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

208 papers, page 3 of 5

101. NeurIPS 2026MCPHallu: Benchmarking Reasoning, Execution, and Memory Hallucinations in MCP Agents
102. NeurIPS 2026Measuring Weak-to-Strong Legibility of Reasoning Models
103. NeurIPS 2026MedZERO: Self-Evolving Agents for Open-Ended Medical Reasoning Through Controlled Knowledge Accumulation
104. NeurIPS 2026MemPilot: Learning Transferable Latent Memory Mechanisms for LLM Reasoning
105. NeurIPS 2026Mental Imagery That Matters: Curing Latent Collapse in Multimodal Reasoning
106. NeurIPS 2026MindLoom: Composing Thought Modes for Frontier-Level Reasoning Data Synthesis
107. NeurIPS 2026MinPath: Learning Efficient LLM Reasoning via Minimal Dependency Paths
108. NeurIPS 2026MIRA: Reinforcing Multimodal Reasoning via Deceptive Contextual Augmentation
109. NeurIPS 2026MIRAGE: Mobile Agents with Implicit Reasoning and Generative World Models
110. NeurIPS 2026Mitigating Factual Hallucination in Large Reasoning Models via Mixed-Mode Advantage Regularization
111. NeurIPS 2026Mitigating Overthinking in Large Reasoning Language Models via Reasoning Path Deviation Monitoring
112. NeurIPS 2026MMFineReason: Closing the Multimodal Reasoning Gap via Open Data-Centric Methods
113. NeurIPS 2026MotionHalluc: Diagnosing Kinematic Hallucinations in Fine-Grained Motion Reasoning
114. NeurIPS 2026MUX: Continuous Reasoning via Multiplexed Tokens
115. NeurIPS 2026Natural Synthesis: Outperforming Reactive Synthesis Tools with Large Reasoning Models
116. NeurIPS 2026On the Token Value Inequality in Efficient Reasoning
117. NeurIPS 2026OS-Pruner: Pruning Chains-of-Thought of Reasoning Models via Optimal Stopping
118. NeurIPS 2026Outcome-Based RL Provably Leads Transformers to Reason, but Only With the Right Data
119. NeurIPS 2026PAC Reasoning: Controlling the Performance Loss for Efficient Reasoning
120. NeurIPS 2026Pause and Reflect: Conformal Aggregation for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
121. NeurIPS 2026Perceive, Interact, Reason: Building Tool-Augmented Visual Agents for Spatial Reasoning
122. NeurIPS 2026PhysGraphNet: Physical-State Scene Graphs via Latent Graph Reasoning and Counterfactual Supervision
123. NeurIPS 2026PhysVista: Benchmarking Physical Intelligence in VLMs via a Perception-Reasoning-Assessment Loop
124. NeurIPS 2026Plausibility Is Not Prediction: Contrastive Evidence for LLM-Based Cellular Perturbation Reasoning
125. NeurIPS 2026Position: Robust Reasoning Requires Internal Time, Not Scale Alone
126. NeurIPS 2026Precise but Uncoupled: Reviewer Precision Does Not Guarantee Critique Uptake in Multi-Agent Math Reasoning
127. NeurIPS 2026Preserving Exploration for LLM Reasoning via Mean Order-Statistic Alignment
128. NeurIPS 2026Probabilistic Recursive Reasoning
129. NeurIPS 2026Probing the Trajectories of Reasoning Traces in Large Language Models
130. NeurIPS 2026Problem-Dependent Dynamic Regret over a Predictor Class with One-Gradient Feedback
131. NeurIPS 2026Programmatic Reasoning with Structural Schema: A Unified Framework for Multi-Table Inference
132. NeurIPS 2026Quantized Reasoning Models Think They Need to Think Longer, but They Do Not
133. NeurIPS 2026Reasoning as Compression: Unifying Budget Forcing via the Conditional Information Bottleneck
134. NeurIPS 2026Reasoning over Coupled Receptive Fields: Eliminating Subgraph Redundancy at Scale
135. NeurIPS 2026Reasoning Pathologies in Large Language Models: A Diagnostic Perspective
136. NeurIPS 2026Reasoning Warm-up: Scaling Label-free RL via Verifiable Surrogate Rewards
137. NeurIPS 2026Reasoning with Undecoded Tokens in Diffusion Language Models
138. NeurIPS 2026Reasoning-Aware IRT: Explainable Evaluation of Test-Time Scaling in Reasoning Models
139. NeurIPS 2026Reasoning-based Spatial Prior (RSP): Learning Spatial Priors from Multimodal LLMs for Object Detection
140. NeurIPS 2026Reasoning-Trace Collapse: Evaluating the Loss of Explicit Reasoning During Fine-Tuning
141. NeurIPS 2026ReasoningShield: Safety Moderation over Reasoning Traces of Large Reasoning Models
142. NeurIPS 2026Rebellious Student: Reversing Teacher Signals for Reasoning Exploration with Self-Distilled RLVR
143. NeurIPS 2026Reinforcing Multimodal Reasoning Against Visual Degradation
144. NeurIPS 2026Reject, Resample, Repeat: Understanding Parallel Reasoning in Language Model Inference
145. NeurIPS 2026Reliable Chain-of-Thought via Prefix Consistency
146. NeurIPS 2026RepoMirage: Probing Repository Context Reasoning in Code Agents with Perturbations
147. NeurIPS 2026ReSET: Accurate Latency-Critical NVFP4 Reasoning via Step-Aware Temperature Scaling
148. NeurIPS 2026RoboWits: Unexpected Challenges for Robotic Creative Problem Solving
149. NeurIPS 2026s2n-bignum-bench: A practical benchmark for evaluating low-level code reasoning of LLMs
150. NeurIPS 2026SAGE: Mitigating Long-Horizon Reasoning Biases via Topological Guidance

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.