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

816 papers, page 1 of 17

1. ICLR 2025(Mis)Fitting Scaling Laws: A Survey of Scaling Law Fitting Techniques in Deep Learning
2. ICLR 2025$\gamma-$MoD: Exploring Mixture-of-Depth Adaptation for Multimodal Large Language Models
3. ICLR 2025$\mathbb{X}$-Sample Contrastive Loss: Improving Contrastive Learning with Sample Similarity Graphs
4. ICLR 2025$\text{D}_{2}\text{O}$: Dynamic Discriminative Operations for Efficient Long-Context Inference of Large Language Models
5. ICLR 2025$F^3Set$: Towards Analyzing Fast, Frequent, and Fine-grained Events from Videos
6. ICLR 2025$R^2$-Guard: Robust Reasoning Enabled LLM Guardrail via Knowledge-Enhanced Logical Reasoning
7. ICLR 20253D Vision-Language Gaussian Splatting
8. ICLR 20253D-Properties: Identifying Challenges in DPO and Charting a Path Forward
9. ICLR 20253D-SPATIAL MULTIMODAL MEMORY
10. ICLR 20256D Object Pose Tracking in Internet Videos for Robotic Manipulation
11. ICLR 2025A Benchmark for Semantic Sensitive Information in LLMs Outputs
12. ICLR 2025A CLIP-Powered Framework for Robust and Generalizable Data Selection
13. ICLR 2025A Closer Look at Machine Unlearning for Large Language Models
14. ICLR 2025A Formal Framework for Understanding Length Generalization in Transformers
15. ICLR 2025A Little Goes a Long Way: Efficient Long Context Training and Inference with Partial Contexts
16. ICLR 2025A Multi-Power Law for Loss Curve Prediction Across Learning Rate Schedules
17. ICLR 2025A Multiscale Frequency Domain Causal Framework for Enhanced Pathological Analysis
18. ICLR 2025A Sanity Check for AI-generated Image Detection
19. ICLR 2025A Simple Framework for Open-Vocabulary Zero-Shot Segmentation
20. ICLR 2025A Spark of Vision-Language Intelligence: 2-Dimensional Autoregressive Transformer for Efficient Finegrained Image Generation
21. ICLR 2025A Statistical Framework for Ranking LLM-based Chatbots
22. ICLR 2025A transfer learning framework for weak to strong generalization
23. ICLR 2025Accessing Vision Foundation Models via ImageNet-1K
24. ICLR 2025ActionReasoningBench: Reasoning about Actions with and without Ramification Constraints
25. ICLR 2025AdaIR: Adaptive All-in-One Image Restoration via Frequency Mining and Modulation
26. ICLR 2025Adapt-$\infty$: Scalable Continual Multimodal Instruction Tuning via Dynamic Data Selection
27. ICLR 2025Adapting Multi-modal Large Language Model to Concept Drift From Pre-training Onwards
28. ICLR 2025Adaptive Camera Sensor for Vision Models
29. ICLR 2025Adaptive Length Image Tokenization via Recurrent Allocation
30. ICLR 2025Adaptive Rank Allocation: Speeding Up Modern Transformers with RaNA Adapters
31. ICLR 2025Adaptive Retention & Correction: Test-Time Training for Continual Learning
32. ICLR 2025AdaRankGrad: Adaptive Gradient Rank and Moments for Memory-Efficient LLMs Training and Fine-Tuning
33. ICLR 2025ADIFF: Explaining audio difference using natural language
34. ICLR 2025Advancing LLM Reasoning Generalists with Preference Trees
35. ICLR 2025Advancing Mathematical Reasoning in Language Models: The Impact of Problem-Solving Data, Data Synthesis Methods, and Training Stages
36. ICLR 2025Advantage-Guided Distillation for Preference Alignment in Small Language Models
37. ICLR 2025AdvWave: Stealthy Adversarial Jailbreak Attack against Large Audio-Language Models
38. ICLR 2025Agent Skill Acquisition for Large Language Models via CycleQD
39. ICLR 2025AgentTrek: Agent Trajectory Synthesis via Guiding Replay with Web Tutorials
40. ICLR 2025AHA: A Vision-Language-Model for Detecting and Reasoning Over Failures in Robotic Manipulation
41. ICLR 2025Aioli: A Unified Optimization Framework for Language Model Data Mixing
42. ICLR 2025Aligned Better, Listen Better for Audio-Visual Large Language Models
43. ICLR 2025Aligning Visual Contrastive learning models via Preference Optimization
44. ICLR 2025ALLaM: Large Language Models for Arabic and English
45. ICLR 2025AlphaEdit: Null-Space Constrained Knowledge Editing for Language Models
46. ICLR 2025Amulet: ReAlignment During Test Time for Personalized Preference Adaptation of LLMs
47. ICLR 2025An Information Criterion for Controlled Disentanglement of Multimodal Data
48. ICLR 2025An Intelligent Agentic System for Complex Image Restoration Problems
49. ICLR 2025Analyzing and Boosting the Power of Fine-Grained Visual Recognition for Multi-modal Large Language Models
50. ICLR 2025AndroidWorld: A Dynamic Benchmarking Environment for Autonomous Agents

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.