Mathematical Reasoning papers, 2023–2026
Theorem and problem solving
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 1,085 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 19 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 57 |
| 2024 | 52 | 34 | 39 | 12 | 137 |
| 2025 | 190 | 61 | 45 | 18 | 314 |
| 2026 | 208 | 175 | 113 | 81 | 577 |
Representative papers
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- 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
287 papers, page 6 of 6
- ICLR 2024Magnushammer: A Transformer-Based Approach to Premise Selection
- ICLR 2024MAmmoTH: Building Math Generalist Models through Hybrid Instruction Tuning
- ICLR 2024MathCoder: Seamless Code Integration in LLMs for Enhanced Mathematical Reasoning
- ICLR 2024Mathematical Justification of Hard Negative Mining via Isometric Approximation Theorem
- ICLR 2024MathVista: Evaluating Mathematical Reasoning of Foundation Models in Visual Contexts
- ICLR 2024MetaMath: Bootstrap Your Own Mathematical Questions for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024MuSR: Testing the Limits of Chain-of-thought with Multistep Soft Reasoning
- ICLR 2024MUSTARD: Mastering Uniform Synthesis of Theorem and Proof Data
- ICLR 2024NeuroBack: Improving CDCL SAT Solving using Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2024On the Markov Property of Neural Algorithmic Reasoning: Analyses and Methods
- ICLR 2024OpenWebMath: An Open Dataset of High-Quality Mathematical Web Text
- ICLR 2024Phenomenal Yet Puzzling: Testing Inductive Reasoning Capabilities of Language Models with Hypothesis Refinement
- ICLR 2024REFACTOR: Learning to Extract Theorems from Proofs
- ICLR 2024SelfCheck: Using LLMs to Zero-Shot Check Their Own Step-by-Step Reasoning
- ICLR 2024Solving Challenging Math Word Problems Using GPT-4 Code Interpreter with Code-based Self-Verification
- ICLR 2024Solving Inverse Problems with Latent Diffusion Models via Hard Data Consistency
- ICLR 2024Take a Step Back: Evoking Reasoning via Abstraction in Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024THOUGHT PROPAGATION: AN ANALOGICAL APPROACH TO COMPLEX REASONING WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS
- ICLR 2024ToRA: A Tool-Integrated Reasoning Agent for Mathematical Problem Solving
- ICLR 2024When can transformers reason with abstract symbols?
- ICLR 2023A Stable and Scalable Method for Solving Initial Value PDEs with Neural Networks
- ICLR 2023A Unified Algebraic Perspective on Lipschitz Neural Networks
- ICLR 2023Complexity-Based Prompting for Multi-step Reasoning
- ICLR 2023Differentiable Mathematical Programming for Object-Centric Representation Learning
- ICLR 2023Draft, Sketch, and Prove: Guiding Formal Theorem Provers with Informal Proofs
- ICLR 2023Dual Algorithmic Reasoning
- ICLR 2023Dynamic Prompt Learning via Policy Gradient for Semi-structured Mathematical Reasoning
- ICLR 2023Language Models Are Greedy Reasoners: A Systematic Formal Analysis of Chain-of-Thought
- ICLR 2023Language models are multilingual chain-of-thought reasoners
- ICLR 2023Learning Math Reasoning from Self-Sampled Correct and Partially-Correct Solutions
- ICLR 2023Learning to Solve Constraint Satisfaction Problems with Recurrent Transformer
- ICLR 2023Least-to-Most Prompting Enables Complex Reasoning in Large Language Models
- ICLR 2023Protein Representation Learning via Knowledge Enhanced Primary Structure Reasoning
- ICLR 2023Scenario-based Question Answering with Interacting Contextual Properties
- ICLR 2023Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models
- ICLR 2023Solving Constrained Variational Inequalities via a First-order Interior Point-based Method
- ICLR 2023UniKGQA: Unified Retrieval and Reasoning for Solving Multi-hop Question Answering Over Knowledge Graph
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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.