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 76 of 104

3751. ICML 2026Utonia: Toward One Encoder for All Point Clouds
3752. ICML 2026V-ABS: Action-Observer Driven Beam Search for Dynamic Visual Reasoning
3753. ICML 2026V-LynX: Token Interface Alignment for Video+X LLMs
3754. ICML 2026V1: Unifying Generation and Self-Verification for Parallel Reasoners
3755. ICML 2026Variational Adapter for Cross-modal Similarity Representation
3756. ICML 2026VBA: Vector Bundle Attention for Intrinsically Geometric Representation Learning
3757. ICML 2026VCG-Bench: Towards A Unified Visual-Centric Benchmark for Structured Generation and Editing
3758. ICML 2026VENOMREC: Cross-Modal Interactive Poisoning for Targeted Promotion in Multimodal LLM Recommender Systems
3759. ICML 2026VEQ: Modality-Adaptive Quantization for MoE Vision-Language Models
3760. ICML 2026VERA-V: Variational Inference Framework for Jailbreaking Vision-Language Models
3761. ICML 2026Very Efficient Listwise Multimodal Reranking for Long Documents
3762. ICML 2026VGGT-Motion: Motion-Aware Calibration-Free Monocular SLAM for Long-Range Consistency
3763. ICML 2026VIBE: Disentangling Social Dynamics via Kinematics-Informed Variational Inference for Behavioral Emotion
3764. ICML 2026Video-BCI: Bayesian Cognitive Integration of Self-Prior Hypotheses for Video Understanding
3765. ICML 2026Video-in-the-Loop: Span-Grounded Long Video QA with Interleaved Reasoning
3766. ICML 2026Video-MTR: Reinforced Multi-Turn Reasoning for Long Video Understanding
3767. ICML 2026Video-OPD: Efficient Post-Training of Multimodal Large Language Models for Temporal Video Grounding via On-Policy Distillation
3768. ICML 2026Video2GUI: Synthesizing Large-Scale Interaction Trajectories for Generalized GUI Agent Pretraining
3769. ICML 2026VideoBrain: Learning Adaptive Frame Sampling for Long Video Understanding
3770. ICML 2026VideoKR: Towards Knowledge- and Reasoning-Intensive Video Understanding
3771. ICML 2026VideoLoom: A Video Large Language Model for Joint Spatial-Temporal Understanding
3772. ICML 2026VIP: Visual-guided Prompt Evolution for Efficient Dense Vision-Language Inference
3773. ICML 2026Vision Language Models Cannot Reason About Physical Transformation
3774. ICML 2026Vision Transformer Finetuning Benefits from Non-Smooth Components
3775. ICML 2026Vision-aligned Latent Reasoning for Multi-modal Large Language Model
3776. ICML 2026Vision-DeepResearch: Incentivizing DeepResearch Capability in Multimodal Large Language Models
3777. ICML 2026Vision-Language-Action Pretraining from Large-Scale Human Videos
3778. ICML 2026Vision2Web: A Hierarchical Benchmark for Visual Website Development with Agent Verification
3779. ICML 2026VisionPulse: Dynamic Visual Sparsity for Efficient Multimodal Reasoning
3780. ICML 2026Visual Para-Thinker: Divide-and-Conquer Reasoning for Visual Comprehension
3781. ICML 2026Visual Persuasion: What Influences Decisions of Vision-Language Models?
3782. ICML 2026VisualPuzzles: Decoupling Multimodal Reasoning Evaluation from Domain Knowledge
3783. ICML 2026VLA-Arena: An Open-Source Framework for Benchmarking Vision-Language-Action Models
3784. ICML 2026VLA-ATTC: Adaptive Test-Time Compute for VLA Models with Relative Action Critic Model
3785. ICML 2026VLANeXt: Recipes for Building Strong VLA Models
3786. ICML 2026VLAW: Iterative Co-Improvement of Vision-Language-Action Policy and World Model
3787. ICML 2026VLM-RobustBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Robustness of Vision-Language Models
3788. ICML 2026VlogReward: Learning Multi-Dimensional Evaluation for Vlog Editing
3789. ICML 2026Von Mises-Fisher Mixture Model with Dynamic Shrinkage for Realistic Test-Time Transduction
3790. ICML 2026VR-Thinker: Boosting Multimodal Reward Models through Think with Image Reasoning
3791. ICML 2026VT-Bench: A Unified Benchmark for Visual-Tabular Multi-Modal Learning
3792. ICML 2026WatchLog: Efficient and Interpretable Event Reasoning for Endpoint Detection and Response Logs with Multimodal LLMs
3793. ICML 2026Weaving Graph over Tokens: Contextualizing Structured Sequences for LLMs
3794. ICML 2026Weight-Space Learning for Certifiable Few-shot Transfer Learning
3795. ICML 2026What if Tomorrow is the World Cup Final? Counterfactual Time Series Forecasting with Textual Conditions
3796. ICML 2026When Data Is Scarce: Scaling Sparse Language Models with Repeated Training
3797. ICML 2026When Does Sparsity Mitigate the Curse of Depth in LLMs
3798. ICML 2026When Is Rank-1 Enough? Geometry-Guided Initialization for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
3799. ICML 2026When LLMs Encounter Open-world Graph Learning: A Fresh View on Unlabeled Data Uncertainty
3800. ICML 2026When RAG Hurts: Diagnosing and Mitigating Attention Distraction in Retrieval-Augmented LVLMs

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.