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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401. ICLR 2026FlowGen: Synthesizing Diverse Flowcharts to Enhance and Benchmark MLLM Reasoning
402. ICLR 2026FlowNIB: An Information Bottleneck Analysis of Bidirectional vs. Unidirectional Language Models
403. ICLR 2026Fluent Alignment with Disfluent Judges: Post-training for lower-resource languages
404. ICLR 2026FLUX-Reason-6M & PRISM-Bench: A Million-Scale Text-to-Image Reasoning Dataset and Comprehensive Benchmark
405. ICLR 2026FOCUS: Efficient Keyframe Selection for Long Video Understanding
406. ICLR 2026Following the Navigation: Enhancing Small Language Models Contextual Reasoning with LLM Guidance
407. ICLR 2026FoNE: Precise Single-Token Number Embeddings via Fourier Features
408. ICLR 2026Fostering Video Reasoning via Next-Event Prediction
409. ICLR 2026Foundation Models for Causal Inference via Prior-Data Fitted Networks
410. ICLR 2026Foundational Automatic Evaluators: Scaling Multi-Task Generative Evaluator Training for Reasoning-Centric Domains
411. ICLR 2026FrameThinker: Learning to Think with Long Videos via Multi-Turn Frame Spotlighting
412. ICLR 2026FREAK: A Fine-grained Hallucination Evaluation Benchmark for Advanced MLLMs
413. ICLR 2026Free Energy Mixer
414. ICLR 2026FreeViS: Training-free Video Stylization with Inconsistent References
415. ICLR 2026FreqKV: Key-Value Compression in Frequency Domain for Context Window Extension
416. ICLR 2026FRIEDA: Benchmarking Multi-Step Cartographic Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
417. ICLR 2026From ``Sure" to ``Sorry": Detecting Jailbreak in Large Vision Language Model via JailNeurons
418. ICLR 2026From Abstract to Contextual: What LLMs Still Cannot Do in Mathematics
419. ICLR 2026From EduVisBench to EduVisAgent: A Benchmark and Multi-Agent Framework for Reasoning-Driven Pedagogical Visualization
420. ICLR 2026From Evaluation to Defense: Advancing Safety in Video Large Language Models
421. ICLR 2026From f(x) and g(x) to f(g(x)): LLMs Learn New Skills in RL by Composing Old Ones
422. ICLR 2026From Narrow to Panoramic Vision: Attention-Guided Cold-Start Reshapes Multimodal Reasoning
423. ICLR 2026From Natural Alignment to Conditional Controllability in Multimodal Dialogue
424. ICLR 2026From Pixels to Words -- Towards Native Vision-Language Primitives at Scale
425. ICLR 2026From Seeing to Doing: Bridging Reasoning and Decision for Robotic Manipulation
426. ICLR 2026From Spatial to Actions: Grounding Vision-Language-Action Model in Spatial Foundation Priors
427. ICLR 2026From Text to Talk: Audio-Language Model Needs Non-Autoregressive Joint Training
428. ICLR 2026From Tokens to Thoughts: How LLMs and Humans Trade Compression for Meaning
429. ICLR 2026From Vicious to Virtuous Cycles: Synergistic Representation Learning for Unsupervised Video Object-Centric Learning
430. ICLR 2026Front-Loading Reasoning: The Synergy between Pretraining and Post-Training Data
431. ICLR 2026FSA: An Alternative Efficient Implementation of Native Sparse Attention Kernel
432. ICLR 2026Fusing Pixels and Genes: Spatially-Aware Learning in Computational Pathology
433. ICLR 2026FZOO: Fast Zeroth-Order Optimizer for Fine‑Tuning Large Language Models towards Adam‑Scale Speed
434. ICLR 2026G-reasoner: Foundation Models for Unified Reasoning over Graph-structured Knowledge
435. ICLR 2026GarmentGPT: Compositional Garment Pattern Generation via Discrete Latent Tokenization
436. ICLR 2026Generalizable Coarse-to-Fine Robot Manipulation via Language-Aligned 3D Keypoints
437. ICLR 2026Generalizable Heuristic Generation Through LLMs with Meta-Optimization
438. ICLR 2026Generative Universal Verifier as Multimodal Meta-Reasoner
439. ICLR 2026Genie Envisioner: A Unified World Foundation Platform for Robotic Manipulation
440. ICLR 2026GeoBench: Rethinking Multimodal Geometric Problem-Solving via Hierarchical Evaluation
441. ICLR 2026GeoDiv: Framework for Measuring Geographical Diversity in Text-to-Image Models
442. ICLR 2026GeoGramBench: Benchmarking the Geometric Program Reasoning in Modern LLMs
443. ICLR 2026Geometric Constraints for Small Language Models to Understand and Expand Scientific Taxonomies
444. ICLR 2026Geometry of Uncertainty: Learning Metric Spaces for Multimodal State Estimation in RL
445. ICLR 2026GeoPurify: A Data-Efficient Geometric Distillation Framework for Open-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation
446. ICLR 2026Get RICH or Die Scaling: Profitably Trading Inference Compute for Robustness
447. ICLR 2026GHOST: Hallucination-Inducing Image Generation for Multimodal LLMs
448. ICLR 2026GhostEI-Bench: Do Mobile Agent Resilience to Environmental Injection in Dynamic On-Device Environments?
449. ICLR 2026GIQ: Benchmarking 3D Geometric Reasoning of Vision Foundation Models with Simulated and Real Polyhedra
450. ICLR 2026GIR-Bench: Versatile Benchmark for Generating Images with Reasoning

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.