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

175 papers, page 4 of 4

151. ICLR 2026StreamingThinker: Large Language Models Can Think While Reading
152. ICLR 2026SwiReasoning: Switch-Thinking in Latent and Explicit for Pareto-Superior Reasoning LLMs
153. ICLR 2026T1: Tool-integrated Verification for Test-time Compute Scaling in Small Language Models
154. ICLR 2026TaTToo: Tool-Grounded Thinking PRM for Test-Time Scaling in Tabular Reasoning
155. ICLR 2026The First Impression Problem: Internal Bias Triggers Overthinking in Reasoning Models
156. ICLR 2026The Open Proof Corpus: A Large-Scale Study of LLM-Generated Mathematical Proofs
157. ICLR 2026THE PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE: GUIDING LLM REASONING TRAJECTORIES WITH PREFIX CONSENSUS
158. ICLR 2026Think in Parallel, Answer as One: Logit Averaging for Open-Ended Reasoning
159. ICLR 2026Thinking on the Fly: Test-Time Reasoning Enhancement via Latent Thought Policy Optimization
160. ICLR 2026ThinkMorph: Emergent Properties in Multimodal Interleaved Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
161. ICLR 2026Token Hidden Reward: Steering Exploration-Exploitation in Group Relative Deep Reinforcement Learning
162. ICLR 2026TokUR: Token-Level Uncertainty Estimation for Large Language Model Reasoning
163. ICLR 2026Towards Quantization-Aware Training for Ultra-Low-Bit Reasoning LLMs
164. ICLR 2026Towards Safe Reasoning in Large Reasoning Models via Corrective Intervention
165. ICLR 2026Tracing the Traces: Latent Temporal Signals for Efficient and Accurate Reasoning
166. ICLR 2026Training Large Language Models To Reason In Parallel With Global Forking Tokens
167. ICLR 2026Training Large Reasoning Models Efficiently via Progressive Thought Encoding
168. ICLR 2026TRIM: Hybrid Inference via Targeted Stepwise Routing in Multi-Step Reasoning Tasks
169. ICLR 2026VERINA: Benchmarking Verifiable Code Generation
170. ICLR 2026VideoMathQA: Benchmarking Mathematical Reasoning via Multimodal Understanding in Video
171. ICLR 2026VisioMath: Benchmarking Figure-based Mathematical Reasoning in LMMs
172. ICLR 2026WALT: Web Agents that Learn Tools
173. ICLR 2026We-Math 2.0: A Versatile MathBook System for Incentivizing Visual Mathematical Reasoning
174. ICLR 2026When Reasoning Meets Compression: Understanding the Effects of LLMs Compression on Large Reasoning Models
175. ICLR 2026Where Did This Sentence Come From? Tracing Provenance in LLM Reasoning Distillation

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.