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

996 papers, page 12 of 20

551. ICLR 2026THE PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE: GUIDING LLM REASONING TRAJECTORIES WITH PREFIX CONSENSUS
552. ICLR 2026The Quest for Efficient Reasoning: A Data-Centric Benchmark to CoT Distillation
553. ICLR 2026The State of Reinforcement Finetuning for Transformer-based Generative Agents
554. ICLR 2026THEMIS: Towards Holistic Evaluation of MLLMs for Scientific Paper Fraud Forensics
555. ICLR 2026Theory of Space: Can Foundation Models Construct Spatial Beliefs through Active Exploration?
556. ICLR 2026Think in Parallel, Answer as One: Logit Averaging for Open-Ended Reasoning
557. ICLR 2026Think Then Embed: Generative Context Improves Multimodal Embedding
558. ICLR 2026Think-While-Generating: On-the-Fly Reasoning for Personalized Long-Form Generation
559. ICLR 2026Thinking as Society: Multi-Social-Agent Self-Distillation for Multimodal Misinformation Detection
560. ICLR 2026Thinking on the Fly: Test-Time Reasoning Enhancement via Latent Thought Policy Optimization
561. ICLR 2026Thinking-Free Policy Initialization Makes Distilled Reasoning Models More Effective and Efficient Reasoners
562. ICLR 2026ThinkMorph: Emergent Properties in Multimodal Interleaved Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
563. ICLR 2026ThinkOmni: Lifting Textual Reasoning to Omni-modal Scenarios via Guidance Decoding
564. ICLR 2026ThinKV: Thought-Adaptive KV Cache Compression for Efficient Reasoning Models
565. ICLR 2026THOR: Tool-Integrated Hierarchical Optimization via RL for Mathematical Reasoning
566. ICLR 2026Thought Branches: Interpreting LLM Reasoning Requires Resampling
567. ICLR 2026Through the Lens of Contrast: Self-Improving Visual Reasoning in VLMs
568. ICLR 2026TimeOmni-1: Incentivizing Complex Reasoning with Time Series in Large Language Models
569. ICLR 2026TimeSearch-R: Adaptive Temporal Search for Long-Form Video Understanding via Self-Verification Reinforcement Learning
570. ICLR 2026TimeSeriesExamAgent: Creating TimeSeries Reasoning Benchmarks at Scale
571. ICLR 2026Tina: Tiny Reasoning Models via LoRA
572. ICLR 2026TNT: Improving Chunkwise Training for Test-Time Memorization
573. ICLR 2026Token-Efficient Long-Term Interest Sketching and Internalized Reasoning for LLM-based Recommendation
574. ICLR 2026TokUR: Token-Level Uncertainty Estimation for Large Language Model Reasoning
575. ICLR 2026Toward Effective Tool-Integrated Reasoning via Self-Evolved Preference Learning
576. ICLR 2026Towards Faithful Reasoning in Remote Sensing: A Perceptually-Grounded GeoSpatial Chain-of-Thought for Vision-Language Models
577. ICLR 2026Towards Knowledge‑and‑Data‑Driven Organic Reaction Prediction: RAG‑Enhanced and Reasoning‑Powered Hybrid System with LLMs
578. ICLR 2026Towards Quantization-Aware Training for Ultra-Low-Bit Reasoning LLMs
579. ICLR 2026Towards Safe Reasoning in Large Reasoning Models via Corrective Intervention
580. ICLR 2026Traceable Evidence Enhanced Visual Grounded Reasoning: Evaluation and Method
581. ICLR 2026Tracing the Traces: Latent Temporal Signals for Efficient and Accurate Reasoning
582. ICLR 2026Trained on Tokens, Calibrated on Concepts: The Emergence of Semantic Calibration in LLMs
583. ICLR 2026Training Large Language Models To Reason In Parallel With Global Forking Tokens
584. ICLR 2026Training Large Reasoning Models Efficiently via Progressive Thought Encoding
585. ICLR 2026Transductive Visual Programming: Evolving Tool Libraries from Experience for Spatial Reasoning
586. ICLR 2026TraPO: A Semi-Supervised Reinforcement Learning Framework for Boosting LLM Reasoning
587. ICLR 2026Tricks or Traps? A Deep Dive into RL for LLM Reasoning
588. ICLR 2026TrimR: Verifier-based Training-Free Thinking Trimming for Efficient Test-Time Scaling
589. ICLR 2026Trust-Region Adaptive Policy Optimization
590. ICLR 2026Truthful or Fabricated? Using Causal Attribution to Mitigate Reward Hacking in Explanations
591. ICLR 2026TSLM: Tree-Structured Language Modeling for Divergent Thinking
592. ICLR 2026TUMIX: Multi-Agent Test-Time Scaling with Tool-Use Mixture
593. ICLR 2026TumorChain: Interleaved Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Traceable Clinical Tumor Analysis
594. ICLR 2026Type-Compliant Adaptation Cascades
595. ICLR 2026UALM: Unified Audio Language Model for Understanding, Generation and Reasoning
596. ICLR 2026UME-R1: Exploring Reasoning-Driven Generative Multimodal Embeddings
597. ICLR 2026Understanding the Role of Training Data in Test-Time Scaling
598. ICLR 2026Understanding VLMs Spatial Mental Modeling Capability from Limited Views
599. ICLR 2026Understanding vs. Generation: Navigating Optimization Dilemma in Multimodal Models
600. ICLR 2026Unfolding Spatial Cognition: Evaluating Multimodal Models on Visual Simulations

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.