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

996 papers, page 16 of 20

751. ICLR 2025Logicbreaks: A Framework for Understanding Subversion of Rule-based Inference
752. ICLR 2025MAPS: Advancing Multi-Modal Reasoning in Expert-Level Physical Science
753. ICLR 2025Matcha: Mitigating Graph Structure Shifts with Test-Time Adaptation
754. ICLR 2025MathCoder2: Better Math Reasoning from Continued Pretraining on Model-translated Mathematical Code
755. ICLR 2025MathGAP: Out-of-Distribution Evaluation on Problems with Arbitrarily Complex Proofs
756. ICLR 2025MAVIS: Mathematical Visual Instruction Tuning with an Automatic Data Engine
757. ICLR 2025Mechanism and Emergence of Stacked Attention Heads in Multi-Layer Transformers
758. ICLR 2025metabench - A Sparse Benchmark of Reasoning and Knowledge in Large Language Models
759. ICLR 2025Mind the Gap: Examining the Self-Improvement Capabilities of Large Language Models
760. ICLR 2025Mind the GAP: Glimpse-based Active Perception improves generalization and sample efficiency of visual reasoning
761. ICLR 2025MIND: Math Informed syNthetic Dialogues for Pretraining LLMs
762. ICLR 2025MIRAGE: Evaluating and Explaining Inductive Reasoning Process in Language Models
763. ICLR 2025Mitigating Modality Prior-Induced Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models via Deciphering Attention Causality
764. ICLR 2025Mixture of Parrots: Experts improve memorization more than reasoning
765. ICLR 2025MLPs Learn In-Context on Regression and Classification Tasks
766. ICLR 2025MMAU: A Massive Multi-Task Audio Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark
767. ICLR 2025MMR: A Large-scale Benchmark Dataset for Multi-target and Multi-granularity Reasoning Segmentation
768. ICLR 2025Mutual Reasoning Makes Smaller LLMs Stronger Problem-Solver
769. ICLR 2025NL-Eye: Abductive NLI For Images
770. ICLR 2025Node-Time Conditional Prompt Learning in Dynamic Graphs
771. ICLR 2025Non-myopic Generation of Language Models for Reasoning and Planning
772. ICLR 2025Not All Heads Matter: A Head-Level KV Cache Compression Method with Integrated Retrieval and Reasoning
773. ICLR 2025Number Cookbook: Number Understanding of Language Models and How to Improve It
774. ICLR 2025NutriBench: A Dataset for Evaluating Large Language Models in Nutrition Estimation from Meal Descriptions
775. ICLR 2025OCEAN: Offline Chain-of-thought Evaluation and Alignment in Large Language Models
776. ICLR 2025OmnixR: Evaluating Omni-modality Language Models on Reasoning across Modalities
777. ICLR 2025On the Adversarial Risk of Test Time Adaptation: An Investigation into Realistic Test-Time Data Poisoning
778. ICLR 2025On the Adversarial Vulnerability of Label-Free Test-Time Adaptation
779. ICLR 2025On the self-verification limitations of large language models on reasoning and planning tasks
780. ICLR 2025OSCAR: Operating System Control via State-Aware Reasoning and Re-Planning
781. ICLR 2025Personality Alignment of Large Language Models
782. ICLR 2025Physics of Language Models: Part 2.1, Grade-School Math and the Hidden Reasoning Process
783. ICLR 2025Planning in Natural Language Improves LLM Search for Code Generation
784. ICLR 2025Preference Optimization for Reasoning with Pseudo Feedback
785. ICLR 2025Preserving Diversity in Supervised Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models
786. ICLR 2025Probing the Latent Hierarchical Structure of Data via Diffusion Models
787. ICLR 2025Procedural Knowledge in Pretraining Drives Reasoning in Large Language Models
788. ICLR 2025Process Reward Model with Q-value Rankings
789. ICLR 2025Reasoning Elicitation in Language Models via Counterfactual Feedback
790. ICLR 2025Reasoning of Large Language Models over Knowledge Graphs with Super-Relations
791. ICLR 2025Reasoning with Latent Thoughts: On the Power of Looped Transformers
792. ICLR 2025RefactorBench: Evaluating Stateful Reasoning in Language Agents Through Code
793. ICLR 2025ReGenesis: LLMs can Grow into Reasoning Generalists via Self-Improvement
794. ICLR 2025Retrieval Head Mechanistically Explains Long-Context Factuality
795. ICLR 2025Revisiting Random Walks for Learning on Graphs
796. ICLR 2025Rewarding Progress: Scaling Automated Process Verifiers for LLM Reasoning
797. ICLR 2025RNNs are not Transformers (Yet): The Key Bottleneck on In-Context Retrieval
798. ICLR 2025RocketEval: Efficient automated LLM evaluation via grading checklist
799. ICLR 2025SBSC: Step-by-Step Coding for Improving Mathematical Olympiad Performance
800. ICLR 2025Scaling Large Language Model-based Multi-Agent Collaboration

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.