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 1 of 22

1. ICML 2026“very likely” Means “uncertain”? How LLMs Diverge from Humans in Linguistic Uncertainty Quantification
2. ICML 2026[CLS] is Not Enough: Multi-Label Recognition via Patch-Level Inference and Adaptive Aggregation
3. ICML 2026$\mathcal{O}(\log N)$ Latent Dimension Suffices for Universal Approximation of Permutation-invariant Function
4. ICML 2026$\sigma$: Sigmoid Modulation for Ultra High Resolution Diffusion
5. ICML 2026$f$-Trajectory Balance: A Loss Family for Tuning GFlowNets, Generative Models, and LLMs with Off- and On-Policy Data
6. ICML 2026$G^2$-Reader: Dual Evolving Graphs for Multimodal Document QA
7. ICML 20263D-RFT: Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Video-based 3D Scene Understanding
8. ICML 20263ViewSense: Spatial and Mental Perspective Reasoning from Orthographic Views in Vision-Language Models
9. ICML 2026A Bayesian Approach to Quantify the Uncertainty of Human Ratings in a Single-Instance Multimodal Framework
10. ICML 2026A Close Look at Negative Label Guided Out-of-distribution Detection in Pre-trained Vision-Language Models
11. ICML 2026A Computational Framework for Evaluating Human-likeness in LLMs' Open-ended Human Behaviors
12. ICML 2026A Generalist Pair-wise Progress Critic Model for Vision-Language-Action Robots
13. ICML 2026A Progressive Evidence Localization Framework Based on Wasserstein Gradient Flows for Document Visual Question Answering
14. ICML 2026A Provable Expressiveness Hierarchy in Hybrid Linear-Full Attention
15. ICML 2026A Robust Optimization Guided Pruning Framework for Vision and Large Language Models
16. ICML 2026A robust PPG foundation model using multimodal physiological supervision
17. ICML 2026A Very Big Video Reasoning Suite
18. ICML 2026A²RBench: An Automatic Paradigm for Formally Verifiable Abstract Reasoning Benchmark Generation
19. ICML 2026A3: an Analytical Low-Rank Approximation Framework for Attention
20. ICML 2026ABCD: All Biases Come Disguised
21. ICML 2026AC-ODM: Actor–Critic Online Data Mixing for Sample-Efficient LLM Pretraining
22. ICML 2026Activation-Free Backbones for Image Recognition: Polynomial Alternatives within MetaFormer-Style Vision Models
23. ICML 2026Active Exploring like a Pigeon: Reinforcing Spatial Reasoning via Agentic Vision-Language Models
24. ICML 2026Active Learning with Foundation Model Priors: Efficient Learning under Class Imbalance
25. ICML 2026ActiveScope: Actively Seeking and Correcting Perception for MLLMs
26. ICML 2026AD-MIR: Bridging the Gap from Perception to Persuasion in Advertising Video Understanding via Structured Reasoning
27. ICML 2026AdaMeZO: Adam-style Zeroth-Order Optimizer for LLM Fine-tuning Without Maintaining the Moments
28. ICML 2026AdaNav: Adaptive Reasoning with Uncertainty for Vision-Language Navigation
29. ICML 2026Adaptive Generation of Bias-Eliciting Questions for LLMs
30. ICML 2026Adaptive Residual-Update Steering for Low-Overhead Hallucination Mitigation in Large Vision-Language Models
31. ICML 2026Adaptive Time Series Reasoning via Segment Selection
32. ICML 2026Adaptive Token Refinement in Long-Tailed Large Vision-Language Models Fine-Tuning
33. ICML 2026ADEPT: RL-Aligned Agentic Decoding of Emotion via Evidence Probing Tools — From Consensus Learning to Ambiguity-Driven Emotion Reasoning
34. ICML 2026Advancing Analytic Class-Incremental Learning through Vision-Language Calibration
35. ICML 2026Adversarial Training for Process Reward Models
36. ICML 2026AesFormer: Transform Everyday Photos into Beautiful Memories
37. ICML 2026AffIn-Space: Learning Affine-Invariant Representations for 3D Spatial Understanding with MLLMs
38. ICML 2026Agent0-VL: Exploring Self-Evolving Agent for Tool-Integrated Vision-Language Reasoning
39. ICML 2026AGoQ: Activation and Gradient Quantization for Memory-Efficient Distributed Training of LLMs
40. ICML 2026AIR-VLA: Vision-Language-Action Systems for Aerial Manipulation
41. ICML 2026AIR: Post-training Data Selection for Reasoning via Attention Head Influence
42. ICML 2026AlgoTrace: Algorithmic Primitives and Compositional Geometry of Reasoning in Language Models
43. ICML 2026AlienLM: Alienization of Language for API-Boundary Privacy in Black-Box LLMs
44. ICML 2026AlignedNorm: Prompting Vision–Language Models via Coupled Prompt Field
45. ICML 2026Aligning Tree-Search Policies with Fixed Token Budgets in Test-Time Scaling of LLMs
46. ICML 2026AlphaGRPO: Unlocking Self-Reflective Multimodal Generation in Unified Multimodal Models via Decompositional Verifiable Reward
47. ICML 2026Alterbute: Editing Intrinsic Attributes of Objects in Images
48. ICML 2026An In-Depth Study on Deep Learning Model Cloning
49. ICML 2026Anchor-Final Self-Supervision Drives Hallucination-Aware Optimization in Large Vision-Language Models
50. ICML 2026ANCHOR: Abductive Network Construction with Hierarchical Orchestration for Reliable Probability Inference in Large Language 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.