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 75 of 104

3701. ICML 2026Towards Resource-Efficient LLMs: End-to-End Energy Accounting of Distillation Pipelines
3702. ICML 2026Towards Solving the Gilbert-Pollak Conjecture via Large Language Models
3703. ICML 2026Towards Trustworthy Video Anomaly Understanding: A Class-Guided Chain-of-Evaluation Metric and An Anomaly-focused Meta-Benchmark
3704. ICML 2026Towards Understanding Modality Interaction in Multimodal Language Models via Partial Information Decomposition
3705. ICML 2026Towards Uniformity and Alignment for Multimodal Representation Learning
3706. ICML 2026TRACER: Persistent Regularization for Robust Multimodal Finetuning
3707. ICML 2026Training Data Efficiency in Multimodal Process Reward Models
3708. ICML 2026Training-Free Multimodal Large Language Model Orchestration
3709. ICML 2026Training–Inference Consistent Segmented Execution for Long-Context LLMs
3710. ICML 2026Transform Trained Transformer for Accelerating Native 4K Video Generation
3711. ICML 2026Transitive Representation Learning Enhances Histopathology Annotation
3712. ICML 2026Transport and Merge: Cross-Architecture Merging for Large Language Models
3713. ICML 2026TranX-Adapter: Bridging Artifacts and Semantics within MLLMs for Robust AI-generated Image Detection
3714. ICML 2026TRAP: Hijacking VLA CoT-Reasoning via Adversarial Patches
3715. ICML 2026TreeCUA: Efficiently Scaling GUI Automation with Tree-Structured Verifiable Evolution
3716. ICML 2026TriAttention: Efficient Long Reasoning with Trigonometric KV Compression
3717. ICML 2026Trifuse: Enhancing Attention-Based GUI Grounding via Multimodal Fusion
3718. ICML 2026TrustworthyQENN: A Quantum Evidential Neural Network Based on Complex-Valued Contrastive Learning for Uncertainty Pattern Classification
3719. ICML 2026TsLLM: Augmenting LLMs for General Time Series Understanding and Prediction
3720. ICML 2026Turning Adaptation into Assets: Cross-Domain Bridging for Online Vision-Language Navigation
3721. ICML 2026TVDRNet: Text-driven Viewpoint Optimization via Differentiable Rendering for 3D Reasoning Segmentation
3722. ICML 2026TVI-CoT: Text-Visual Interleaved Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Multimodal Understanding
3723. ICML 2026TwinWeaver: An LLM-Based Foundation Model Framework for Pan-Cancer Digital Twins
3724. ICML 2026TWLA: Achieving Ternary Weights and Low-Bit Activations for LLMs via Post-Training Quantization
3725. ICML 2026Two Modalities Are Better Than One: Efficient Adversarial Purification via Multimodal Diffusion Models
3726. ICML 2026UGround: Towards Unified Visual Grounding with Unrolled Transformers
3727. ICML 2026UHR-BAT: Budget-Aware Token Compression Vision-Language model for Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing
3728. ICML 2026UI2Code^N: UI-to-Code Generation as Interactive Visual Optimization
3729. ICML 2026Uncovering Grounding IDs: How External Cues Shape Multi-Modal Binding
3730. ICML 2026Understanding and Mitigating Token-Pruning-Induced Vulnerabilities in VLMs
3731. ICML 2026Understanding Behavior Cloning with Action Quantization
3732. ICML 2026Understanding the Ability of LLMs to Handle Character-Level Perturbation
3733. ICML 2026Uni-DocRobust: Universal Plug-and-Play Robustness Enhancement for Multi-modal LLMs via Feature Restoration
3734. ICML 2026UniFast-HGR: Scalable and Efficient Maximal Correlation for Multimodal Models
3735. ICML 2026Unified Multimodal Autoregressive Modeling with Shared Context—Visual Tokenizer is Key to Unification
3736. ICML 2026Unified Multimodal Visual Tracking with Dual Mixture-of-Experts
3737. ICML 2026Unified Safe In-context Image Generation in Multimodal Diffusion Transformers via Restricting Unsafe Information Flows
3738. ICML 2026UniFLoW: Universal Multi-Modal Federated LoRA Fine-Tuning Framework with Analytical Aggregation
3739. ICML 2026UniJEPA: Enhancing Robot Policy via Unified Continuous and Discrete Representation Learning
3740. ICML 2026UniMedVL: Unifying Medical Multimodal Understanding and Generation through Observation-Knowledge-Analysis
3741. ICML 2026UniPercept: Towards Unified Perceptual-Level Image Understanding across Aesthetics, Quality, Structure, and Texture
3742. ICML 2026UniRTL: Unifying Code and Graph for Robust RTL Representation Learning
3743. ICML 2026Unison: Benchmarking Unified Multimodal Models via Synergistic Understanding and Generation
3744. ICML 2026Universal Reasoner: A Single, Composable Plug-and-Play Reasoner for Frozen LLMs
3745. ICML 2026Universal Skeleton Understanding via Differentiable Rendering and MLLMs
3746. ICML 2026Unlocking Zero-Shot Geospatial Reasoning via Indirect Rewards
3747. ICML 2026Unveiling the Visual Counting Bottleneck in Vision-Language Models
3748. ICML 2026UOTIP: Unbalanced Optimal Transport Map for Unpaired Inverse Problems
3749. ICML 2026UrbanFusion: Stochastic Multimodal Fusion for Contrastive Learning of Robust Spatial Representations
3750. ICML 2026UrbanMLLM: Joint Learning of Cross-view Imagery for Urban 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.