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

469 papers, page 8 of 10

351. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Speculative Decoding with Lookahead Reasoning
352. NeurIPS 2025Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach
353. NeurIPS 2025SCOUT: Teaching Pre-trained Language Models to Enhance Reasoning via Flow Chain-of-Thought
354. NeurIPS 2025Self-Verifying Reflection Helps Transformers with CoT Reasoning
355. NeurIPS 2025SemCoT: Accelerating Chain-of-Thought Reasoning through Semantically-Aligned Implicit Tokens
356. NeurIPS 2025ShorterBetter: Guiding Reasoning Models to Find Optimal Inference Length for Efficient Reasoning
357. NeurIPS 2025SIGMA: Refining Large Language Model Reasoning via Sibling-Guided Monte Carlo Augmentation
358. NeurIPS 2025Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space
359. NeurIPS 2025SolidGeo: Measuring Multimodal Spatial Math Reasoning in Solid Geometry
360. NeurIPS 2025SolverLLM: Leveraging Test-Time Scaling for Optimization Problem via LLM-Guided Search
361. NeurIPS 2025Solving Inequality Proofs with Large Language Models
362. NeurIPS 2025Solving the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem via Trace-Guided Cost Augmentation
363. NeurIPS 2025SPC: Evolving Self-Play Critic via Adversarial Games for LLM Reasoning
364. NeurIPS 2025SPRINT: Enabling Interleaved Planning and Parallelized Execution in Reasoning Models
365. NeurIPS 2025SQL-R1: Training Natural Language to SQL Reasoning Model By Reinforcement Learning
366. NeurIPS 2025STNet: Spectral Transformation Network for Solving Operator Eigenvalue Problem
367. NeurIPS 2025Stop Summation: Min-Form Credit Assignment Is All Process Reward Model Needs for Reasoning
368. NeurIPS 2025Structured Linear CDEs: Maximally Expressive and Parallel-in-Time Sequence Models
369. NeurIPS 2025SWE-RL: Advancing LLM Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning on Open Software Evolution
370. NeurIPS 2025SwS: Self-aware Weakness-driven Problem Synthesis in Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning
371. NeurIPS 2025SynLogic: Synthesizing Verifiable Reasoning Data at Scale for Learning Logical Reasoning and Beyond
372. NeurIPS 2025System-1.5 Reasoning: Traversal in Language and Latent Spaces with Dynamic Shortcuts
373. NeurIPS 2025TAPAS: Datasets for Learning the Learning with Errors Problem
374. NeurIPS 2025Teaching Language Models to Reason with Tools
375. NeurIPS 2025The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
376. NeurIPS 2025The Surprising Effectiveness of Negative Reinforcement in LLM Reasoning
377. NeurIPS 2025The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Entropy Minimization in LLM Reasoning
378. NeurIPS 2025Think Only When You Need with Large Hybrid-Reasoning Models
379. NeurIPS 2025Think or Not? Exploring Thinking Efficiency in Large Reasoning Models via an Information-Theoretic Lens
380. NeurIPS 2025Think Silently, Think Fast: Dynamic Latent Compression of LLM Reasoning Chains
381. NeurIPS 2025Thinker: Learning to Think Fast and Slow
382. NeurIPS 2025Thoughts Are All Over the Place: On the Underthinking of Long Reasoning Models
383. NeurIPS 2025TokenSqueeze: Performance-Preserving Compression for Reasoning LLMs
384. NeurIPS 2025Topology of Reasoning: Understanding Large Reasoning Models through Reasoning Graph Properties
385. NeurIPS 2025Towards Thinking-Optimal Scaling of Test-Time Compute for LLM Reasoning
386. NeurIPS 2025Training Language Models to Reason Efficiently
387. NeurIPS 2025Trajectory Bellman Residual Minimization: A Simple Value-Based Method for LLM Reasoning
388. NeurIPS 2025Transformers Provably Learn Chain-of-Thought Reasoning with Length Generalization
389. NeurIPS 2025Tropical Attention: Neural Algorithmic Reasoning for Combinatorial Algorithms
390. NeurIPS 2025Trust, But Verify: A Self-Verification Approach to Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards
391. NeurIPS 2025Uni-LoRA: One Vector is All You Need
392. NeurIPS 2025Value-Guided Search for Efficient Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
393. NeurIPS 2025VeriThinker: Learning to Verify Makes Reasoning Model Efficient
394. NeurIPS 2025WHAT MAKES MATH PROBLEMS HARD FOR REINFORCEMENT LEARNING: A CASE STUDY
395. NeurIPS 2025When No Paths Lead to Rome: Benchmarking Systematic Neural Relational Reasoning
396. NeurIPS 2025When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs
397. NeurIPS 2025Which Data Attributes Stimulate Math and Code Reasoning? An Investigation via Influence Functions
398. NeurIPS 2025Who Reasons in the Large Language Models?
399. NeurIPS 2024A Careful Examination of Large Language Model Performance on Grade School Arithmetic
400. NeurIPS 2024A Neuro-Symbolic Benchmark Suite for Concept Quality and Reasoning Shortcuts

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.