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 9 of 22

401. ICML 2026HybridFlow: Resource-Adaptive Subtask Routing for Efficient Edge-Cloud LLM Inference
402. ICML 2026Hydra-Nav: Object Navigation via Adaptive Dual-Process Reasoning
403. ICML 2026HypCL: Adapting CLIP in Hyperbolic Space for Continual Learning
404. ICML 2026Hyper-ICL: Attention Calibration with Hyperbolic Anchor Distillation for Multimodal In-Context Learning
405. ICML 2026Hyper-LLaVA: Hyperbolic Uncertainty-aware Modality-Balanced Routing for Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning
406. ICML 2026Hyperbolic Hierarchical Alignment for Video-Based Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification
407. ICML 2026Hyperbolic Multimodal Continual Learning
408. ICML 2026Hyperspectral Image Fusion with Spectral-Band and Fusion-Scale Agnosticism
409. ICML 2026IAPO: Information-Aware Policy Optimization for Token-Efficient Reasoning
410. ICML 2026IBMA: Information Bottleneck-Based Multimodal Alignment
411. ICML 2026Image-to-Brain Signal Generation for Visual Prosthesis with CLIP Guided Multimodal Diffusion Models
412. ICML 2026Imagination Helps Visual Reasoning, But Not Yet in Latent Space
413. ICML 2026Immuno-VLM: Immunizing Large Vision-Language Models via Generative Semantic Antibodies for Open-World Trustworthiness
414. ICML 2026ImpQuant: Fine-Grained Importance-Aware Quantization for Large Vision-Language Models
415. ICML 2026Improved Dynamic Algorithm for Non-monotone Submodular Maximization under Cardinality Constraint
416. ICML 2026Improving CLIP Adaptation by Breaking Tail Alignment for Source-Free Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning
417. ICML 2026Improving Visual Token Reduction via Rectifying Distortions for Efficient Multimodal LLM Inference
418. ICML 2026ImpText: A Benchmark and Tool-Augmented Framework for Implicit Text Reasoning
419. ICML 2026Inference-Time Conformal Reasoning with Valid Factuality Control for Large Language Models
420. ICML 2026InfoFlow KV: Information-Flow-Aware KV Recomputation for Long Context
421. ICML 2026Inner-layer Token Self-modulation as Another Scaling Axis for LLMs
422. ICML 2026Innovation: An Almost Characterization of Hallucination
423. ICML 2026Inside the Visual Mind: Neuroscience-Motivated Concept Circuits for Interpreting and Steering Vision Transformers
424. ICML 2026Instruction Decomposition and Action Alignment for Vision-Language Navigation
425. ICML 2026Instruction Lens Score: Your Instruction Contributes a Powerful Object Hallucination Detector for Multimodal Large Language Models
426. ICML 2026Interactive Person Retrieval via Multi-Turn Multimodal Conversation
427. ICML 2026Interpretability Transfer from Language to Vision via Sparse Autoencoders
428. ICML 2026Interpreting and Enhancing Emotional Circuits in Large Vision-Language Models via Cross-Modal Information Flow
429. ICML 2026Intrinsic Gradient Suppression for Label-Noise Prompt Tuning in Vision–Language Models
430. ICML 2026IPMark: A Sentence-Level Watermark for LLMs with Hierarchical Personalization and Efficient Detection
431. ICML 2026IQA-Spider: Unifying Multi-Granularity Image Quality Assessment with Reasoning, Grounding and Referring
432. ICML 2026IRIS: Implicit Reward-Guided Internal Sifting for Mitigating Multimodal Hallucination
433. ICML 2026Is Code Better Than Language for Algorithmic Reasoning?
434. ICML 2026Is Your LLM Overcharging You? Tokenization, Transparency, and Incentives
435. ICML 2026IVQA-LD: Inclusive Multimodal Understanding for Population with Limb Deficiency
436. ICML 2026Jailbreaking Vision-Language Models Through the Visual Modality
437. ICML 2026Joint Navigation and Manipulation Planning with 3D Interaction Chains
438. ICML 2026Keep It in Mind: User Centric Continual Spatial Intelligence Reasoning in Egocentric Video Streams
439. ICML 2026Know Thyself, Know Thy User: Intrinsic Dual-Perspective Reasoning for Role-Playing LLMs
440. ICML 2026KODA: Contrastive Representation Comparison and Alignment for Vision-Language Foundation Models
441. ICML 2026KORE: Enhancing Knowledge Injection for Large Multimodal Models via Knowledge-Oriented Controls
442. ICML 2026KromHC: Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections with Kronecker-Product Residual Matrices
443. ICML 2026Kuramoto Oscillatory Phase Encoding: Neuro-inspired Synchronization for Improved Learning Efficiency
444. ICML 2026LAGEA: Language Guided Embodied Agents for Robotic Manipulation
445. ICML 2026Lagrangian Perturbation Diffusion Steering: Latent Reinforcement Learning for Generative Policies
446. ICML 2026LALM-as-a-Judge: Benchmarking Large Audio-Language Models for Safety Evaluation in Multi-Turn Spoken Dialogues
447. ICML 2026LangForce: Bayesian Decomposition of Vision Language Action Models via Latent Action Queries
448. ICML 2026LangPrecip: Language-Aware Multimodal Precipitation Nowcasting
449. ICML 2026LaRA-Fusion: Latent-Robust Adaptation via Dual-Loop Constraints for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion
450. ICML 2026LARA: Latent Action Representation Alignment for Vision-Language-Action Models

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.