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

1,401 papers, page 1 of 29

1. ICLR 2026(Token-Level) \textbf{InfoRMIA}: Stronger Membership Inference and Privacy Assessment for LLMs
2. ICLR 2026$AutoDrive\text{-}P^3$: Unified Chain of Perception–Prediction–Planning Thought via Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
3. ICLR 2026$p\textrm{-less}$ Sampling: A Robust Hyperparameter-Free Approach for LLM Decoding
4. ICLR 20263D Aware Region Prompted Vision Language Model
5. ICLR 2026A Balanced Neuro-Symbolic Approach for Commonsense Abductive Logic
6. ICLR 2026A Comprehensive Information-Decomposition Analysis of Large Vision-Language Models
7. ICLR 2026A Fano-Style Accuracy Upper Bound for LLM Single-Pass Reasoning in Multi-Hop QA
8. ICLR 2026A Fictional Q&A Dataset for Studying Memorization and Knowledge Acquisition
9. ICLR 2026A High Quality Dataset and Reliable Evaluation for Interleaved Image-Text Generation
10. ICLR 2026A Problem-Oriented Perspective and Anchor Verification for Code Optimization
11. ICLR 2026A Rich Knowledge Space for Scalable Deepfake Detection
12. ICLR 2026A Scalable Distributed Framework for Multimodal GigaVoxel Image Registration
13. ICLR 2026A Scene is Worth a Thousand Features: Feed-Forward Camera Localization from a Collection of Image Features
14. ICLR 2026A Stitch in Time Saves Nine: Proactive Self-Refinement for Language Models
15. ICLR 2026A Structured, Tagged, and Localized Visual Question Answering Dataset with Full Sentence Answers and Scene Graphs for Chest X-ray Images
16. ICLR 2026A Training-Free Framework for Long Video Understanding via Video-Query-Options Similarity
17. ICLR 2026A Unified Federated Framework for Trajectory Data Preparation via LLMs
18. ICLR 2026A-TPT: Angular Diversity Calibration Properties for Test-Time Prompt Tuning of Vision-Language Models
19. ICLR 2026A.I.R.: Enabling Adaptive, Iterative, and Reasoning-based Frame Selection For Video Question Answering
20. ICLR 2026A$^2$FM: An Adaptive Agent Foundation Model for Tool-Aware Hybrid Reasoning
21. ICLR 2026AbstRaL: Augmenting LLMs' Reasoning by Reinforcing Abstract Thinking
22. ICLR 2026Achieving low-bit Muon through subspace preservation and grid quantization
23. ICLR 2026Action-aware Dynamic Pruning for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Manipulation
24. ICLR 2026Action-Guided Attention for Video Action Anticipation
25. ICLR 2026Actions as Language: Fine-Tuning VLMs into VLAs Without Catastrophic Forgetting
26. ICLR 2026Actions Speak Louder than Prompts: A Large-Scale Study of LLMs for Graph Inference
27. ICLR 2026Activation Steering for LLM Alignment via a Unified ODE-Based Framework
28. ICLR 2026Activation Steering with a Feedback Controller
29. ICLR 2026ActiveDPO: Active Direct Preference Optimization for Sample-Efficient Alignment
30. ICLR 2026AdAEM: An Adaptively and Automated Extensible Evaluation Method of LLMs' Value Difference
31. ICLR 2026Adaptive Debiasing Tsallis Entropy for Test-Time Adaptation
32. ICLR 2026Adaptive Logit Adjustment for Debiasing Multimodal Language Models
33. ICLR 2026AdaReasoner: Dynamic Tool Orchestration for Iterative Visual Reasoning
34. ICLR 2026AdPO: Enhancing the Adversarial Robustness of Large Vision-Language Models with Preference Optimization
35. ICLR 2026Advancing Complex Video Object Segmentation via Progressive Concept Construction
36. ICLR 2026Adversarial Attacks Already Tell the Answer: Directional Bias-Guided Test-time Defense for Vision-Language Models
37. ICLR 2026AetherCode: Evaluating LLMs’ Ability to Win In Premier Programming Competitions
38. ICLR 2026AFTER: Mitigating the Object Hallucination of LVLM via Adaptive Factual-Guided Activation Editing
39. ICLR 2026Agentic Jigsaw Interaction Learning for Enhancing Visual Perception and Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
40. ICLR 2026Align-Then-stEer: Adapting the Vision-Language Action Models through Unified Latent Guidance
41. ICLR 2026ALM-MTA: Front-Door Causal Multi-Touch Attribution Method for Creator-Ecosystem Optimization
42. ICLR 2026AMiD: Knowledge Distillation for LLMs with $\alpha$-mixture Assistant Distribution
43. ICLR 2026AMLRIS: Alignment-aware Masked Learning for Referring Image Segmentation
44. ICLR 2026An Empirical Study of Attention and Diversity for Adaptive Visual Token Pruning in Large Vision-Language Models
45. ICLR 2026An Information-Theoretic Parameter-Free Bayesian Framework for Probing Labeled Dependency Trees from Attention Score
46. ICLR 2026An Open-Ended Benchmark and Formal Framework for Adjuvant Research with MLLM
47. ICLR 2026Analyzing the Training Dynamics of Image Restoration Transformers: A Revisit to Layer Normalization
48. ICLR 2026Anatomy-aware Representation Learning for Medical Ultrasound
49. ICLR 2026Anchor Frame Bridging for Coherent First-Last Frame Video Generation
50. ICLR 2026AnesSuite: A Comprehensive Benchmark and Dataset Suite for Anesthesiology Reasoning in LLMs

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.