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 70 of 104

3451. ICML 2026Q-CLIP: Unleashing the Power of Vision-Language Models for Video Quality Assessment through Unified Cross-Modal Adaptation
3452. ICML 2026Q-Delta: Beyond Key–Value Associative State Evolution
3453. ICML 2026QiMeng-ChipV-RTL: Exploiting Information Locality for IP-level Verilog Generation
3454. ICML 2026QTALE: Quantization-Robust Token-Adaptive Layer Execution for LLMs
3455. ICML 2026Quantifying the noise sensitivity of the Wasserstein metric for images
3456. ICML 2026QuArch: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Reasoning in Computer Architecture
3457. ICML 2026R$^3$L: Reasoning 3D Layouts from Relative Spatial Relations
3458. ICML 2026R2-Router: A New Paradigm for LLM Routing with Reasoning
3459. ICML 2026RA-VLA: Retrieval-Augmented VLA for Test-Time Adaptation
3460. ICML 2026RaBiT: Residual Aware Binarization Training for Accurate and Efficient LLMs
3461. ICML 2026RADIO1D: Elastic Representations for Condensed Vision Modeling
3462. ICML 2026RDT2: Exploring the Scaling Limit of UMI Data Towards Zero-Shot Cross-Embodiment Generalization
3463. ICML 2026Real-Time Visual Attribution Streaming in Thinking Model
3464. ICML 2026REAL: Resolving Knowledge Conflicts in Knowledge-Intensive Visual Question Answering via Reasoning-Pivot Alignment
3465. ICML 2026Reason with Thumbnails, Answer with Focus: An Efficient and Effective Paradigm for Multimodal Grounded Visual Reasoning
3466. ICML 2026Reason, Then Re-reason: Cross-view Revisiting Improves Spatial Reasoning
3467. ICML 2026ReasonEdit: Editing Vision--Language Models using Human Reasoning
3468. ICML 2026Reasoning Compartmentalization: Bridging the Concretization Gap via Abstraction-based Routing
3469. ICML 2026Reasoning Is Not Free: Robust Adaptive Cost-Efficient Routing for LLM-as-a-Judge
3470. ICML 2026Reasoning-preserved Efficient Distillation of Large Language Models via Activation-aware Initialization
3471. ICML 2026Reasoning-VLA: An Efficient and Spatial-Guided General Vision-Language-Action Reasoning Model for Autonomous Driving
3472. ICML 2026RefChess: Training-Free Contextual Search for Zero-Shot Referring Image Segmentation
3473. ICML 2026Referring Multiple Regions with Large Multimodal Models via Contextual Latent Steering
3474. ICML 2026Reflex: Real-Time Vision-Language-Action Control through Streaming Inference
3475. ICML 2026Regression Language Models for Code
3476. ICML 2026Regulating Anatomy-Aware Rewards via Trajectory-Integral Feedback for Volumetric Computed Tomography Analysis
3477. ICML 2026Remove the Ambiguity: Few-shot Multimodal Anomaly Detection Using Crossmodal Feature Replacers
3478. ICML 2026RepetitionCurse: Measuring and Understanding Router Imbalance in Mixture-of-Experts LLMs under DoS Stress
3479. ICML 2026Respecting Modality Gap in Post-hoc Out-of-distribution Detection with Pre-trained Vision-Language Models
3480. ICML 2026Resting Neurons, Active Insights: Robustifying Activation Sparsity in LLMs via Spontaneity
3481. ICML 2026Restoring Exploration after Post-Training: Latent Exploration Decoding for Large Reasoning Models
3482. ICML 2026Rethinking Calibration for Early-Exit Neural Networks
3483. ICML 2026Rethinking Federated Prompt Learning for Medical Images: From Textual Tuning to Visual Manifold Anchoring
3484. ICML 2026Rethinking Gating Mechanism in Sparse MoE: Handling Arbitrary Modality Inputs with Confidence-Guided Gate
3485. ICML 2026Rethinking Genomic Modeling Through Optical Character Recognition
3486. ICML 2026Rethinking Instruction Drift as a Sampling Error: SNR-Aware Power Distributions for Long-Horizon Robotic Planning
3487. ICML 2026Rethinking Low-Confidence Pseudo Labels: Influence-Aware Semi-Supervised Fine-Tuning for Hyperspectral Change Detection
3488. ICML 2026Rethinking Multimodal Time-Series Forecasting Evaluation
3489. ICML 2026Rethinking Pretraining Data Detection for LLMs: From Local to Global
3490. ICML 2026Rethinking Video Generation Model for the Embodied World
3491. ICML 2026REVIS: Sparse Latent Steering to Mitigate Object Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models
3492. ICML 2026Revisiting the Role of Pretrained Weights in Model Merging: On Near-Optimality within the Core Subspace
3493. ICML 2026Revisiting Uncertainty: On Evidential Learning for Partially Relevant Video Retrieval
3494. ICML 2026REViT: Roto-reflection Equivariant Convolutional Vision Transformer
3495. ICML 2026ReVSI: Rebuilding Visual Spatial Intelligence Evaluation for Accurate Assessment of VLM 3D Reasoning
3496. ICML 2026Risk Awareness Injection: Calibrating Vision-Language Models for Safety without Compromising Utility
3497. ICML 2026RLSF-V: Mitigating Hallucinations in MLLMs via Fuzzy Semantic Self-Feedback
3498. ICML 2026ROAMM: A Benchmark Dataset for Multimodal Human Attention Decoding and EEG-to-Text Modeling During Naturalistic Reading
3499. ICML 2026RoboFlow4D: A Lightweight Flow World Model Toward Real-Time Flow-Guided Robotic Manipulation
3500. ICML 2026RoboMME: Benchmarking and Understanding Memory for Robotic Generalist Policies

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.