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 73 of 104

3601. ICML 2026SpecPL: Disentangling Spectral Granularity for Prompt Learning
3602. ICML 2026SpecPrune-VLA: Accelerating Vision-Language-Action Models via Action-Aware Self-Speculative Pruning
3603. ICML 2026Spectra: Rethinking Optimizers for LLMs Under Spectral Anisotropy
3604. ICML 2026Spectral Heat Flow for Conservative Token Condensation in Vision-Language Models
3605. ICML 2026Spectral Imbalance Causes Forgetting in Low-Rank Continual Adaptation
3606. ICML 2026Spectral-Progressive Thought Flow for Lightweight Multimodal Reasoning
3607. ICML 2026SPEED-Bench: A Unified and Diverse Benchmark for Speculative Decoding
3608. ICML 2026Spherical SO(3) Equivariant Local Attention
3609. ICML 2026Spiked-CFR: Causal Representation Learning from LLMs via Wasserstein Projection Pursuit
3610. ICML 2026SpikeVLA: Vision-Language-Action Models with Spiking Neural Networks
3611. ICML 2026SplAttN: Bridging 2D and 3D with Gaussian Soft Splatting and Attention for Point Cloud Completion
3612. ICML 2026SPLIT-VLM: Salience-Guided Partitioning towards Local Coverage for Importance-Aware Token Dropping in Vision-Language Models
3613. ICML 2026SPR: A Structured Prompt Refinement Network for Modality Missing
3614. ICML 2026SS-TPT: Stability and Suitability-Guided Test-Time Prompt Tuning for Adversarially Robust Vision-Language Models
3615. ICML 2026SSDCN: Spatial-Spectral Dual-Clustering-based Network for Hyperspectral Image Super-resolution
3616. ICML 2026SSL4RL: Revisiting Self-supervised Learning as Intrinsic Reward for Visual-Language Reasoning
3617. ICML 2026ST-Veto: Spatio-Temporal Token Veto for Diffusion MLLMs via Taylor Prediction and Visual Grounding
3618. ICML 2026Stabilizing Native Low-Rank LLM Pretraining
3619. ICML 2026Stable Spectral Copula Alignment for Robust Multimodal Learning
3620. ICML 2026StableI2I: Spotting Unintended Changes in Image-to-Image Transition
3621. ICML 2026StableVLA: Towards Robust Vision-Language-Action Models without Extra Data
3622. ICML 2026STARE: Step-wise Temporal Alignment and Red-teaming Engine for Multi-modal Toxicity Attack
3623. ICML 2026Statistically Calibrated Scaling for Token Merging in Transformers
3624. ICML 2026STD-Former: Image-Conditioned Texture Dictionary Encoding with Sparse Topological Supervision for Texture Recognition
3625. ICML 2026Steal the Patch Size: Adversarially Manipulate Vision Language Models
3626. ICML 2026Steer Where It Matters: Token-Level Visual-Sensitivity Steering for LVLMs Hallucination Mitigation
3627. ICML 2026Step-Resolved Data Attribution for Looped Transformers
3628. ICML 2026STORM: Segment, Track, and Object Re-Localization from a Single Image
3629. ICML 2026StructMamPose: From Sequential Perception to Structural Reasoning for 3D Human Pose Estimation
3630. ICML 2026STT-LLM: Structural-Temporal Tokenization for Adapting LLMs to Longitudinal Clinical Profiles
3631. ICML 2026Supervised Classification Heads as Semantic Prototypes: Unlocking Vision-Language Alignment via Weight Recycling
3632. ICML 2026Suppress and Diversify: Refining Robust Pathways for Corruption Robustness
3633. ICML 2026SVL: Empowering Spiking Neural Networks for Efficient 3D Open-World Understanding
3634. ICML 2026SWE-fficiency: Can Language Models Optimize Real-World Repositories on Real Workloads?
3635. ICML 2026Symbal: Detecting Systematic Misalignments in Model-Generated Captions
3636. ICML 2026Synergistic Intra- and Cross-Layer Regularization Losses for MoE Expert Specialization
3637. ICML 2026Synergistic Space-Vision Processing for Predicate Inference
3638. ICML 2026SynerMedGen: Synergizing Medical Multimodal Understanding with Generation via Task Alignment
3639. ICML 2026Synthesizing Multimodal Geometry Datasets from Scratch and Enabling Visual Alignment via Plotting Code
3640. ICML 2026T-Edit: Triple-Branch Diffusion Anchoring for Consistent Editing
3641. ICML 2026Tabero: Learning Gentle Manipulation with Closed-Loop Force Feedback from Vision, Touch, and Language
3642. ICML 2026TabMGP: Martingale Posterior with TabPFN
3643. ICML 2026Taming I2V models for Image HOI Editing: A Cognitive Benchmark and Agentic Self-Correcting Framework
3644. ICML 2026Task-and-Model-Aware Fractal-Consistency for Efficient LLM Reasoning
3645. ICML 2026Task-Aware Mechanism: Hybrid MoE Vision Tower Towards Holistic Video Understanding
3646. ICML 2026Task-Aware Structured Memory for Dynamic Multi-modal In-Context Learning
3647. ICML 2026TCAP: Tri-Component Attention Profiling for Unsupervised Backdoor Detection in MLLM Fine-Tuning
3648. ICML 2026Temporal Difference Calibration in Sequential Tasks: Application to Vision-Language-Action Models
3649. ICML 2026Temporal-Aware Reasoning Optimization for Video Temporal Grounding
3650. ICML 2026Test-Time Debiasing with Probabilistic Prompts via Wasserstein Distance 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.