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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301. ICLR 2025HexGen-2: Disaggregated Generative Inference of LLMs in Heterogeneous Environment
302. ICLR 2025HiBug2: Efficient and Interpretable Error Slice Discovery for Comprehensive Model Debugging
303. ICLR 2025Hierarchical Autoregressive Transformers: Combining Byte- and Word-Level Processing for Robust, Adaptable Language Models
304. ICLR 2025Hierarchical Uncertainty Estimation for Learning-based Registration in Neuroimaging
305. ICLR 2025High-Quality Joint Image and Video Tokenization with Causal VAE
306. ICLR 2025How Do Large Language Models Understand Graph Patterns? A Benchmark for Graph Pattern Comprehension
307. ICLR 2025How Does Critical Batch Size Scale in Pre-training?
308. ICLR 2025How Does Vision-Language Adaptation Impact the Safety of Vision Language Models?
309. ICLR 2025How to Probe: Simple Yet Effective Techniques for Improving Post-hoc Explanations
310. ICLR 2025HQ-Edit: A High-Quality Dataset for Instruction-based Image Editing
311. ICLR 2025HShare: Fast LLM Decoding by Hierarchical Key-Value Sharing
312. ICLR 2025Hummingbird: High Fidelity Image Generation via Multimodal Context Alignment
313. ICLR 2025Hymba: A Hybrid-head Architecture for Small Language Models
314. ICLR 2025Hyper-Connections
315. ICLR 2025IDA-VLM: Towards Movie Understanding via ID-Aware Large Vision-Language Model
316. ICLR 2025Image and Video Tokenization with Binary Spherical Quantization
317. ICLR 2025ImagineNav: Prompting Vision-Language Models as Embodied Navigator through Scene Imagination
318. ICLR 2025Implicit In-context Learning
319. ICLR 2025Improving Complex Reasoning with Dynamic Prompt Corruption: A Soft Prompt Optimization Approach
320. ICLR 2025Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering
321. ICLR 2025Improving Pretraining Data Using Perplexity Correlations
322. ICLR 2025Improving Reasoning Performance in Large Language Models via Representation Engineering
323. ICLR 2025In Search of Forgotten Domain Generalization
324. ICLR 2025In vivo cell-type and brain region classification via multimodal contrastive learning
325. ICLR 2025INFER: A Neural-symbolic Model For Extrapolation Reasoning on Temporal Knowledge Graph
326. ICLR 2025Inference Optimal VLMs Need Fewer Visual Tokens and More Parameters
327. ICLR 2025Information Theoretic Text-to-Image Alignment
328. ICLR 2025Injecting Universal Jailbreak Backdoors into LLMs in Minutes
329. ICLR 2025Instruct-SkillMix: A Powerful Pipeline for LLM Instruction Tuning
330. ICLR 2025Intelligence at the Edge of Chaos
331. ICLR 2025Intent3D: 3D Object Detection in RGB-D Scans Based on Human Intention
332. ICLR 2025Interleaved Scene Graphs for Interleaved Text-and-Image Generation Assessment
333. ICLR 2025Interpretable Bilingual Multimodal Large Language Model for Diverse Biomedical Tasks
334. ICLR 2025Interpretable Vision-Language Survival Analysis with Ordinal Inductive Bias for Computational Pathology
335. ICLR 2025Interpreting and Editing Vision-Language Representations to Mitigate Hallucinations
336. ICLR 2025Intervening Anchor Token: Decoding Strategy in Alleviating Hallucinations for MLLMs
337. ICLR 2025Intrinsic Dimension Correlation: uncovering nonlinear connections in multimodal representations
338. ICLR 2025IRIS: LLM-Assisted Static Analysis for Detecting Security Vulnerabilities
339. ICLR 2025Is Factuality Enhancement a Free Lunch For LLMs? Better Factuality Can Lead to Worse Context-Faithfulness
340. ICLR 2025Is In-Context Learning Sufficient for Instruction Following in LLMs?
341. ICLR 2025Is Your Model Really A Good Math Reasoner? Evaluating Mathematical Reasoning with Checklist
342. ICLR 2025Is Your Multimodal Language Model Oversensitive to Safe Queries?
343. ICLR 2025Is Your Video Language Model a Reliable Judge?
344. ICLR 2025It Helps to Take a Second Opinion: Teaching Smaller LLMs To Deliberate Mutually via Selective Rationale Optimisation
345. ICLR 2025Jamba: Hybrid Transformer-Mamba Language Models
346. ICLR 2025JetFormer: An autoregressive generative model of raw images and text
347. ICLR 2025K-HALU: Multiple Answer Korean Hallucination Benchmark for Large Language Models
348. ICLR 2025KiVA: Kid-inspired Visual Analogies for Testing Large Multimodal Models
349. ICLR 2025KLay: Accelerating Arithmetic Circuits for Neurosymbolic AI
350. ICLR 2025kNN Attention Demystified: A Theoretical Exploration for Scalable Transformers

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.