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 74 of 104

3651. ICML 2026Text Before Vision: Staged Knowledge Injection Matters for Agentic RLVR in Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing Understanding
3652. ICML 2026Text-Conditional JEPA for Learning Semantically Rich Visual Representations
3653. ICML 2026Text-Driven Fusion for Infrared and Visible Images: Achieving Image Scene Adaptation on Hyperbolic Space
3654. ICML 2026TextME: Bridging Unseen Modalities Through Text Descriptions
3655. ICML 2026Textual Supervision Enhances Geospatial Representations in Vision-Language Models
3656. ICML 2026TGV-KV: Text-Grounded KV Eviction for Vision-Language Models
3657. ICML 2026The Abstraction Gap in Vision-Language Causal Reasoning
3658. ICML 2026The Convergent Representation of Contrastive Vision-Language Models: Geometry, Modality Gap and Shared Space Alignment
3659. ICML 2026The Devil is in the Spectrum: Mitigating Representation Collapse in LLMs via Topologically Regularized Side-Path
3660. ICML 2026The Geometric Mechanics of Contrastive Representation Learning: Alignment Potentials, Entropic Dispersion, and Cross-Modal Divergence
3661. ICML 2026The Geometry of Representational Failures in Vision Language Models
3662. ICML 2026The Hidden Cost of Structured Generation in LLMs: Draft-Conditioned Constrained Decoding
3663. ICML 2026The Hidden Risk: Membership Inference Attacks on Multimodal Federated Learning via Modality Imbalance
3664. ICML 2026The Lie We Tell: Correcting the Euclidean Fallacy in Vision Language Action Policies via Score Matching on Tangent Space
3665. ICML 2026The Perceptual Bandwidth Bottleneck in Vision-Language Models: Active Visual Reasoning via Sequential Experimental Design
3666. ICML 2026The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs
3667. ICML 2026The Power of Power Law: Asymmetry Enables Compositional Reasoning
3668. ICML 2026The Realignment Problem: When Right becomes Wrong in LLMs
3669. ICML 2026The Shadow Price of Reasoning: Economic Perspective on Optimal Budget Allocation for LLMs
3670. ICML 2026The Signal is in the Steps: Local Scoring for Reasoning Data Selection
3671. ICML 2026The Structural Origin of Attention Sink: Variance Discrepancy, Super Neurons, and Dimension Disparity
3672. ICML 2026The Tell-Tale Norm: $\ell_2$ Magnitude as a Signal for Reasoning Dynamics in Large Language Models
3673. ICML 2026Think in Cloud, Look at Edges: Semantic-Driven Query Decomposition for Efficient Video Reasoning
3674. ICML 2026Think in Latent, Explain in Language: Self-Explainable Latent Reasoning
3675. ICML 2026Think Less, Act Early: Reinforced Latent Reasoning with Early Exit in Vision-Language-Action Models
3676. ICML 2026Thinking in Latent Space: Progressive Multimodal Simplification for Visual Reasoning
3677. ICML 2026Thinking in Scales: Accelerating Gigapixel Pathology Image Analysis via Adaptive Continuous Reasoning
3678. ICML 2026Thinking in Structures: Evaluating Spatial Intelligence in Constraint-Governed Spaces
3679. ICML 2026Thinking with Geometry: Active Geometry Integration for Spatial Reasoning
3680. ICML 2026TIC-VLA: A Think-in-Control Vision-Language-Action Model for Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments
3681. ICML 2026Time Series Reasoning via Process-Verifiable Thinking Data Synthesis and Scheduling for Tailored LLM Reasoning
3682. ICML 2026Time Series, Vision, and Language: Exploring the Limits of Alignment in Contrastive Representation Spaces
3683. ICML 2026TIME: Tensor-Factorized Mixture-of-Experts with Intrinsic Routing for Lifelong Multimodal Knowledge Editing
3684. ICML 2026TimeOmni-VL: Unified Models for Time Series Understanding and Generation
3685. ICML 2026TiMi: Empower Time Series Transformers with Multimodal Mixture of Experts
3686. ICML 2026ToaSt: Token Channel Selection and Structured Pruning for Efficient ViT
3687. ICML 2026Token-Sparse Medical Multimodal Reasoning via Dual-Stream Reinforcement Learning
3688. ICML 2026TokenSwap: Backdoor Attack on the Compositional Understanding of Large Vision-Language Models
3689. ICML 2026TopBench: A Benchmark for Implicit Predictive Reasoning in Tabular Question Answering
3690. ICML 2026Topological Active Inference for Task Disambiguation
3691. ICML 2026Toward Effective Multimodal Graph Foundation Model: A Divide-and-Conquer Based Approach
3692. ICML 2026Toward Robust Multilingual Adaptation of LLMs for Low-Resource Languages
3693. ICML 2026Toward Structural Multimodal Representations: Specialization, Selection, and Sparsification via Mixture-of-Experts
3694. ICML 2026Towards Diffeomorphism-Equivariant Neural Networks via Canonicalization
3695. ICML 2026Towards Efficient LLMs Annealing with Principled Sample Selection
3696. ICML 2026Towards Fine-Grained Robustness: Attention-Guided Test-Time Prompt Tuning for Vision-Language Models
3697. ICML 2026Towards Long-Horizon Interpretability: Efficient and Faithful Multi-Token Attribution for Reasoning LLMs
3698. ICML 2026Towards Multimodal Large Language Models with Both Training and Inference Efficiency
3699. ICML 2026Towards One-to-Many Temporal Grounding
3700. ICML 2026Towards Practical World Model-based Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language-Action 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.