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

314 papers, page 2 of 7

51. ICLR 2025Mitigating Modality Prior-Induced Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models via Deciphering Attention Causality
52. ICLR 2025MLPs Learn In-Context on Regression and Classification Tasks
53. ICLR 2025MR-GSM8K: A Meta-Reasoning Benchmark for Large Language Model Evaluation
54. ICLR 2025Multiagent Finetuning: Self Improvement with Diverse Reasoning Chains
55. ICLR 2025Mutual Reasoning Makes Smaller LLMs Stronger Problem-Solver
56. ICLR 2025Number Cookbook: Number Understanding of Language Models and How to Improve It
57. ICLR 2025Omni-MATH: A Universal Olympiad Level Mathematic Benchmark for Large Language Models
58. ICLR 2025OpenMathInstruct-2: Accelerating AI for Math with Massive Open-Source Instruction Data
59. ICLR 2025Physics of Language Models: Part 2.1, Grade-School Math and the Hidden Reasoning Process
60. ICLR 2025Physics of Language Models: Part 2.2, How to Learn From Mistakes on Grade-School Math Problems
61. ICLR 2025Procedural Knowledge in Pretraining Drives Reasoning in Large Language Models
62. ICLR 2025Process Reward Model with Q-value Rankings
63. ICLR 2025Progress or Regress? Self-Improvement Reversal in Post-training
64. ICLR 2025Proving Olympiad Inequalities by Synergizing LLMs and Symbolic Reasoning
65. ICLR 2025Reasoning Elicitation in Language Models via Counterfactual Feedback
66. ICLR 2025Reasoning with Latent Thoughts: On the Power of Looped Transformers
67. ICLR 2025ReGenesis: LLMs can Grow into Reasoning Generalists via Self-Improvement
68. ICLR 2025SBSC: Step-by-Step Coding for Improving Mathematical Olympiad Performance
69. ICLR 2025Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute Optimally Can be More Effective than Scaling Parameters for Reasoning
70. ICLR 2025Seq-VCR: Preventing Collapse in Intermediate Transformer Representations for Enhanced Reasoning
71. ICLR 2025Smaller, Weaker, Yet Better: Training LLM Reasoners via Compute-Optimal Sampling
72. ICLR 2025Systematic Relational Reasoning With Epistemic Graph Neural Networks
73. ICLR 2025ThinkBot: Embodied Instruction Following with Thought Chain Reasoning
74. ICLR 2025To CoT or not to CoT? Chain-of-thought helps mainly on math and symbolic reasoning
75. ICLR 2025Token-Supervised Value Models for Enhancing Mathematical Problem-Solving Capabilities of Large Language Models
76. ICLR 2025Transformer Encoder Satisfiability: Complexity and Impact on Formal Reasoning
77. ICLR 2025TypedThinker: Diversify Large Language Model Reasoning with Typed Thinking
78. ICLR 2025UGMathBench: A Diverse and Dynamic Benchmark for Undergraduate-Level Mathematical Reasoning with Large Language Models
79. ICLR 2025WizardMath: Empowering Mathematical Reasoning for Large Language Models via Reinforced Evol-Instruct
80. ICML 2025A Mathematical Framework for AI-Human Integration in Work
81. ICML 2025A Reasoning-Based Approach to Cryptic Crossword Clue Solving
82. ICML 2025A Sub-Problem Quantum Alternating Operator Ansatz for Correlation Clustering
83. ICML 2025AdaptiveStep: Automatically Dividing Reasoning Step through Model Confidence
84. ICML 2025Attention-Level Speculation
85. ICML 2025Autoformulation of Mathematical Optimization Models Using LLMs
86. ICML 2025Beyond Task-Specific Reasoning: A Unified Conditional Generative Framework for Abstract Visual Reasoning
87. ICML 2025Blink of an eye: a simple theory for feature localization in generative models
88. ICML 2025Can Transformers Reason Logically? A Study in SAT Solving
89. ICML 2025Discrete Neural Algorithmic Reasoning
90. ICML 2025Do NOT Think That Much for 2+3=? On the Overthinking of Long Reasoning Models
91. ICML 2025Fleet of Agents: Coordinated Problem Solving with Large Language Models
92. ICML 2025Forest-of-Thought: Scaling Test-Time Compute for Enhancing LLM Reasoning
93. ICML 2025Free Process Rewards without Process Labels
94. ICML 2025From Language Models over Tokens to Language Models over Characters
95. ICML 2025Graph-constrained Reasoning: Faithful Reasoning on Knowledge Graphs with Large Language Models
96. ICML 2025GSM-$\infty$: How Do your LLMs Behave over Infinitely Increasing Reasoning Complexity and Context Length?
97. ICML 2025HyperTree Planning: Enhancing LLM Reasoning via Hierarchical Thinking
98. ICML 2025Improving Rationality in the Reasoning Process of Language Models through Self-playing Game
99. ICML 2025Leveraging Online Olympiad-Level Math Problems for LLMs Training and Contamination-Resistant Evaluation
100. ICML 2025Lower Bounds for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Hard-Attention Transformers

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.