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

1,051 papers, page 7 of 22

301. ICML 2026Faithful Relational Reasoning with Region-based Embeddings: Expressivity of Convex Coordinate-wise Models
302. ICML 2026Fast and Accurate Causal Parallel Decoding using Jacobi Forcing
303. ICML 2026Fast and Expressive Multi-Byte Prediction with Probabilistic Circuits
304. ICML 2026Federated Sketching LoRA: A Flexible Framework for Heterogeneous Collaborative Fine-Tuning of LLMs
305. ICML 2026FedSSM: State Space Model-based Proactive Inference for Heterogeneous Multimodal Federated Learning
306. ICML 2026FG-CLIP 2: A Bilingual Fine-grained Vision-Language Alignment Model
307. ICML 2026Find, Fix, Reason: Context Repair for Video Reasoning
308. ICML 2026Finding the Correct Visual Evidence Without Forgetting: Mitigating Hallucination in LVLMs via Inter-Layer Visual Attention Discrepancy
309. ICML 2026Fine-Tuning of Transformer models with Frames
310. ICML 2026FiSeR: Fine-Grained Source Representations for Cross-Domain AI Image Detection
311. ICML 2026FLIPS: Instance-Fingerprinting for LLMs via Pseudo-random Sequences
312. ICML 2026FloorplanQA: A Benchmark for Spatial Reasoning in LLMs using Structured Representations
313. ICML 2026FlowNar: Scalable Streaming Narration for Long-Form Videos
314. ICML 2026FlowSeg: Dynamic Semantic Guidance for LLM-Conditioned Segmentation
315. ICML 2026FOCA: Future-Oriented Conditioning for Data-Efficient Vision-Language-Action Adaptation
316. ICML 2026Focusing Where Vision Matters: Selective Training for Large Vision Language Models via Visual Information Gain
317. ICML 2026Foreground-Aware Token Routing Vision Transformer for Real-Time Satellite Video Tracking
318. ICML 2026Forensic Prompting with Dual-Action Policy Optimization for Vision-Language Forgery Detection and Localization
319. ICML 2026Foresee-to-Ground: From Predictive Temporal Perception to Evidence-Driven Reasoning for Video Temporal Grounding
320. ICML 2026Formalizing the Binding Problem
321. ICML 2026FOVI: A biologically-inspired foveated interface for deep vision models
322. ICML 2026FrameOracle: Learning What to See and How Much to See in Videos
323. ICML 2026FreeRet: MLLMs as Training-Free Retrievers
324. ICML 2026Frequency-Aware Perceptual Optimization for Low-Complexity Implicit Image Compression
325. ICML 2026FRISM: Fine-Grained Reasoning Injection via Subspace-Level Model Merging for Vision–Language Models
326. ICML 2026From 2D Grids to 1D Tokens: Reforming Shared Representations for Multimodal Image Fusion
327. ICML 2026From Abstraction to Instantiation: Learning Behavioral Representation for Vision-Language-Action Model
328. ICML 2026From Blind Spots to Gains: Diagnostic-Driven Iterative Training for Large Multimodal Models
329. ICML 2026From Content to Knowledge: Lightning Fast Long-Video Understanding with Neural Knowledge Representations
330. ICML 2026From Correspondence to Actions: Human-Like Multi-Image Spatial Reasoning in Multi-modal Large Language Models
331. ICML 2026From Diagrams to Code: Multilingual Programming with Visual Design
332. ICML 2026From Drift to Coherence: Stabilizing Beliefs in LLMs
333. ICML 2026From Growing to Looping: A Unified View of Iterative Computation in LLMs
334. ICML 2026From Historical Patches to Repair Plans: Outcome-Conditioned Reasoning for Repository-Level Program Repair
335. ICML 2026From Internal Diagnosis to External Auditing: A VLM-Driven Paradigm for Data-Free Online Backdoor Defense
336. ICML 2026From Noise to Control: Parameterized Diffusion Policies
337. ICML 2026From Perception to Planning: Evolving Ego-Centric Task-Oriented Spatiotemporal Reasoning via Curriculum Learning
338. ICML 2026From Pixels to Tokens: A Systematic Study of Latent Action Supervision for Vision-Language-Action Models
339. ICML 2026From Prompts to Tokens: Internalizing Causal Supervision in Vision-Language Model for Multi-Image Causal Reasoning
340. ICML 2026From Seeing to Thinking: Decoupling Perception and Reasoning Improves Post-Training of Vision-Language Models
341. ICML 2026From Winning to Understanding: A Diagnostic Long-Horizon RTS Benchmark for LLMs
342. ICML 2026Furina: Fragmented Uncertainty-Driven Refusal Instability Attack
343. ICML 2026FUSE: Quantifying Uncertainty in Vision-Language Models by Bayesian Fusing Epistemic and Aleatoric Uncertainty
344. ICML 2026FusionCell: Cross-Attentive Fusion of Layout Geometry and Netlist Topology for Standard-Cell Performance Prediction
345. ICML 2026FutureOmni: Evaluating Future Forecasting from Omni-Modal Context for Multimodal LLMs
346. ICML 2026GAE: Unleashing Physical Potential of VLM with Generalizable Action Expert
347. ICML 2026GameVerse: Can Vision-Language Models Learn from Video-based Reflection?
348. ICML 2026GASS: Geometry-Aware Spherical Sampling for Disentangled Diversity Enhancement in Text-to-Image Generation
349. ICML 2026Gated Relational Alignment via Confidence-based Distillation for Efficient VLMs
350. ICML 2026Gateways to Tractability for Satisfiability in Pearl’s Causal Hierarchy

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.