Mathematical Reasoning papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Mathematical Reasoning went from 57 papers in 2023 to 577 in 2026, roughly 10x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Mathematical Reasoning work: 469 papers from 2023 to 2026, 43% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Reinforcement Learning: papers tagged with both rose from 3 in 2023 to 140 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Neurosymbolic AI, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Differentiable Reasoning, is up 2.5x versus 10x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026A mathematical theory of balancing relational generalization and memorization
• ICML 2026ASyMOB: Algebraic Symbolic Mathematical Operations Benchmark
• ICLR 2026AutoGPS: Automated Geometry Problem Solving via Multimodal Formalization and Deductive Reasoning
• CVPR 2026Affine Perspective-Three-Point Problem
• NeurIPS 2025Are Language Models Efficient Reasoners? A Perspective from Logic Programming
• ICML 2025Autoformulation of Mathematical Optimization Models Using LLMs
• ICLR 2025Advancing Mathematical Reasoning in Language Models: The Impact of Problem-Solving Data, Data Synthesis Methods, and Training Stages
• CVPR 2025Bridging Viewpoint Gaps: Geometric Reasoning Boosts Semantic Correspondence
• NeurIPS 2024A Careful Examination of Large Language Model Performance on Grade School Arithmetic
• ICML 2024Accelerating Legacy Numerical Solvers by Non-intrusive Gradient-based Meta-solving
• ICLR 2024Don't Trust: Verify -- Grounding LLM Quantitative Reasoning with Autoformalization
• CVPR 2024E-GPS: Explainable Geometry Problem Solving via Top-Down Solver and Bottom-Up Generator
• NeurIPS 2023Evaluating and Improving Tool-Augmented Computation-Intensive Math Reasoning
• ICML 2023Automated Search for Conjectures on Mathematical Constants using Analysis of Integer Sequences
• ICLR 2023Differentiable Mathematical Programming for Object-Centric Representation Learning
• CVPR 2023Abstract Visual Reasoning: An Algebraic Approach for Solving Raven's Progressive Matrices
• NeurIPS 2026A Mechanistic Analysis of Looped Reasoning Language Models
• ICML 2026Beyond Theorem Proving: Formulation, Framework and Benchmark for Formal Problem-Solving
• ICLR 2026CogFlow: Bridging Perception and Reasoning through Knowledge Internalization for Visual Mathematical Problem Solving
• CVPR 2026Hilbert-Geo Solving Solid Geometric Problems by Neural-Symbolic Reasoning

