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

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551. NeurIPS 2025DIPO: Dual-State Images Controlled Articulated Object Generation Powered by Diverse Data
552. NeurIPS 2025Direct Numerical Layout Generation for 3D Indoor Scene Synthesis via Spatial Reasoning
553. NeurIPS 2025DisCO: Reinforcing Large Reasoning Models with Discriminative Constrained Optimization
554. NeurIPS 2025Distilling LLM Agent into Small Models with Retrieval and Code Tools
555. NeurIPS 2025DLoFT: Gradient-Decoupled Fine-Tuning for Generalizable Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
556. NeurIPS 2025DMWM: Dual-Mind World Model with Long-Term Imagination
557. NeurIPS 2025Do LVLMs Truly Understand Video Anomalies? Revealing Hallucination via Co-Occurrence Patterns
558. NeurIPS 2025Does Reinforcement Learning Really Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs Beyond the Base Model?
559. NeurIPS 2025Does Thinking More Always Help? Mirage of Test-Time Scaling in Reasoning Models
560. NeurIPS 2025Don’t Think Longer, Think Wisely: Optimizing Thinking Dynamics for Large Reasoning Models
561. NeurIPS 2025DreamPRM: Domain-reweighted Process Reward Model for Multimodal Reasoning
562. NeurIPS 2025DrVD-Bench: Do Vision-Language Models Reason Like Human Doctors in Medical Image Diagnosis?
563. NeurIPS 2025DSRF: A Dynamic and Scalable Reasoning Framework for Solving RPMs
564. NeurIPS 2025DuetGraph: Coarse-to-Fine Knowledge Graph Reasoning with Dual-Pathway Global-Local Fusion
565. NeurIPS 2025Dynamic Test-Time Compute Scaling in Control Policy: Difficulty-Aware Stochastic Interpolant Policy
566. NeurIPS 2025EAGLE-3: Scaling up Inference Acceleration of Large Language Models via Training-Time Test
567. NeurIPS 2025Efficiently Scaling LLM Reasoning Programs with Certaindex
568. NeurIPS 2025EgoThinker: Unveiling Egocentric Reasoning with Spatio-Temporal CoT
569. NeurIPS 2025Eliciting Reasoning in Language Models with Cognitive Tools
570. NeurIPS 2025Emergent Risk Awareness in Rational Agents under Resource Constraints
571. NeurIPS 2025Enhancing Compositional Reasoning in CLIP via Reconstruction and Alignment of Text Descriptions
572. NeurIPS 2025Enhancing Temporal Understanding in Video-LLMs through Stacked Temporal Attention in Vision Encoders
573. NeurIPS 2025Enigmata: Scaling Logical Reasoning in Large Language Models with Synthetic Verifiable Puzzles
574. NeurIPS 2025Evaluating Program Semantics Reasoning with Type Inference in System $F$
575. NeurIPS 2025Evaluating the Inductive Abilities of Large Language Models: Why Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Sometimes Hurts More Than Helps
576. NeurIPS 2025Every Rollout Counts: Optimal Resource Allocation for Efficient Test-Time Scaling
577. NeurIPS 2025Evolutionary Reasoning Does Not Arise in Standard Usage of Protein Language Models
578. NeurIPS 2025EvolvedGRPO: Unlocking Reasoning in LVLMs via Progressive Instruction Evolution
579. NeurIPS 2025Exact Expressive Power of Transformers with Padding
580. NeurIPS 2025Execution Guided Line-by-Line Code Generation
581. NeurIPS 2025ExPO: Unlocking Hard Reasoning with Self-Explanation-Guided Reinforcement Learning
582. NeurIPS 2025Fact-R1: Towards Explainable Video Misinformation Detection with Deep Reasoning
583. NeurIPS 2025FALCON: An ML Framework for Fully Automated Layout-Constrained Analog Circuit Design
584. NeurIPS 2025Fast-Slow Thinking GRPO for Large Vision-Language Model Reasoning
585. NeurIPS 2025Feature-Based Instance Neighbor Discovery: Advanced Stable Test-Time Adaptation in Dynamic World
586. NeurIPS 2025FGBench: A Dataset and Benchmark for Molecular Property Reasoning at Functional Group-Level in Large Language Models
587. NeurIPS 2025Finding and Reactivating Post-Trained LLMs' Hidden Safety Mechanisms
588. NeurIPS 2025Fine-Grained Preference Optimization Improves Spatial Reasoning in VLMs
589. NeurIPS 2025First SFT, Second RL, Third UPT: Continual Improving Multi-Modal LLM Reasoning via Unsupervised Post-Training
590. NeurIPS 2025Fixed-Point RNNs: Interpolating from Diagonal to Dense
591. NeurIPS 2025FlexAC: Towards Flexible Control of Associative Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models
592. NeurIPS 2025Flexible Realignment of Language Models
593. NeurIPS 2025FlySearch: Exploring how vision-language models explore
594. NeurIPS 2025From Kolmogorov to Cauchy: Shallow XNet Surpasses KANs
595. NeurIPS 2025From Sequence to Structure: Uncovering Substructure Reasoning in Transformers
596. NeurIPS 2025FutureSightDrive: Thinking Visually with Spatio-Temporal CoT for Autonomous Driving
597. NeurIPS 2025General-Reasoner: Advancing LLM Reasoning Across All Domains
598. NeurIPS 2025Generalizable Reasoning through Compositional Energy Minimization
599. NeurIPS 2025Generalization or Hallucination? Understanding Out-of-Context Reasoning in Transformers
600. NeurIPS 2025Geometric Algorithms for Neural Combinatorial Optimization with Constraints

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.