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

208 papers, page 1 of 5

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

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.