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 17 of 22

801. NeurIPS 2025MathArena: Evaluating LLMs on Uncontaminated Math Competitions
802. NeurIPS 2025Measuring the Faithfulness of Thinking Drafts in Large Reasoning Models
803. NeurIPS 2025Mind the Gap: Bridging Thought Leap for Improved Chain-of-Thought Tuning
804. NeurIPS 2025miniF2F-Lean Revisited: Reviewing Limitations and Charting a Path Forward
805. NeurIPS 2025MINT-CoT: Enabling Interleaved Visual Tokens in Mathematical Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
806. NeurIPS 2025Mitigating Overthinking in Large Reasoning Models via Manifold Steering
807. NeurIPS 2025MM-Agent: LLM as Agents for Real-world Mathematical Modeling Problem
808. NeurIPS 2025More Thinking, Less Seeing? Assessing Amplified Hallucination in Multimodal Reasoning Models
809. NeurIPS 2025Multipole Attention for Efficient Long Context Reasoning
810. NeurIPS 2025NaturalReasoning: Reasoning in the Wild with 2.8M Challenging Questions
811. NeurIPS 2025No Experts, No Problem: Avoidance Learning from Bad Demonstrations
812. NeurIPS 2025OMEGA: Can LLMs Reason Outside the Box in Math? Evaluating Exploratory, Compositional, and Transformative Generalization
813. NeurIPS 2025Omni-R1: Reinforcement Learning for Omnimodal Reasoning via Two-System Collaboration
814. NeurIPS 2025On Learning Verifiers and Implications to Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
815. NeurIPS 2025On the Bias of Next-Token Predictors Toward Systematically Inefficient Reasoning: A Shortest-Path Case Study
816. NeurIPS 2025Once Upon an Input: Reasoning via Per-Instance Program Synthesis
817. NeurIPS 2025One Token Embedding Is Enough to Deadlock Your Large Reasoning Model
818. NeurIPS 2025Optimizing Anytime Reasoning via Budget Relative Policy Optimization
819. NeurIPS 2025Optimizing Chain-of-Thought Reasoners via Gradient Variance Minimization in Rejection Sampling and RL
820. NeurIPS 2025PolyMath: Evaluating Mathematical Reasoning in Multilingual Contexts
821. NeurIPS 2025Prismatic Synthesis: Gradient-based Data Diversification Boosts Generalization in LLM Reasoning
822. NeurIPS 2025ProRL: Prolonged Reinforcement Learning Expands Reasoning Boundaries in Large Language Models
823. NeurIPS 2025QFFT, Question-Free Fine-Tuning for Adaptive Reasoning
824. NeurIPS 2025QiMeng-CodeV-R1: Reasoning-Enhanced Verilog Generation
825. NeurIPS 2025QuestBench: Can LLMs ask the right question to acquire information in reasoning tasks?
826. NeurIPS 2025R-KV: Redundancy-aware KV Cache Compression for Reasoning Models
827. NeurIPS 2025R$^2$ec: Towards Large Recommender Models with Reasoning
828. NeurIPS 2025R2R: Efficiently Navigating Divergent Reasoning Paths with Small-Large Model Token Routing
829. NeurIPS 2025RealMath: A Continuous Benchmark for Evaluating Language Models on Research-Level Mathematics
830. NeurIPS 2025ReasonFlux-PRM: Trajectory-Aware PRMs for Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMs
831. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning by Superposition: A Theoretical Perspective on Chain of Continuous Thought
832. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Is Not a Race: When Stopping Early Beats Going Deeper
833. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Models Better Express Their Confidence
834. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Models Hallucinate More: Factuality-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Large Reasoning Models
835. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Path Compression: Compressing Generation Trajectories for Efficient LLM Reasoning
836. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Planning for Language Models
837. NeurIPS 2025Reinforcement Learning for Out-of-Distribution Reasoning in LLMs: An Empirical Study on Diagnosis-Related Group Coding
838. NeurIPS 2025Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning in Large Language Models with One Training Example
839. NeurIPS 2025Reinforcement Learning Teachers of Test Time Scaling
840. NeurIPS 2025Rethinking Fine-Tuning when Scaling Test-Time Compute: Limiting Confidence Improves Mathematical Reasoning
841. NeurIPS 2025S-GRPO: Early Exit via Reinforcement Learning in Reasoning Models
842. NeurIPS 2025SATURN: SAT-based Reinforcement Learning to Unleash LLMs Reasoning
843. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Code-Assisted Chain-of-Thoughts and Instructions for Model Reasoning
844. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Speculative Decoding with Lookahead Reasoning
845. NeurIPS 2025Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach
846. NeurIPS 2025SCOUT: Teaching Pre-trained Language Models to Enhance Reasoning via Flow Chain-of-Thought
847. NeurIPS 2025Self-Verifying Reflection Helps Transformers with CoT Reasoning
848. NeurIPS 2025SemCoT: Accelerating Chain-of-Thought Reasoning through Semantically-Aligned Implicit Tokens
849. NeurIPS 2025ShorterBetter: Guiding Reasoning Models to Find Optimal Inference Length for Efficient Reasoning
850. NeurIPS 2025SIGMA: Refining Large Language Model Reasoning via Sibling-Guided Monte Carlo Augmentation

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.