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 12 of 12

551. ICML 2026Verifying Meta-Awareness via Predictive Rewards in Reasoning Models
552. ICML 2026Video-MTR: Reinforced Multi-Turn Reasoning for Long Video Understanding
553. ICML 2026VideoSEG-O3: A Multi-turn Reinforcement Learning Framework for Reasoning Video Object Segmentation
554. ICML 2026Vision Language Models Cannot Reason About Physical Transformation
555. ICML 2026Vision-aligned Latent Reasoning for Multi-modal Large Language Model
556. ICML 2026VisionPulse: Dynamic Visual Sparsity for Efficient Multimodal Reasoning
557. ICML 2026Visual Para-Thinker: Divide-and-Conquer Reasoning for Visual Comprehension
558. ICML 2026VisualPuzzles: Decoupling Multimodal Reasoning Evaluation from Domain Knowledge
559. ICML 2026VLA-ATTC: Adaptive Test-Time Compute for VLA Models with Relative Action Critic Model
560. ICML 2026VR-Thinker: Boosting Multimodal Reward Models through Think with Image Reasoning
561. ICML 2026VT-Bench: A Unified Benchmark for Visual-Tabular Multi-Modal Learning
562. ICML 2026Wait, Wait, Wait... Why Do Reasoning Models Loop?
563. ICML 2026What Characterizes Effective Reasoning? Revisiting Length, Review, and Structure of CoT
564. ICML 2026What If We Allocate Test-Time Compute Adaptively?
565. ICML 2026What LLMs Explain Is Not What They Believe: Evaluating Explanation Sufficiency Under Models' Own Input Beliefs
566. ICML 2026What Makes Effective Supervision in Latent Chain-of-Thought: An Information-Theoretic Analysis
567. ICML 2026What Really Improves Mathematical Reasoning: Structured Reasoning Signals Beyond Pure Code
568. ICML 2026When AI Agents Compete for Jobs: Strategic Capabilities and Economic Dynamics of AI Labour Markets
569. ICML 2026When LLMs Develop Languages: Symbolic Communication for Efficient Multi-Agent Reasoning
570. ICML 2026When Simple Problems Wear Complex Costumes: Improving Efficiency in LRM's Adaptive Reasoning
571. ICML 2026When to Memorize and When to Stop: Gated Recurrent Memory for Long-Context Reasoning
572. ICML 2026When to Think, When to Speak: Learning Disclosure Policies for LLM Reasoning
573. ICML 2026When to Trust the Cheap Check: Weak and Strong Verification for Reasoning
574. ICML 2026Which Heads Matter for Reasoning? RL-Guided KV Cache Compression
575. ICML 2026Why Agentic Theorem Prover Works: A Statistical Provability Theory of Mathematical Reasoning Models
576. ICML 2026Why Tree-Style Branching Matters for Thought Advantage Estimation in GRPO
577. ICML 2026Words & Weights: Streamlining Multi-Turn Interactions via Co-Adaptation
578. ICML 2026World-Model Inspired Emotion-aware Token Refinement for Training-Free Multimodal Emotion Recognition
579. ICML 2026XDomainBench: Diagnosing Reasoning Collapse in High-Dimensional Scientific Knowledge Composition
580. ICML 2026XRPO: Pushing the Limits of GRPO with Targeted Exploration and Exploitation
581. ICML 2026You Don't Protect if You Don't Expect: Breaking the Key Assumption behind CLIP's Test-Time Defenses
582. ICML 2026ZeroBench: An Impossible Visual Benchmark for Contemporary Large Multimodal 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.