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

932 papers, page 10 of 19

451. NeurIPS 2025Activation-Guided Consensus Merging for Large Language Models
452. NeurIPS 2025Ada-R1: Hybrid-CoT via Bi-Level Adaptive Reasoning Optimization
453. NeurIPS 2025Adaptive Divergence Regularized Policy Optimization for Fine-tuning Generative Models
454. NeurIPS 2025AdaReasoner: Adaptive Reasoning Enables More Flexible Thinking
455. NeurIPS 2025AdaSTaR: Adaptive Data Sampling for Training Self-Taught Reasoners
456. NeurIPS 2025AffordBot: 3D Fine-grained Embodied Reasoning via Multimodal Large Language Models
457. NeurIPS 2025AgentAuditor: Human-level Safety and Security Evaluation for LLM Agents
458. NeurIPS 2025AgentTTS: Large Language Model Agent for Test-time Compute-optimal Scaling Strategy in Complex Tasks
459. NeurIPS 2025Analog Foundation Models
460. NeurIPS 2025Analyzing the Power of Chain of Thought through Memorization Capabilities
461. NeurIPS 2025Anchored Diffusion Language Model
462. NeurIPS 2025AnomalyCoT: A Multi-Scenario Chain-of-Thought Dataset for Multimodal Large Language Models
463. NeurIPS 2025Any Large Language Model Can Be a Reliable Judge: Debiasing with a Reasoning-based Bias Detector
464. NeurIPS 2025APOLLO: Automated LLM and Lean Collaboration for Advanced Formal Reasoning
465. NeurIPS 2025Are Language Models Efficient Reasoners? A Perspective from Logic Programming
466. NeurIPS 2025Are Large Reasoning Models Good Translation Evaluators? Analysis and Performance Boost
467. NeurIPS 2025ARM: Adaptive Reasoning Model
468. NeurIPS 2025AtmosSci-Bench: Evaluating the Recent Advance of Large Language Model for Atmospheric Science
469. NeurIPS 2025Atom of Thoughts for Markov LLM Test-Time Scaling
470. NeurIPS 2025Atomic Thinking of LLMs: Decoupling and Exploring Mathematical Reasoning Abilities
471. NeurIPS 2025Attention (as Discrete-Time Markov) Chains
472. NeurIPS 2025Attention Sinks: A 'Catch, Tag, Release' Mechanism for Embeddings
473. NeurIPS 2025Audio Flamingo 3: Advancing Audio Intelligence with Fully Open Large Audio Language Models
474. NeurIPS 2025Auditing Meta-Cognitive Hallucinations in Reasoning Large Language Models
475. NeurIPS 2025AudSemThinker: Enhancing Audio-Language Models Through Reasoning over Semantics of Sound
476. NeurIPS 2025Automated Model Discovery via Multi-modal & Multi-step Pipeline
477. NeurIPS 2025AutoToM: Scaling Model-based Mental Inference via Automated Agent Modeling
478. NeurIPS 2025AutoVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Adaptive Reasoning and Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
479. NeurIPS 2025Aux-Think: Exploring Reasoning Strategies for Data-Efficient Vision-Language Navigation
480. NeurIPS 2025BackdoorLLM: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Backdoor Attacks and Defenses on Large Language Models
481. NeurIPS 2025Bag of Tricks for Inference-time Computation of LLM Reasoning
482. NeurIPS 2025Benchmarking Large Language Models with Integer Sequence Generation Tasks
483. NeurIPS 2025Benchmarking Spatiotemporal Reasoning in LLMs and Reasoning Models: Capabilities and Challenges
484. NeurIPS 2025Best-of-N Jailbreaking
485. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Chemical QA: Evaluating LLM's Chemical Reasoning with Modular Chemical Operations
486. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Oracle: Verifier-Supervision for Instruction Hierarchy in Reasoning and Instruction-Tuned LLMs
487. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Single-Task: Robust Multi-Task Length Generalization for LLMs
488. NeurIPS 2025Beyond the 80/20 Rule: High-Entropy Minority Tokens Drive Effective Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning
489. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Verifiable Rewards: Scaling Reinforcement Learning in Language Models to Unverifiable Data
490. NeurIPS 2025BioReason: Incentivizing Multimodal Biological Reasoning within a DNA-LLM Model
491. NeurIPS 2025BLINK-Twice: You see, but do you observe? A Reasoning Benchmark on Visual Perception
492. NeurIPS 2025BMMR: A Large-Scale Bilingual Multimodal Multi-Discipline Reasoning Dataset
493. NeurIPS 2025Boosting Skeleton-based Zero-Shot Action Recognition with Training-Free Test-Time Adaptation
494. NeurIPS 2025BREAD: Branched Rollouts from Expert Anchors Bridge SFT & RL for Reasoning
495. NeurIPS 2025BTL-UI: Blink-Think-Link Reasoning Model for GUI Agent
496. NeurIPS 2025Buffer layers for Test-Time Adaptation
497. NeurIPS 2025C3PO: Optimized Large Language Model Cascades with Probabilistic Cost Constraints for Reasoning
498. NeurIPS 2025CAD-Coder: Text-to-CAD Generation with Chain-of-Thought and Geometric Reward
499. NeurIPS 2025CALM: Culturally Self-Aware Language Models
500. NeurIPS 2025Can LLMs Correct Themselves? A Benchmark of Self-Correction in LLMs

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.