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 4 of 7

151. NeurIPS 2025Benchmarking Spatiotemporal Reasoning in LLMs and Reasoning Models: Capabilities and Challenges
152. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Chemical QA: Evaluating LLM's Chemical Reasoning with Modular Chemical Operations
153. NeurIPS 2025Beyond the 80/20 Rule: High-Entropy Minority Tokens Drive Effective Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning
154. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Verifiable Rewards: Scaling Reinforcement Learning in Language Models to Unverifiable Data
155. NeurIPS 2025Bootstrapping Hierarchical Autoregressive Formal Reasoner with Chain-of-Proxy-Autoformalization
156. NeurIPS 2025BREAD: Branched Rollouts from Expert Anchors Bridge SFT & RL for Reasoning
157. NeurIPS 2025C3PO: Optimized Large Language Model Cascades with Probabilistic Cost Constraints for Reasoning
158. NeurIPS 2025Can MLLMs Absorb Math Reasoning Abilities from LLMs as Free Lunch?
159. NeurIPS 2025Causal Sufficiency and Necessity Improves Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
160. NeurIPS 2025Causal-R: A Causal-Reasoning Geometry Problem Solver for Optimized Solution Exploration
161. NeurIPS 2025Chain of Execution Supervision Promotes General Reasoning in Large Language Models
162. NeurIPS 2025CLAWS:Creativity detection for LLM-generated solutions using Attention Window of Sections
163. NeurIPS 2025Co-PatcheR: Collaborative Software Patching with Component-specific Small Reasoning Models
164. NeurIPS 2025Cognitive Mirrors: Exploring the Diverse Functional Roles of Attention Heads in LLM Reasoning
165. NeurIPS 2025Composing Global Solutions to Reasoning Tasks via Algebraic Objects in Neural Nets
166. NeurIPS 2025Compositional Neural Network Verification via Assume-Guarantee Reasoning
167. NeurIPS 2025Compositional Reasoning with Transformers, RNNs, and Chain of Thought
168. NeurIPS 2025Continuous Thought Machines
169. NeurIPS 2025Contrastive Representations for Temporal Reasoning
170. NeurIPS 2025Controlling Thinking Speed in Reasoning Models
171. NeurIPS 2025Counterfactual reasoning: an analysis of in-context emergence
172. NeurIPS 2025CPPO: Accelerating the Training of Group Relative Policy Optimization-Based Reasoning Models
173. NeurIPS 2025Creativity or Brute Force? Using Brainteasers as a Window into the Problem-Solving Abilities of Large Language Models
174. NeurIPS 2025Deliberation on Priors: Trustworthy Reasoning of Large Language Models on Knowledge Graphs
175. NeurIPS 2025Demystifying Reasoning Dynamics with Mutual Information: Thinking Tokens are Information Peaks in LLM Reasoning
176. NeurIPS 2025DisCO: Reinforcing Large Reasoning Models with Discriminative Constrained Optimization
177. NeurIPS 2025Diversity-Aware Policy Optimization for Large Language Model Reasoning
178. NeurIPS 2025DLoFT: Gradient-Decoupled Fine-Tuning for Generalizable Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
179. NeurIPS 2025Does Reinforcement Learning Really Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs Beyond the Base Model?
180. NeurIPS 2025Don’t Think Longer, Think Wisely: Optimizing Thinking Dynamics for Large Reasoning Models
181. NeurIPS 2025DreamPRM: Domain-reweighted Process Reward Model for Multimodal Reasoning
182. NeurIPS 2025DSRF: A Dynamic and Scalable Reasoning Framework for Solving RPMs
183. NeurIPS 2025DuetGraph: Coarse-to-Fine Knowledge Graph Reasoning with Dual-Pathway Global-Local Fusion
184. NeurIPS 2025DyFlow: Dynamic Workflow Framework for Agentic Reasoning
185. NeurIPS 2025DynaAct: Large Language Model Reasoning with Dynamic Action Spaces
186. NeurIPS 2025Efficiently Scaling LLM Reasoning Programs with Certaindex
187. NeurIPS 2025Enigmata: Scaling Logical Reasoning in Large Language Models with Synthetic Verifiable Puzzles
188. NeurIPS 2025EvaLearn: Quantifying the Learning Capability and Efficiency of LLMs via Sequential Problem Solving
189. NeurIPS 2025Evaluating the Inductive Abilities of Large Language Models: Why Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Sometimes Hurts More Than Helps
190. NeurIPS 2025Evolutionary Reasoning Does Not Arise in Standard Usage of Protein Language Models
191. NeurIPS 2025Execution Guided Line-by-Line Code Generation
192. NeurIPS 2025ExPO: Unlocking Hard Reasoning with Self-Explanation-Guided Reinforcement Learning
193. NeurIPS 2025Far from the Shallow: Brain-Predictive Reasoning Embedding through Residual Disentanglement
194. NeurIPS 2025First SFT, Second RL, Third UPT: Continual Improving Multi-Modal LLM Reasoning via Unsupervised Post-Training
195. NeurIPS 2025Flexible Realignment of Language Models
196. NeurIPS 2025From Euler to AI: Unifying Formulas for Mathematical Constants
197. NeurIPS 2025Generalizable Reasoning through Compositional Energy Minimization
198. NeurIPS 2025GPO: Learning from Critical Steps to Improve LLM Reasoning
199. NeurIPS 2025GRIP: A Graph-Based Reasoning Instruction Producer
200. NeurIPS 2025HARDMath2: A Benchmark for Applied Mathematics Built by Students as Part of a Graduate Class

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.