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

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351. ICLR 2025Knowing Your Target: Target-Aware Transformer Makes Better Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding
352. ICLR 2025Knowledge Distillation with Multi-granularity Mixture of Priors for Image Super-Resolution
353. ICLR 2025Knowledge Entropy Decay during Language Model Pretraining Hinders New Knowledge Acquisition
354. ICLR 2025Knowledge Graph Finetuning Enhances Knowledge Manipulation in Large Language Models
355. ICLR 2025Kolmogorov-Arnold Transformer
356. ICLR 2025LaMP: Language-Motion Pretraining for Motion Generation, Retrieval, and Captioning
357. ICLR 2025Language Imbalance Driven Rewarding for Multilingual Self-improving
358. ICLR 2025Language Models Are Implicitly Continuous
359. ICLR 2025Language Models Need Inductive Biases to Count Inductively
360. ICLR 2025Language models scale reliably with over-training and on downstream tasks
361. ICLR 2025Language-Assisted Feature Transformation for Anomaly Detection
362. ICLR 2025Language-Image Models with 3D Understanding
363. ICLR 2025Large (Vision) Language Models are Unsupervised In-Context Learners
364. ICLR 2025Large Language Models are Interpretable Learners
365. ICLR 2025Large Scale Knowledge Washing
366. ICLR 2025Large-scale and Fine-grained Vision-language Pre-training for Enhanced CT Image Understanding
367. ICLR 2025Latent Action Pretraining from Videos
368. ICLR 2025Layerwise Recurrent Router for Mixture-of-Experts
369. ICLR 2025LeanAgent: Lifelong Learning for Formal Theorem Proving
370. ICLR 2025Learnable Expansion of Graph Operators for Multi-Modal Feature Fusion
371. ICLR 2025Learning Diagrams: A Graphical Language for Compositional Training Regimes
372. ICLR 2025Learning Dynamics of LLM Finetuning
373. ICLR 2025Learning Gain Map for Inverse Tone Mapping
374. ICLR 2025Learning Harmonized Representations for Speculative Sampling
375. ICLR 2025Learning Interleaved Image-Text Comprehension in Vision-Language Large Models
376. ICLR 2025Learning Mask Invariant Mutual Information for Masked Image Modeling
377. ICLR 2025Learning Spatial-Semantic Features for Robust Video Object Segmentation
378. ICLR 2025Learning to Plan Before Answering: Self-Teaching LLMs to Learn Abstract Plans for Problem Solving
379. ICLR 2025LevAttention: Time, Space and Streaming Efficient Algorithm for Heavy Attentions
380. ICLR 2025Leveraging Driver Field-of-View for Multimodal Ego-Trajectory Prediction
381. ICLR 2025Leveraging Submodule Linearity Enhances Task Arithmetic Performance in LLMs
382. ICLR 2025LICO: Large Language Models for In-Context Molecular Optimization
383. ICLR 2025Lightweight Neural App Control
384. ICLR 2025LiveBench: A Challenging, Contamination-Limited LLM Benchmark
385. ICLR 2025LiveCodeBench: Holistic and Contamination Free Evaluation of Large Language Models for Code
386. ICLR 2025LLaMaFlex: Many-in-one LLMs via Generalized Pruning and Weight Sharing
387. ICLR 2025LLaRA: Supercharging Robot Learning Data for Vision-Language Policy
388. ICLR 2025LLaVA-Interleave: Tackling Multi-image, Video, and 3D in Large Multimodal Models
389. ICLR 2025LLaVA-Mini: Efficient Image and Video Large Multimodal Models with One Vision Token
390. ICLR 2025LLM-based Typed Hyperresolution for Commonsense Reasoning with Knowledge Bases
391. ICLR 2025LLM-wrapper: Black-Box Semantic-Aware Adaptation of Vision-Language Models for Referring Expression Comprehension
392. ICLR 2025LLMs Can Plan Only If We Tell Them
393. ICLR 2025LLMs Know More Than They Show: On the Intrinsic Representation of LLM Hallucinations
394. ICLR 2025Local Patterns Generalize Better for Novel Anomalies
395. ICLR 2025Local-Prompt: Extensible Local Prompts for Few-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection
396. ICLR 2025Locality Alignment Improves Vision-Language Models
397. ICLR 2025Logically Consistent Language Models via Neuro-Symbolic Integration
398. ICLR 2025Logicbreaks: A Framework for Understanding Subversion of Rule-based Inference
399. ICLR 2025LOKI: A Comprehensive Synthetic Data Detection Benchmark using Large Multimodal Models
400. ICLR 2025Long Context Compression with Activation Beacon

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.