Reasoning Models papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Reasoning Models went from 470 papers in 2023 to 1,799 in 2026, roughly 3.8x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Reasoning Models work: 1,253 papers from 2023 to 2026, 36% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Reinforcement Learning: papers tagged with both rose from 9 in 2023 to 437 in 2026.
• Among the 4 topics under Trending Systems, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, AI Agents, is up 12x versus 3.8x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026A Mechanistic Analysis of Looped Reasoning Language Models
• ICML 2026A Formal Comparison Between Chain of Thought and Latent Thought
• ICLR 2026A Simple "Motivation" Can Enhance Reinforcement Finetuning of Large Reasoning Models
• CVPR 2026Asking like Socrates Socrates helps VLMs understand remote sensing images
• NeurIPS 2025A Frustratingly Simple Yet Highly Effective Attack Baseline: Over 90% Success Rate Against the Strong Black-box Models of GPT-4.5/4o/o1
• ICML 2025A Reasoning-Based Approach to Cryptic Crossword Clue Solving
• ICLR 2025A Formal Framework for Understanding Length Generalization in Transformers
• CVPR 2025Argus: Vision-Centric Reasoning with Grounded Chain-of-Thought
• NeurIPS 2024Are Large Language Models Good Statisticians?
• ICML 2024Algorithm of Thoughts: Enhancing Exploration of Ideas in Large Language Models
• ICLR 2024Amortizing intractable inference in large language models
• CVPR 2024Generate Subgoal Images before Act: Unlocking the Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Diffusion Model for Robot Manipulation with Multimodal Prompts
• NeurIPS 2023A benchmark of categorical encoders for binary classification
• ICML 2023Can We Scale Transformers to Predict Parameters of Diverse ImageNet Models?
• ICLR 2023Automatic Chain of Thought Prompting in Large Language Models
• CVPR 2023ActMAD: Activation Matching To Align Distributions for Test-Time-Training
• NeurIPS 2026A Solvable Model of Chain-of-Thought in In-Context Learning
• ICML 2026A Narrowing Geometry in Contaminated Reasoning
• ICLR 2026A State-Transition Framework for Efficient LLM Reasoning
• CVPR 2026Beyond Weak Supervision MLLMs-Guided Graded Knowledge Distillation for Unsupervised Camouflaged

