Differentiable Reasoning papers, 2023–2026
Differentiable logic
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 185 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Differentiable Reasoning went from 31 papers in 2023 to 79 in 2026, roughly 2.5x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Differentiable Reasoning work: 65 papers from 2023 to 2026, 35% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Mathematical Reasoning: papers tagged with both rose from 3 in 2023 to 29 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Neurosymbolic AI, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Mathematical Reasoning, is up 10x versus 2.5x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 31 |
| 2024 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 29 |
| 2025 | 22 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 46 |
| 2026 | 28 | 16 | 14 | 21 | 79 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026Beyond MSE: Differentiable Complexity Priors for Structure-Preserving Neural Denoising
- ICML 2026Differentiable Conformal Training for LLM Reasoning Factuality
- ICLR 2026$\boldsymbol{\partial^\infty}$-Grid: A Neural Differential Equation Solver with Differentiable Feature Grids
- CVPR 2026D-Convexity A Unified Differentiable Convex Shape Prior via Quasi-Concavity for
- NeurIPS 2025Consistency Conditions for Differentiable Surrogate Losses
- ICML 2025DiLQR: Differentiable Iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator via Implicit Differentiation
- ICLR 2025Analytic DAG Constraints for Differentiable DAG Learning
- CVPR 2025Differentiable Inverse Rendering with Interpretable Basis BRDFs
- NeurIPS 2024DeiSAM: Segment Anything with Deictic Prompting
- ICML 2024A Differentiable Partially Observable Generalized Linear Model with Forward-Backward Message Passing
- ICLR 2024Generalized Neural Sorting Networks with Error-Free Differentiable Swap Functions
- CVPR 2024Differentiable Display Photometric Stereo
- NeurIPS 2023Differentiable Clustering with Perturbed Spanning Forests
- ICML 2023End-to-end Differentiable Clustering with Associative Memories
- ICLR 2023Learning Group Importance using the Differentiable Hypergeometric Distribution
- CVPR 2023Deep Learning of Partial Graph Matching via Differentiable Top-K
- NeurIPS 2026Differentiable Exact Learning of Algorithms
- ICML 2026Hide&Seek: Learning to Explain in an End-to-End Differentiable Network
- ICLR 2026Tversky Neural Networks: Psychologically Plausible Deep Learning with Differentiable Tversky Similarity
- CVPR 2026DiffBMP Differentiable Rendering with Bitmap Primitives
All Differentiable Reasoning papers
30 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICML 2026Abductive Reasoning with Probabilistic Commonsense
- ICML 2026AdaSplash-2: Faster Differentiable Sparse Attention
- ICML 2026Align Forward, Adapt Backward: Closing the Discretization Gap in Logic Gate Networks
- ICML 2026d$^2$p: Structured Soft Attention Is All You Need
- ICML 2026Deterministic Differentiable Structured Pruning for Large Language Models
- ICML 2026Differentiable Conformal Training for LLM Reasoning Factuality
- ICML 2026Differentiable Weightless Controllers: Learning Logic Circuits for Continuous Control
- ICML 2026Diffusion Differentiable Resampling
- ICML 2026Equilibrium Reasoners: Learning Attractors Enables Scalable Reasoning
- ICML 2026Hide&Seek: Learning to Explain in an End-to-End Differentiable Network
- ICML 2026SoftJAX & SoftTorch: Empowering Automatic Differentiation Libraries with Informative Gradients
- ICML 2026TT-Sparse: Learning Sparse Rule Models with Differentiable Truth Tables
- ICML 2026TVDRNet: Text-driven Viewpoint Optimization via Differentiable Rendering for 3D Reasoning Segmentation
- ICML 2026Two-Stage Unit Tying for Simplifying Differentiable Logic Gate Networks
- ICML 2025Can Transformers Reason Logically? A Study in SAT Solving
- ICML 2025Deliberation in Latent Space via Differentiable Cache Augmentation
- ICML 2025Differentiable Structure Learning with Ancestral Constraints
- ICML 2025DiLQR: Differentiable Iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator via Implicit Differentiation
- ICML 2025DOLPHIN: A Programmable Framework for Scalable Neurosymbolic Learning
- ICML 2024A Differentiable Partially Observable Generalized Linear Model with Forward-Backward Message Passing
- ICML 2024Differentiable Combinatorial Scheduling at Scale
- ICML 2024Differentiable Model Scaling using Differentiable Topk
- ICML 2024Differentiable Weightless Neural Networks
- ICML 2024Improving Neural Logic Machines via Failure Reflection
- ICML 2024Scale-Free Image Keypoints Using Differentiable Persistent Homology
- ICML 2023Differentiable Tree Operations Promote Compositional Generalization
- ICML 2023End-to-end Differentiable Clustering with Associative Memories
- ICML 2023Interpretable Neural-Symbolic Concept Reasoning
- ICML 2023Learning Deductive Reasoning from Synthetic Corpus based on Formal Logic
- ICML 2023Neural Status Registers
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FAQ
- How many Differentiable Reasoning papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 185 in total: 31 in 2023, 29 in 2024, 46 in 2025, 79 in 2026.
- How many Differentiable Reasoning papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 28 Differentiable Reasoning papers, versus 22 the year before.
- How many Differentiable Reasoning papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 16 Differentiable Reasoning papers, versus 13 the year before.
- How many Differentiable Reasoning papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 14 Differentiable Reasoning papers, versus 5 the year before.
- How many Differentiable Reasoning papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 21 Differentiable Reasoning papers, versus 6 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Differentiable Reasoning papers?
- NeurIPS, with 65 papers from 2023 to 2026.