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

137 papers, page 3 of 3

101. NeurIPS 2024Deep Equilibrium Algorithmic Reasoning
102. NeurIPS 2024Diffusion of Thought: Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Diffusion Language Models
103. NeurIPS 2024DMPlug: A Plug-in Method for Solving Inverse Problems with Diffusion Models
104. NeurIPS 2024Does Reasoning Emerge? Examining the Probabilities of Causation in Large Language Models
105. NeurIPS 2024Doing Experiments and Revising Rules with Natural Language and Probabilistic Reasoning
106. NeurIPS 2024Embedding Trajectory for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Mathematical Reasoning
107. NeurIPS 2024Evaluating Large Vision-and-Language Models on Children's Mathematical Olympiads
108. NeurIPS 2024Global Lyapunov functions: a long-standing open problem in mathematics, with symbolic transformers
109. NeurIPS 2024How Far Can Transformers Reason? The Globality Barrier and Inductive Scratchpad
110. NeurIPS 2024Initialization is Critical to Whether Transformers Fit Composite Functions by Reasoning or Memorizing
111. NeurIPS 2024Interpretable Concept-Based Memory Reasoning
112. NeurIPS 2024JiuZhang3.0: Efficiently Improving Mathematical Reasoning by Training Small Data Synthesis Models
113. NeurIPS 2024Latent Neural Operator for Solving Forward and Inverse PDE Problems
114. NeurIPS 2024Lean Workbook: A large-scale Lean problem set formalized from natural language math problems
115. NeurIPS 2024MACM: Utilizing a Multi-Agent System for Condition Mining in Solving Complex Mathematical Problems
116. NeurIPS 2024MARVEL: Multidimensional Abstraction and Reasoning through Visual Evaluation and Learning
117. NeurIPS 2024MathPile: A Billion-Token-Scale Pretraining Corpus for Math
118. NeurIPS 2024Meaningful Learning: Enhancing Abstract Reasoning in Large Language Models via Generic Fact Guidance
119. NeurIPS 2024Measuring Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning with MATH-Vision Dataset
120. NeurIPS 2024Metacognitive Capabilities of LLMs: An Exploration in Mathematical Problem Solving
121. NeurIPS 2024MindMerger: Efficiently Boosting LLM Reasoning in non-English Languages
122. NeurIPS 2024MLLM-CompBench: A Comparative Reasoning Benchmark for Multimodal LLMs
123. NeurIPS 2024Neuro-Symbolic Data Generation for Math Reasoning
124. NeurIPS 2024On the Inductive Bias of Stacking Towards Improving Reasoning
125. NeurIPS 2024Open-Book Neural Algorithmic Reasoning
126. NeurIPS 2024OpenMathInstruct-1: A 1.8 Million Math Instruction Tuning Dataset
127. NeurIPS 2024Proving Olympiad Algebraic Inequalities without Human Demonstrations
128. NeurIPS 2024PutnamBench: Evaluating Neural Theorem-Provers on the Putnam Mathematical Competition
129. NeurIPS 2024PUZZLES: A Benchmark for Neural Algorithmic Reasoning
130. NeurIPS 2024RL on Incorrect Synthetic Data Scales the Efficiency of LLM Math Reasoning by Eight-Fold
131. NeurIPS 2024SciInstruct: a Self-Reflective Instruction Annotated Dataset for Training Scientific Language Models
132. NeurIPS 2024SELF-DISCOVER: Large Language Models Self-Compose Reasoning Structures
133. NeurIPS 2024Solving Inverse Problems via Diffusion Optimal Control
134. NeurIPS 2024ST$_k$: A Scalable Module for Solving Top-k Problems
135. NeurIPS 2024StrategyLLM: Large Language Models as Strategy Generators, Executors, Optimizers, and Evaluators for Problem Solving
136. NeurIPS 2024Understanding the Limits of Vision Language Models Through the Lens of the Binding Problem
137. NeurIPS 2024Unlocking the Capabilities of Thought: A Reasoning Boundary Framework to Quantify and Optimize Chain-of-Thought

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.