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 12 of 22

551. NeurIPS 2026Test-Time Learning with an Evolving Library
552. NeurIPS 2026The Capability Frontier of GRPO
553. NeurIPS 2026The Era of Agentic Organization: Learning to Organize with Language Models
554. NeurIPS 2026The Reasoning Boundary Paradox: How Reinforcement Learning Constrains Language Models
555. NeurIPS 2026They Can See It but not Say It: Iterative Self Knowledge Re-expression in Visual Reasoning Relative Pose Identification
556. NeurIPS 2026TIGER: Bridging the Multimodal Reasoning-Access Gap via Modality Counterfactuals
557. NeurIPS 2026Time to Pay Attention! Understanding High Complexity Corpus Reasoning Tasks
558. NeurIPS 2026Train at the Moving Edge: Rollout-Efficient RL for Large Reasoning Models
559. NeurIPS 2026Training with Harnesses: On-Policy Harness Self-Distillation for Complex Reasoning
560. NeurIPS 2026Training-Free Dynamic Upcycling of Expert Language Models
561. NeurIPS 2026Treat Bias as Noise: Training Bias-Robust LLM Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning
562. NeurIPS 2026Triggering Generalist Reasoning via Predictive Uncertainty for Dual-System VLA
563. NeurIPS 2026TSQAgent: Rating Time Series Data Quality via Dedicated Agentic Reasoning
564. NeurIPS 2026Understanding the Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMs
565. NeurIPS 2026Unifying Reasoning and Planning through Energy Minimization
566. NeurIPS 2026UniRAP: Towards Unified Part-level Physical Affordance Reasoning and Actionable Perception
567. NeurIPS 2026Value-Aware Stochastic KV Cache Eviction for Reasoning Models
568. NeurIPS 2026Verifiable Environments Are LEGO Bricks: Recursive Composition for Reasoning Generalization
569. NeurIPS 2026Verifier-Backed Hard Problem Generation for Mathematical Reasoning
570. NeurIPS 2026VeriWorld: A Verifiable Visual SWE-Bench for Spatial Reasoning in 3D Environments
571. NeurIPS 2026VI-CuRL: Stabilizing Verifier-Independent RL Reasoning via Confidence-Guided Variance Reduction
572. NeurIPS 2026VISD: Enhancing Video Reasoning via Structured Self-Distillation
573. NeurIPS 2026What’s Holding Back Latent Visual Reasoning?
574. NeurIPS 2026When Further Realization Is Unnecessary: Amortized Reasoning for Long-Horizon LLM Agents
575. NeurIPS 2026When LLMs Know but Fail to Reason: Injecting Memory for Reasoning Enhancement
576. NeurIPS 2026Where to Approximate in Neurosymbolic Inference?
577. NeurIPS 2026Why Struggle with Continuous Latents? Interpretable Discrete Latent Reasoning via Rendered Compression
578. CVPR 20253D-Mem: 3D Scene Memory for Embodied Exploration and Reasoning
579. CVPR 2025Black Swan: Abductive and Defeasible Video Reasoning in Unpredictable Events
580. CVPR 2025Bridging Viewpoint Gaps: Geometric Reasoning Boosts Semantic Correspondence
581. CVPR 2025Coarse Correspondences Boost Spatial-Temporal Reasoning in Multimodal Language Model
582. CVPR 2025Explainable Saliency: Articulating Reasoning with Contextual Prioritization
583. CVPR 2025FirePlace: Geometric Refinements of LLM Common Sense Reasoning for 3D Object Placement
584. CVPR 2025Gromov-Wasserstein Problem with Cyclic Symmetry
585. CVPR 2025Improving Diffusion Inverse Problem Solving with Decoupled Noise Annealing
586. CVPR 2025MV-MATH: Evaluating Multimodal Math Reasoning in Multi-Visual Contexts
587. CVPR 2025Perception Tokens Enhance Visual Reasoning in Multimodal Language Models
588. CVPR 2025PRaDA: Projective Radial Distortion Averaging
589. CVPR 2025Reasoning to Attend: Try to Understand How <SEG> Token Works
590. CVPR 2025Reconstructing Close Human Interaction with Appearance and Proxemics Reasoning
591. CVPR 2025SeqAfford: Sequential 3D Affordance Reasoning via Multimodal Large Language Model
592. CVPR 2025Spatial457: A Diagnostic Benchmark for 6D Spatial Reasoning of Large Mutimodal Models
593. CVPR 2025TSP-Mamba: The Travelling Salesman Problem Meets Mamba for Image Super-resolution and Beyond
594. CVPR 2025VISCO: Benchmarking Fine-Grained Critique and Correction Towards Self-Improvement in Visual Reasoning
595. CVPR 2025Visual Agentic AI for Spatial Reasoning with a Dynamic API
596. ICLR 2025Advancing Mathematical Reasoning in Language Models: The Impact of Problem-Solving Data, Data Synthesis Methods, and Training Stages
597. ICLR 2025Arithmetic Without Algorithms: Language Models Solve Math with a Bag of Heuristics
598. ICLR 2025B-STaR: Monitoring and Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Self-Taught Reasoners
599. ICLR 2025Can LLMs Solve Longer Math Word Problems Better?
600. ICLR 2025CogCoM: A Visual Language Model with Chain-of-Manipulations 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.