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

470 papers, page 10 of 10

451. NeurIPS 2023Training Chain-of-Thought via Latent-Variable Inference
452. NeurIPS 2023Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models
453. NeurIPS 2023Two Sides of The Same Coin: Bridging Deep Equilibrium Models and Neural ODEs via Homotopy Continuation
454. NeurIPS 2023UE4-NeRF:Neural Radiance Field for Real-Time Rendering of Large-Scale Scene
455. NeurIPS 2023Understanding Social Reasoning in Language Models with Language Models
456. NeurIPS 2023Understanding the Latent Space of Diffusion Models through the Lens of Riemannian Geometry
457. NeurIPS 2023Understanding the Limitations of Deep Models for Molecular property prediction: Insights and Solutions
458. NeurIPS 2023Unifying Predictions of Deterministic and Stochastic Physics in Mesh-reduced Space with Sequential Flow Generative Model
459. NeurIPS 2023UniPC: A Unified Predictor-Corrector Framework for Fast Sampling of Diffusion Models
460. NeurIPS 2023Universality laws for Gaussian mixtures in generalized linear models
461. NeurIPS 2023Vulnerabilities in Video Quality Assessment Models: The Challenge of Adversarial Attacks
462. NeurIPS 2023What can Large Language Models do in chemistry? A comprehensive benchmark on eight tasks
463. NeurIPS 2023What functions can Graph Neural Networks compute on random graphs? The role of Positional Encoding
464. NeurIPS 2023Where Did I Come From? Origin Attribution of AI-Generated Images
465. NeurIPS 2023Which Models have Perceptually-Aligned Gradients? An Explanation via Off-Manifold Robustness
466. NeurIPS 2023Why Did This Model Forecast This Future? Information-Theoretic Saliency for Counterfactual Explanations of Probabilistic Regression Models
467. NeurIPS 2023Why think step by step? Reasoning emerges from the locality of experience
468. NeurIPS 2023WildfireSpreadTS: A dataset of multi-modal time series for wildfire spread prediction
469. NeurIPS 2023Zero-shot Visual Relation Detection via Composite Visual Cues from Large Language Models
470. NeurIPS 2023ZipLM: Inference-Aware Structured Pruning of Language 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.