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 77 of 104

3801. ICML 2026When the Prompt Becomes Visual: Vision-Centric Jailbreak Attacks for Large Image Editing Models
3802. ICML 2026When to Think, When to Speak: Learning Disclosure Policies for LLM Reasoning
3803. ICML 2026Why Are Linear RNNs More Parallelizable?
3804. ICML 2026Why Tree-Style Branching Matters for Thought Advantage Estimation in GRPO
3805. ICML 2026Width Independent Bounds for the Local Lipschitz Constant of Deep Neural Networks at Random Initialization and after Lazy Training
3806. ICML 2026WinDeskGround: A Benchmark for Robust GUI Grounding in Complex Multi-Window Desktop Environments
3807. ICML 2026WISE: World Knowledge-Informed Semantic Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation
3808. ICML 2026WMVLM: Evaluating Diffusion Model Image Watermarking via Vision-Language Models
3809. ICML 2026World Guidance: World Modeling in Condition Space for Action Generation
3810. ICML 2026World-Model Inspired Emotion-aware Token Refinement for Training-Free Multimodal Emotion Recognition
3811. ICML 2026World-R1: Reinforcing 3D Constraints for Text-to-Video Generation
3812. ICML 2026WorldTravel: A Realistic Multimodal Travel-Planning Benchmark with Tightly Coupled Constraints
3813. ICML 2026WS-GRPO: Weakly-Supervised Group-Relative Policy Optimization for Rollout-Efficient Reasoning
3814. ICML 2026XDomainBench: Diagnosing Reasoning Collapse in High-Dimensional Scientific Knowledge Composition
3815. ICML 2026XPERT: Expert Knowledge Transfer for Effective Training of Language Models
3816. ICML 2026XR-1: Towards Versatile Vision-Language-Action Models via Learning Unified Vision-Motion Representations
3817. ICML 2026XSkill: Continual Learning from Experience and Skills in Multimodal Agents
3818. ICML 2026Zero-Shot 3D Question Answering via Hierarchical View-to-Token Transportation
3819. ICML 2026Zero-shot Active Mapping via Fused 360-BEV Representations and Vision–Language Models
3820. ICML 2026Zero-Shot Rankability: Revealing Latent Ordinal Structure in Multimodal Large Language Models via Language
3821. ICML 2026Zero-Shot Text-to-Motion Evaluation using Video Language Models
3822. ICML 2026ZeroBench: An Impossible Visual Benchmark for Contemporary Large Multimodal Models
3823. ICML 2026Zeus: Towards Tuning-Free Foundation Model for Time Series Analysis
3824. ICML 2026Zooming without Zooming: Region-to-Image Distillation for Fine-Grained Multimodal Perception
3825. NeurIPS 2026$\alpha$Depth: Learning Single-Pass Soft Boundary Decomposition for Stereo Conversion
3826. NeurIPS 2026$\text{A}^3$-VLA: Automatic Perception-Guided Attention Alignment for Robot Manipulation
3827. NeurIPS 2026$\texttt{bispectrum}$: Selective $G$-Bispectra Made Practical
3828. NeurIPS 2026$h$-control: Training-Free Camera Control via Block-Conditional Gibbs Refinement
3829. NeurIPS 20262D Spatial Reasoning with Adaptive Neural Cellular Automata
3830. NeurIPS 20263A-VLA: Abstraction-Aligned Action Learning for Vision-Language Agents in 3D Game Worlds
3831. NeurIPS 20263D-PLOT-LLM: Part-Level Object Tokens for 3D Large Language Models
3832. NeurIPS 20263DCodeBench: Benchmarking Agentic Procedural 3D Modeling Via Code
3833. NeurIPS 20263DSPA: A 3D Semantic Point Autoencoder for Evaluating Video Realism
3834. NeurIPS 2026A Benchmark for Omni-Modal Reasoning in Long Videos
3835. NeurIPS 2026A Bitter Lesson for Data Filtering
3836. NeurIPS 2026A Closer Look at Dynamic Scene Graph Generation in the Era of Multimodal Large Language Models
3837. NeurIPS 2026A Composite Activation Function for Learning Stable Binary Representations
3838. NeurIPS 2026A Deep Learning Framework for Scalar-on-Function Models
3839. NeurIPS 2026A Diagnostic Benchmark for Layered Layout and Template-Variant Reasoning
3840. NeurIPS 2026A Dynamic Decomposition Strategy for the MOEA/D With Proven Performance Guarantees
3841. NeurIPS 2026A Favorable Regime Between ODE and SDE for Few-Step Diffusion Sampling
3842. NeurIPS 2026A Foundational Model System for Datacenter Machine Repairs
3843. NeurIPS 2026A General Concept-based Decomposition for Vision–Language Embeddings
3844. NeurIPS 2026A Graph Foundation Model for Unified Clustering
3845. NeurIPS 2026A Latent World-Action Model with Jointly Aligned Reasoning
3846. NeurIPS 2026A Mechanistic Analysis of Looped Reasoning Language Models
3847. NeurIPS 2026A Mechanistic Interpretability Study of an Astronomical Foundation Model
3848. NeurIPS 2026A Method-Class Divide in Sub-4-Bit Quantization:\\Iterative vs.\ Single-Pass Sensitivity to Data Composition
3849. NeurIPS 2026A Multimodal Benchmark for Evaluating Cause-of-Death Inference Using Child Health and Mortality Data
3850. NeurIPS 2026A Principled Optimal Transport Framework for Frame Selection in Long Video 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.