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
469 papers, page 1 of 10
- NeurIPS 20262D Spatial Reasoning with Adaptive Neural Cellular Automata
- NeurIPS 2026A mathematical theory of balancing relational generalization and memorization
- NeurIPS 2026A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness Judgments of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026A Mechanistic Analysis of Looped Reasoning Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026A Model of Diverse Sampling from Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026A Theory of Online Learning with Autoregressive Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2026A$^3$Bench: A Benchmark for Compositional Reasoning over Aggressive Interactions in Videos
- NeurIPS 2026Active Probabilistic Reasoning in Humans and LLMs
- NeurIPS 2026AdaKVQ: Adaptive Mixed-Precision KV Cache Quantization For Efficient Reasoning Models
- NeurIPS 2026Agentic Geometry Problem Solving via Human-like Parallel Bidirectional Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2026Agentic Multi-Turn Reasoning: A Fairness Approach
- NeurIPS 2026Allocentric Perceiver: Disentangling Allocentric Reasoning from Egocentric Visual Priors via Frame Instantiation
- NeurIPS 2026An Enigma of Artificial Reason: Investigating the Production-Evaluation Gap in Large Reasoning Models
- NeurIPS 2026Anchoring Reasoning Distillation via Syntactic Constraints
- NeurIPS 2026Anti-Self-Distillation for Reasoning RL via Pointwise Mutual Information
- NeurIPS 2026Argument Graph Uncertainty: Quantifying Uncertainty from the Logical Structure of Reasoning Chains
- NeurIPS 2026ATLAS: Agentic or Latent Visual Reasoning? One Word is Enough for Both
- NeurIPS 2026Auxiliary Clues Aware’s Geometry Problem Solving
- NeurIPS 2026AVSD: Adaptive-View Self-Distillation by Balancing Consensus and Teacher-Specific Privileged Signals
- NeurIPS 2026Bellman Contraction under MMD: A Unified Framework
- NeurIPS 2026Benchmarking Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning with Explicit Visual Dependency
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond Global Alignment: Structured Compositional Reasoning for Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond Real or Fake: A Dual-Channel Authenticity and Reasoning Protocol for Photographic Assessment
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond What Seems Necessary: Hidden Gains from Scaling Training-Time Reasoning Length under Outcome Supervision
- NeurIPS 2026Bias-Variance Optimized Preference Optimization for Large Reasoning Models
- NeurIPS 2026BoardGameArena: A Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Strategic Reasoning of LLMs in Board Games
- NeurIPS 2026Boost Reasoning Evolution via Responsive Rollout Difficulty Manipulation
- NeurIPS 2026Boosting LLM Reasoning via Human-Inspired Reward Shaping
- NeurIPS 2026Boule or Baguette? A Study on Task Topology, Length Generalization, and the Benefit of Reasoning Trace
- NeurIPS 2026Can Agents Price a Reaction? Evaluating LLMs on Chemical Cost Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2026Can Linguistic Reasoning Vectors Enhance Multimodal Reasoning Ability?
- NeurIPS 2026Can LLM Agents Respond to Disasters? Benchmarking Heterogeneous Geospatial Reasoning in Emergency Operations
- NeurIPS 2026CasePlay: Self-Play Reinforcement Learning from Case Reports for Medical Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2026CAVE: A Structured Credit Assignment Approach for Fragmented Visual Evidence Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2026CellularS2-Bench: A Staged, Evidence-Grounded Benchmark for Cellular Network Security Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2026ChainSpace: A Chained-Reasoning Paradigm for Spatial Intelligence
- NeurIPS 2026CineMME: Benchmarking Fine-Grained Perception and Plot Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026CircuitSeer: Mining High-Quality Data by Probing Mathematical Reasoning Circuits in LLMs
- NeurIPS 2026Collaborative Reasoning Distillation via Cross-Feedback and Coherent Curation
- NeurIPS 2026Commit Then Explore: Reasoning Models Diversify, Not Converge
- NeurIPS 2026Compositional Generalization Certificates via the Van Kampen Theorem
- NeurIPS 2026Concise Reasoning Through the Lens of Lagrangian Optimization
- NeurIPS 2026Confidence-Calibrated Inference Expansion for Evaluator-Guided Test-Time Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2026Consolidating Reasoning with Test-Time Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Contractive Restoring Flows: Robust Reasoning Distillation via Orbital Stability
- NeurIPS 2026Contrastive Thinking Decoding: Steering Answer Generation in Reasoning Models
- NeurIPS 2026Convex Compositional Reasoning Models
- NeurIPS 2026CoRE-RL: Co-evolving Reasoning Trajectories and Evidence Subgraphs with Learned Evidence Projection
- NeurIPS 2026Correct but Unselectable: The Hidden Interface Tax in Multi-Candidate Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2026Corrective Diffusion Language Models
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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.