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 13 of 19

601. NeurIPS 2025Geometry of Decision Making in Language Models
602. NeurIPS 2025GoT: Unleashing Reasoning Capability of MLLM for Visual Generation and Editing
603. NeurIPS 2025GRE Suite: Geo-localization Inference via Fine-Tuned Vision-Language Models and Enhanced Reasoning Chains
604. NeurIPS 2025GRIP: A Graph-Based Reasoning Instruction Producer
605. NeurIPS 2025GRIT: Teaching MLLMs to Think with Images
606. NeurIPS 2025Grounded Reinforcement Learning for Visual Reasoning
607. NeurIPS 2025GuardReasoner-VL: Safeguarding VLMs via Reinforced Reasoning
608. NeurIPS 2025GUI-G1: Understanding R1-Zero-Like Training for Visual Grounding in GUI Agents
609. NeurIPS 2025GUI-Rise: Structured Reasoning and History Summarization for GUI Navigation
610. NeurIPS 2025Guiding LLM Decision-Making with Fairness Reward Models
611. NeurIPS 2025GVPO: Group Variance Policy Optimization for Large Language Model Post-Training
612. NeurIPS 2025Heterogeneous Adversarial Play in Interactive Environments
613. NeurIPS 2025Hogwild! Inference: Parallel LLM Generation via Concurrent Attention
614. NeurIPS 2025HoloLLM: Multisensory Foundation Model for Language-Grounded Human Sensing and Reasoning
615. NeurIPS 2025How do Transformers Learn Implicit Reasoning?
616. NeurIPS 2025How Far Are We from Optimal Reasoning Efficiency?
617. NeurIPS 2025Hybrid Latent Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning
618. NeurIPS 2025HypoBootstrap: A Bootstrapping Framework for Inductive Reasoning
619. NeurIPS 2025ICPC-Eval: Probing the Frontiers of LLM Reasoning with Competitive Programming Contests
620. NeurIPS 2025Improving Formal Reasoning of Transformer with State Stack
621. NeurIPS 2025Incentivizing Dual Process Thinking for Efficient Large Language Model Reasoning
622. NeurIPS 2025Incentivizing LLMs to Self-Verify Their Answers
623. NeurIPS 2025Incentivizing Reasoning for Advanced Instruction-Following of Large Language Models
624. NeurIPS 2025Ineq-Comp: Benchmarking Human-Intuitive Compositional Reasoning in Automated Theorem Proving of Inequalities
625. NeurIPS 2025Inference-Time Hyper-Scaling with KV Cache Compression
626. NeurIPS 2025InstructHOI: Context-Aware Instruction for Multi-Modal Reasoning in Human-Object Interaction Detection
627. NeurIPS 2025Interpreting Arithmetic Reasoning in Large Language Models using Game-Theoretic Interactions
628. NeurIPS 2025Introducing FOReCAst: The Future Outcome Reasoning and Confidence Assessment Benchmark
629. NeurIPS 2025Is PRM Necessary? Problem-Solving RL Implicitly Induces PRM Capability in LLMs
630. NeurIPS 2025JarvisArt: Liberating Human Artistic Creativity via an Intelligent Photo Retouching Agent
631. NeurIPS 2025Jury-and-Judge Chain-of-Thought for Uncovering Toxic Data in 3D Visual Grounding
632. NeurIPS 2025K-DeCore: Facilitating Knowledge Transfer in Continual Structured Knowledge Reasoning via Knowledge Decoupling
633. NeurIPS 2025Kinetics: Rethinking Test-Time Scaling Law
634. NeurIPS 2025Knot So Simple: A Minimalistic Environment for Spatial Reasoning
635. NeurIPS 2025Know What You Don't Know: Uncertainty Calibration of Process Reward Models
636. NeurIPS 2025KRIS-Bench: Benchmarking Next-Level Intelligent Image Editing Models
637. NeurIPS 2025KTAE: A Model-Free Algorithm to Key-Tokens Advantage Estimation in Mathematical Reasoning
638. NeurIPS 2025Language Models Can Predict Their Own Behavior
639. NeurIPS 2025Language Models can Self-Improve at State-Value Estimation for Better Search
640. NeurIPS 2025Large Language Models as End-to-end Combinatorial Optimization Solvers
641. NeurIPS 2025Large language models can learn and generalize steganographic chain-of-thought under process supervision
642. NeurIPS 2025Large Language Models Think Too Fast To Explore Effectively
643. NeurIPS 2025LASeR: Learning to Adaptively Select Reward Models with Multi-Arm Bandits
644. NeurIPS 2025Latent Chain-of-Thought for Visual Reasoning
645. NeurIPS 2025Latent Principle Discovery for Language Model Self-Improvement
646. NeurIPS 2025LayerCraft: Enhancing Text-to-Image Generation with CoT Reasoning and Layered Object Integration
647. NeurIPS 2025LCDB 1.1: A Database Illustrating Learning Curves Are More Ill-Behaved Than Previously Thought
648. NeurIPS 2025Learning long range dependencies through time reversal symmetry breaking
649. NeurIPS 2025Learning to Better Search with Language Models via Guided Reinforced Self-Training
650. NeurIPS 2025Learning to Focus: Causal Attention Distillation via Gradient‐Guided Token Pruning

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.