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

932 papers, page 18 of 19

851. NeurIPS 2025Table as a Modality for Large Language Models
852. NeurIPS 2025TCM-Ladder: A Benchmark for Multimodal Question Answering on Traditional Chinese Medicine
853. NeurIPS 2025Teaching Language Models to Reason with Tools
854. NeurIPS 2025TempSamp-R1: Effective Temporal Sampling with Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Video LLMs
855. NeurIPS 2025Test-Time Adaptation by Causal Trimming
856. NeurIPS 2025The Dual Nature of Plasticity Loss in Deep Continual Learning: Dissection and Mitigation
857. NeurIPS 2025The Emergence of Abstract Thought in Large Language Models Beyond Any Language
858. NeurIPS 2025The First Few Tokens Are All You Need: An Efficient and Effective Unsupervised Prefix Fine-Tuning Method for Reasoning Models
859. NeurIPS 2025The Hawthorne Effect in Reasoning Models: Evaluating and Steering Test Awareness
860. NeurIPS 2025The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
861. NeurIPS 2025The Overthinker's DIET: Cutting Token Calories with DIfficulty-AwarE Training
862. NeurIPS 2025The Promise of RL for Autoregressive Image Editing
863. NeurIPS 2025The Surprising Effectiveness of Negative Reinforcement in LLM Reasoning
864. NeurIPS 2025Think Only When You Need with Large Hybrid-Reasoning Models
865. NeurIPS 2025Think or Not? Exploring Thinking Efficiency in Large Reasoning Models via an Information-Theoretic Lens
866. NeurIPS 2025Think Silently, Think Fast: Dynamic Latent Compression of LLM Reasoning Chains
867. NeurIPS 2025Think-RM: Enabling Long-Horizon Reasoning in Generative Reward Models
868. NeurIPS 2025ThinkAct: Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Reinforced Visual Latent Planning
869. NeurIPS 2025ThinkBench: Dynamic Out-of-Distribution Evaluation for Robust LLM Reasoning
870. NeurIPS 2025Thinker: Learning to Think Fast and Slow
871. NeurIPS 2025Thinking in Character: Advancing Role-Playing Agents with Role-Aware Reasoning
872. NeurIPS 2025Thinking vs. Doing: Improving Agent Reasoning by Scaling Test-Time Interaction
873. NeurIPS 2025Thinkless: LLM Learns When to Think
874. NeurIPS 2025ThinkSound: Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs for Audio Generation and Editing
875. NeurIPS 2025Thoughts Are All Over the Place: On the Underthinking of Long Reasoning Models
876. NeurIPS 2025TimE: A Multi-level Benchmark for Temporal Reasoning of LLMs in Real-World Scenarios
877. NeurIPS 2025Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time
878. NeurIPS 2025TokenSqueeze: Performance-Preserving Compression for Reasoning LLMs
879. NeurIPS 2025TOMCAT: Test-time Comprehensive Knowledge Accumulation for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
880. NeurIPS 2025Too Late to Recall: Explaining the Two-Hop Problem in Multimodal Knowledge Retrieval
881. NeurIPS 2025Tool-Augmented Spatiotemporal Reasoning for Streamlining Video Question Answering Task
882. NeurIPS 2025Topology of Reasoning: Understanding Large Reasoning Models through Reasoning Graph Properties
883. NeurIPS 2025TopoPoint: Enhance Topology Reasoning via Endpoint Detection in Autonomous Driving
884. NeurIPS 2025Towards Thinking-Optimal Scaling of Test-Time Compute for LLM Reasoning
885. NeurIPS 2025Tracking and Understanding Object Transformations
886. NeurIPS 2025Training a Scientific Reasoning Model for Chemistry
887. NeurIPS 2025Training Language Models to Reason Efficiently
888. NeurIPS 2025Trajectory Balance with Asynchrony: Decoupling Exploration and Learning for Fast, Scalable LLM Post-Training
889. NeurIPS 2025Transformers Provably Learn Chain-of-Thought Reasoning with Length Generalization
890. NeurIPS 2025Tropical Attention: Neural Algorithmic Reasoning for Combinatorial Algorithms
891. NeurIPS 2025Trust, But Verify: A Self-Verification Approach to Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards
892. NeurIPS 2025TRUST: Test-Time Refinement using Uncertainty-Guided SSM Traverses
893. NeurIPS 2025Two Experts Are All You Need for Steering Thinking: Reinforcing Cognitive Effort in MoE Reasoning Models Without Additional Training
894. NeurIPS 2025UFT: Unifying Supervised and Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
895. NeurIPS 2025Understanding and Mitigating Numerical Sources of Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
896. NeurIPS 2025Uni-MuMER: Unified Multi-Task Fine-Tuning of Vision-Language Model for Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition
897. NeurIPS 2025Unified Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reward Model through Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
898. NeurIPS 2025UniGen: Enhanced Training & Test-Time Strategies for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
899. NeurIPS 2025UniPixel: Unified Object Referring and Segmentation for Pixel-Level Visual Reasoning
900. NeurIPS 2025UniTransfer: Video Concept Transfer via Progressive Spatio-Temporal Decomposition

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.