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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801. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Code-Assisted Chain-of-Thoughts and Instructions for Model Reasoning
802. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Physical Reasoning with the PHYSICS Dataset
803. NeurIPS 2025Scaling RL to Long Videos
804. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Speculative Decoding with Lookahead Reasoning
805. NeurIPS 2025Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach
806. NeurIPS 2025SCAN: Self-Denoising Monte Carlo Annotation for Robust Process Reward Learning
807. NeurIPS 2025Scent of Knowledge: Optimizing Search-Enhanced Reasoning with Information Foraging
808. NeurIPS 2025SCOUT: Teaching Pre-trained Language Models to Enhance Reasoning via Flow Chain-of-Thought
809. NeurIPS 2025scPilot: Large Language Model Reasoning Toward Automated Single-Cell Analysis and Discovery
810. NeurIPS 2025SD-VLM: Spatial Measuring and Understanding with Depth-Encoded Vision-Language Models
811. NeurIPS 2025SE-Agent: Self-Evolution Trajectory Optimization in Multi-Step Reasoning with LLM-Based Agents
812. NeurIPS 2025Search and Refine During Think: Facilitating Knowledge Refinement for Improved Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning
813. NeurIPS 2025Searching Latent Program Spaces
814. NeurIPS 2025SeePhys: Does Seeing Help Thinking? – Benchmarking Vision-Based Physics Reasoning
815. NeurIPS 2025Segment Policy Optimization: Effective Segment-Level Credit Assignment in RL for Large Language Models
816. NeurIPS 2025Self-Verifying Reflection Helps Transformers with CoT Reasoning
817. NeurIPS 2025SemCoT: Accelerating Chain-of-Thought Reasoning through Semantically-Aligned Implicit Tokens
818. NeurIPS 2025Semi-off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language Slow-Thinking Reasoning
819. NeurIPS 2025Sherlock: Self-Correcting Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
820. NeurIPS 2025ShorterBetter: Guiding Reasoning Models to Find Optimal Inference Length for Efficient Reasoning
821. NeurIPS 2025SIGMA: Refining Large Language Model Reasoning via Sibling-Guided Monte Carlo Augmentation
822. NeurIPS 2025Simulating Society Requires Simulating Thought
823. NeurIPS 2025Simulating Viva Voce Examinations to Evaluate Clinical Reasoning in Large Language Models
824. NeurIPS 2025SiriuS: Self-improving Multi-agent Systems via Bootstrapped Reasoning
825. NeurIPS 2025Sloth: scaling laws for LLM skills to predict multi-benchmark performance across families
826. NeurIPS 2025SoFar: Language-Grounded Orientation Bridges Spatial Reasoning and Object Manipulation
827. NeurIPS 2025Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space
828. NeurIPS 2025SolidGeo: Measuring Multimodal Spatial Math Reasoning in Solid Geometry
829. NeurIPS 2025SolverLLM: Leveraging Test-Time Scaling for Optimization Problem via LLM-Guided Search
830. NeurIPS 2025Solving Inequality Proofs with Large Language Models
831. NeurIPS 2025SoTA with Less: MCTS-Guided Sample Selection for Data-Efficient Visual Reasoning Self-Improvement
832. NeurIPS 2025SPACE: SPike-Aware Consistency Enhancement for Test-Time Adaptation in Spiking Neural Networks
833. NeurIPS 2025Sparse Diffusion Autoencoder for Test-time Adapting Prediction of Complex Systems
834. NeurIPS 2025SpatialReasoner: Towards Explicit and Generalizable 3D Spatial Reasoning
835. NeurIPS 2025SPC: Evolving Self-Play Critic via Adversarial Games for LLM Reasoning
836. NeurIPS 2025SpecReason: Fast and Accurate Inference-Time Compute via Speculative Reasoning
837. NeurIPS 2025SPRINT: Enabling Interleaved Planning and Parallelized Execution in Reasoning Models
838. NeurIPS 2025SQL-R1: Training Natural Language to SQL Reasoning Model By Reinforcement Learning
839. NeurIPS 2025SRPO: Enhancing Multimodal LLM Reasoning via Reflection-Aware Reinforcement Learning
840. NeurIPS 2025Stop Summation: Min-Form Credit Assignment Is All Process Reward Model Needs for Reasoning
841. NeurIPS 2025StreamBP: Memory-Efficient Exact Backpropagation for Long Sequence Training of LLMs
842. NeurIPS 2025STRIDER: Navigation via Instruction-Aligned Structural Decision Space Optimization
843. NeurIPS 2025Struct2D: A Perception-Guided Framework for Spatial Reasoning in MLLMs
844. NeurIPS 2025Surprise3D: A Dataset for Spatial Understanding and Reasoning in Complex 3D Scenes
845. NeurIPS 2025SWE-RL: Advancing LLM Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning on Open Software Evolution
846. NeurIPS 2025SWE-SQL: Illuminating LLM Pathways to Solve User SQL Issues in Real-World Applications
847. NeurIPS 2025SwS: Self-aware Weakness-driven Problem Synthesis in Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning
848. NeurIPS 2025SynLogic: Synthesizing Verifiable Reasoning Data at Scale for Learning Logical Reasoning and Beyond
849. NeurIPS 2025System-1.5 Reasoning: Traversal in Language and Latent Spaces with Dynamic Shortcuts
850. NeurIPS 2025T2I-R1: Reinforcing Image Generation with Collaborative Semantic-level and Token-level CoT

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.