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

1,085 papers, page 8 of 22

351. ICML 2026The Quality-Utility Paradox: Why High-Reward Data Impairs Small Model Mathematical Reasoning
352. ICML 2026The Signal is in the Steps: Local Scoring for Reasoning Data Selection
353. ICML 2026The Two-Hump Problem: Bridging the Difficulty Gap in Mathematical Reinforcement Learning
354. ICML 2026Think Deep, Not Just Long: Measuring LLM Reasoning Effort via Deep-Thinking Tokens
355. ICML 2026Think-at-Hard: Selective Latent Iterations to Improve Reasoning Language Models
356. ICML 2026Thinking in Flow: A Dissipative Stabilization Operator for Robust Autoregressive Reasoning
357. ICML 2026Towards Efficient Large Language Reasoning Models via Extreme-Ratio Chain-of-Thought Compression
358. ICML 2026Towards Solving the Gilbert-Pollak Conjecture via Large Language Models
359. ICML 2026Truthfulness Does Not Scale Like Reasoning: Why Polling Fails as a Proxy Verifier
360. ICML 2026Turbo Connection: Reasoning as Information Flow from Higher to Lower Layers
361. ICML 2026Turning Drift into Constraint: Robust Reasoning Alignment in Non-Stationary Multi-Stream Environments
362. ICML 2026Uncovering the Gradient Geometry of Long CoT: A Spectral-guided Approach to Reasoning Distillation
363. ICML 2026Unveiling the Entropy Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
364. ICML 2026Verifying Meta-Awareness via Predictive Rewards in Reasoning Models
365. ICML 2026Wait, Wait, Wait... Why Do Reasoning Models Loop?
366. ICML 2026What Characterizes Effective Reasoning? Revisiting Length, Review, and Structure of CoT
367. ICML 2026What If We Allocate Test-Time Compute Adaptively?
368. ICML 2026What Really Improves Mathematical Reasoning: Structured Reasoning Signals Beyond Pure Code
369. ICML 2026When to Trust the Cheap Check: Weak and Strong Verification for Reasoning
370. NeurIPS 20262D Spatial Reasoning with Adaptive Neural Cellular Automata
371. NeurIPS 2026A mathematical theory of balancing relational generalization and memorization
372. NeurIPS 2026A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness Judgments of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models
373. NeurIPS 2026A Mechanistic Analysis of Looped Reasoning Language Models
374. NeurIPS 2026A Model of Diverse Sampling from Language Models
375. NeurIPS 2026A Theory of Online Learning with Autoregressive Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
376. NeurIPS 2026A$^3$Bench: A Benchmark for Compositional Reasoning over Aggressive Interactions in Videos
377. NeurIPS 2026Active Probabilistic Reasoning in Humans and LLMs
378. NeurIPS 2026AdaKVQ: Adaptive Mixed-Precision KV Cache Quantization For Efficient Reasoning Models
379. NeurIPS 2026Agentic Geometry Problem Solving via Human-like Parallel Bidirectional Reasoning
380. NeurIPS 2026Agentic Multi-Turn Reasoning: A Fairness Approach
381. NeurIPS 2026Allocentric Perceiver: Disentangling Allocentric Reasoning from Egocentric Visual Priors via Frame Instantiation
382. NeurIPS 2026An Enigma of Artificial Reason: Investigating the Production-Evaluation Gap in Large Reasoning Models
383. NeurIPS 2026Anchoring Reasoning Distillation via Syntactic Constraints
384. NeurIPS 2026Anti-Self-Distillation for Reasoning RL via Pointwise Mutual Information
385. NeurIPS 2026Argument Graph Uncertainty: Quantifying Uncertainty from the Logical Structure of Reasoning Chains
386. NeurIPS 2026ATLAS: Agentic or Latent Visual Reasoning? One Word is Enough for Both
387. NeurIPS 2026Auxiliary Clues Aware’s Geometry Problem Solving
388. NeurIPS 2026AVSD: Adaptive-View Self-Distillation by Balancing Consensus and Teacher-Specific Privileged Signals
389. NeurIPS 2026Bellman Contraction under MMD: A Unified Framework
390. NeurIPS 2026Benchmarking Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning with Explicit Visual Dependency
391. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Global Alignment: Structured Compositional Reasoning for Vision-Language Models
392. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Real or Fake: A Dual-Channel Authenticity and Reasoning Protocol for Photographic Assessment
393. NeurIPS 2026Beyond What Seems Necessary: Hidden Gains from Scaling Training-Time Reasoning Length under Outcome Supervision
394. NeurIPS 2026Bias-Variance Optimized Preference Optimization for Large Reasoning Models
395. NeurIPS 2026BoardGameArena: A Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Strategic Reasoning of LLMs in Board Games
396. NeurIPS 2026Boost Reasoning Evolution via Responsive Rollout Difficulty Manipulation
397. NeurIPS 2026Boosting LLM Reasoning via Human-Inspired Reward Shaping
398. NeurIPS 2026Boule or Baguette? A Study on Task Topology, Length Generalization, and the Benefit of Reasoning Trace
399. NeurIPS 2026Can Agents Price a Reaction? Evaluating LLMs on Chemical Cost Reasoning
400. NeurIPS 2026Can Linguistic Reasoning Vectors Enhance Multimodal Reasoning Ability?

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.