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 72 of 104

3551. ICML 2026Selective Coupling of Decoupled Informative Regions: Masked Attention Alignment for Data-Free Quantization of Vision Transformers
3552. ICML 2026Selective Deferred Routing: Enabling Cost-Efficient Collaboration between Local SLMs and Remote LLMs
3553. ICML 2026Self-Calibrated Consistency can Fight Back for Adversarial Robustness in Vision-Language Models
3554. ICML 2026Self-Captioning Multimodal Interaction Tuning: Amplifying Exploitable Redundancies for Robust Vision Language Models
3555. ICML 2026Self-Prophetic Decoding to Unlock Visual Search in LVLMs
3556. ICML 2026Self-Supervised Weight Templates for Scalable Vision Model Initialization
3557. ICML 2026Sem-Detect: Semantic Level Detection of AI Generated Peer-Reviews
3558. ICML 2026Semantic Impact–Driven Visual Scheduling in Vision-Language Models
3559. ICML 2026Semantic Robustness Certification for Vision-Language Models
3560. ICML 2026Semantic Router: On the Feasibility of Hijacking MLLMs via a Single Adversarial Perturbation
3561. ICML 2026Semantic-Enriched Latent Visual Reasoning
3562. ICML 2026SEMIR: Semantic Minor-Induced Representation Learning on Graphs for Visual Segmentation
3563. ICML 2026Sentinel-VLA: A Metacognitive VLA Model with Active Status Monitoring for Dynamic Reasoning and Error Recovery
3564. ICML 2026SEPS: Semantic-Enhanced Patch Slimming Framework for Fine-Grained Cross-Modal Alignment
3565. ICML 2026Shape of Thought: Progressive Object Assembly via Visual Chain-of-Thought
3566. ICML 2026SHARP-Q: Spectral Hessian Alignment and Rectification for Post-training Quantization
3567. ICML 2026Similarity Is Not Logic: Factored Inference for Dual-Encoder Vision-Language Models
3568. ICML 2026SJD-SV: Speculative Jacobi Decoding with Semantics Verification for Autoregressive Image Generation
3569. ICML 2026SkillNet: Hierarchical Skill Modeling for Compositional Generalization in Vision-Language Action Models
3570. ICML 2026Skip a Layer or Loop It? Learning Program-of-Layers in LLMs
3571. ICML 2026Skip-It? Theoretical Conditions for Layer Skipping in Vision–Language Models
3572. ICML 2026SL-VC: A Benchmark and Automated Framework for Separation Logic Verification Condition Proving
3573. ICML 2026SLAP: The Semantic Least Action Principle for Variational Video-Language Modeling
3574. ICML 2026SLASH the Sink: Sharpening Structural Attention Inside LLMs
3575. ICML 2026SleepLM: Natural-Language Intelligence for Human Sleep
3576. ICML 2026SleepMaMi: A Universal Sleep Foundation Model for Integrating Macro- and Micro-structures
3577. ICML 2026SliceFine: The Universal Winning-Slice Hypothesis for Pretrained Networks
3578. ICML 2026SLIM: Secure and Efficient Inference for Large Language Models on Untrusted Devices via TEEs
3579. ICML 2026SLIP-RS: Structured-Attribute Language-Image Pre-Training for Remote Sensing Object Detection
3580. ICML 2026SLQ: Bridging Modalities via Shared Latent Queries for Retrieval with Frozen MLLMs
3581. ICML 2026Smaller Models are Natural Explorers for Policy-Level Diversity in GRPO
3582. ICML 2026SMD: Multi-view Safety-Critical Driving Video Generation in the Real-world Domain
3583. ICML 2026SMM Transformer: Leveraging Spiking Neural Networks for Multimodal Tasks
3584. ICML 2026Smoothing Slot Attention Iterations and Recurrences
3585. ICML 2026SoftMoE: Soft Differentiable Routing for Mixture-of-Experts in LLMs
3586. ICML 2026SOLAR: Self-supervised Joint Learning for Symmetric Multimodal Retrieval
3587. ICML 2026SOTAlign: Semi-Supervised Alignment of Unimodal Vision and Language Models via Optimal Transport
3588. ICML 2026SP-Mind: An Autonomous Reasoning Agent for Spatial Proteomics Analysis
3589. ICML 2026SpaCeFormer: Fast Proposal-Free Open-Vocabulary 3D Instance Segmentation
3590. ICML 2026SpanNorm: Reconciling Training Stability and Performance in Deep Transformers
3591. ICML 2026SPARC: Separating Perception And Reasoning Circuits for Test-time Scaling of VLMs
3592. ICML 2026SPARKLING: Balancing Signal Preservation and Symmetry Breaking for Width-Progressive Learning
3593. ICML 2026Sparser Block-Sparse Attention via Token Permutation
3594. ICML 2026Sparser, Faster, Lighter Transformer Language Models
3595. ICML 2026SPATIA: Multimodal Generation and Prediction of Spatial Cell Phenotypes
3596. ICML 2026Spatial Memory for Out-of-Vision Manipulation in Vision-Language-Action
3597. ICML 2026Spatial Priors via Space Filling Curves for Small and Limited Data Vision Transformers
3598. ICML 2026SpatialReward: Bridging the Perception Gap in Online RL for Image Editing via Explicit Spatial Reasoning
3599. ICML 2026Spatio-Temporal LLM: Reasoning about Environments and Actions
3600. ICML 2026SpatioLM: Towards General Physical Spatial Intelligence in Vision-Language Models

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.