All Reasoning Models papers

582 papers, page 10 of 12

451. ICML 2026Spectral-Progressive Thought Flow for Lightweight Multimodal Reasoning
452. ICML 2026SPLIT-VLM: Salience-Guided Partitioning towards Local Coverage for Importance-Aware Token Dropping in Vision-Language Models
453. ICML 2026SRPO: Self-Reflective Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon Reasoning
454. ICML 2026ST-Veto: Spatio-Temporal Token Veto for Diffusion MLLMs via Taylor Prediction and Visual Grounding
455. ICML 2026Stabilizing MoE Reinforcement Learning by Aligning Training and Inference Routers
456. ICML 2026Stabilizing Recurrent Dynamics for Test-Time Scalable Latent Reasoning in Looped Language Models
457. ICML 2026Stable Asynchrony: Variance-Controlled Off-Policy RL for LLMs
458. ICML 2026Star Elastic: Many-in-One Reasoning LLMs with Efficient Budget Control
459. ICML 2026State Space Model with Continuous Limit of HiPPO Matrix: Eigenvalue Analysis and Explicit Solution Formula
460. ICML 2026Statistical Early Stopping for Reasoning Models
461. ICML 2026Step-Level Sparse Autoencoder for Reasoning Process Interpretation
462. ICML 2026Step-Resolved Data Attribution for Looped Transformers
463. ICML 2026StepCodeReasoner: Aligning Code Reasoning with Stepwise Execution Traces via Reinforcement Learning
464. ICML 2026Stop When Further Reasoning Won’t Help: Attention-State Adaptive Generation in Reasoning Models
465. ICML 2026Strat-Reasoner: Reinforcing Strategic Reasoning of LLMs in Multi-Agent Games
466. ICML 2026Strategy Executability in Mathematical Reasoning: Leveraging Human–Model Differences for Effective Guidance
467. ICML 2026Structure Enables Effective Self-Localization of Errors in LLMs
468. ICML 2026SuCo: Sufficiency-guided Continuous Adaptive Reasoning
469. ICML 2026Symbol-Equivariant Recurrent Reasoning Models
470. ICML 2026Syntax vs. Semantics: How Transformers Learn Deep Dependencies
471. ICML 2026T-POP: Test-Time Personalization with Online Preference Feedback
472. ICML 2026Tailoring the Training: Difficulty-Aware Learning Strategy Allocation for Large Language Models
473. ICML 2026Task-and-Model-Aware Fractal-Consistency for Efficient LLM Reasoning
474. ICML 2026Teaching Models to Teach Themselves: Reasoning at the Edge of Learnability
475. ICML 2026Test-Time Detoxification without Training or Learning Anything
476. ICML 2026Test-time Generalization for Physics through Neural Operator Splitting
477. ICML 2026Test-Time Learning of Causal Structure from Interventional Data
478. ICML 2026Test-Time Training with KV Binding Is Secretly Linear Attention
479. ICML 2026Testing For Distribution Shifts with Conditional Conformal Test Martingales
480. ICML 2026TFRBench: A Reasoning Benchmark for Evaluating Forecasting Systems
481. ICML 2026TG-RAG: A Retrieval-Augmented Framework for Reasoning Guidance in Specialized Domains
482. ICML 2026The Abstraction Gap in Vision-Language Causal Reasoning
483. ICML 2026The Art of Interrogation: Consistency Amplifies Factuality in Spatial Reasoning
484. ICML 2026The Decrypto Benchmark for Multi-Agent Reasoning and Theory of Mind
485. ICML 2026The Deterministic Horizon: When Extended Reasoning Fails and Tool Delegation Becomes Necessary
486. ICML 2026The Easy, the Hard, and the Learnable: Confidence and Difficulty-Adaptive Policy Optimization for LLM Reasoning
487. ICML 2026The Expressive Power of Low Precision Softmax Transformers with (Summarized) Chain-of-Thought
488. ICML 2026The Flexibility Trap: Rethinking the Value of Arbitrary Order in Diffusion Language Models
489. ICML 2026The Geometric Reasoner: Manifold-Informed Latent Foresight Search for Long-Context Reasoning
490. ICML 2026The Geometry of Reasoning: Self-Evaluation via Layerwise Trajectory Evolution
491. ICML 2026The Power of Power Law: Asymmetry Enables Compositional Reasoning
492. ICML 2026The Quality-Utility Paradox: Why High-Reward Data Impairs Small Model Mathematical Reasoning
493. ICML 2026The Shadow Price of Reasoning: Economic Perspective on Optimal Budget Allocation for LLMs
494. ICML 2026The Shape of Addition: Geometric Structures of Arithmetic in Large Language Models
495. ICML 2026The Signal is in the Steps: Local Scoring for Reasoning Data Selection
496. ICML 2026The Silent Thought: Modeling Internal Cognition in Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Models via Latent Reasoning
497. ICML 2026The Tell-Tale Norm: $\ell_2$ Magnitude as a Signal for Reasoning Dynamics in Large Language Models
498. ICML 2026The Two-Hump Problem: Bridging the Difficulty Gap in Mathematical Reinforcement Learning
499. ICML 2026The Value of Variance: Mitigating Debate Collapse in Multi-Agent Systems via Uncertainty-Driven Policy Optimization
500. ICML 2026Theoretical Perspectives on Data Quality and Synergistic Effects in Pre- and Post-Training Reasoning Models

FAQ

How many Reasoning Models papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

3,512 in total: 470 in 2023, 311 in 2024, 932 in 2025, 1,799 in 2026.

How many Reasoning Models papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 361 Reasoning Models papers, versus 500 the year before.

How many Reasoning Models papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 652 Reasoning Models papers, versus 203 the year before.

How many Reasoning Models papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 582 Reasoning Models papers, versus 159 the year before.

How many Reasoning Models papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 204 Reasoning Models papers, versus 70 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Reasoning Models papers?

NeurIPS, with 1,253 papers from 2023 to 2026.