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 11 of 19

501. NeurIPS 2025Can MLLMs Absorb Math Reasoning Abilities from LLMs as Free Lunch?
502. NeurIPS 2025Caption This, Reason That: VLMs Caught in the Middle
503. NeurIPS 2025Causal Sufficiency and Necessity Improves Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
504. NeurIPS 2025Causal-R: A Causal-Reasoning Geometry Problem Solver for Optimized Solution Exploration
505. NeurIPS 2025CGBench: Benchmarking Language Model Scientific Reasoning for Clinical Genetics Research
506. NeurIPS 2025Chain of Execution Supervision Promotes General Reasoning in Large Language Models
507. NeurIPS 2025Chain-of-Action: Trajectory Autoregressive Modeling for Robotic Manipulation
508. NeurIPS 2025Chain-of-Retrieval Augmented Generation
509. NeurIPS 2025ChartMuseum: Testing Visual Reasoning Capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models
510. NeurIPS 2025ChartSketcher: Reasoning with Multimodal Feedback and Reflection for Chart Understanding
511. NeurIPS 2025ChatVLA-2: Vision-Language-Action Model with Open-World Reasoning
512. NeurIPS 2025Chiron-o1: Igniting Multimodal Large Language Models towards Generalizable Medical Reasoning via Mentor-Intern Collaborative Search
513. NeurIPS 2025CIDD: Collaborative Intelligence for Structure-Based Drug Design Empowered by LLMs
514. NeurIPS 2025Class-aware Domain Knowledge Fusion and Fission for Continual Test-Time Adaptation
515. NeurIPS 2025CLAWS:Creativity detection for LLM-generated solutions using Attention Window of Sections
516. NeurIPS 2025Co-PatcheR: Collaborative Software Patching with Component-specific Small Reasoning Models
517. NeurIPS 2025CoC-VLA: Delving into Adversarial Domain Transfer for Explainable Autonomous Driving via Chain-of-Causality Visual-Language-Action Model
518. NeurIPS 2025CodeCrash: Exposing LLM Fragility to Misleading Natural Language in Code Reasoning
519. NeurIPS 2025CodeMerge: Codebook-Guided Model Merging for Robust Test-Time Adaptation in Autonomous Driving
520. NeurIPS 2025CoFFT: Chain of Foresight-Focus Thought for Visual Language Models
521. NeurIPS 2025Cognitive Mirrors: Exploring the Diverse Functional Roles of Attention Heads in LLM Reasoning
522. NeurIPS 2025Collaborative Reasoner: Self-Improving Social Agents with Synthetic Conversations
523. NeurIPS 2025Composing Global Solutions to Reasoning Tasks via Algebraic Objects in Neural Nets
524. NeurIPS 2025Compositional Neural Network Verification via Assume-Guarantee Reasoning
525. NeurIPS 2025Compositional Reasoning with Transformers, RNNs, and Chain of Thought
526. NeurIPS 2025Conformal Information Pursuit for Interactively Guiding Large Language Models
527. NeurIPS 2025Contextual Integrity in LLMs via Reasoning and Reinforcement Learning
528. NeurIPS 2025Continuous Thought Machines
529. NeurIPS 2025Contrastive Representations for Temporal Reasoning
530. NeurIPS 2025Controlling Thinking Speed in Reasoning Models
531. NeurIPS 2025CoRe: Benchmarking LLMs’ Code Reasoning Capabilities through Static Analysis Tasks
532. NeurIPS 2025CoT Information: Improved Sample Complexity under Chain-of-Thought Supervision
533. NeurIPS 2025CoT Red-Handed: Stress Testing Chain-of-Thought Monitoring
534. NeurIPS 2025Counterfactual Reasoning for Steerable Pluralistic Value Alignment of Large Language Models
535. NeurIPS 2025Counterfactual reasoning: an analysis of in-context emergence
536. NeurIPS 2025CPPO: Accelerating the Training of Group Relative Policy Optimization-Based Reasoning Models
537. NeurIPS 2025Creativity or Brute Force? Using Brainteasers as a Window into the Problem-Solving Abilities of Large Language Models
538. NeurIPS 2025CReFT-CAD: Boosting Orthographic Projection Reasoning for CAD via Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
539. NeurIPS 2025Curriculum Abductive Learning
540. NeurIPS 2025Curriculum Design for Trajectory-Constrained Agent: Compressing Chain-of-Thought Tokens in LLMs
541. NeurIPS 2025CURV: Coherent Uncertainty-Aware Reasoning in Vision-Language Models for X-Ray Report Generation
542. NeurIPS 2025CXReasonBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Structured Diagnostic Reasoning in Chest X-rays
543. NeurIPS 2025d1: Scaling Reasoning in Diffusion Large Language Models via Reinforcement Learning
544. NeurIPS 2025DAA: Amplifying Unknown Discrepancy for Test-Time Discovery
545. NeurIPS 2025DAPO : Improving Multi-Step Reasoning Abilities of Large Language Models with Direct Advantage-Based Policy Optimization
546. NeurIPS 2025DAPO: An Open-Source LLM Reinforcement Learning System at Scale
547. NeurIPS 2025DeceptionBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for AI Deception Behaviors in Real-world Scenarios
548. NeurIPS 2025Delving into RL for Image Generation with CoT: A Study on DPO vs. GRPO
549. NeurIPS 2025Demystifying Reasoning Dynamics with Mutual Information: Thinking Tokens are Information Peaks in LLM Reasoning
550. NeurIPS 2025Dependency Matters: Enhancing LLM Reasoning with Explicit Knowledge Grounding

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.