All Mathematical Reasoning papers

1,085 papers, page 11 of 22

501. NeurIPS 2026Quantized Reasoning Models Think They Need to Think Longer, but They Do Not
502. NeurIPS 2026Reasoning as Compression: Unifying Budget Forcing via the Conditional Information Bottleneck
503. NeurIPS 2026Reasoning over Coupled Receptive Fields: Eliminating Subgraph Redundancy at Scale
504. NeurIPS 2026Reasoning Pathologies in Large Language Models: A Diagnostic Perspective
505. NeurIPS 2026Reasoning Warm-up: Scaling Label-free RL via Verifiable Surrogate Rewards
506. NeurIPS 2026Reasoning with Undecoded Tokens in Diffusion Language Models
507. NeurIPS 2026Reasoning-Aware IRT: Explainable Evaluation of Test-Time Scaling in Reasoning Models
508. NeurIPS 2026Reasoning-based Spatial Prior (RSP): Learning Spatial Priors from Multimodal LLMs for Object Detection
509. NeurIPS 2026Reasoning-Trace Collapse: Evaluating the Loss of Explicit Reasoning During Fine-Tuning
510. NeurIPS 2026ReasoningShield: Safety Moderation over Reasoning Traces of Large Reasoning Models
511. NeurIPS 2026Rebellious Student: Reversing Teacher Signals for Reasoning Exploration with Self-Distilled RLVR
512. NeurIPS 2026Reinforcing Multimodal Reasoning Against Visual Degradation
513. NeurIPS 2026Reject, Resample, Repeat: Understanding Parallel Reasoning in Language Model Inference
514. NeurIPS 2026Reliable Chain-of-Thought via Prefix Consistency
515. NeurIPS 2026RepoMirage: Probing Repository Context Reasoning in Code Agents with Perturbations
516. NeurIPS 2026ReSET: Accurate Latency-Critical NVFP4 Reasoning via Step-Aware Temperature Scaling
517. NeurIPS 2026RoboWits: Unexpected Challenges for Robotic Creative Problem Solving
518. NeurIPS 2026s2n-bignum-bench: A practical benchmark for evaluating low-level code reasoning of LLMs
519. NeurIPS 2026SAGE: Mitigating Long-Horizon Reasoning Biases via Topological Guidance
520. NeurIPS 2026Scaling Causal Reasoning with Increasingly Complex Causal Simulators
521. NeurIPS 2026Seeing or Rationalizing? Scene-Evidence-Guided Chain-of-Thought for Faithful 3D Multimodal Reasoning
522. NeurIPS 2026Seirênes: Adversarial Self-Play with Evolving Distractions for LLM Reasoning
523. NeurIPS 2026Self-Compacting Language Model Agents
524. NeurIPS 2026Semantic Search over 9 Million Mathematical Theorems
525. NeurIPS 2026SFT-then-RL Outperforms Mixed-Policy Methods for LLM Reasoning
526. NeurIPS 2026SH$^2$: A Mathematician-Curated benchmark for Assessing Research-level Math Capabilities of LLMs
527. NeurIPS 2026Simulating Students or Sycophantic Problem Solving? On Misconception Faithfulness of LLM Simulators
528. NeurIPS 2026Smart Picks in the Dark: Towards Efficient RLVR for Reasoning via Tracing Metacognitive Pivots
529. NeurIPS 2026SoDeArena: A Socially-Situated Reasoning Benchmark for Large Language Models
530. NeurIPS 2026Solving Every Step Is Not Enough: Milestone Oracles Reveal a Composition Gap in LLM Math Reasoning
531. NeurIPS 2026Sparse Attention as a Range Searching Problem: Towards an Inference-Efficient Index for KV Cache
532. NeurIPS 2026Sparse Expansion Utility: Identifying and Routing to Pivotal Steps in LLM Reasoning Chains
533. NeurIPS 2026SphMind: Towards Robust, Training-Free VLM-based Spatial Reasoning with a 360 Camera
534. NeurIPS 2026Stability in Multi-Step Reasoning via Jacobian-based Error Accumulation Analysis
535. NeurIPS 2026Stabilizing Knowledge, Promoting Reasoning: Dual-Token Constraints for RLVR
536. NeurIPS 2026STAR-Math: Multi-Agent Mathematical Reasoning under Persistent Meta-Strategic Supervision
537. NeurIPS 2026State of Thought Enables Endogenous Reasoning
538. NeurIPS 2026StateTree: Enhancing Long-term Dialogue Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning
539. NeurIPS 2026Step-by-Step Optimization-like Reasoning in LLMs over Expanding Search Spaces
540. NeurIPS 2026Step-wise Rubric Rewards for LLM Reasoning
541. NeurIPS 2026Stepwise Penalization for Length-Efficient Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
542. NeurIPS 2026Stop or Restart? Principled Inference Control for Large Reasoning Models via the Pandora's Box
543. NeurIPS 2026Strategist: Designing Agentic Reasoning at Scale
544. NeurIPS 2026STRIDE: Learnable Stepwise Language Feedback for LLM Reasoning
545. NeurIPS 2026Structural Rationale Distillation via Reasoning Space Compression
546. NeurIPS 2026TargetSage: Identifying Therapeutic Target Genes with Interpretable and Robust LLM Reasoning
547. NeurIPS 2026TARP: Trace-Anchored Regularization Prior for Retaining Stepwise Reasoning
548. NeurIPS 2026TaskGround: Structured Executable Task Inference for Full-Scene Household Reasoning
549. NeurIPS 2026Teach-to-Reason: Competition-Guided Reasoning with a Self-Improving Teacher
550. NeurIPS 2026TERMINATOR: Learning Optimal Exit Points for Early Stopping in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

FAQ

How many Mathematical Reasoning papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

1,085 in total: 57 in 2023, 137 in 2024, 314 in 2025, 577 in 2026.

How many Mathematical Reasoning papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 208 Mathematical Reasoning papers, versus 190 the year before.

How many Mathematical Reasoning papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 175 Mathematical Reasoning papers, versus 61 the year before.

How many Mathematical Reasoning papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 113 Mathematical Reasoning papers, versus 45 the year before.

How many Mathematical Reasoning papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 81 Mathematical Reasoning papers, versus 18 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Mathematical Reasoning papers?

NeurIPS, with 469 papers from 2023 to 2026.