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

3,512 papers, page 14 of 71

651. ICLR 2026Reverse-Engineered Reasoning for Open-Ended Generation
652. ICLR 2026Revisual-R1: Advancing Multimodal Reasoning From Optimized Cold Start to Staged Reinforcement Learning
653. ICLR 2026RewardMap: Tackling Sparse Rewards in Fine-grained Visual Reasoning via Multi-Stage Reinforcement Learning
654. ICLR 2026ReWatch-R1: Boosting Complex Video Reasoning in Large Vision-Language Models through Agentic Data Synthesis
655. ICLR 2026Rex-Thinker: Grounded Object Referring via Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
656. ICLR 2026RFEval: Benchmarking Reasoning Faithfulness under Counterfactual Reasoning Intervention in Large Reasoning Models
657. ICLR 2026RL for Reasoning by Adaptively Revealing Rationales
658. ICLR 2026RL of Thoughts: Navigating LLM Reasoning with Inference-time Reinforcement Learning
659. ICLR 2026RL Squeezes, SFT Expands: A Comparative Study of Reasoning LLMs
660. ICLR 2026RLAD: Training LLMs to Discover Abstractions for Solving Reasoning Problems
661. ICLR 2026RLP: Reinforcement as a Pretraining Objective
662. ICLR 2026RM-R1: Reward Modeling as Reasoning
663. ICLR 2026Robust Test-time Video-Text Retrieval: Benchmarking and Adapting for Query Shifts
664. ICLR 2026ROVER: Benchmarking Reciprocal Cross-Modal Reasoning for Omnimodal Generation
665. ICLR 2026RPM: Reasoning-Level Personalization for Black-Box Large Language Models
666. ICLR 2026RuleReasoner: Reinforced Rule-based Reasoning via Domain-aware Dynamic Sampling
667. ICLR 2026Sample More to Think Less: Group Filtered Policy Optimization for Concise Reasoning
668. ICLR 2026Sample Smart, Not Hard: Correctness-First Decoding for Better Reasoning in LLMs
669. ICLR 2026Scaf-GRPO: Scaffolded Group Relative Policy Optimization for Enhancing LLM Reasoning
670. ICLR 2026Scalable Chain of Thoughts via Elastic Reasoning
671. ICLR 2026Scaling Atomistic Protein Binder Design with Generative Pretraining and Test-Time Compute
672. ICLR 2026Scaling Linear Attention with Sparse State Expansion
673. ICLR 2026Scaling Reasoning Hop Exposes Weaknesses: Demystifying and Improving Hop Generalization in Large Language Models
674. ICLR 2026Scaling Up, Speeding Up: A Benchmark of Speculative Decoding for Efficient LLM Test-Time Scaling
675. ICLR 2026SceneCOT: Eliciting Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in 3D Scenes
676. ICLR 2026SCoT: Teaching 3D-LLMs to Think Spatially with Million-scale CoT Annotations
677. ICLR 2026SealQA: Raising the Bar for Reasoning in Search-Augmented Language Models
678. ICLR 2026Seeing Across Views: Benchmarking Spatial Reasoning of Vision-Language Models in Robotic Scenes
679. ICLR 2026Seek-CAD: A Self-refined Generative Modeling for 3D Parametric CAD Using Local Inference via DeepSeek
680. ICLR 2026Segment-Level Attribution for Selective Learning of Long Reasoning Traces
681. ICLR 2026Selection, Reflection and Self-Refinement: Revisit Reasoning Tasks via a Causal Lens
682. ICLR 2026Self-Jailbreaking: Language Models Can Reason Themselves Out of Safety Alignment After Benign Reasoning Training
683. ICLR 2026Self-Refining Vision Language Model for Robotic Failure Detection and Reasoning
684. ICLR 2026SesaHand: Enhancing 3D Hand Reconstruction via Controllable Generation with Semantic and Structural Alignment
685. ICLR 2026SIM-CoT: Supervised Implicit Chain-of-Thought
686. ICLR 2026SimpleToM: Exposing the Gap between Explicit ToM Inference and Implicit ToM Application in LLMs
687. ICLR 2026SimuHome: A Temporal- and Environment-Aware Benchmark for Smart Home LLM Agents
688. ICLR 2026SketchThinker-R1: Towards Efficient Sketch-Style Reasoning in Large Multimodal Models
689. ICLR 2026SkillFactory: Self-Distillation for Learning Cognitive Behaviors
690. ICLR 2026SLM-MUX: Orchestrating Small Language Models for Reasoning
691. ICLR 2026Slow-Fast Policy Optimization: Reposition-Before-Update for LLM Reasoning
692. ICLR 2026Small Drafts, Big Verdict: Information-Intensive Visual Reasoning via Speculation
693. ICLR 2026SMAN-Bench: A Cross-System Benchmark for Mobile Agents under Single- and Multi-path, Ambiguous, and Noisy Tasks
694. ICLR 2026Smarter Not Harder: Generative Process Evaluation with Intrinsic-Signal Driving and Ability‑Adaptive Reward Shaping
695. ICLR 2026Soft Tokens, Hard Truths
696. ICLR 2026Softmax Transformers are Turing-Complete
697. ICLR 2026SophiaVL-R1: Reinforcing MLLMs Reasoning with Thinking Reward
698. ICLR 2026SpaCE-Eval: A Benchmark for Real-World Multi-Modal Reasoning
699. ICLR 2026Sparse Attention Adaptation for Long Reasoning
700. ICLR 2026Spatial CAPTCHA: Generatively Benchmarking Spatial Reasoning for Human-Machine Differentiation

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.