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 71 of 104

3501. ICML 2026RoboOmni: Actions Are Just Another Modality for Vision-Language Models
3502. ICML 2026RoboTwin 2.0: A Scalable Data Generator and Benchmark with Strong Domain Randomization for Robust Bimanual Robotic Manipulation
3503. ICML 2026Robust Cross-Modal Retrieval via Generative Semantic Refinement and Exclusion-Guided Adaptation
3504. ICML 2026Robust Multi-View Fusion via Prototype-Anchored Unbalanced Optimal Transport
3505. ICML 2026Robust Vision-Language Models via Manifold-Adversarial Adapters
3506. ICML 2026Robustifying Vision-Language Models via Test-Time Prompt Adaptation
3507. ICML 2026Rotary Position Encodings for Graphs
3508. ICML 2026RuCL: Stratified Rubric-Based Curriculum Learning for Multimodal Large Language Model Reasoning
3509. ICML 2026RVAS: Referring Video Active Exploration and Segmentation
3510. ICML 2026S2M-Net: Spectral-Spatial Mixing with Morphology-Aware Adaptive Loss for Medical Image Segmentation
3511. ICML 2026Safe Autoregressive Image Generation with Iterative Self-Improving Codebooks
3512. ICML 2026SAGE: A Dataflow-Native Framework for Modular, Controllable, and Transparent LLM-Augmented Reasoning
3513. ICML 2026SAGE: Shaping Anchors for Guided Exploration in RLVR of LLMs
3514. ICML 2026SALSA-V: Shortcut-Augmented Long-form Synchronized Audio from Videos
3515. ICML 2026SAME: Stabilized Mixture-of-Experts for Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning
3516. ICML 2026Sampling and Identity-Testing Without Approximate Tensorization of Entropy
3517. ICML 2026SARSteer: Safeguarding Large Audio Language Models via Safe-Ablated Refusal Steering
3518. ICML 2026SAW-Bench: Learning Situated Awareness in the Real World
3519. ICML 2026Scalable Kronecker-Factored Fisher Approximation for Neural Network Parameter Sensitivity
3520. ICML 2026Scalable Medical Multimodal Fusion via Symmetric Consistency Modeling
3521. ICML 2026Scalable Power Sampling: Unlocking Efficient, Training-Free Reasoning for LLMs via Distribution Sharpening
3522. ICML 2026SCALE: Self-uncertainty Conditioned Adaptive Looking and Execution for Vision-Language-Action Models
3523. ICML 2026ScaleErasure: Inference-Time Minimal Intervention for Precise Concept Erasure in Next-Scale Autoregressive Image Generation
3524. ICML 2026Scaling by Diversified Experience for Vision-Language-Action Models
3525. ICML 2026Scaling Prompt Synthesis for Large Language Model Reasoning
3526. ICML 2026Scaling Vision Transformers for Functional MRI with Flat Maps
3527. ICML 2026Scaling-Aware Adapter for Structure-Grounded LLM Reasoning
3528. ICML 2026Scaling, Benchmarking, and Reasoning of Vision-Language Agents for Mobile GUI Navigation
3529. ICML 2026ScalingAR: Scaling Confidence for Autoregressive Image Generation
3530. ICML 2026Scene Graph Thinking: Reinforcing Structured Visual Reasoning for Multimodal Large Language Models
3531. ICML 2026SceneSmith: Agentic Generation of Simulation-Ready Indoor Scenes
3532. ICML 2026SciPredict: Can LLMs Predict the Outcomes of Scientific Experiments in Natural Sciences?
3533. ICML 2026SciVideoBench: Benchmarking Scientific Video Reasoning in Large Multimodal Models
3534. ICML 2026SCOPE and SCION: A Benchmark and an Auditable Reference Pipeline for Schema Induction and Fusion from Text
3535. ICML 2026SCOPE: Evolving Symbolic World for Planning in Open-Ended Environments
3536. ICML 2026ScreenParse: Moving Beyond Sparse Grounding with Complete Screen Parsing Supervision
3537. ICML 2026SCRWKV: Ultra-Compact Structure-Calibrated Vision-RWKV for Topological Crack Segmentation
3538. ICML 2026SEAgent: Self-Evolving Computer Use Agent with Autonomous Learning from Experience
3539. ICML 2026Securing Multimodal AI through Internal Information Decomposition
3540. ICML 2026See First, Reason Later: Mutual Information-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language Models
3541. ICML 2026See What Matters: Differentiable Grid Sample Pruning for Generalizable Vision-Language-Action Model
3542. ICML 2026See, Act, Adapt: Active Perception for Unsupervised Cross-Domain Visual Adaptation via Personalized VLM-Guided Agent
3543. ICML 2026Seeing is Solving: Unlocking Efficient Multimodal RL via View Alignment
3544. ICML 2026Seeing is Understanding: Unlocking Causal Attention into Modality-Mutual Attention for Multimodal LLMs
3545. ICML 2026Seeing Realism from Simulation: Efficient Video Transfer for Vision-Language-Action Data Augmentation
3546. ICML 2026Seeing Symbols, Missing Structure: A Real-World Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition Benchmark for Large Models
3547. ICML 2026Seeing to Generalize: How Visual Data Corrects Binding Shortcuts
3548. ICML 2026Seeing Without Understanding: Disentangling Perception, Reasoning, and Simulation in VLM Gameplay
3549. ICML 2026Seg-ReSearch: Segmentation with Interleaved Reasoning and External Search
3550. ICML 2026Seizure-Semiology-Suite($S^3$): A Clinically Multimodal Dataset, Benchmark, and Models for Seizure Semiology Understanding

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.