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 15 of 71

701. ICLR 2026Spatial Reasoning with Vision-Language Models in Ego-Centric Multi-View Scenes
702. ICLR 2026Spatial-DISE: A Unified Benchmark for Evaluating Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
703. ICLR 2026SpatiaLab: Can Vision–Language Models Perform Spatial Reasoning in the Wild?
704. ICLR 2026SpatialLadder: Progressive Training for Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
705. ICLR 2026SpatialViz-Bench: A Cognitively-Grounded Benchmark for Diagnosing Spatial Visualization in MLLMs
706. ICLR 2026Specialization after Generalization: Towards Understanding Test-Time Training in Foundation Models
707. ICLR 2026Speech World Model: Causal State–Action Planning with Explicit Reasoning for Speech
708. ICLR 2026SpeechJudge: Towards Human-Level Judgment for Speech Naturalness
709. ICLR 2026SPELL: Self-Play Reinforcement Learning for Evolving Long-Context Language Models
710. ICLR 2026SPIKE-RL: Video-LLMs meet Bayesian Surprise
711. ICLR 2026SpinBench: Perspective and Rotation as a Lens on Spatial Reasoning in VLMs
712. ICLR 2026SPIRAL: Self-Play on Zero-Sum Games Incentivizes Reasoning via Multi-Agent Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning
713. ICLR 2026SportR: A Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Model Reasoning in Sports
714. ICLR 2026Spotlight on Token Perception for Multimodal Reinforcement Learning
715. ICLR 2026Squeeze the Soaked Sponge: Efficient Off-policy RFT for Large Language Model
716. ICLR 2026SRFT: A Single-Stage Method with Supervised and Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Reasoning
717. ICLR 2026Stabilizing Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for LLMs via Balanced Policy Optimization with Adaptive Clipping
718. ICLR 2026STAR-Bench: Probing Deep Spatio-Temporal Reasoning as Audio 4D Intelligence
719. ICLR 2026STITCH: Simultaneous Thinking and Talking with Chunked Reasoning for Spoken Language Models
720. ICLR 2026Stop Unnecessary Reflection: Training LRMs for Efficient Reasoning with Adaptive Reflection and Length Coordinated Penalty
721. ICLR 2026Strategic Obfuscation of Deceptive Reasoning in Language Models
722. ICLR 2026Strategic Scaling of Test-Time Compute: A Bandit Learning Approach
723. ICLR 2026StreamingThinker: Large Language Models Can Think While Reading
724. ICLR 2026String Seed of Thought: Prompting LLMs for Distribution-Faithful and Diverse Generation
725. ICLR 2026Structure Learning from Time-Series Data with Lag-Agnostic Structural Prior
726. ICLR 2026Structured Reasoning for LLMs: A Unified Framework for Efficiency and Explainability
727. ICLR 2026Supervised Reinforcement Learning: From Expert Trajectories to Step-wise Reasoning
728. ICLR 2026SwiReasoning: Switch-Thinking in Latent and Explicit for Pareto-Superior Reasoning LLMs
729. ICLR 2026Synergizing Understanding and Generation with Interleaved Analyzing-Drafting Thinking
730. ICLR 2026Synthesizing Multimodal Verifiable Game Data to Boost VLMs' General Reasoning
731. ICLR 2026T1: Tool-integrated Verification for Test-time Compute Scaling in Small Language Models
732. ICLR 2026TableMaster: A Recipe to Advance Table Understanding with Language Models
733. ICLR 2026TAMMs: Change Understanding and Forecasting in Satellite Image Time Series with Temporal-Aware Multimodal Models
734. ICLR 2026TaTToo: Tool-Grounded Thinking PRM for Test-Time Scaling in Tabular Reasoning
735. ICLR 2026Teach to Reason Safely: Policy-Guided Safety Tuning for MLRMs
736. ICLR 2026Test-Time Adaptation without Source Data for Out-of-Domain Bioactivity Prediction
737. ICLR 2026Test-time Domain Generalization for Image Super-resolution
738. ICLR 2026Test-Time Efficient Pretrained Model Portfolios for Time Series Forecasting
739. ICLR 2026Test-Time Matching: Unlocking Compositional Reasoning in Multimodal Models
740. ICLR 2026TEST-TIME SCALING IN DIFFUSION LLMS VIA HIDDEN SEMI-AUTOREGRESSIVE EXPERTS
741. ICLR 2026Test-Time Scaling with Reflective Generative Model
742. ICLR 2026Test-time Verification via Optimal Transport: Coverage, ROC, & Sub-optimality
743. ICLR 2026The Art of Scaling Reinforcement Learning Compute for LLMs
744. ICLR 2026The Choice of Divergence: A Neglected Key to Mitigating Diversity Collapse in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward
745. ICLR 2026The CoT Encyclopedia: Analyzing, Predicting, and Controlling how a Reasoning Model will Think
746. ICLR 2026The First Impression Problem: Internal Bias Triggers Overthinking in Reasoning Models
747. ICLR 2026The Geometry of Reasoning: Flowing Logics in Representation Space
748. ICLR 2026The Illusion of Diminishing Returns: Measuring Long Horizon Execution in LLMs
749. ICLR 2026The Imitation Game: Turing Machine Imitator is Length Generalizable Reasoner
750. ICLR 2026The Limits of Inference Scaling Through Resampling

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.