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 18 of 19

851. ICML 2023Instant Soup: Cheap Pruning Ensembles in A Single Pass Can Draw Lottery Tickets from Large Models
852. ICML 2023Interpretable Neural-Symbolic Concept Reasoning
853. ICML 2023Iterative Approximate Cross-Validation
854. ICML 2023Large Language Models Can Be Easily Distracted by Irrelevant Context
855. ICML 2023Learning Deductive Reasoning from Synthetic Corpus based on Formal Logic
856. ICML 2023Learning Hidden Markov Models When the Locations of Missing Observations are Unknown
857. ICML 2023Leveraging Proxy of Training Data for Test-Time Adaptation
858. ICML 2023LookupFFN: Making Transformers Compute-lite for CPU inference
859. ICML 2023Looped Transformers as Programmable Computers
860. ICML 2023Mimetic Initialization of Self-Attention Layers
861. ICML 2023Minimax estimation of discontinuous optimal transport maps: The semi-discrete case
862. ICML 2023Model Ratatouille: Recycling Diverse Models for Out-of-Distribution Generalization
863. ICML 2023Nearly-Linear Time and Streaming Algorithms for Outlier-Robust PCA
864. ICML 2023Neural Algorithmic Reasoning with Causal Regularisation
865. ICML 2023Neural Continuous-Discrete State Space Models for Irregularly-Sampled Time Series
866. ICML 2023Neural Prediction Errors enable Analogical Visual Reasoning in Human Standard Intelligence Tests
867. ICML 2023Neuro-Symbolic Continual Learning: Knowledge, Reasoning Shortcuts and Concept Rehearsal
868. ICML 2023Nonparametric Density Estimation under Distribution Drift
869. ICML 2023ODS: Test-Time Adaptation in the Presence of Open-World Data Shift
870. ICML 2023On Distribution Dependent Sub-Logarithmic Query Time of Learned Indexing
871. ICML 2023On Enhancing Expressive Power via Compositions of Single Fixed-Size ReLU Network
872. ICML 2023On Investigating the Conservative Property of Score-Based Generative Models
873. ICML 2023On Pitfalls of Test-Time Adaptation
874. ICML 2023On Strengthening and Defending Graph Reconstruction Attack with Markov Chain Approximation
875. ICML 2023On the Convergence of Gradient Flow on Multi-layer Linear Models
876. ICML 2023On the Impact of Algorithmic Recourse on Social Segregation
877. ICML 2023On the Training Instability of Shuffling SGD with Batch Normalization
878. ICML 2023One-Shot Compression of Large Edge-Exchangeable Graphs using Bits-Back Coding
879. ICML 2023Optimality of Thompson Sampling with Noninformative Priors for Pareto Bandits
880. ICML 2023Out-of-Domain Robustness via Targeted Augmentations
881. ICML 2023Outline, Then Details: Syntactically Guided Coarse-To-Fine Code Generation
882. ICML 2023PAC Prediction Sets for Large Language Models of Code
883. ICML 2023PAL: Program-aided Language Models
884. ICML 2023Phase Transitions in the Detection of Correlated Databases
885. ICML 2023Poisoning Language Models During Instruction Tuning
886. ICML 2023Probably Anytime-Safe Stochastic Combinatorial Semi-Bandits
887. ICML 2023Reasons for the Superiority of Stochastic Estimators over Deterministic Ones: Robustness, Consistency and Perceptual Quality
888. ICML 2023Representer Point Selection for Explaining Regularized High-dimensional Models
889. ICML 2023Robust Budget Pacing with a Single Sample
890. ICML 2023Robust Explanation for Free or At the Cost of Faithfulness
891. ICML 2023Secure Federated Correlation Test and Entropy Estimation
892. ICML 2023Settling the Reward Hypothesis
893. ICML 2023SinFusion: Training Diffusion Models on a Single Image or Video
894. ICML 2023Specializing Smaller Language Models towards Multi-Step Reasoning
895. ICML 2023Statistical Learning under Heterogenous Distribution Shift
896. ICML 2023Structure-informed Language Models Are Protein Designers
897. ICML 2023Synthetic Prompting: Generating Chain-of-Thought Demonstrations for Large Language Models
898. ICML 2023TAN Without a Burn: Scaling Laws of DP-SGD
899. ICML 2023Test-time Adaptation with Slot-Centric Models
900. ICML 2023Test-Time Style Shifting: Handling Arbitrary Styles in Domain Generalization

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.