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 4 of 5

151. NeurIPS 2026Scaling Causal Reasoning with Increasingly Complex Causal Simulators
152. NeurIPS 2026Seeing or Rationalizing? Scene-Evidence-Guided Chain-of-Thought for Faithful 3D Multimodal Reasoning
153. NeurIPS 2026Seirênes: Adversarial Self-Play with Evolving Distractions for LLM Reasoning
154. NeurIPS 2026Self-Compacting Language Model Agents
155. NeurIPS 2026Semantic Search over 9 Million Mathematical Theorems
156. NeurIPS 2026SFT-then-RL Outperforms Mixed-Policy Methods for LLM Reasoning
157. NeurIPS 2026SH$^2$: A Mathematician-Curated benchmark for Assessing Research-level Math Capabilities of LLMs
158. NeurIPS 2026Simulating Students or Sycophantic Problem Solving? On Misconception Faithfulness of LLM Simulators
159. NeurIPS 2026Smart Picks in the Dark: Towards Efficient RLVR for Reasoning via Tracing Metacognitive Pivots
160. NeurIPS 2026SoDeArena: A Socially-Situated Reasoning Benchmark for Large Language Models
161. NeurIPS 2026Solving Every Step Is Not Enough: Milestone Oracles Reveal a Composition Gap in LLM Math Reasoning
162. NeurIPS 2026Sparse Attention as a Range Searching Problem: Towards an Inference-Efficient Index for KV Cache
163. NeurIPS 2026Sparse Expansion Utility: Identifying and Routing to Pivotal Steps in LLM Reasoning Chains
164. NeurIPS 2026SphMind: Towards Robust, Training-Free VLM-based Spatial Reasoning with a 360 Camera
165. NeurIPS 2026Stability in Multi-Step Reasoning via Jacobian-based Error Accumulation Analysis
166. NeurIPS 2026Stabilizing Knowledge, Promoting Reasoning: Dual-Token Constraints for RLVR
167. NeurIPS 2026STAR-Math: Multi-Agent Mathematical Reasoning under Persistent Meta-Strategic Supervision
168. NeurIPS 2026State of Thought Enables Endogenous Reasoning
169. NeurIPS 2026StateTree: Enhancing Long-term Dialogue Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning
170. NeurIPS 2026Step-by-Step Optimization-like Reasoning in LLMs over Expanding Search Spaces
171. NeurIPS 2026Step-wise Rubric Rewards for LLM Reasoning
172. NeurIPS 2026Stepwise Penalization for Length-Efficient Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
173. NeurIPS 2026Stop or Restart? Principled Inference Control for Large Reasoning Models via the Pandora's Box
174. NeurIPS 2026Strategist: Designing Agentic Reasoning at Scale
175. NeurIPS 2026STRIDE: Learnable Stepwise Language Feedback for LLM Reasoning
176. NeurIPS 2026Structural Rationale Distillation via Reasoning Space Compression
177. NeurIPS 2026TargetSage: Identifying Therapeutic Target Genes with Interpretable and Robust LLM Reasoning
178. NeurIPS 2026TARP: Trace-Anchored Regularization Prior for Retaining Stepwise Reasoning
179. NeurIPS 2026TaskGround: Structured Executable Task Inference for Full-Scene Household Reasoning
180. NeurIPS 2026Teach-to-Reason: Competition-Guided Reasoning with a Self-Improving Teacher
181. NeurIPS 2026TERMINATOR: Learning Optimal Exit Points for Early Stopping in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
182. NeurIPS 2026Test-Time Learning with an Evolving Library
183. NeurIPS 2026The Capability Frontier of GRPO
184. NeurIPS 2026The Era of Agentic Organization: Learning to Organize with Language Models
185. NeurIPS 2026The Reasoning Boundary Paradox: How Reinforcement Learning Constrains Language Models
186. NeurIPS 2026They Can See It but not Say It: Iterative Self Knowledge Re-expression in Visual Reasoning Relative Pose Identification
187. NeurIPS 2026TIGER: Bridging the Multimodal Reasoning-Access Gap via Modality Counterfactuals
188. NeurIPS 2026Time to Pay Attention! Understanding High Complexity Corpus Reasoning Tasks
189. NeurIPS 2026Train at the Moving Edge: Rollout-Efficient RL for Large Reasoning Models
190. NeurIPS 2026Training with Harnesses: On-Policy Harness Self-Distillation for Complex Reasoning
191. NeurIPS 2026Training-Free Dynamic Upcycling of Expert Language Models
192. NeurIPS 2026Treat Bias as Noise: Training Bias-Robust LLM Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning
193. NeurIPS 2026Triggering Generalist Reasoning via Predictive Uncertainty for Dual-System VLA
194. NeurIPS 2026TSQAgent: Rating Time Series Data Quality via Dedicated Agentic Reasoning
195. NeurIPS 2026Understanding the Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMs
196. NeurIPS 2026Unifying Reasoning and Planning through Energy Minimization
197. NeurIPS 2026UniRAP: Towards Unified Part-level Physical Affordance Reasoning and Actionable Perception
198. NeurIPS 2026Value-Aware Stochastic KV Cache Eviction for Reasoning Models
199. NeurIPS 2026Verifiable Environments Are LEGO Bricks: Recursive Composition for Reasoning Generalization
200. NeurIPS 2026Verifier-Backed Hard Problem Generation for Mathematical Reasoning

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.