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 2025Longhorn: State Space Models are Amortized Online Learners
402. ICLR 2025LongMamba: Enhancing Mamba's Long-Context Capabilities via Training-Free Receptive Field Enlargement
403. ICLR 2025Looking Inward: Language Models Can Learn About Themselves by Introspection
404. ICLR 2025LR0.FM: Low-Res Benchmark and Improving robustness for Zero-Shot Classification in Foundation Models
405. ICLR 2025LucidPPN: Unambiguous Prototypical Parts Network for User-centric Interpretable Computer Vision
406. ICLR 2025Magpie: Alignment Data Synthesis from Scratch by Prompting Aligned LLMs with Nothing
407. ICLR 2025MAI: A Multi-turn Aggregation-Iteration Model for Composed Image Retrieval
408. ICLR 2025MambaExtend: A Training-Free Approach to Improve Long Context Extension of Mamba
409. ICLR 2025MambaQuant: Quantizing the Mamba Family with Variance Aligned Rotation Methods
410. ICLR 2025MathCoder2: Better Math Reasoning from Continued Pretraining on Model-translated Mathematical Code
411. ICLR 2025Matryoshka Multimodal Models
412. ICLR 2025MatryoshkaKV: Adaptive KV Compression via Trainable Orthogonal Projection
413. ICLR 2025MAVIS: Mathematical Visual Instruction Tuning with an Automatic Data Engine
414. ICLR 2025Measuring And Improving Engagement of Text-to-Image Generation Models
415. ICLR 2025Measuring And Improving Persuasiveness Of Large Language Models
416. ICLR 2025MediConfusion: Can you trust your AI radiologist? Probing the reliability of multimodal medical foundation models
417. ICLR 2025MedTrinity-25M: A Large-scale Multimodal Dataset with Multigranular Annotations for Medicine
418. ICLR 2025MEGA-Bench: Scaling Multimodal Evaluation to over 500 Real-World Tasks
419. ICLR 2025Memory Efficient Transformer Adapter for Dense Predictions
420. ICLR 2025MeteoRA: Multiple-tasks Embedded LoRA for Large Language Models
421. ICLR 2025Metric-Driven Attributions for Vision Transformers
422. ICLR 2025MIA-Bench: Towards Better Instruction Following Evaluation of Multimodal LLMs
423. ICLR 2025MIA-DPO: Multi-Image Augmented Direct Preference Optimization For Large Vision-Language Models
424. ICLR 2025Min-K%++: Improved Baseline for Pre-Training Data Detection from Large Language Models
425. ICLR 2025Mind the Gap: Examining the Self-Improvement Capabilities of Large Language Models
426. ICLR 2025Mind the GAP: Glimpse-based Active Perception improves generalization and sample efficiency of visual reasoning
427. ICLR 2025MIND: Math Informed syNthetic Dialogues for Pretraining LLMs
428. ICLR 2025Mini-batch Coresets for Memory-efficient Language Model Training on Data Mixtures
429. ICLR 2025Mini-Monkey: Alleviating the Semantic Sawtooth Effect for Lightweight MLLMs via Complementary Image Pyramid
430. ICLR 2025MiniPLM: Knowledge Distillation for Pre-training Language Models
431. ICLR 2025MIRAGE: Evaluating and Explaining Inductive Reasoning Process in Language Models
432. ICLR 2025Mitigate the Gap: Improving Cross-Modal Alignment in CLIP
433. ICLR 2025Mitigating Modality Prior-Induced Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models via Deciphering Attention Causality
434. ICLR 2025Mitigating Object Hallucination in MLLMs via Data-augmented Phrase-level Alignment
435. ICLR 2025Mitigating Spurious Correlations in Zero-Shot Multimodal Models
436. ICLR 2025Mix-LN: Unleashing the Power of Deeper Layers by Combining Pre-LN and Post-LN
437. ICLR 2025Mixture Compressor for Mixture-of-Experts LLMs Gains More
438. ICLR 2025Mixture of Attentions For Speculative Decoding
439. ICLR 2025Mixture of Experts Made Personalized: Federated Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models
440. ICLR 2025Mixture of Parrots: Experts improve memorization more than reasoning
441. ICLR 2025MLLM as Retriever: Interactively Learning Multimodal Retrieval for Embodied Agents
442. ICLR 2025MLLM can see? Dynamic Correction Decoding for Hallucination Mitigation
443. ICLR 2025MLLMs Know Where to Look: Training-free Perception of Small Visual Details with Multimodal LLMs
444. ICLR 2025MM-EMBED: UNIVERSAL MULTIMODAL RETRIEVAL WITH MULTIMODAL LLMS
445. ICLR 2025MM1.5: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Fine-tuning
446. ICLR 2025MMAD: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models in Industrial Anomaly Detection
447. ICLR 2025MMDT: Decoding the Trustworthiness and Safety of Multimodal Foundation Models
448. ICLR 2025MME-RealWorld: Could Your Multimodal LLM Challenge High-Resolution Real-World Scenarios that are Difficult for Humans?
449. ICLR 2025MMed-RAG: Versatile Multimodal RAG System for Medical Vision Language Models
450. ICLR 2025MMEgo: Towards Building Egocentric Multimodal LLMs for Video QA

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.