ICML 2026PISCES: Annotation-free Text-to-Video Post-Training via Optimal Transport-Aligned Rewards
3418. ICML 2026PixCLIP: Towards Fine-grained Vision-Language Understanding via Any-granularity Pixel-Text Alignment
3419. ICML 2026Plan in Sandbox, Navigate in Open Worlds: Learning Physics-Grounded Abstracted Experience for Embodied Navigation
3420. ICML 2026Plasticity Activation via Polar Operator: A Plug-in Method for Balancing Stability and Plasticity
3421. ICML 2026Platonic Transformers: A Solid Choice For Equivariance
3422. ICML 2026PlotCraft: Pushing the Limits of LLMs for Complex and Interactive Data Visualization
3423. ICML 2026POLIA: Policy Optimization with Visual-Object-Level Intrinsic Advantage for Multimodal Reasoning
3424. ICML 2026PosterAgent: Agentic Poster Generation via Stage-Aware Reinforcement Learning
3425. ICML 2026Practical and Optimal Algorithm for Linear Contextual Bandits with Rare Parameter Updates
3426. ICML 2026Preserve-Then-Quantize: Balancing Rank Budgets for Quantization Error Reconstruction in LLMs
3427. ICML 2026Pretrained Vision-Language-Action Models are Surprisingly Resistant to Forgetting in Continual Learning
3428. ICML 2026PRIM：Cooperative Dynamic Token Compression for Efficient Large Multimodal Models
3429. ICML 2026Principled Synthetic Data Enables the First Scaling Laws for LLMs in Recommendation
3430. ICML 2026PRISM: Perception Reasoning Interleaved for Sequential Decision Making.
3431. ICML 2026PRISM: Synergizing Vision Foundation Models via Self-organized Expert Specialization
3432. ICML 2026PRISM: Training-Free Video Anomaly Detection via Intrinsic Statistical Modeling
3433. ICML 2026Proact-VL: A Proactive VideoLLM for Real-Time AI Companions
3434. ICML 2026ProAct: A Benchmark and Multimodal Framework for Structure-Aware Proactive Response
3435. ICML 2026ProactiveLLM: Learning Active Interaction for Streaming Large Language Models
3436. ICML 2026Probabilistic Salient Object Ranking
3437. ICML 2026Probably Approximately Correct Labels
3438. ICML 2026Probing How Scalable Table Data Enhances General Long-Context Reasoning
3439. ICML 2026Procedural Pretraining: Warming Up Language Models with Abstract Data
3440. ICML 2026ProConMV: Provenance-Enabled Conceptual Framework for Interpretable Multi-View Diabetic Retinopathy Diagnosis
3441. ICML 2026Prompt Reinjection: Alleviating Prompt Forgetting in Multimodal Diffusion Transformers
3442. ICML 2026Prompt Tuning for CLIP on the Pretrained Manifold
3443. ICML 2026ProOPF: Benchmarking and Improving LLMs for Professional-Grade Power Systems Optimization Modeling
3444. ICML 2026Proteo-R1: Reasoning Foundation Models for De Novo Protein Design
3445. ICML 2026Proteus: Lookup-Free Trellis-Coded Quantization by Lattice-Breaking Compute Codes for 2-Bit LLMs
3446. ICML 2026Prototype-Based Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models
3447. ICML 2026Prototype-guided Bilateral Alignment Multimodal Federated Learning
3448. ICML 2026Proximal-IMH: Proximal Posterior Proposals for Independent Metropolis–Hastings with Approximate Operators
3449. ICML 2026PRPO: Paragraph-level Policy Optimization for Vision-Language Deepfake Detection
3450. ICML 2026PSBench: Editing Image via GUI Agents in Photoshop

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.