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 6 of 7

251. NeurIPS 2025R2R: Efficiently Navigating Divergent Reasoning Paths with Small-Large Model Token Routing
252. NeurIPS 2025RealMath: A Continuous Benchmark for Evaluating Language Models on Research-Level Mathematics
253. NeurIPS 2025ReasonFlux-PRM: Trajectory-Aware PRMs for Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMs
254. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning by Superposition: A Theoretical Perspective on Chain of Continuous Thought
255. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Is Not a Race: When Stopping Early Beats Going Deeper
256. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Models Better Express Their Confidence
257. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Models Hallucinate More: Factuality-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Large Reasoning Models
258. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Path Compression: Compressing Generation Trajectories for Efficient LLM Reasoning
259. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Planning for Language Models
260. NeurIPS 2025Reinforcement Learning for Out-of-Distribution Reasoning in LLMs: An Empirical Study on Diagnosis-Related Group Coding
261. NeurIPS 2025Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning in Large Language Models with One Training Example
262. NeurIPS 2025Reinforcement Learning Teachers of Test Time Scaling
263. NeurIPS 2025Rethinking Fine-Tuning when Scaling Test-Time Compute: Limiting Confidence Improves Mathematical Reasoning
264. NeurIPS 2025S-GRPO: Early Exit via Reinforcement Learning in Reasoning Models
265. NeurIPS 2025SATURN: SAT-based Reinforcement Learning to Unleash LLMs Reasoning
266. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Code-Assisted Chain-of-Thoughts and Instructions for Model Reasoning
267. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Speculative Decoding with Lookahead Reasoning
268. NeurIPS 2025Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach
269. NeurIPS 2025SCOUT: Teaching Pre-trained Language Models to Enhance Reasoning via Flow Chain-of-Thought
270. NeurIPS 2025Self-Verifying Reflection Helps Transformers with CoT Reasoning
271. NeurIPS 2025SemCoT: Accelerating Chain-of-Thought Reasoning through Semantically-Aligned Implicit Tokens
272. NeurIPS 2025ShorterBetter: Guiding Reasoning Models to Find Optimal Inference Length for Efficient Reasoning
273. NeurIPS 2025SIGMA: Refining Large Language Model Reasoning via Sibling-Guided Monte Carlo Augmentation
274. NeurIPS 2025Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space
275. NeurIPS 2025SolidGeo: Measuring Multimodal Spatial Math Reasoning in Solid Geometry
276. NeurIPS 2025SolverLLM: Leveraging Test-Time Scaling for Optimization Problem via LLM-Guided Search
277. NeurIPS 2025Solving Inequality Proofs with Large Language Models
278. NeurIPS 2025Solving the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem via Trace-Guided Cost Augmentation
279. NeurIPS 2025SPC: Evolving Self-Play Critic via Adversarial Games for LLM Reasoning
280. NeurIPS 2025SPRINT: Enabling Interleaved Planning and Parallelized Execution in Reasoning Models
281. NeurIPS 2025SQL-R1: Training Natural Language to SQL Reasoning Model By Reinforcement Learning
282. NeurIPS 2025STNet: Spectral Transformation Network for Solving Operator Eigenvalue Problem
283. NeurIPS 2025Stop Summation: Min-Form Credit Assignment Is All Process Reward Model Needs for Reasoning
284. NeurIPS 2025Structured Linear CDEs: Maximally Expressive and Parallel-in-Time Sequence Models
285. NeurIPS 2025SWE-RL: Advancing LLM Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning on Open Software Evolution
286. NeurIPS 2025SwS: Self-aware Weakness-driven Problem Synthesis in Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning
287. NeurIPS 2025SynLogic: Synthesizing Verifiable Reasoning Data at Scale for Learning Logical Reasoning and Beyond
288. NeurIPS 2025System-1.5 Reasoning: Traversal in Language and Latent Spaces with Dynamic Shortcuts
289. NeurIPS 2025TAPAS: Datasets for Learning the Learning with Errors Problem
290. NeurIPS 2025Teaching Language Models to Reason with Tools
291. NeurIPS 2025The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
292. NeurIPS 2025The Surprising Effectiveness of Negative Reinforcement in LLM Reasoning
293. NeurIPS 2025The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Entropy Minimization in LLM Reasoning
294. NeurIPS 2025Think Only When You Need with Large Hybrid-Reasoning Models
295. NeurIPS 2025Think or Not? Exploring Thinking Efficiency in Large Reasoning Models via an Information-Theoretic Lens
296. NeurIPS 2025Think Silently, Think Fast: Dynamic Latent Compression of LLM Reasoning Chains
297. NeurIPS 2025Thinker: Learning to Think Fast and Slow
298. NeurIPS 2025Thoughts Are All Over the Place: On the Underthinking of Long Reasoning Models
299. NeurIPS 2025TokenSqueeze: Performance-Preserving Compression for Reasoning LLMs
300. NeurIPS 2025Topology of Reasoning: Understanding Large Reasoning Models through Reasoning Graph Properties

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.