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

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751. NeurIPS 2025RADAR: Benchmarking Language Models on Imperfect Tabular Data
752. NeurIPS 2025RAST: Reasoning Activation in LLMs via Small-model Transfer
753. NeurIPS 2025RBench-V: A Primary Assessment for Visual Reasoning Models with Multimodal Outputs
754. NeurIPS 2025RealMath: A Continuous Benchmark for Evaluating Language Models on Research-Level Mathematics
755. NeurIPS 2025Reason-RFT: Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Visual Reasoning of Vision Language Models
756. NeurIPS 2025ReasonFlux-PRM: Trajectory-Aware PRMs for Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMs
757. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning as an Adaptive Defense for Safety
758. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning by Superposition: A Theoretical Perspective on Chain of Continuous Thought
759. NeurIPS 2025REASONING COMPILER: LLM-Guided Optimizations for Efficient Model Serving
760. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Gym: Reasoning Environments for Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards
761. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Is Not a Race: When Stopping Early Beats Going Deeper
762. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning is Periodicity? Improving Large Language Models Through Effective Periodicity Modeling
763. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Models Better Express Their Confidence
764. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Models Hallucinate More: Factuality-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Large Reasoning Models
765. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Models Sometimes Output Illegible Chains of Thought
766. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Path Compression: Compressing Generation Trajectories for Efficient LLM Reasoning
767. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Planning for Language Models
768. NeurIPS 2025ReCAP: Recursive Context-Aware Reasoning and Planning for Large Language Model Agents
769. NeurIPS 2025Redundancy-Aware Test-Time Graph Out-of-Distribution Detection
770. NeurIPS 2025Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning in Large Language Models with One Training Example
771. NeurIPS 2025Reinforcement Learning Teachers of Test Time Scaling
772. NeurIPS 2025Reinforcing Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models with Interwoven Thinking and Visual Drawing
773. NeurIPS 2025Reinforcing the Diffusion Chain of Lateral Thought with Diffusion Language Models
774. NeurIPS 2025Representation Consistency for Accurate and Coherent LLM Answer Aggregation
775. NeurIPS 2025Representation-Level Counterfactual Calibration for Debiased Zero-Shot Recognition
776. NeurIPS 2025ReSearch: Learning to Reason with Search for LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
777. NeurIPS 2025ReservoirTTA: Prolonged Test-time Adaptation for Evolving and Recurring Domains
778. NeurIPS 2025Restricted Spectral Gap Decomposition for Simulated Tempering Targeting Mixture Distributions
779. NeurIPS 2025Rethinking Fine-Tuning when Scaling Test-Time Compute: Limiting Confidence Improves Mathematical Reasoning
780. NeurIPS 2025Rethinking Optimal Verification Granularity for Compute-Efficient Test-Time Scaling
781. NeurIPS 2025Revisiting Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning from A Cross-Domain Perspective
782. NeurIPS 2025Reviving DSP for Advanced Theorem Proving in the Era of Reasoning Models
783. NeurIPS 2025Reward Reasoning Models
784. NeurIPS 2025RHYTHM: Reasoning with Hierarchical Temporal Tokenization for Human Mobility
785. NeurIPS 2025Right for the Right Reasons: Avoiding Reasoning Shortcuts via Prototypical Neurosymbolic AI
786. NeurIPS 2025Right Question is Already Half the Answer: Fully Unsupervised LLM Reasoning Incentivization
787. NeurIPS 2025RL Tango: Reinforcing Generator and Verifier Together for Language Reasoning
788. NeurIPS 2025RoboRefer: Towards Spatial Referring with Reasoning in Vision-Language Models for Robotics
789. NeurIPS 2025Robot-R1: Reinforcement Learning for Enhanced Embodied Reasoning in Robotics
790. NeurIPS 2025Rollout Roulette: A Probabilistic Inference Approach to Inference-Time Scaling of LLMs using Particle-Based Monte Carlo Methods
791. NeurIPS 2025ROVER: Recursive Reasoning Over Videos with Vision-Language Models for Embodied Tasks
792. NeurIPS 2025RrED: Black-box Unsupervised Domain Adaptation via Rectifying-reasoning Errors of Diffusion
793. NeurIPS 2025rStar-Coder: Scaling Competitive Code Reasoning with a Large-Scale Verified Dataset
794. NeurIPS 2025RTV-Bench: Benchmarking MLLM Continuous Perception, Understanding and Reasoning through Real-Time Video
795. NeurIPS 2025S-GRPO: Early Exit via Reinforcement Learning in Reasoning Models
796. NeurIPS 2025SAFEPATH: Preventing Harmful Reasoning in Chain-of-Thought via Early Alignment
797. NeurIPS 2025SAM-R1: Leveraging SAM for Reward Feedback in Multimodal Segmentation via Reinforcement Learning
798. NeurIPS 2025Sampling-Efficient Test-Time Scaling: Self-Estimating the Best-of-N Sampling in Early Decoding
799. NeurIPS 2025SATURN: SAT-based Reinforcement Learning to Unleash LLMs Reasoning
800. NeurIPS 2025Scalable Best-of-N Selection for Large Language Models via Self-Certainty

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.