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

1,051 papers, page 8 of 22

351. ICML 2026GAUSS: Graph-Assisted Uncertainty Quantification using Structure and Semantics for Long-Form Generation in LLMs
352. ICML 2026GemDepth: Geometry-Embedded Features for 3D-Consistent Video Depth
353. ICML 2026GEMQ: Global Expert-Level Mixed-Precision Quantization for MoE LLMs
354. ICML 2026GenAlign: Towards Unified Alignment Framework of MLLMs via Generative Reward Model
355. ICML 2026General Covariant Action Modeling: Constructing Generalized Manifolds via Spatio-Temporal Decoupling
356. ICML 2026Generation Enhances Understanding in Unified Multimodal Models via Multi-Representation Generation
357. ICML 2026Generative Visual Code Mobile World Models
358. ICML 2026GenExam: A Multidisciplinary Text-to-Image Exam
359. ICML 2026GenShield: Unified Detection and Artifact Correction for AI-Generated Images
360. ICML 2026GeoEvo: Identity-Aware Potential Game with Geometric Evolution for Personalized Multimodal Federated Learning
361. ICML 2026Geometric Reciprocity: Unlocking Self-Supervision for Stereoscopic Video Generation
362. ICML 2026Geometry-based Schrödinger Bridges for Trustworthy Multimodal Fusion
363. ICML 2026Geometry-Preserving Unsupervised Alignment for Heterogeneous Foundation Models
364. ICML 2026GeoReward: Mitigating Contextual Variable Overestimation in Vision-Language Models for Cross-Market Preference Prediction
365. ICML 2026GeoSense: Internalizing Geometric Necessity Perception for Multimodal Reasoning
366. ICML 2026GePBench: Evaluating Fundamental Geometric Perception for Multimodal Large Language Models
367. ICML 2026Giving Sensors a Voice: Multimodal JEPA for Semantic Time-Series Embeddings
368. ICML 2026Global Geometry Is Not Enough for Vision Representations
369. ICML 2026GOTabPFN: From Feature Ordering to Compact Tokenization for Tabular Foundation Models on High-Dimensional Data
370. ICML 2026Gradient Transformer: Learning to Generate Updates for LLMs
371. ICML 2026Gram2Token: Enabling Run-time GPU-Native Grammar-Constrained Decoding for LLMs
372. ICML 2026Granularity-Aware Adaptive Classifier Expansion via Zero-Shot Learning
373. ICML 2026Graph Alignment via Dual-Pass Spectral Encoding and Latent Space Communication
374. ICML 2026GRASP: Awakening Latent Spatial Reasoning in LVLMs via Training-free Geometric Rectification
375. ICML 2026Group Cognition Learning: Making Everything Better Through Controlled Two-Stage Agents Collaboration
376. ICML 2026Group-wise Data Ordering: Enhancing Instruction Tuning of Large Language Models via Embedding Proximity
377. ICML 2026GSRQ: Gain-Shape Residual Quantization for Sub-1-bit KV Cache
378. ICML 2026h1: Bootstrapping LLMs to Reason over Longer Horizons via Reinforcement Learning
379. ICML 2026HALO: A Unified Vision-Language-Action Model for Embodied Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
380. ICML 2026HaloProbe: Bayesian Detection and Mitigation of Object Hallucinations in Vision-Language Models
381. ICML 2026Hamiltonian Asymmetric Fusion: One-Way Safe Directed Refinement under Modality Imbalance
382. ICML 2026Harnessing Non-Adversarial Robustness in Large Language Models
383. ICML 2026Harnessing Spectrum Video for Subject-Level Few-Shot and Cross-Montage EEG Generalization
384. ICML 2026HECTOR: Hybrid Editable Compositional Object References for Video Generation
385. ICML 2026Hierarchical Image Tokenization for Multi-Scale Image Super Resolution
386. ICML 2026Hierarchical Procedural Meta-Reasoning for Generalizable Multimodal Agents
387. ICML 2026HieRD: Hierarchical Relational Distillation for Vision-Language Embedding Models
388. ICML 2026HilbertA: Hilbert-Curve–Aligned Sparse Attention for 2D Structured Data
389. ICML 2026HiMe: Hierarchical Embodied Memory for Long-Horizon Vision-Language-Action Control
390. ICML 2026HiPhO: How Far Are (M)LLMs from Humans in the Latest High School Physics Olympiad Benchmark?
391. ICML 2026Hölder++: Improving Quality-Coherence Trade-off in Multimodal VAEs
392. ICML 2026Holi-Spatial: Evolving Video Streams into Holistic 3D Spatial Intelligence
393. ICML 2026How do Humans Process AI-generated Hallucination Contents: a Neuroimaging Study
394. ICML 2026How Does Reasoning Flow? Tracing Attention-Induced Information Flow for Targeted RL in LLMs
395. ICML 2026How much can language models memorize?
396. ICML 2026How Powerful are LLMs in Generating Formal Program Specifications?
397. ICML 2026How RL Unlocks the Aha Moment in Geometric Interleaved Reasoning
398. ICML 2026How2Everything: Mining the Web for How-to Procedures to Evaluate and Improve LLMs
399. ICML 2026HSGG: Training-Free Hierarchical Scene Graph Generation with Geometry-Guided Relation Reasoning
400. ICML 2026Hybrid Policy Distillation for LLMs

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.