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

5,190 papers, page 90 of 104

4451. NeurIPS 2026Intervention-Guided Image-Free Classifier Expansion for Fine-Grained Recognition
4452. NeurIPS 2026Invertible Logits Transformation for Accuracy-Preserving Post-Hoc Uncertainty Calibration
4453. NeurIPS 2026Iris: Empowering Video MLLMs with High-Frequency Pose Priors via Spatiotemporal Binding
4454. NeurIPS 2026Is Text All You Need? Text as a Universal Information Bottleneck for Speech LLMs
4455. NeurIPS 2026It Cancels: O(r²) Cholesky Updates for Whitened Operators
4456. NeurIPS 2026It's All Training: A Fully Synthetic Single-Stage Recipe for LLMs
4457. NeurIPS 2026Itô maps for any-step SDEs
4458. NeurIPS 2026ITO: Multi-View Alignment and Training-Time Fusion for Image-Text Pretraining
4459. NeurIPS 2026JailBound: A FOL-Guided Jailbreak Evaluation Framework for Revealing Safety Boundaries of LLMs
4460. NeurIPS 2026JEDI: Real-Time Jailbreak Defense for LLMs via In-Generation Detection and Intervention
4461. NeurIPS 2026JODA: Composable Joint Dynamics for Articulated Objects
4462. NeurIPS 2026K12-KGraph: A Curriculum-Aligned Knowledge Graph for Benchmarking and Training Educational LLMs
4463. NeurIPS 2026KINDER: Kernel-based Independence for Fair Representation Learning via Prototype-space Erasure
4464. NeurIPS 2026Knowledge Localization in Mixture-of-Experts LLMs Using Cross-Lingual Inconsistency
4465. NeurIPS 2026KV Packet: Recomputation-Free Context-Independent KV Caching for LLMs
4466. NeurIPS 2026kVNN: Learnable Volterra Network Kernels
4467. NeurIPS 2026LAION-BVD: A 10-Million-Hour Open Video Dataset for Multimodal Pre-training
4468. NeurIPS 2026Lang-SVG: Hierarchical Image Vectorization with Language Priors
4469. NeurIPS 2026LAPrune: Logits-Aligned Scoring Proxy for KV Pruning via Vector Quantization
4470. NeurIPS 2026Large Discrete Policy: Advancing Explicit Behavior Modeling with Stochastic Iterative Scoring
4471. NeurIPS 2026Large Language Model Selection with Limited Annotations
4472. NeurIPS 2026Large Language Models Develop Belief State Geometry In-Context
4473. NeurIPS 2026LaST-VLA: Thinking in Latent Spatio-Temporal Space for Vision-Language-Action in Autonomous Driving
4474. NeurIPS 2026Latent Reasoning in Continuous Space for Unified Multimodal Models
4475. NeurIPS 2026Latent Spatial Reasoning: Building Innate 3D Awareness via Latent-Space Distillation
4476. NeurIPS 2026Latent-Lens: Visual Perception in Small Language Models Through Latent Communication
4477. NeurIPS 2026LatentRouter: Can We Choose the Right Multimodal Model Before Seeing Its Answer?
4478. NeurIPS 2026Lattice Deduction Transformers
4479. NeurIPS 2026Layerwise Progressive Freezing: A Training Scaffold for Depth-Scalable Binary Networks
4480. NeurIPS 2026Leak-CURBER: A Leakage-Controlled Multimodal Evaluation Benchmark for Enzymatic Reaction Tasks
4481. NeurIPS 2026LEAP: Library-driven Evolutionary Abstraction Paradigm for Large Language Models
4482. NeurIPS 2026Learning Actionable Information Landscapes for Multimodal Active Sensing in Hawkmoths
4483. NeurIPS 2026Learning Agentic World Vision-Language-Action Models for Autonomous Driving
4484. NeurIPS 2026Learning Fine-Grained Vision-Language Alignment from Discriminative Part Descriptions
4485. NeurIPS 2026Learning from Trials and Errors: Reflective Test-Time Planning for Embodied LLMs
4486. NeurIPS 2026Learning Hierarchical Patch Splitting Policies for Faster Vision Transformers
4487. NeurIPS 2026Learning How to Cube
4488. NeurIPS 2026Learning Human-Intention Priors from Large-Scale Human Demonstrations for Robotic Manipulation
4489. NeurIPS 2026Learning Semantic Consistency for Open-Vocabulary Dense Perception
4490. NeurIPS 2026Learning to Align Generative Appearance Priors for Fine-grained Image Retrieval
4491. NeurIPS 2026Learning to Ask: Metacognitive Action Policy for Large and Small Language Model Collaboration
4492. NeurIPS 2026Learning to Group and Order: Cross-Instance Self-Supervised RL for Vision-Centric MLLMs
4493. NeurIPS 2026Learning to Learn from Multimodal Experience
4494. NeurIPS 2026Learning When to Collaborate: Selective Multi-Agent Medical Reasoning via Uncertainty-Aware Routing
4495. NeurIPS 2026Learning When to Think: Dual-Reference Offline Optimization for Adaptive VLM Reasoning
4496. NeurIPS 2026Learning Where and What to Restore for Composite Image Restoration
4497. NeurIPS 2026Learning with Enumeration: Neural-Guided SAT Framework for Cryptographic Key Recovery
4498. NeurIPS 2026Ledger: A Path-Validated, Database-Grounded Benchmark for Enterprise Web Agents
4499. NeurIPS 2026LEGO: Sizing Rules for Budget-Aware Dense-to-MoE Conversion of Vision-Language Models
4500. NeurIPS 2026LensVLM: Selective Context Expansion for Compressed Visual Representation of Text

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.