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

913 papers, page 15 of 19

701. ICML 2025SafetyAnalyst: Interpretable, Transparent, and Steerable Safety Moderation for AI Behavior
702. ICML 2025Sample, Scrutinize and Scale: Effective Inference-Time Search by Scaling Verification
703. ICML 2025Satori: Reinforcement Learning with Chain-of-Action-Thought Enhances LLM Reasoning via Autoregressive Search
704. ICML 2025Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal
705. ICML 2025Self-Consistency Preference Optimization
706. ICML 2025ShieldAgent: Shielding Agents via Verifiable Safety Policy Reasoning
707. ICML 2025Soft Reasoning: Navigating Solution Spaces in Large Language Models through Controlled Embedding Exploration
708. ICML 2025Spatial Reasoning with Denoising Models
709. ICML 2025Stability and Generalization Capability of Subgraph Reasoning Models for Inductive Knowledge Graph Completion
710. ICML 2025STAIR: Improving Safety Alignment with Introspective Reasoning
711. ICML 2025STP: Self-play LLM Theorem Provers with Iterative Conjecturing and Proving
712. ICML 2025T1: Advancing Language Model Reasoning through Reinforcement Learning and Inference Scaling
713. ICML 2025Task Generalization with Autoregressive Compositional Structure: Can Learning from $D$ Tasks Generalize to $D^T$ Tasks?
714. ICML 2025Teaching Transformers Causal Reasoning through Axiomatic Training
715. ICML 2025Test-time Adaptation on Graphs via Adaptive Subgraph-based Selection and Regularized Prototypes
716. ICML 2025Test-Time Canonicalization by Foundation Models for Robust Perception
717. ICML 2025Test-time Correlation Alignment
718. ICML 2025Test-Time Learning for Large Language Models
719. ICML 2025Test-Time Selective Adaptation for Uni-Modal Distribution Shift in Multi-Modal Data
720. ICML 2025Test-Time Training Provably Improves Transformers as In-context Learners
721. ICML 2025The Surprising Effectiveness of Test-Time Training for Few-Shot Learning
722. ICML 2025Think Smarter not Harder: Adaptive Reasoning with Inference Aware Optimization
723. ICML 2025Token Assorted: Mixing Latent and Text Tokens for Improved Language Model Reasoning
724. ICML 2025Token Signature: Predicting Chain-of-Thought Gains with Token Decoding Feature in Large Language Models
725. ICML 2025TRACE Back from the Future: A Probabilistic Reasoning Approach to Controllable Language Generation
726. ICML 2025UGPhysics: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Undergraduate Physics Reasoning with Large Language Models
727. ICML 2025Understanding Chain-of-Thought in LLMs through Information Theory
728. ICML 2025Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic
729. ICML 2025Universal Length Generalization with Turing Programs
730. ICML 2025unMORE: Unsupervised Multi-Object Segmentation via Center-Boundary Reasoning
731. ICML 2025Variational Counterfactual Intervention Planning to Achieve Target Outcomes
732. ICML 2025VersaPRM: Multi-Domain Process Reward Model via Synthetic Reasoning Data
733. ICML 2025video-SALMONN-o1: Reasoning-enhanced Audio-visual Large Language Model
734. ICML 2025Visual and Domain Knowledge for Professional-level Graph-of-Thought Medical Reasoning
735. ICML 2025Visual Graph Arena: Evaluating Visual Conceptualization of Vision and Multimodal Large Language Models
736. ICML 2025What Do Learning Dynamics Reveal About Generalization in LLM Mathematical Reasoning?
737. ICML 2025Which Agent Causes Task Failures and When? On Automated Failure Attribution of LLM Multi-Agent Systems
738. ICML 2025Why Is Spatial Reasoning Hard for VLMs? An Attention Mechanism Perspective on Focus Areas
739. ICML 2025WOMD-Reasoning: A Large-Scale Dataset for Interaction Reasoning in Driving
740. ICML 2025World Model Implanting for Test-time Adaptation of Embodied Agents
741. ICML 2025ZebraLogic: On the Scaling Limits of LLMs for Logical Reasoning
742. ICML 2024Algorithm of Thoughts: Enhancing Exploration of Ideas in Large Language Models
743. ICML 2024Analysis for Abductive Learning and Neural-Symbolic Reasoning Shortcuts
744. ICML 2024Auto-Regressive Next-Token Predictors are Universal Learners
745. ICML 2024BAT: Learning to Reason about Spatial Sounds with Large Language Models
746. ICML 2024Chain of Code: Reasoning with a Language Model-Augmented Code Emulator
747. ICML 2024Chain-of-Thought Predictive Control
748. ICML 2024CogBench: a large language model walks into a psychology lab
749. ICML 2024Compositional Capabilities of Autoregressive Transformers: A Study on Synthetic, Interpretable Tasks
750. ICML 2024Compute Better Spent: Replacing Dense Layers with Structured Matrices

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.