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
45 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICML 2025A Mathematical Framework for AI-Human Integration in Work
- ICML 2025A Reasoning-Based Approach to Cryptic Crossword Clue Solving
- ICML 2025A Sub-Problem Quantum Alternating Operator Ansatz for Correlation Clustering
- ICML 2025AdaptiveStep: Automatically Dividing Reasoning Step through Model Confidence
- ICML 2025Attention-Level Speculation
- ICML 2025Autoformulation of Mathematical Optimization Models Using LLMs
- ICML 2025Beyond Task-Specific Reasoning: A Unified Conditional Generative Framework for Abstract Visual Reasoning
- ICML 2025Blink of an eye: a simple theory for feature localization in generative models
- ICML 2025Can Transformers Reason Logically? A Study in SAT Solving
- ICML 2025Discrete Neural Algorithmic Reasoning
- ICML 2025Do NOT Think That Much for 2+3=? On the Overthinking of Long Reasoning Models
- ICML 2025Fleet of Agents: Coordinated Problem Solving with Large Language Models
- ICML 2025Forest-of-Thought: Scaling Test-Time Compute for Enhancing LLM Reasoning
- ICML 2025Free Process Rewards without Process Labels
- ICML 2025From Language Models over Tokens to Language Models over Characters
- ICML 2025Graph-constrained Reasoning: Faithful Reasoning on Knowledge Graphs with Large Language Models
- ICML 2025GSM-$\infty$: How Do your LLMs Behave over Infinitely Increasing Reasoning Complexity and Context Length?
- ICML 2025HyperTree Planning: Enhancing LLM Reasoning via Hierarchical Thinking
- ICML 2025Improving Rationality in the Reasoning Process of Language Models through Self-playing Game
- ICML 2025Leveraging Online Olympiad-Level Math Problems for LLMs Training and Contamination-Resistant Evaluation
- ICML 2025Lower Bounds for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Hard-Attention Transformers
- ICML 2025MA-LoT: Model-Collaboration Lean-based Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning enhances Formal Theorem Proving
- ICML 2025Machine Learning meets Algebraic Combinatorics: A Suite of Datasets Capturing Research-level Conjecturing Ability in Pure Mathematics
- ICML 2025Machines and Mathematical Mutations: Using GNNs to Characterize Quiver Mutation Classes
- ICML 2025MARGE: Improving Math Reasoning with Guided Exploration
- ICML 2025MASS: Mathematical Data Selection via Skill Graphs for Pretraining Large Language Models
- ICML 2025MATH-Perturb: Benchmarking LLMs' Math Reasoning Abilities against Hard Perturbations
- ICML 2025MathConstruct: Challenging LLM Reasoning with Constructive Proofs
- ICML 2025Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation
- ICML 2025MME-CoT: Benchmarking Chain-of-Thought in Large Multimodal Models for Reasoning Quality, Robustness, and Efficiency
- ICML 2025One Example Shown, Many Concepts Known! Counterexample-Driven Conceptual Reasoning in Mathematical LLMs
- ICML 2025Position: AI's growing due process problem
- ICML 2025Position: Formal Mathematical Reasoning—A New Frontier in AI
- ICML 2025Premise-Augmented Reasoning Chains Improve Error Identification in Math reasoning with LLMs
- ICML 2025Putnam-AXIOM: A Functional & Static Benchmark for Measuring Higher Level Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs
- ICML 2025Regress, Don't Guess: A Regression-like Loss on Number Tokens for Language Models
- ICML 2025rStar-Math: Small LLMs Can Master Math Reasoning with Self-Evolved Deep Thinking
- ICML 2025Solving Satisfiability Modulo Counting Exactly with Probabilistic Circuits
- ICML 2025STP: Self-play LLM Theorem Provers with Iterative Conjecturing and Proving
- ICML 2025T1: Advancing Language Model Reasoning through Reinforcement Learning and Inference Scaling
- ICML 2025Token Assorted: Mixing Latent and Text Tokens for Improved Language Model Reasoning
- ICML 2025unMORE: Unsupervised Multi-Object Segmentation via Center-Boundary Reasoning
- ICML 2025VersaPRM: Multi-Domain Process Reward Model via Synthetic Reasoning Data
- ICML 2025What Do Learning Dynamics Reveal About Generalization in LLM Mathematical Reasoning?
- ICML 2025What Makes In-context Learning Effective for Mathematical Reasoning
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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.